Equalign Podcast

Sometimes as a practitioner when you get done working on an animal you notice that is still not quite right. What do you do? Now this takes present time consciousness to be aware of the animals communication and behavior. Some are really good at letting you know that you are not done. Others may take a little more sleuthing. Listen along and learn how we assess and reassess our work. 

Red light therapy is getting splashed all over the health market and with good reason. The research is there to back up the claims. Not all red light is the same and which ones are the most beneficaial and how does it work? Listen along as we discuss red light and its effectiveness and the research that supports it.

Probably one of the most common questions you will get as a practitioner is what kind of exercises can I do for my injury? New injuries require rest and a chance for the healing process to begin. Exercising immeidately after an injury can create further damage. There are other alternatives to exercise that can be used to aid the healing process. Listen along as we discuss rest and rehab.

The use of video to help in evaluating movement is a greet tool for the practitioner, trainer and owner. Videoing an animal in work or in play can give us as practitioners a better insight to causation and also help us locate areas of imbalance. With horse rider combos it gives us a chance to see if it the horse of the rider creating the issue. Listen along as we discuss how we use video in practice. 

Are you in it for the long haul? As a client, practitioner, owner you are building a lasting relationship. What do you want out of it and how long do you want to be in it? Listen along as we discuss the different aspects of relationships of health care today.

Your ability to listen and learn how animals relate to you when you are evaluating them will be directly proportional to your ability to get the results you desire. Animals can communicate very clearly if you are paying attention to the cues they give you. Listen along as we discuss how animals will clue you in on what is going on with them. 

Equalign interviews Reese Koffer-Stanfield of The Dressage Radio Show about dressage and how horses trained. Reese is a Grand Prix dressage rider with her horse, Big Mike. Reese has been training horses for 25 years and is a very accomplished rider/trainer/podcaster. Listen along as we discuss the benefits of dressage training across disciplines to create a more balanced horse. Please follow Reese on the Horse Network on The Dressage Radio Show.

Equalign is a company based on prevention. We as chiropractors base our practice on prevention. The number one cause of injury in the elderly is from falls. The number one reason we see horses is back pain and behavior changes. With proper chiropractic care and exercise and nutrition much of this can be preventable. Listen along as we discuss the necessity of prevention.

Stress is an everyday event for most of us. How we deal with the stress or how we perceive stress is what makes stress good for us or bad for us. Increasing cortisol levels in the body can do bad things. How is stress then good for you? Listen along as we discuss the benefits of stress and how best to control it.

Proprioception is a sensory awareness of position in space. It is important for your body to deal with the natural stressors of the environment properly and for safety. From walking to chewing food it is what keeps you from stumbling (most of the time) to avoiding biting your tongue or crushing your own teeth. Listen along as we discuss proprioception and what we do as chiropractors to increase your proprioceptive ability.

We are all a work in progress. We have been adjusting humans and animals for over 40 years each and we still have so much work in progress. What are you working on in your life and practice? Where do you go to find help working on yourself and your life? Listen along as we discuss our work in progress.

We have a tendency to create patterns that we then get stuck in without realizing it. If you want different results than you have to do something different. What patterns do you have in your life that could use some change. Listen along as we discuss pattern interrupts and how it can change the way you do things for better results.

The beginning of a New Year gives us a chance to reflect on days gone by and begin to think about what we want out of the coming days of 2024. Listen along as we discuss happy thoughts and how they can create the life you would like to have this year. We love you all. Happy New Year from Equalign and thank you all for taking the time in your busy schedules to listen to us.

Increasing awareness is a necessity in creating health and wellness. Injury will create a lack of awareness in the body that can lead to chronic suffering. In this podcast we discuss the options we use to increase awareness in our canine, equine and human clients. 

Today we welcome our guests Dr Claus and Dr Karen. Dr. Claus is and MD PhD and engineer professor at Northwestern and Dr. Karen has her PhD in biology and is an equine body worker. We have spent a few days together doing some scientific work and discussing movement. Claus brought up a good point about extra movement that leads us to our discussion today. Listen along as we discuss human and animal movement. 

The attitude is gratitude and giving thanks. Today we discuss how living with gratitude and thanks will fill your life with the abundance of those thoughts and experiences. What you focus on is what your fill your life. Happy Thanksgiving to all our family of listeners and clients and family.

We are just back from the American Veterinary Chiropractics Associations annual conference with new knowledge gained and more excitement for learning new things that benefit our practice and the health of our animals.  Listen along as we discuss what we learned this past weekend and how important it is to participate in a community that supports animal chiropractic. 

PEMF or pulsed electro-magnetic frequency is a therapy that has been around since the 50s and within the last 20 years has become a prominent therapy in the animal and human world. PEMF comes in low and high frequency that each have their own specific uses. Listen along as we discuss the use and benefits you can expect with PEMF treatments. 

Questioning everything is way of gaining knowledge and insight to the issues at hand. Asking why will give you information on process of thinking. Asking how will give you knowledgable information on specifics of the task. Asking what fills in the gaps that are created by the previous two questions. Listen along as we discuss Questioning Everything.

Waiting is one of the biggest lessons we get in life. In our present society it has become a forgotten ability. We have become the I want it now. Amazon has prime shipping and get it. today shipping. Social media likes to limit posts to one to three minutes. Our attention span has become very limited. When it comes to healing, waiting is one of the most important aspects to getting the desired results. Listen to how waiting is important in so many aspects of life.