AWeber - FOHAC Bunions #401a

Published: Wed, 04/12/17

Fair Oaks Health News

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April 12, 2017

Bunions

Hi ,

While I was visiting my family last weekend, I came across something I thought was impossible – a cure for bunions. I have been looking at people’s feet for 35 years and when I would see the deformation of the joints that occurs with a bunion, I would have to throw up my hands in surrender. I just did not have an answer. Well now I do have an answer.

What are bunions? The most typical bunion is when the base of the big toe sticks way out and the toe itself ends up pointing sideways towards the other toes. It’s not a pretty picture, and they cause a lot of foot pain and disability. In severe cases all the toes seem to bunch up in the middle of the foot, often crossing over top of each other. In time the damage to the natural movements of the foot work their way up the line to produce knee troubles, hip troubles, and low back troubles.

What causes bunions? Simply put pointed toe shoes cause bunions. Some people want to think that genetics are involved, but they aren’t. Possibly genetics could be associated with weaker ligaments throughout the body that would make a person develop bunions in response to the pressure created by the tight shoes more easily, but there are no genes that cause bunions to happen without the insult of the pointed shoes.

Feet are designed to be the widest at the toes and progressively narrower as you move towards the back of the foot. Most modern shoes are designed to make the balls of the feet the widest point of the foot and to then squeeze the toes together towards a point in the middle. Why do we do this? Natural feet are not this shape.

There are various theories as to why the shoe styles favored today tend to be both pointed and typically have elevated heels. Most of the theories have to do with the development of style as there does not appear to be any functional reason for doing this. Among the more interesting, and likely correct to my mind, is that heels and pointed toes are a form of foot binding that proclaims to the world that you are special and do not

need to work and be on your feet all day. Heels and pointed toes are only comfortable if you do not need to walk and stand very much, so wearing them would be a statement that you are of the upper class that does not need to work for a living. Women are especially prone to wearing high heels and tightly pointed shoes with the general understanding that they are a statement that you are delicate and sexy and therefore not expected to engage in physical labor. High heels are the opposite statement to a pair of work boots.

Whatever the reason for such shoes, they are killing our feet. Constantly sticking our feet into a restrictive leather binding that pulls our toes together, stretches the outer toe ligaments and constricts the inner toe ligaments is insane. Over time the outer ligaments get longer and the inner ligaments get shorter. When this happens they now hold our toes pointed towards the middle all on their own.

Toes are meant to grip the ground and help pull us forward just like our hands would do if we were trying to climb up a steep cliff. If you were trying to do rock climbing, would you bind your fingers together into a bunch? Of course not! You would want your fingers to be able to stretch as wide as possible to grip the surface of the rock wall. Toes are the same way. They are meant to splay out at the ends. But we are so socially conditioned that a shoe that actually is shaped to facilitate the natural function of the foot like the Vibram looks ridiculous.

So over time the toe joints become deformed and arthritic as a result. The pain can be excruciating. As I said before, I did not know what to do for them except to suggest the person stop making the problem worse by discontinuing the use of pointed shoes. In bad situations surgery seemed to be the only lasting alternative. But the few patients I have had that did go the surgical route had nothing but bad things to say. Recovery from the surgery can take up to a year and is a very painful process. Most wish they had never done the surgery.

With this in mind you can imagine my interest when I saw these weird toe appliances my sister-in-law was wearing. When she told me that the Podiatrist that designed them was able to actually cure bunions with them, I was all ears. They had met the Podiatrist/designer at a presentation he made at Western States Chiropractic College in Portland where my brother works. They were impressed and decided to try them for themselves.

This is not some miracle over night process. If you have bunions, you have been creating them since you were two years old. Only the shoes for one-year-olds are actually shaped like real feet. Ligaments and bones do not remodel overnight. It takes some work and a willingness to abandon the foot deforming shoes you have worn your whole life.

These appliances are a soft silicone mold that slip over your toes and gently spread them apart and back into the natural toe/foot shape. There are exercises and a gradual re-adaptation process that takes about a year to remodel your foot back to its natural shape. Think of them as acting like teeth braces, only for your toes. Compared to foot surgery, this is a no-brainer. The appliances only cost about $65 and in reviewing their website, I see that there are a number of modifications you can make to adapt them to your feet specifically.

I contacted the makers of the product and they offered to send me some free shipping coupons to hand out to patients that were interested in curing their bunions. I should have these coupons soon, so if you are interested just stop on by the office.

With the amount of time I spend on my feet, if my feet hurt, everything hurts. If the feet are not stable and working right, it impacts your posture and spine with chronic tension and pain. There are as many bones in your feet as there are in your entire spine. That is why I frequently have to adjust the feet. Now I have something I can recommend for that stubborn problem I have not been able to fix, bunions.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Here we are at Lab Corp getting our blood drawn for the simplified Kraft Insulin assay. We drank our special sugar water earlier this morning and now we get blood drawn 2 and 3 hours later. These two draws will tell us how long and how intensly opur insulin reacts to a sugar challenge. If we are totally healthy our insulin levels will already be almost down to fasting levels by the 2 hour draw. But if we still have high insulin levels at the 3 hour draw then we have a lot of work to do to reduce insulin resistance and decrease inflammation in our systems.

Cholesterol good for older people

In a systematic review of the studies of cholesterol and disease states in older people the British Medical Journal study found that for folks over 50 years of age more cholesterol - both total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, decreased mortality. Cholesterol is found to be protective in older people and not associated with stroke, atherosclerosis, or heart disease. I don't know if this applies to really high levels, but levels below 240 appear to be healthy - healthier than the below 180 levels the American medical system keeps promoting.

BMJ Cholesterol

Cholesterol

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Regrow torn rotator cuffs

Rotator cuff tears hurt a lot and are hard to get to heal. Stem cells have been tried in the past without much success because the stem cells just wander away. A new technique in which the stem cells are grown on a nano-mesh that holds them in place is proving successful at getting the cells to regrow new rotator cuff tendons.

Stem Cells

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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Kiddie poop extends life

Our gut microbiome has huge impact on our health, and promoting the right healthy gut bacteria directly assists in healing or preventing various diseases. But the diversity of gut bacteria declines with age. Fecal transplants have been successful in curing certain gut related diseases. The question studied now is would fecal transplants from young people help old people live longer healthier lives? So far the study has only been done in fish, but the old fish that got the kiddie fish poop lived 37% longer than the regular fish. In human terms that would mean adding 30 extra years to your life.

Kiddie Poop

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

~Theodore Roosevelt

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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