Fix My Pain Naturally, Ask Dr. Heather
Welcome to Fix My Pain Naturally Podcast where Dr. Heather discusses some of the most common aliments we as athletes & non-athletes face and how to achieve optimal performance by learning how to fix your pain naturally. Dr. Heather is a neuromusculoskeletal practitioner specializing in proper spinal/articular alignment, muscle imbalances and soft tissue injuries. As a Doctor of Chiropractic with over 20 plus years of experience, Heather has concentrated on athletic training/ sports medicine. Licensed in Connecticut, Heather has measurably expanded her family-oriented practice, and become an even more active consultant and speaker in the Tri-State area over the last several years in addition to her continuing local volunteer work with schools and nonprofits. Thanks to the rise of the Pandemic, Dr. Heather has also been able to provide continuous care for many patients via her online platform. Dr. Heather constructed a 3 week Sports Chiropractic Program which has been able to help thousands of people globally in becoming pain free. By using various digital platforms patients are able to use her treatment protocols which are customized to each individual.A note from Dr. Heather:I was in eighth grade. It was during one of my softball games. I will ever forget that day because of the intense pain I left with from the field. Radiating pain down both my legs. I could barely walk. I thought I would never play again the pain was so bad. I didn't want to go to the hospital. I didn't want to have to take drugs or medications for the rest of my life. I wanted someone to help me. I wanted the help fast.Then something happened that would change everything...My mom brought me to see the chiropractor she had been going to. This was my very first experience with a chiropractor. I mean I had watched my mom get treated several times but never once was I the patient until now. He explained to me that he incorporated Kinesiology into his diagnostic skills to help him figure out what muscles and nerves were being the most affected. It was the way he explained the body. The muscles. The nerves. How it was all connected. I was amazed.Now I'm a sports chiropractor helping people feel better and returning them to activity without hesitation or fear that their injury will come back. Having that experience at such an early age had a profound effect on me. It made me take my passion for art, sport and science and bring them together. I wanted to do what he did for me, for others.I'm doing this because I am passionate about helping people. I am a firm believer that our bodies can heal themselves. Now don't get me wrong there is a time and place for traditional medicine, science and intervention. But a majority of our pain symptoms can be fixed naturally. If we can understand how our bodies work, the physiology and then we can begin to understand how to heal our bodies.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 44
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Acupuncture
Acupuncture helps release tight muscles so that the body’s structure can return to normal. It does so by needling the tight muscle directly and getting it to release and return to a more normal state…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Training Plans
Proper training plans - Finding a good training plan or run plan or even joining a run club will help in reducing your chances of experiencing an injury. The reason being it keeps you from over train…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Strength Training
It’s important that we add in strength exercises to help decrease the chances of an overuse injury from setting in. Remember doing one activity like running can put additional stress/strain on our mu…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Dry Needling
Dry needling utilizes acupuncture needles as treatment tools, but is not acupuncture. Dry needling activates the body’s natural healing potential by specifically targeting and balancing the sympathet…
Ice Cup Massage
Dr. Heather tells you how to make an ice cup which can be used to help treat tendonitis symptoms around the elbow, knee, ankle and even shoulder.
Materials needed to make an ice cup are - a dixie cup,…
Swim to Run Faster
Did you know that swimming can actually make you faster? There's a secret little known fact that if you include swimming into your training, you will actually become a faster runner. And you might be…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Proper Footwear
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👉 27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks Guide For Runners
Proper footwear - many runners jump right to changing their sneakers when an injury sets in bu…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Gait Analysis
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👉 27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks Guide For Runners
Gait analysis - this is an assessment tool designed to look at how an individual runs. By break…
27 Injury Prevention Tips for Runners: Resistance Stretching
Do you know what a TRX is? Maybe you have seen them at the gym. But did you know they can be used to do resistance stretching?
I’m Dr. Heather, your virtual sports chiropractor. Over the course of th…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Passive Stretching
Who here has watched live sports? We all have. Have you seen the trainer on the sidelines stretching out the athlete on the field and wondered what form of stretching that was.
I’m Dr. Heather, your v…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Active Stretching
Active stretching is something you may see your fellow runners doing at the beginning of a race and wonder, should I do what they are doing?
I’m Dr. Heather, your virtual sports chiropractor. Over th…
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Foam Rolling
Foam rolling and/massage ball - learning how to effectively use a foam roller and a massage ball will be a game changer for most runners. The concept behind foam rolling and using a massage ball on s…
27 Tips & Tricks For Runners: Benefits of Massage
Soft tissue work ie. massage therapist (deep massage, sports specific or cupping) - with the Pandemic pretty much over and many restrictions lifted throughout the world, getting a massage by a licens…
ITBS vs Runner's Knee: Understanding the Basics
I have seen several posts regarding knee pain so I thought maybe you would all appreciate a little free medical advice. The two most common knee pain/discomfort are IT band and patellofemoral trackin…
Running Through Pain - 5 Tips for Runners: Injury Prevention
How many are guilty of running through pain? Like real pain?
We have all been there. We start out, maybe we have some initial stiffness, tightness, even mild discomfort but we think “ah, it will die d…
Scared to Resume Activity Again
I think so many of us are scared when we start running again. We suddenly think - that if we increase my mileage too much too soon, will my knees, hips and even my back start to show signs of pain/di…
Podcast Trailer
In 2020 I helped 45 people become Pain Free
In 2021 I helped 150 people become Pain Free
This year (2022) I plan to help 300 people become Pain Free
You might be asking yourself HOW was I able to …
Understanding tennis elbow in lifting and how to prevent it from happening
I may have talked about tennis elbow before but lately I have seen a few posts expressing pain/discomfort when lifting in the elbow. So I figured I would address it again and give everyone some helpf…
VO2Max what is it and why does it matter?
If you are like me you’ve seen this word thrown around in various running groups and may have wondered what it is. VO2Max stands for maximal oxygen uptake and it's a training tool used by a fitness p…
Why is proprioception work so important for a skier?
Now that ski season is in full swing and we are gearing up to hit some of those all time favorite spots. Let’s make sure your bodies are truly ready to handle the conditions of the mountain. I have w…