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  • Integrative Models of Health and Disease

    The chiropractic physician specializes in the biomechanical, neuromusculoskeletal realm, which promotes ideal locomotion, neurophysiology, and good musculoskeletal function for optimal health and elite athletic ability. Orthomolecular physicians specialize in the bio-chemical electromagnetic realm, which promotes ideal combustion within the body's energetic systems for optimal energy needs, physiology, and detoxification. The psychoneuroimmunologist specialize in the bio-ecopsychosocial realm, which promotes ideal relationships with nature, others, and oneself toward the goal of optimal health and elite athletic performance. A balanced triad of health means a balance of the human body, ....

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  • The Optimal Health and Elite Athletic Ability Continuums

    The Optimal Health through Death and Elite Athletic Ability through Disability Continuums: Sets forth the bidirectional course of how the human body is in a state of dynamic flux along a biological continuum-'State of the Organism'. This continuum extends from optimal health to death, and each person passes through the continuum stages. From optimal health, humans move to a state that may be termed as a departure from health, then to disease, and on to the expression of a specific disease, complete with signs and symptoms. People with mild departures from physiologic normal should be treated before they experience pathological changes. An early departure from health that is not yet ....

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  • Chiropractic for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health

    Chiropractic philosophy explains both the art and science of chiropractic, which holds a core belief that the body holds an innate ability to heal itself, given the right circumstances. The chiropractor seeks to provide the body with circumstances that will promote healing. The Council on Chiropractic Education offers the following definition: "A doctor of chiropractic is a physician whose purpose , as a member of the healing arts, is to help meet the health needs of the public, giving particular attention to the structural and neurological aspects of the body. The application of science in chiropractic concerns itself with the relationship between structure, primarily the spine, and ....

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  • Orthomolecular for the Chemical Side of the Triad of Health

    Orthomolecular physicians, chiropractors, registered dietitian, and other nutritional advocates who use natural occurring substances toward building tissue by providing the basic raw material for fostering biochemical reactions for normal to optimal body function work on the chemical side of the triad of health. The components of nutrition, diet, hydration, and supplementation are used to drive the biochemical reactions that drive one toward optimal health and elite athletic performance. Orthomolecular physicians in particular focus on nutrition, pollution, and stress in diagnosis and treatment. A balanced triad of health means a balance of the human body, mind, and spirit, thus better ....

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  • Psychoneuroimmunology for the Mental Side of the Triad of Health

    The Mental Side of the Triad of Health has been addressed by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other psychotherapists have dominated their methods to the mental side of the triad, but it is the psychoneuroimmunologist who physiologically defined the mind/body connection. We can change our brains as the field of plasticity in the neurosciences has recently found by altering our external environment and/or our body's internal environment, we can take advantage of our strengths and amend our weaknesses. Possibilities for change are bound only by our imagination, our willingness to assess our circumstances accurately through self-reflection, and our commitment to hard work.The ....

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  • Physiologic Therapeutics for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health

    The clinical management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions involves both passive and active care services. The passive care services include the clinical use of manual therapies and physiologic therapeutics, while the active care services include the therapeutic procedures used in active rehabilitation and functional training. Chiropractic Sports Care starts our approach with palliative care, tissue-sparing strategies, gradual reactivation advice, and provide assurance that the red flags of serious disease such as infection, tumor, and fracture have been ruled out, so that our patients do not imagine their injuries or illnesses as catastrophic. Physiological Therapeutics means the ....

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  • Active Rehabilitation for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health

    Active Rehabilitation works to restore deficits on the structural side of the Triad of Health. The three aspects of conservative treatment of locomotor system disorders are advice, manipulation, and exercise. They constitute a continuum of care, which has as its goal the reassurance, reactivation, and return to your prior functional status. Advice begins with dispelling the myth that 'hurt equals harm'. We then promote the gradual resumption of activities as a way to prevent deconditioning and improve the nourishment to the painful tissues. Finally, specific activity modification advice regarding workstation ergonomics, sleep posture/pillows, bending/lifting/carrying, and pushing/pulling ....

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  • Functional Training for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health

    Functional training for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health is the is a purposeful system of programs and exercises to develop a higher level of athletic preparation while preventing injuries in the process. It is a system that focuses on injury reduction through the use of progressively more demanding exercises, and at the same time on performance enhancement. It's a manifestation of an outgrowth of increased knowledge in the areas of active rehabilitation and training. Functional training teaches athletes how to handle their own body weight while accelerating or decelerating in the sagittal, transverse, and/or frontal planes of motion. The trainers use body weight as resistance ....

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  • Applied Ergonomics for the Structural Side of the Triad of Health

    Applied Ergonomics looks at and aims to improve the relationship between people and the tools, tasks, processes and machines they use. Improving safety and efficiency are the goals of ergonomic design and intervention. The ideal goal would be design that eliminates injuries, poor understanding, inefficiencies, and errors without the need for operator training or diligence. Nevertheless, safety is and continues to be a shared responsibility between the employer, insurance broker, ergonomist, health service team, and the worker. Office ergonomics design helps with the prevention of neuromusculoskeletal disorders for the ever growing 'knowledge worker' who spends a good part of their day on ....

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  • Lifestyle Considerations for Optimal Health & Peak Athletic Performance

    Consider practicing the health promotion lifestyle strategies below to help improve your overall functional capacity & health status, thereby decreasing fat, inflammation, & symptoms. These lifestyle strategies will also help to help improve your performance at work, home, and while at play. In order to influence the body in burning rather than storing fat once needs to do the following: 1. Keep insulin levels down by eating low glycemic index carbohydrates, and to eat proteins and fats while eating carbohydrates to slow the sugar entering the bloodstream 2. Keep oxidation and inflammation levels down by loading up on antioxidants and essential fatty acids 3. Keep cortisol ....

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Our expertise is in the prevention and proper management of traumatic and repetitive injuries of the spine, pelvis, extremities, and soft tissues of the body.

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Orly Sibony

My husband and I see Louis for personal training in a local park. He's always prepared with a variety of challenging and fun exercises, and he's very human when it comes to training too-- he can tell when we need a water break, he has a positive and encouraging attitude, and he never tries to push us beyond our limit. We appreciate that he's a chiropractor too, because he offers lots of helpful information beyond "just" exercise. We're feeling stronger and learning more about taking care of our bodies thanks to Louis

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Melissa Hill

Dr. Louis is the best. I was referred to him by my uncle, who used to train with Louis at the Olympic Club in SF. I saw Dr. Louis for both chiropractic and personal training. (but mostly chiro). He truly is good at what he does and has a great personality to make you feel comfortable. He listens well and takes good care. I live in NY now and still have not found a Chiropractor as good as Dr. Valencia. I am considering to fly home just for an adjustment and hopefully soon. Honestly, if you are looking for a good Chiropractor or Strength trainer, I highly recommend giving him a try!

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Vera Obaid

Louis is the best! He’s fun and tough at the same time. He really knows bodies and what I can and cannot handle. A friend recommended him after I mentioned that I felt like a blob and I needed to shape up. At almost 50 years old, I’d never been to a gym and felt really uneasy about going to some random gym and being absolutely clueless about what to do. Exercising with Louis is always brutal and I complain the whole time, BUT, I always feel so good afterwards and feel a million times better today!

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