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Poking my cat with a paperclip. To decrease pain. There is this neurological concept called Two Point Discrimination. It refers to being able to distinguish if the sensation you feel is coming from one point poking your skin, or if it’s two  points that feel like one. Here I am practicing Two Point Discrimination with [...]

  Wednesday April 12th  from 7 to 10  at Chiropractic First 1609 Chicago Ave, Evanston   Please join us for an informal event open to all chiropractors Celebrate our community and each other! We so rarely get a chance to know the other chiropractors in our area. Please join me on the 12th to get to [...]

  Election stress hit people hard this week. It showed up as neck and shoulder pain, and hip and knee pain. In almost all cases, people worried about the election were only energetically present in the upper half of their bodies. They were taking high and shallow breaths and were disengaged with their body below [...]

“Um… can I talk to you in private for a minute?” A patient asks me as she gestures toward the exam room. “Of course, what’s going on?” I ask as I close the door behind us. This scenario happens a few times a week. But recently the conversation has been taking an unexpected turn. The [...]

“We turn their problems into a crime.” -Dr Beth Richie at International Women’s Day “It’s my knee that is the culprit.” -patient at Chiropractic First As I listened to Dr. Richie speak, I was struck by how much the American response to race, gender and criminal justice mirrors our response to pain, disease and health [...]

  Which one of the squares in the video above looks darker? A or B? Your brain uses past information it has about shadows and light to make this decision. It sees that B is in the shadow of the green cylinder. It combines that with historical information about your experience of shadows. And concludes that A is [...]

Originally published in the Elephant Journal. written by Dr. Meggie Smith. He told me my body was painfully flawed. He told me that a body like mine would lead to a life of sickness and pain. But I didn’t believe him. He showed me the X-Rays. And pointed to the spots that did not look [...]

Originally published in the Elephant Journal. written by Dr. Meggie Smith. Your muscles turn off after an injury. It happened years ago. You are so over it. After the shock, the pain, the grief. You’ve healed. You’ve moved on. The pain is gone. But you still don’t go to the restaurant where you and your [...]

  A few weeks ago I woke up in enough pain that it challenged one of my longest and deepest held beliefs about healing, chiropractic and how my body works.  I had recently started rock climbing.  I was using my upper body and working harder than I had ever worked before. My shoulder was throbbing. [...]