Denver Sports Chiropractic Rino 5K Event

Hey Denver, It’s your Colorado Sports Chiropractor Dr. Joseph Vear here and I wanted to share an amazing experience I recently had at the Rino 5K event. With over 200 runners at the event I got an opportunity to work on some very talented individuals, while also serving a wonderful cause. This event partnered with Denver Rescue Mission to help them as they continue to change the lives of Denver’s homeless. Pretty cool stuff right!!! This event took place in downtown Denver in front of 10 Barrel Brewery. I have posted some picture taken at the event and wanted to share them with you all.

I also wanted to give special thanks to John Gonzalez with GTS events for having me at the event and Rock Tape for sponsoring True Form Chiropractic.

Olympic Training Center – Colorado Springs

Hey everyone its Dr. Joseph Vear your Denver Chiropractor, I wanted to share a great experience I had getting to work alongside some amazing individualizes at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. It was truly one of the coolest and mind blowing experiences I have ever got to witness in my life and I owe a special thanks to my good buddy Brandon Sikael, new friends Heather Linden and Dr. Dustin Nabhan for making it all happen. I have got to experience a once in a life time opportunity working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in their professions in athletic care, injury treatment and rehabilitation.

Hanging with Heather & Brandon

While at the center I had the opportunity to participate in some ground breaking research that is being done by Dr. Dustin Nabhan on hamstring tendon length and its possible implication on susceptibility to tear utilizing diagnostic ultrasound. I also had the pleasure to experience first hand the day to day operations that go on at the Colorado training facility and how to properly and effectively care for Olympic level athletes. It is safe to say that without the hard work and dedication of our USA medical staff, that we as a nation would not be where we are today as the most dominate and well recognized country every recorded in USA Olympic history, this past RIO summer Olympics. The following pictures are just a snapshot into my amazing experience at the Olympic Training Center here at Colorado Springs.

Movement Screening at Cutthroat CrossFit

Hey everyone its your Denver Chiropractor, just wanted to keep you all up to date on the latest movement screening that I put on at Cutthroat CrossFit. We had a great turnout with individualizes looking to improve their movement and increase their performance in the gym. Here are some of the pictures from the event.

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I believe it is vital for any athlete, weekend warrior or CrossFit competitor to have a proper movement assessment done prior to starting a training program. Having a movement assessment done properly before the start of a training program can provide many benefits for CrossFit athletes looking to improve their strength, technique and performance. By targeting these deficient movements with the screening procedure, the trainer or coach has a better understanding what areas of the body may need the most attention for their clients on an individualized basis.

I want to thank the owner of Cutthroat CrossFit Brian Bender for having me at his gym and allowing me to work with his athletes. I would also like to thanks Dr. David Newton for helping with the screening and making the day go very smooth and a thanks to my wife, Adrienne Vear for taking the photos.

Ankle and Hip Mobility

Ankle Mobility
Hey Everyone it your Denver Chiropractor, when it comes to training perhaps one of the most overlooked joints is the ankle. Your ankle is extremely important for optimal function of many of your lifts in the gym such as a squat, lunge, box jump, split jerk…ect and therefore needs to be assessed for proper function. The ankle is your primary shock absorber of the body, it helps dissipate ground reactions forces while walking, running and jumping. Therefore, needs to have proper mobility, stability and strength to relieve ground reaction forces (that when your ankle is not functioning properly could transmit excessive force to the knee, hip and lower back). In the next few examples I will demonstrate some basic exam procedures you can use to determine whether you have proper mobility of the ankle. As the case with most all joints proper mobility needs to be achieved to have optimal stability.
1. Active Dorsiflexion of the Ankle
a. One way to test this is by laying against a wall with your feet flat against the wall and to actively dorsiflex the ankle. The goal hear is to achieve 1 inch or greater clearance from the wall with the ball of your foot. An easy way to measure this is ability to move your opposite foot underneath your dorsiflexed ankle, demonstrated in the video.
2. Active Plantarflexion of the Ankle
a. Lying on your back, legs extended, plantar flex your toes (point your toes) forward, an ability to line up the top of your foot with your shin bone would indicated optimal plantar flexion, again shown in the video.

3. Passive Dorsiflexion of the Ankle in a Weighted Position
a. Standing with one leg forward, place your toes about 4 inches from the wall. In this position, lean forward and try and touch your knee to the wall. While doing, this make sure that you do not hyperextend in your lumbar spine, your knee does not deviate inward and remains in line between your second and third toes. Your heel during this test should also remain firm on the floor without any liftoff. It is also important to note that while doing this test make sure your hips do not deviate side to side (most commonly to the testing leg), this is a common compensation that is seen to improve results but places the knee in an unstable position. If you can achieve the above with no compensations 4 inches or more from the wall you. This demonstration will be shown below.

Hip Mobility
Like the ankle proper hip mobility must be achieved before optimal stability can be achieved. Unlike the ankle your hip is a ball and socket joint and therefore can perform circumduction or move in a circular pattern and movement in 3 planes of motion (frontal or sagittal plane, horizontal plane and transverse plane). Your hip has 6 primary motions. (internal, external rotation, flexion, extension and abduction and adduction). You hip is a very mobile joint and therefore can be complex in nature, however when doing exercises like a squat, snatch, clean, deadlift…ect there are movements that are particularly important (not that all are not important) but in the case of a squat it is pivotal to have proper mobility of the hip in flexion and external rotation. Listed below are some examples of how to improve hip flexion, extension and external rotation on your own.
1. Hip Opener Utilizing a Band
a. This exercises can be utilized to help open the hip joint capsule and improve hip mobility in all planes of motion utilizing small variations in the exercise. The video below will this video I will demonstrate flexion, extension and internal rotation.

2. Ball Smash for Hip External Rotators
a. This exercise can be utilized to help break up hip adhesions, contractures or spasms in the posterior hip muscles. By doing this you can achieve more hip external rotation, therefore allowing you to keep your hips in proper position during your squat and releasing excessive stress or tightness that may develop after a glute heavy exercise. Instructions for this exercise will be explained in the video.

3. Posterior Oblique Sling Activation
a. This exercises is great for helping activate the posterior chain and help stabilize the lumbopelvic hip complex while performing a squat. This is a common fault that occurs when performing a squat and if corrected properly will take excessive shearing forces off your lumbar spine. This video is demonstrated below.

Thanks for reading, your Denver Chiropractor Dr. Joseph Vear out!!!

Crossfit Event (Girls Gone RX)

Hey everyone it your Denver Chiropractor Dr. Joseph Vear, I wanted to share a great experience I had this last weekend working alongside a great network of medical professionals in the coordination of care for one of the two largest Crossfit events here in Colorado. This event hosted over 600 Crossfit athletes and started from 8am and went till 6pm. During that time our medical staff helped prepare each athlete for competition with chiropractic care, massage, taping, cryotherapy. I want to thank Dr. David Newton for organizing the team of professionals who provided care for the day and give a shout-out to some new friends I made at the event, Dr. Reid Nelles, Levi Faustino, Rachel Voyles and Christen Dybenko. Thank you guys for your support and I look forward to working with you all again in the future. Here are some of the pictures I have from working the Crossfit event this last weekend.

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Thanks again to Active Performance Chiropractic, Highlands Sport and Spine, Colorado Core Massage LLC, RX Sports Recovery, TAPE KINETICS, TAPE KINETICS Total Health Solutions, KinetikChain Denver and Redefine Relief Therapeutic Massage for the teamwork!