North Oakland Chiropractic Clinic

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HOLIDAY HOURS We'll be here spreading chiropractic cheer Mon 12/21 - 9:00 - 6:00 Tue 12/22 - 9:00 - 2:00... Wed 12/23 - 9:00 - 6:00 Mon 12/28 - 9:00 - 6:00 Tue 12/29 - 9:00 - 2:00 Wed 12/30 - 9:00 - 6:00 Schedule an appointment: Call (510) 545.3465 Book online: https://northoaklandchiro.as.me/

Career ending injury in NBA : Achilles tendon rupture Is it preventable ? What is the cause ? Why ? What can we do? Let's imagine Kevin Durant walked into my o...ffice as a patient. First thing I will ask about the details of present injury at the Achilles but also the history of the previous injuries involved especially at the spine, pelvis, knees and ankles. https://www.foxsports.com/nba/kevin-durant-player-injuries From 2017 to 2019, within these two years he had experienced around 9-10 sprain and strain injuries in his lower leg and the recent one is the Achilles tendon rupture. This is not surprising because ankle injury is the most common basketball-related injury and second is knee injury because of this particular sport required high degree of vertical movements, in each game it required 35-46 jumping and landing activities per game not to mention practices before the game, it also required a high demand of lateral movement and shuffling, a combination of both single and two-footed jumps and landings. These contact mechanisms make ankle injury as the most common injury is basketball players. (Madden et al, 2018) Now let's look at the clinical anatomy of an ankle joint in the picture below, The Achilles tendon is a very thick tendon that connects from your insertion-heel bone to Gastrocnemius (Calf muscle) and it's origin to the femur and soleus to the tibia. When you are landing, the muscles will be stretched and when you are trying to jump, the muscles will be contracted. That's why when Kevin Durant was trying to make a cross over, at that split second of the Achilles tendon from stretched to contracted to provide that push-off movement to the ankle, it torn. Here is the million dollar question: Why ? While I was working with Dr. Ruch and doing researches regarding on ankle and knee injuries. He emphasised on the Joint Neuromuscular guarding reflex, this is not something new or revolutionary to clinical approaches. Remember the last time you rolled your ankle, at the first 1-2 days your ankle is swollen, muscle are all tight and you are not able to move it and bare weight. That's the body provide neuromuscular and cellular response to protect the injured joint to make it stable and heal. Couple days and weeks later the swollen is gone and you gained back some movements and the muscle will still be tight because now the injured joint NEVER got corrected back to it's alignment, that's why the muscle is still tight, if you keep repeatedly stretch it ,ice it, massage it, you may potentially make it WORSE ! The only way is to adjust the joint until the muscle guarding reflex and joint alignment back to normal and stabilize with taping and re-hab with proprioceptive training to rewire the brain <-> ankle connection. Now back to Kevin Durant's Achilles rupture, it is very likely that he had a chronic unstable and subluxated heel bone and knee resulting to sustained hypertonicity and decrease of elasticity of calf muscles. Once is under such a huge tension load on the tendon, it torn. References: Madden CC, Netter FH. Section VII injury prevention, diagnosis and treatment Chapter 60 foot problems . In: Netter's sports medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018. p. 486487. RUCH WILLIAM. GOT KNEE PAIN? WHERE IS YOUR TIBIA? S.l.: OUTSKIRTS PRESS; 2020. Ruch WJ. Advanced adjusting techniques: chiropractic care for physically compromised patients. Hayward, CA: Life West Press; 2018. If you are interested in his work : Please visit https://www.amazon.com/William-J.-Ruch/e/B001KIIM9M

We just added another seminar before the end of this year!! Spots are already filling up. Hope to see you there!

Dr. Ruch will be returning to treat acute patients on Monday May 4th. Mon/Wed/Fri 10am - 2pm. Online booking is available at the link below.

Covid-19 Update: Public health officials have issued a "shelter-in-place" order through May 3, 2020. In light of this, our office will be seeing clients for emergency chiropractic services only. If you are experiencing pain or injury that prevents you from performing day to day activities, please call (510) 545-3465 for an appointment with Dr. Karen Pazera or schedule online using the links below for fastest service. Please note we have increased sanitization procedures ...in place and are not offering massage in the clinic at this time. We ask that patients experiencing the following symptoms please cancel their appointments; Loss of smell/taste, tightness in chest, fever, cough, sore throat, swollen lymph. We wish you all good health & good comfort during this time. -North Oakland Chiropractic Clinic Family-

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Dr. Ruch uses his 30+ years of experience in chiropractic care to show how the pain of pelvic bone misalignment for a pregnant woman can easily be relieved in just a few minutes a day. Finally a book that addresses the importance of pelvic injury and its affect on the pregnant woman. Also in French, Chinese, and Spanish :) #UI #Chiropractic #Northoaklandchiropractic #Advancedadjusting https://www.amazon.com//dp/1539955699/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0