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We’ve Moved & Let’s Turn This Crisis Into Opportunity

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Best of Health and Wellness to You!

We hope you and your loved ones are well. Karen and I, and those we love are very well and eager to get past today’s environment of fear and hysteria. Like most, we are weary from enduring the long, intense and conflicted narrative about the evils of germs and demands for masking, social distancing, disinfecting, and the belief that vaccination and surveillance are the only solution. The story reported by the media outlets promotes what is profitable for the allopathic medical industrial complex. It says little to nothing about improving the health of the body’s terrain to strengthen its innate immunity and its natural capacity to manage disease. It’s all about about fighting disease.

How We Define Health Sets the Narrative

In times like these it is important for us to be reminded of the true definition of health. Health is not just the absence of disease symptoms. It is the optimal functioning of all natural systems. Obviously, when we are truly healthy and well individuals our immune systems are most equipped for preventing and fighting-off infection. But we do not live in isolation. Our individual health is dependent upon the health of society, which is dependent upon the health of our environment.

Our Health Comes from Nature

Our health comes from Nature. However, that deeper conversation would shine the light on a very “inconvenient truth” about how far Earth’s human population has strayed from its fundamental, unalienable birth-right to health and wellness. In stead, people are led to believe that health comes, not from Nature, but from violating Nature’s laws of health and immunity with special interest-driven medical care. Just do your own gut-check and see if you inner voice agrees that mandated social isolation and the treat of surveillance-administered compulsory vaccination with fast-track drugs developed and approved without sufficient health and safety testing by market-driven special interests is natural.

Great Vacuum Begging to Be Filled

Very little authentic health and wellness is taught in our systems of education or is disseminated by print, broadcast and internet media. Instead, humanity’s drive to exploit and poison Earth’s air, water, soil, food, airways and community has been normalized. Public health has been reduced to living competitive and alienating lifestyles, to eating the USDA’s recommended standard American diet (SAD), to market-driven drug advertising. Culturally, the best disease-prevention is early detection and allopathic medical management of disease. Coming from our corrective chiropractic background, we perceive a great vacuum begging to be filled. Let’s hope this crisis catalyzes the widespread acceptance of refreshing, life-supporting knowledge about the abundance of Nature’s health-giving intelligence and the relationships between Earth’s health and the health of all of her inhabitants.

We Are Grateful

We are fortunate to serve as members of a large community which values Nature’s systems of health, wellness and  innate immunity; and the unity of mind, body, spirit, community and environment. We care for our body’s nervous systems, which control and regulation of all our systems, and which connect us with the needs of our internal and external environments — to our intimate relationship with Earth.

WE’VE MOVED!

Our new address is:

956 W. Cherry Street, #102
Louisville, Colorado 80027

Dr. Norris Golberg and KORU Chiropractic are our new hosts.

Why Did We Move?

In 2019 our clinic was severely flooded with water. Murphy’s boiler leaked into our floor, walls and front desk. The Buddha Tai kitchen wall and ceiling leaked into our wall, floor and desk. The building’s plumbing directly above us leaked into our wall and floor. Water overflowed form the building’s front-side gutters into our bay window, walls and ceiling. All these floods happened almost simultaneously, causing considerable water damage.

How Bad Was the Water Damage?

Not only were our walls, floor and front desk, deformed and discolored, but black mold appeared on an outside wall and on some of our clinic’s furnishings. We’ll report more on this in upcoming website posts. In short, we underwent black mold inspection, mitigation (demolition, removal of black-moldy materials, black mold treatment and cleaning, re-inspection and then reconstruction.

Wasn’t the Problem Fixed?

Not quite. It was somewhat temporarily fixed. The mold was removed and the extensive damage repaired. But the building’s management failed to correct the underlying causes for the water flooding and black mold infestation. Then, our black mold-sensitive patients still complained about having mold-exposure reactions when visiting our newly black mold mitigated clinic. So, we abandoned our facility of 21 years, along with its wonderful NUCCA (National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association) certified, X-ray facility. Then we began looking for a new home.

Where Did We Look?

Our depleted clinic finances required us to explored opportunities to work within local X-ray-equipped chiropractor’s office. However, X-ray machines required for NUCCA practice are highly specialized. The standard chiropractic X-ray equipment would require expensive upgrades for us to take and analyze the upper cervical specific NUCCA X-rays.

Then we found Dr. Bulcher, a new NUCCA doctor in Fort Collins. He invited us to use his office and  X-ray equipment. After one month commuting to and from Fort Collins we found the travel too difficult for us and our patients. Then, after a more extensive search we found Dr. Ty Carzoli, an upper cervical specific doctor in Denver. He contemplated making the necessary NUCCA modifications to his digital X-ray equipment and analysis program and the commute time and effort required for us and our patients. His solution was to refer us his good friend Dr. Norris Golberg, an enthusiastic new NUCCA chiropractor in Louisville. Dr. Golberg has a NUCCA-compatible digital X-ray suite, and his office is just 5 minutes from our home. So here we are!

How Was the Transition?

Here we are with Dr. Golberg and his assistant Stephanie

Stephanie, Dr. Golberg, Dr. Groover and Karen

At first meeting we liked Dr. Golberg and agreed to help him develop his NUCCA practice. He and Dr. Groover invested 40 hours to testing X-ray machine alignment and the aligned it according to NUCCA standards. Then they achieved NUCCA X-ray certification by taking the required NUCCA X-ray alignment images and submitted them to NUCCA. Now the doctors are further refining the machine’s X-ray image quality by designing, building and testing custom lead X-ray-attenuating filters that precisely fit the clinic’s X-ray machine. Dr. Golberg studied the NUCCA text book and he took and passed the NUCCA Level’s 1 and 2 certification examinations. He is now engaged in submitting his new-patient X-rays to NUCCA for the completion of his Level 1 of certification. Drs. Groover and Golberg are collaborating on their difficult cases and the KORU Chiropractic staff and patients has been most friendly and helpful.

COME AND SEE US AT OUR NEW HOME!

We have updated our website, website appointment scheduler, the NUCCA website and Google with our new location. Our phone number, email and website address remain the same:

Drop by at our new location for and informal “hello”. Call us or go online to schedule your first or next appointment:

  • Free introductory (in-person, video or phone) consultation
  • New patient initial evaluation
  • Established patient follow-up visit
  • Established patient new regional evaluation
  • Established patient reevaluation
  • Rehabilitation

MANY THANKS!

Thank you to our patients and friends of our clinic for supporting us through this transition. Thank you to the doctors who have helped us evaluate our clinic-location options. Thank you Dr. Golberg and the KORU Chiropractic staff for taking us in and for your inspiration. And thanks to all who have contributed to Boulder Chiropractic’s 21 years of existence.

Best of Health and Best of All Worlds to You All!

Boulder Chiropractic Clinic Chiropractic Philosophy: Vitalism, Creative Intelligence, Prevention, Self-Healing and Consciousness

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Founders of Chiropractic were vitalistic philosophers who understood that there is order in the universe, life is created, maintained and destroyed according to natural law, and that life is health. In the words of B.J. Palmer is know as the developer of Chiropractic:

Today, BABIES ARE CONCEIVED, developed, given birth, live, and die according to law––natural law, the law that has been here, is coming in will be.

At this junction, what is law?

Law is that which is fixed, stable, everlasting, eternal.

If law is violated itself just once, it would cease to be a law.

If law could violate itself once, it could do so million times.

And, the more violated violated itself, the less law it would be.

Law does not violate itself to please the caprices of man.

Law is too big to change its pattern to please… man.

Scientists TELL US that in “nature” there are two forces contending against each other, and that things are as they are because of action and reaction of these two forces.

These are called the centrifugal (or inside), and the centripetal (or outside), known in physics as attraction and repulsion.

These two forces work on human beings as they work on everything else.

In chiropractic, they are known as innate intelligence (centrifugal) and environment  (centripetal).

Nerves are named accordingly –- efferent and afferent –- which names designate their function of carrying mental impulses from  Innate Intelligence to the periphery, or tissue cell (efferent), and vibrations from the tissue cell (periphery) to Innate Intelligence (afferent).

For thousands of years professionals that minister to the sick disregarded the centrifugal or inside force (Innate Intelligence), and searched the heavens and earth in a vain attempt to externally find the cause of disease.

Even now, we find a vast and learned army engaged in draining swamps, killing mosquitoes, prescribing diets, discovering germs and establishing hygienic conditions under which those in whom the flame of life burns feebly may continue longer upon the earth.

To contend that these investigations have found nothing of value to mankind is to betray ignorance and to show a total disregard for probable facts as to make ourselves ridiculous.

Fire burns, cold freezes, water drowns, alcohol intoxicates, poison kills, etc., and the most perfectly aligned spine in the world, with 100% of Innate Intelligence on the job, with a perfectly normal range of adaptability, will not prevent these excess outside conditions from producing death, discomfort, or loss of ease—at this stage of the development of the race, at least.

When these facts are admitted in environmental conditions, and each is traced to its logical conclusion, there remains the overwhelming mass of conditions of dis-ease that effect mankind, which are not reconciled to the external environmental theory of the cause of dis-ease.

A hundred thousand people drink water from the same stream for a year, and during that year forty become sick with what is diagnosed as typhoid fever.

Give the why of this from the standpoint of the water—or the germs in the water—being the cause.

Reverse the statistics and say that of a hundred thousand who drank the water, only forty remained alive.

Reason and logic point to the conclusion that in both instances there is an unknown factor, and that the unknown factor in the first instance is the cause of forty cases of typhoid fever, and in the second instance is the cause of forty survivors.

Living under the same environmental conditions, one member of the family has heart trouble, another bronchial, a third liver, and a fourth stomach trouble; while a fifth may suffer from nervousness, six from sciatica, etc.

Like causes produce like results. If this be true, if this be natural, how can one who affirms that the cause of disease lives in environment reconcile the facts to that theory?

It is self-evident there is some factor which is not environmental, that accounts for different results.

Chiropractic teaches this unknown factor is found within, and that the resistance, or the susceptibility, of the individual must be measured in terms of centrifugal force, i.e., vitality or mental impulse

While other professions are concerned with changing environment to suit the weakened body, Chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to “suit” the environment.

This is an explanation of the fundamental difference in theory, art, and practice between Chiropractic and the other professions, and an explanation of why chiropractic succeeds were other methods fail.

1955. B.J. Palmer, Chiropractic Philosophy, Science and Art, Volume XXXII, The P.S.C Press, Davenport, Iowa.

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How’s Your Baseline Fitness?

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When performance of your activities of daily living are successful and within your ability to maintain good health, you have baseline fitness. Looking specifically at your joints, when you do your everyday lifting, bending, sitting, walking, running, pushing, pulling and throwing, do your joints remain stable? Are they already aligned or are they misaligned? If they are aligned, when you use them, do they remain aligned? How do you know if your joints are aligned in the first place? How do you know if you have healthy brain-to-nerve-to-muscle-to-joint feedback?

Of course you may come to see me and I’ll answer these questions for you. However, by using the following criteria, you should be able give yourself a fairly accurate assessment.

  1. Do you have joint aches or pains? When your joints miss-align, their state of abnormal mechanics cause them to grind and chafe, to become inflamed and they hurt.
  2. Do you have muscle aches or pains? When your joints miss-align, their associated nerve endings will report this to your brain. You brain will respond to this abnormal feedback by contracting certain muscles. Long-term muscle shortening strangles the muscular blood supply, cutting off the exchange of oxygen (anoxia) and nutrients with carbon dioxide and other waste products. Contracted, oxygen-deprived, waste-saturated muscles hurt.
  3. Are your joints stiff? Contracted muscles stiffen your joints.
  4. Are your muscles weak? Poor neuromuscular control of your joints weakens your muscles.

The stability your joints depends upon their ability to function with strength, flexibility and comfort. Your joint-mover and joint-stabilizer muscles must be reporting and receiving normal information to and from your brain. While your joint mover-muscles remain active, your joint stabilizer muscles must effectively oppose the actions of your joint-movers to keep your joints aligned and healthy. This is joint fitness in a nutshell.

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Muscle Strength Increases After Pain Is Relieved, By Dr. Tom Groover

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The hip muscle strength testing on 6/1/2016 was performed immediately before treatment and was repeated 42 minutes later after the patient’s first treatment for her low back and pelvis abnormalities and resulting pain. Her average hip muscle strength had increased 16.7% and the difference between her right and left side muscle strengths had reduced 22.4%. Her greatest strength improvement was 27.5% for her left quadriceps. Her left adductor strength reduced by 12.7%, which was attributed to the the pain  patient experienced by the patient while she performed this test.

The tests were repeated again on 6/29/2016 after the patient’s corrective care had stabilized and her pain was relieved. Her average hip muscle strength had increased from 16.7% to 23.27%, while the reduced difference between her right and left side muscle strength had not changed significantly. Her greatest strength improvement was 55% for her left quadriceps.

The 39.34% additional average strength increase occurring between the second strength measurement performed on 6/1/2016 and measurement performed on 6/29/2016 is attributed to stabilization of the patient’s corrective care, resultant tissue healing, and therefore, pain elimination.

Pain while contracting specific hip muscles provides abnormal feedback to the specific control centers for individual nerve and muscle activity. In reaction to this abnormal feedback, the neuromuscular control center inhibits nerve and muscle function, producing the muscle weakness. The tissue damage provides abnormal feedback to the neuromuscular control center also.

The muscle strength increases found in this study occurred from joint realignment, tissue healing and resultant pain elimination and not from exercise training.

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Can Dr. Groover’s Chiropractic Help with that Troubling TMJ?

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Gently place your hands on your face in front of your ear lobes. Now open and close your mouth. You can undoubtedly feel your temporomandibular joint (TMJ) moving as you open and close your mouth; the joint connects your upper and lower jaws.

Many Americans experience some sort of temporomandibular-related pain or even a temporomandibular disorder (TMD). The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) estimates that 10 million Americans have a TMD, which is often referred to by non-medical professionals as “I have TMJ” or “I have a TMJ problem.” About 2/3 of Americans may experience one or more symptoms of a TMD/TMJ problem. Dr. Groover of Boulder’s premier chiropractic clinic is here to explain how chiropractic care is a practical treatment option for this common yet painful and lingering condition. TMJ and Chiropractic

Dr. Groover’s sequential approach to TMD is diagnosing and treating the joint mechanical problems causing the neurological problems which result in muscular problems.

Dr. Groover’s comprehensive chiropractic care for your TMJ eases pain by correcting directly your TMJ misalignments, but doing so after some careful preparation. Your chewing muscles receive their nerve supply from what’s called the trigeminal nerve. This is a cranial nerve originating at the base of your head, which is sensitive to misalignment at the upper cervical region where your head joins your neck. Diagnosis and treatment of this misalignment comes first. The alignment and stability of your pelvis, low back, upper back, ribs and lower neck comes next, followed by your shoulders. Ideally every joint in your body should be aligned and stable to remove all causes and complications for TMJ dysfunction.

After joint correction and stabilization, jaw dysfunction related trigger points are best treated with neuromuscular acupuncture followed by administering muscle compression and muscle stretching.

Dr. Groover explains misalignment of the jaw that results from improper posture or a back problem can cause your TMJ disorder. Misalignment of your upper cervical spine causes high and low hips, shifting of your pelvis and upper back away from your center of gravity, poor weight balance between your right and left standing body weight and unequal leg lengths. Upper cervical correction eliminates these postural distortions.

An approach to treating TMJ caused by misalignment in your neck and upper back is to perform adjustments on your spinal joints in these areas. In addition, trigger point therapy is used to relieve tight muscles in the back around your spine. This reduces the amount of stress put on your jaw so other treatments to adjust the jaw will be more effective. When these treatments are employed, the motion of your jaw joint improves and symptoms like ear pain, jaw locking, headaches and neck pain are reduced, the doctor continued.

Dr. Groover recommends that patients suffering from TMJ problems should avoid the following:

  1. Clenching your jaw(s) – this is the worst thing you can do when you have a TMJ problem
  2. Chewing gum – puts added stress on both jaw bones and all jaw muscles
  3. Cradling the telephone – irritates neck muscles and jaw muscles
  4. Anesthesia – can affect mouth opening processes and damage joints
  5. Long dental appointments, i.e., those requiring an open mouth for more than 30 minutes

If you’d like to be seen for a comprehensive TMJ consultation, please review Dr. Groover’s Boulder chiropractic clinic online or give us a call at (303) 442-7772. We’re happy to assist and offer x-rays and more to make the process easier and more seamless for you.

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Common Chiropractic Scenarios and Dr. Groover’s Specialized Approach

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It’s not unusual for Dr. Groover of Boulder’s Groover Chiropractic Clinic to hear a patient’s long list of symptoms. New patients usually come to Dr. Groover with their primary complaint and a long and diverse list of symptoms and abnormalities, each with their own etiology (the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation) and complication (secondary disease or condition aggravating an already existing one).

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Dr. Groover Assists a Patient

This requires a well-studied, individualized approach to diagnosis and treatment to achieve clinical success, which is Dr. Groover’s passion and specialty. Here are some example scenarios:

NECK PAIN

Do you have neck pain? Is it chronic from no apparent specific cause, or the acute effect from a specific recent injury? Has your neck, without you knowing it, degenerated over time into arthritis? Have the ligaments in your neck been recently injured? What role does upper cervical (base of your head and upper two neck vertebra) misalignment play, what role does postural distortion play? What about your shoulders, ribs and upper back? What about the structure and function of your pelvis? Your knees and ankles? Where do we start? To what extent will specialized upper cervical specific chiropractic diagnosis and treatment be needed?

MIGRAINE

Do you suffer from migraine headache? Is it coming from your head, your neck or your body chemistry? How can we find out so we know where to begin, what other priorities to consider and what expected results will be? What types of migraine relief can we offer?

FATIGUE/SLEEPLESSNESS

Do you need help with sleeplessness and fatigue? Is your sleep disturbed by pain, and can the problem be solved by alleviating your pain? Do you have misalignments of your upper cervical spine and pelvis impairing your parasympathetic nervous system and stimulation driving your sympathetic nervous system into “fight or flight,” upsetting your feelings of safety and security, relaxation in body and mind and your ability to sink into deep restorative rest? How much do your diet, nutrition and lifestyle habits contribute to your sleeplessness?

BACK PAIN

Is your back pain general or specific, acute or chronic, idiopathic (of unknown origin) or from a specific injury? Do you have hidden postural abnormalities contributing to your back pain? What about pelvis misalignments? How much does misalignment of your back vertebra or your rib cage have to do with it? Do we begin by treating your back, or will it be necessary to eliminate your postural distortion or pelvis misalignments first to eliminate complications to the diagnosis and treatment of your back?

CAR ACCIDENT INJURY

Have you been in a car accident? Are you aware of the immense forces which pass through your body even during “low impact” car crashes? Did you know that car crashes usually cause wide-spread, whole-body injuries, including underlying structural and functional abnormalities which manifest as symptoms weeks, months or even years later? Do you know that car crashes frequently cause life-impairing neck ligament traumas, the location and severity of which are only detected through specialized diagnostic testing?

Dr. Groover offers free global screening consultations and his staff is happy to answer any questions you may have. For more information, please visit his Boulder chiropractic clinic online or give them a call at (303) 442-7772.

Boulder Chiropractic Clinic Does Chiro Care Cautiously

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For Dr. Groover of Groover Chiropractic Clinic, it’s not about just treating your symptoms; it’s about getting to the root of what’s causing your pain, discomfort and ill-health. Here’s what you can expect to discuss upon your first visit to the Boulder chiropractic clinic: Proper Chiropractic Care

  1. All your symptoms; not just the symptoms associated with your primary complaint. Your symptoms express underlying problems with your structure and function. As such, they provide valuable insight into your primary and secondary causations and into factors which may complicate your health condition. First, after screening your symptomatology, Dr. Groover quickly advances toward answering the question, “What’s causing your condition?”
  2. Brief history of your chief complaint including pertinent lifestyle, injury and health condition information.
  3. Structural and functional screening of your joints, muscles and nerves for holistic evaluation of your area of complaint for obtaining the clinical impressions he needs to offer you a comprehensive treatment plan specifically addressing the causes and complications associated with your condition.
  4. Doctor’s clinical impressions of your history, signs and symptoms with predictions about the causations and complications for your condition.
  5. Proposed individualized treatment plan, not only addressing your chief complaint, but also the other structural and functional abnormalities detected during your screening.

Dr. Groover’s ultimate goal in treating any patient is to restore structure and functionality of the spine and extremity joints first as the basis for successful, immediate symptoms of relief and cumulative attainment of their higher health, wellness and life goals.

Dr. Groover offers free global screening consultations and his staff is happy to answer any questions you may have. For more information, please visit his Boulder chiropractic clinic online or give them a call at (303) 442-7772.