Integrated Health and Wellness

ART by Dr. Stanfield

2011-08-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

ART is an art in itself. Dr. Stanfield has been getting phenomenal results using this myofascial technique. ART is the acronym for Active Release Technique. Specifically at Integrated Health and Wellness, Dr. Stanfield has worked with numerous neck and lower back patients/athletes improving their function of life!

I wanted to share a bit more of the history and how A.R.T works.

ART has been developed, refined, and patented by P. Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP. Dr. Leahy noticed that his patients' symptoms seemed to be related to changes in their soft tissue that could be felt by hand. By observing how muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves responded to different types of work, Dr. Leahy was able to consistently resolve over 90% of his patients' problems.

The basic premise is simple, just not easy. Shorten the tissue, apply a contact tension and lengthen the tissue or make it slide relative to the adjacent tissue. It's as simple as playing a piano and just as difficult.

ART is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved quickly and permanently with ART. These conditions all have one important thing in common: they are often a result of overused muscles.

If you have any questions, please email, call or stop by and get the answers that you have been waiting to ask!!

In Health and Wellness,
Dr. Trost

Patient Appreciation Day - June 2011

2011-06-29T14:58:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome turn-out for the "Adjust for Food". Patients were able to participate in ear candling, recieve 10 minute massages from Amy, have A.R.T. performed on the neck, arms, and upper back, and last, but not least, enjoyed Fiesta Fruit Salsa, Sopapia's, and Spicy Fruit Punch.

Established patients can refer their family members, friends, and co-workers in for an consultation and evaluation for exchange of canned goods or dry good items to be donated to the McPherson County Food Bank.

Do not miss out on the next Patient Appreciation Day. It will be announced soon!

Patient Appreciation Day

2011-05-20T21:28:00.000-07:00

The staff at Integrated Health and Wellness Center would like to invite all patients to the "Patient Appreciation Day" on June 25th from 9am to 12 noon.

This is our way of say, "Thank You!" for allowing the staff and Doctors to serve you! Once again, the patients and guests will have an opportunity to have chair massages, ear candling, a personal trainer demostration, snacks (healthy and not so healthy), and chances to win door prizes.

Dr. Stanfield and I will, "Adjust for Food!" Established patients can receive a chiropractic adjustment for exchange of 10 food items or dry goods to donated to the McPherson County Food bank. We need your help to help others!

Visit our website or facebook to watch for more details!!

http://www.integr8edhealth.com/

or facebook @

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Integrated-Health-and-Wellness-CenterDr-Trost/127236713955350

In Health and Wellness,

Dr. Trost

Sports Physicals

2011-05-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

I am honored to be asked to participate in the McPherson High Booster Clubs sports physicals on May 23rd, 2011. Dr. Overholt of Familly Practice Associates in McPherson has asked for me to perform the musculoskeletal portion of the physical. I will look forward to the opportunity to work with the Medical Physicians in this capacity!

New Doctor joining Integrated Health and Wellness Center

2011-05-01T08:54:00.000-07:00

Integrated Health and Wellness Center is excited to announce that Dr. Jack Stanfield will be joining the group to provide chiropractic and healthcare services.

Dr. Jack Stanfield is a December 2010 graduate of Logan Chiropractic College in St. Louis, MO. He has also attained a Master's in Sports Management and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Stanfield will be adding new services to the practice along with chiropractic care. As a student at Logan, Dr. Stanfield became certified as an ART (Active Release Technique) Practitioner. ART is a soft tissue technique that has helped thousands of athletes and patients throughout the United States and internationally. ART Practitioners are noted for their participation at the Ironman Triathalons in Hawaii and rest of the US.

Dr. Stanfield has also with a semi-pro women's football team in St. Louis and High schoool evaluating sports injuries and providing recommendations for their return to activity.

Look for you Patient Appreciation Days in the next month to come in and meet Dr. Stanfield. To schedule an appointment, call (620) 504-6344.

In Health and Wellness!!

January Open House

2011-01-22T10:54:00.000-08:00

The staff would like to say, "Thank You!" to everyone taking time out of their Saturday to make the Patient Appreciation Day a success! We have three patients winning a Brooks pair of shoes, a Medical Weight Loss Program, and biofreeze. Congratulations to those three patients!

A few pictures have been attached to show the fun that was missed!!

Go to our website to learn about our services offered at Integrated Health and Wellness Center!

In Health and Wellness,

Dr. Trost

Medical Weight Loss Program

2010-05-18T22:18:00.000-07:00

Our office is excited to announce that we have implemented a medical weight loss program. Participants can expect to lose 20 to 30 pounds in one month. A physical examination will be given for those that are deemed high risk or have been diagnosed with high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, heart conditions, and endocrine disorders.

The examination performed in the office will include an EKG, cholesterol, glucose testing, a urinalysis, and vitals. If the weight loss patient is within normal limits of the test performed, the weight loss program can be started.

The program will include one-one coaching of symptoms, diet and lifestyle changes. Grocery lists and recipes will be provided. An E-ncouragement newsletter will be sent to you weekly.

The office is excited to share that the patients who have already started the program have lost a total of 25 lbs in two weeks. The results have and will continue to be amazing!!

Call the office today to begin your life style change!!

In Health and Wellness,
Dr. Brandon Trost

The tasks that lie ahead of you are not as great as the Power that is within you!!

Kinesio Taping

2010-04-07T18:58:00.000-07:00

Our office have been able to utilize the benefits of Kinesio Taping for the past several months. This has been an awesome modality to utilize with our current rehabilitative techinques. I have currently submitted my exam to become a Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner. I will be one of four Doctors of Chiropratic in the state of Kansas with this distinction.

Kinesio Taping is a techinque of applying kinesio tape (thin, elastic, colored, strips of stretchable tape) on joints and muscles where stability and support is needed. It is a non-restrictive taping method, opposite of white athletic tape, used to reduce pain and inflammation, relax overused, tired muscles, and speed healing.

HOW IT WORKS!
When properly applied, you don't even know the tape is there. The practitioner places it on lightly stretched skin from one end of a muscle, joint, or tendon to the other. For muscle support or facilitation, the tape is applied from muscle origin to muscle insertion. For rehabilitation or muscle inhibition, the tape goes on in the opposite direction.

The taping techinque is based on the body's own natural healing process. Rather than strap down the muscle, the philosophy is to give free range of motion and allow the body's own muscular system to heal itself. Application of kinesio tape encourages muscle to function as they would if they did not need the tape. This in turns, not only improves body movement, but circulation of venous and lymph flow, body circulation, etc.

CONDITIONS TREATED
Kinesio taping is effective in relieving carpal tunnel symptoms, arthritis, plantar fascitis, and shoulder pain. Other conditions that have been treated with Kinesio taping are: TMJ syndrome, headaches, flat feet, low back conditions (disc problems, sprain/strain, sciatica, etc), Post ACL rehabilitation, hamstring and hip flexor strains, shin splints, patellar tendonitis, grinding of the knees, posterior knee pain, rotator cuff syndrome, cervical sprain/strain, whiplash, tennis elbow and trapezius tightness to name a few!

If you would like more information regarding the kinesio taping, please call our office. If other Healthcare Professionals would like to refer patients for the Kinesio Taping services only, our office will accomodate your patients for those services!!

In Health,
Dr. Brandon Trost

Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Fredrick B. Wilcox

October 2009 - National Chiropractic Month

2009-09-18T11:07:00.000-07:00

National Chiropractic Month

FREE BIOFREEZE SAMPLES

In conjunction with National Chiropractic Month, you are invited to stop by the office at 1319 East First Street in McPherson and ask for free biofreeze and register to win a 32oz pump of biofreeze.

During October, you can receive a complimentary posture screening, gait or foot analysis, a demostration of kinesio taping, and/or consultation.

The month of October has been declared as the "National Chiropractic Month". It was established to raise public awareness of the what chiropractic is and the benefits of chiropractic. This month was consolidated with two other awareness months: Spinal Health Month and Posture Awareness Month.

As a whole, Chiropractic has become a mainstream in alternative and traditional healthcare. Here are few interesting facts relating to Chiropractic:

-- Chiropractic is the largest, most regulated, and best recognized of the
complementary and alternative medicine professions. -- American
Chiropractic Association
-- The federal government provides chiropractic benefits for veterans,
military personnel and Medicare patients. -- American Chiropractic
Association
-- A major four-year study in the United States, published in the American
Medical Association journal, The Archives of Internal Medicine,
concluded that medical benefit plan members with chiropractic coverage
returned to work faster, had lower claim costs and experienced fewer
interventions such as MRIs compared to plan members without
chiropractic benefits.

I would like to share with you the how, what, when, where of CHIROPRACTIC. It is a scientific fact that your brain, spinal cord and the rest of your nerves control every aspect of your body. Hindering the nerve "connections" between your brain and your body through injuries, accidents, stress, diet related issues could lead to ill health. A common source of interference comes from the moving bones that encase the "information superhighway" of your spinal cord. This source is called the verterbral subluxation.

This nerve pressure can cause numbness, weakness, or the under-performance of organs and tissues. Or, spinal misalignments (subluxations) can cause nerve tissue to stretch, chafe, or become irritated. This can distort nerve messages between your body and your brain. The result? Hyperactive organ function, blood pressure, or even pain.

The focus of CHIROPRACTIC is on the integrity of your nervous system. A thorough examination helps locate areas of nervous system compromise. The moving bones of the spine are common culprits. Specific chiropractic adjustments help reduce these subluxations or interferences. The intent is to restore your body's ability to regulate and heal itself.

Chiropractic care is simple. It is natural. It honors the wisdom of your body. And it has helped millions enjoy relief and better health for more than a century.

Call today for your Chiropractic evaluation!!! If you want to discuss your health related situation first, we can schedule a consultation to see if you would be a chiropractic candidate.

Blessings and Health to You,

Dr. Brandon Trost

drchiro@integr8edhealth.com

(620) 504-6344

Six things to lower risk of BP

2009-09-04T06:33:00.000-07:00

The US Dept of Health and Human Services are realizing that health conditions can be resolved with other approaches along with mainstream medicine. In a recent article, women had six things that could help lower their risk of high blood pressure. Those things are as follows:

1) keep a normal weight
2) exercising an average of 30 minutes a day
3) eating a healthy diet
4) drink alcohol in moderation
5) avoid OTC pain relieves
*6) taking 400 micrograms (not milligrams) or more of supplemental folic acid

Supplementation is becoming more acceptable in traditional medicine. The study to use folic acid, as recommended by the HHS, is in the Journal of American Medical Association and supported by the National Institutes of Health. This article can be found at www.hhs.gov/news/healthbeat/2009/08/20090827a.html.

I suggest that you are advised by a healthcare provider, Doctor of Chiropractic or Medical Physician, as you begin to take various forms of supplementation due to harmful interactions with other prescribed medications or herbal supplements.

It is my opinion that we will see more and more of "alternative" healthcare being used with traditional medicine as we see changes with our healthcare system.

Health and Wellness to You,
Dr. Trost
(620) 504-6344
drtrost@integr8edhealth.com
http://www.integr8edhealth.com/

The Vertebral Dissection and Chiropractic

2009-09-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

I was able to attend a one hour luncheon seminar on "The vertebral dissection and Chiropractic Manipulation". Basically, a patient having a stroke after a chiropractic adjustment.

The conclusion was very interesting. The ER MD had concluded that the manipulation could not be proven to have caused the stroke! The MD had done a great job researching the causative factors of the stroke. One paper stated that a patient is just as likely to have a stroke in a Chiropractors office as they would in a Medical Physicians office.

So, I had asked, "If a patient had presented with a headache and neck pain into a Medical office, how would they have been examined?" One physician stated with a chuckle, "We would have sent them for a CT with contrast, of course."

These type of incidences allow us to learn and grow from our experiences. Unfortunately, it had happened to a human being for us to be able to learn. But, fortunately, the patient has recovered well from my understanding!!