I’ll never forget my first interview, but my son will never remember it.
Certainly you’ve heard a song played on a radio station, but I bet you’ve never heard a song played about a radio station.
When it comes to health and healing, as a nation, we fall short when it comes to being well.
When I started Spinal Column Radio two years ago, my original intention was merely to refresh and repurpose the decade-and-a-half of articles I had written for the Kingston Community News into a radio-style format.
With more 100 shows of our Spinal Column Radio podcast under my belt — taking my son, Logan, and I coast to coast to interview some of chiropractic’s greatest minds — you can imagine that I’ve got a story or two.
My 11-year-old audio-engineer son, Logan, and I just returned home from an amazing weekend in New Jersey after taking our Spinal Column Radio podcast studio on the road.
I love podcasting. I love it for many different reasons. But it’s the “Power of the Podcast” that keeps me coming back.
Every once in a while a health care study comes out that makes you stop and say, “Now why didn’t someone think of doing that earlier?” Well, such a study recently hit the pages of the prestigious medical journal Spine.
True health is more than being pain-free, it’s about functioning at the most optimum level possible. When the spine is adjusted, and maintained as such, the nervous system which controls and regulates every cell, tissue and organ in the body is able to communicate more effectively … and when that’s in place, pain just isn’t an option.
After practicing nearly fifteen years, I am still honored and humbled when asked to adjust a newborn. The other day I adjusted a 3-day-old.
Now before you stop breathing at the thought of an infant receiving an adjustment, understand that the birth process itself can be extremely traumatic. As a matter of fact, the average force placed on the head and neck by the delivering doctor’s hands during a “normal” childbirth is 40 to 70 pounds. Contrast that to the specific fingertip pressure of two to four pounds that a chiropractor needs to adjust the tiny vertebrae in an infant’s neck.
The word on my white board the other day was “spizz”— a word that invariably provoked a question from each one of my patients.
“What does spizz mean, Dr. Lamar?”
“Well,” I would reply, “It’s short for spizzerinctum. Does that help?”
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