Welcome, welcome, welcome to What Pain in the Neck, the Podcast! Friends and Experts are sharing their True and Tried solutions to suffering.
Several stories come from my own life experiences and learning, but most come from the room where it happened, working in specialized healthcare since 1994. Suffering people understood there had to be a solution. They found there was hope, their suffering RESOLVED, and they got their lives back.
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Tony Martin currently works in the office products industry. He is very friendly and outgoing and knows a lot of people. He has a philosophy and way of life of helping others ahead of himself.
Most of his life he has been full of energy and excitement until in his 40s all of a sudden, he wasn’t feeling well and was unable to function or go to work. At first he thought he had the flu. He had no idea what was wrong until he was diagnosed with depression. It was to the point that he wanted to end it all.
It took a little while, but he did get his hope back.
Tony found his way to complete healing, and now his passion is to help others the way he has been helped.
Listen to his captivating story and share with a friend or family member that you know is suffering from depression.
When the pandemic forced us all to quarantine, and everybody had to stay inside, as a widow, Kim found herself alone and fearful. She made a choice to take control and discovered the power of positive affirmation.
Listen to some practical, simple, and effective tips on using positive self-talk to our advantage every day.
She is a Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractor in Albuquerque, NM. She fell in love with learning about the body while in High School and set out to be a Physical Therapist. Her trajectory changed after she had sever ocular migraines daily and rapidly lost her eyesight. No Doctors were able to help until a chiropractor adjusted her neck, and she started to heal. This set her on a path to help others the way she had been helped. Dr. Olivia grew up in New Mexico. She has noticed a lot of healthcare professionals leaving this state and she finds it meaningful to serve her home community. Listen to hear the rest of her story and her favorite successes and also some of her struggles.
Dr. Tyler Evans has been digging deep into the personal and professional history of Dr. William Blair, the developer of the Blair Upper Cervical Technique. Major sources in his research has been ancestry.com and newspapers.com
Dr. Blair grew up in Yale, Oklahoma, the son of an insurance salesman and postmaster. In his teens, his life was massively inhibited by severe asthma to the point that he was told he wouldn’t live past his teenage years. A young woman named Beatrice saved his life by referring him to an Upper Cervical Doctor. William Blair found relief and enrolled in Palmer College of Chiropractic during a time when there was lots of research and development of chiropractic techniques.
In this episode, Rachel Maples a nurse practitioner, who owns her own private practice within Shiloh Counseling Services here in Lubbock. In this conversation we talk about what her journey is, from being a nurse in the standard medical system. Starting off working as a pediatric nurse, labor and delivery, full time as a traditional nurse practitioner. Then staying home with kids for a few years. And then in the lsat few years what has happened in her career to make her change focus a little bit and become more integrative in her focus. What does that mean?
In this episode, Chris Thornburgh and Lori Crowder, owners of CBCT Encompass solutions talk about the technicalities, logistics, financing, etc. of different types of imaging methods. Most importantly the discussion is centered around what a patient can get out of going to a Doctor who uses this technology.
in this episode, we cover the devastating effects of Meniere’s disease. Matthew describes what he was feeling, the effects it had on his life and what he did to get rid of his symptoms. More importantly, he talks about how Meniere’s disease kept him from being involved in ministry and working on his life purpose.
Meniere’s disease affects every aspect of life and is very scary. A lot of medical treatment options come with serious risks of side effects.
in this episode, we cover the devastating effects of Meniere’s disease. Matthew describes what he was feeling, the effects it had on his life and what he did to get rid of his symptoms. More importantly, he talks about how Meniere’s disease kept him from being involved in ministry and working on his life purpose.
Meniere’s disease affects every aspect of life and is very scary. A lot of medical treatment options come with serious risks of side effects.
Beth Lundby,DC, is a Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractor and Blair Advanced instructor located in Bismarck North Dakota.
In this vulnerable yet hopeful and inspirational episode, she tells her background story of choosing to be a Doctor of Chiropractic and ultimately specializing in the neck with the Blair Technique. She talks about the support and love of her husband, John, and the joys and challenges of being a mother and a doctor and finding the balance to excel at both.
Dr. Van Innis is the first and so far only specialist with a post-doctorate degree in the Upper Neck in all of Europe. His practice is in Ghent, Belgium. He has people traveling from all over Europe to see him. Dr. Van Innis speaks multiple languages. In this episode he talks about his own story and why he decided to make the commitment to travel 27 times in 3 ½ years in order to get the Diplomate of Chiropractic Craniocervical Procedures when he was already a successful chiropractor.
After one year of publishing sixty-one podcast interviews, Ruth goes over the top ten as well as her favorite episodes. In this episode she chats with her daughter Miriam and shares some more background information and stories about each one.
Dr. Hilpsch provides Blair Upper Cervical Care to families in the Minneapolis area. He has been a chiropractor for 36 years. In this episode, he talks about what made him decide to become a chiropractor, and why and how he transitioned from traditional full spine chiropractic to Upper Cervical. As a father of six and grandfather of 16, Dr. Hilpisch is especially passionate about serving whole families.
Dr. Pokorski tells the stories that brought him into the chiropractic profession and how he not only experienced one, but rather three “miracle stories” as a young man.
Terri Arthur is the owner of the specialty store Fragrance of Heaven in Lubbock,TX. She has studied and sold essential oils for over 30 years. In this podcast interview, she is joined by her sister and best friend Toni Tillis. Among other topics our discussion cover these issues:
In this episode, Ruth and her husband Dr. Gordon Elder have a frank discussion with Dr.Ian Bulow and his wife Cristina about what it is like to be partners in life and in business, particularly as it relates to Blair Upper Cervical. Both couples work together operating a busy local Upper Cervical Clinic and are involved in leadership roles and travel around the world to teach students and other doctors.
Dr. Brewster “retired” from private chiropractic practice after 30 years in order to focus on research at Sherman College of Chiropractic.
In this episode Blair Hayes, a Lubbock realtor talks about how taking care of her health has helped her reach her professional goals. Her journey starts with food. She has a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics from Texas Tech and is a registered dietician.
Natalie Craig tells the story of how she founded her hair salon in Lubbock called Regimen after working as an emergency room nurse.
She shares the unique and amazing story of how her background as an abused child and her job at the emergency room created a desire to help hurting children in the foster care system. It turned out to be the relationships with her clients that opened the door to making an impact on thousands of young lives.
Dr. Charmaine Herman is a first-generation Doctor of Chiropractic graduating in 2009 from Sherman College of Chiropractic. Today she a Full Professor in the College of Chiropractic at Life University
Currently, Dr. Herman is a board member for the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) and was awarded a. She is an instructor for the Blair UC Society. Her memberships include the ICA Council on Upper Cervical Care, the American Black Chiropractic Association (ABCA), and the Christian Chiropractic Association.
Dr. Celia Ringstad shares her chiropractic story and Blair Upper Cervical Specific Care in particular. A third-generation Alaskan and one of nine kids, the trajectory of her future was quickly altered when a drunk driver changed the course of her life. She spent weeks in the hospital and underwent numerous surgeries and treatments for a multitude of injuries. She had a traumatic brain injury, spontaneous episodic paralysis, along with multiple broken bones. After months and months, the doctors told her parents there was nothing more they could do for her.