"Help Me, Dr. Nunez, You're My Only Hope!

It’s wonderful to see a new year beginning and our whole lives ahead of us.  What will this year bring? How will it be different from last year?  What choices can we make today to make our lives and health better than last year?  Will we drink more water and less wine?  Will we get more sleep?  Will we be more conscious of how much we eat and why we are eating it?  How about more quiet time to relax and reflect on the life we have been living and the progress that we have made?  Are we celebrating our wins along the way?

By April, the hopeful anticipation that marked the new year has fallen short for many of us. However, it’s important to remember that January 1st is not the only time we’re allowed to make changes to our lives or set new goals for the future.

I want to encourage you to recommit to being more conscious of our attitudes during the coming days. Let’s ask if what we are thinking or saying is loving towards ourselves and others or just judging, critical and perfectionistic.  If a friend was getting down on themselves for not living up to their own expectations, what would we say to them?  Surely we would remind them of all the things they do right, what they have achieved and how important they are to us.  I’d like to remind you to be that friend to yourself as you are to others, because often we are more judgmental of ourselves than anyone else is of us.  The more loving we are to ourselves, the more loving we can be to our neighbors.  This reduces stress, which reduces tension, which reduces pain, stomach problems, and headaches and helps keep the chiropractor off your back!

I don't often wear high heels but when I do... I ask Dr. Al's advice first!

Recently one of my patients came in wearing shoes similar to these that were five inches high from heel to floor! The interesting thing was that she said that they were some of the most comfortable shoes she wore. This was not the first time a patient has told me this and several patients have also come to me specifically because they had hurt their ankles and could no longer wear their high heels and demanded that I fix them so they could!

While I don’t normally recommend heels this high I know that some of you insist on wearing them. This being the case I thought I would offer some suggestion and recommendations to help you decide on whether or not you should Wear Those Heels!

What's the Panda Say! - Dr. Nunez’s Secret Ingredient

Recently I was working on a patient for her stomach tension and I mentioned to her that this was my Secret Ingredient. In other words, this was what made our treatment special and more effective than other methods. But the more I reflected on it, I realized there was much more to it than that.

Was the Secret Ingredient the non-forceful, no twisting, popping or cracking adjusting method? So many people come to our office for this reason alone: fear of conventional adjusting techniques. Yes, that is part of the Secret Ingredient, but that is not "it".

Was it the Pressure-Plus-Motion muscle release technique that we developed to break-up chronically tense muscles? This is the method that we also teach to patients to help them help themselves and minimize the necessity of treatments. Is that it? Well, yes, but that’s still not the whole story.