Dr. David Koivuranta compares daily habits to karate kata and introduces a 21-movement range-of-motion routine for people stuck at desks. Practicing it two to three times daily trains your nervous system to release tension in your neck, back, and head.
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Hey everyone, it's Dr. Dave. Hopefully you're all doing well and you're out there creating those great experiences. And we have a 7-year-old son, Evan, and he goes to karate. And the other day when I was there watching him, you know, it dawned on me that life is a lot like karate in some ways, and chiropractic has a karate component as well. So if you hang around to the end of this video, I'm going to give you a special offer to show you how you can learn some chiropractic karate that will help keep you healthy every day, especially if you're a computer user or you're doing something repetitive every day. So this past weekend, I was out watching my son at Summit Karate. Shout out to the people at Summit. And you know, over the years, he's worked his way up through all these different colored belts. So he's gone white, yellow, orange, green, and right now he's a blue belt. And then he goes to blue advanced, purple, purple advanced, brown, brown advanced, and black. And everyone's after that top one, right? But it takes a lot of work. And you have to learn something called a kata. Now, if you're familiar with karate, you know that a kata is a series of movements that when you tie them together, it actually tells a story. But in order for you to move from level to level, belt to belt, you have to be able to perform this kata meticulously well. And one of the ways you learn it is by individualizing the steps, making sure that you understand each movement, and then be able to tie those movements together without looking at anything, just totally memorized and understanding what that story is and kind of embracing it and making it a part of you. And I thought, you know, this is the same thing that happens to us when we go to work every day or we live our lives habitually, is we all have a kata of some kind for the activities that we do. You might have a dishwashing kata, or you might have a laundry kata, and you have this bedtime routine which is kind of like a kata. And what we do at the clinic is we teach people this 21-movement range of motion protocol. It's like fast tai chi or fast yoga that people can do 2 or 3 times every day, and it becomes your kai your chiropractic kata. It becomes your motion is life, life is motion kata, especially if you have sedentary repetitive work like computer work or assembly line work, something similar to that. So what I'd like you to do is offer you to come by the clinic. I will teach you as a courtesy at no cost this kata that you can do 2 or 3 times a day. And in 2 or 3 months, once you've memorized it, you've embraced it, and you have ownership of it, when you go to do it, even before you start doing it, your nervous system will immediately go into this release mode., and you'll have a positive trigger in your life that can help negate some of the effects of what you're doing every day that might be affecting your health. All right? So I want you to reach me by email. I want you to set up a day and time. I'm gonna take time outside of my schedule, especially for you, to come in so I can teach you this. And while you're there, if you have aches, pains, back pain, headache, neck pain, or other health concerns, or you just wanna talk about optimizing and supporting that journey you're on with your health, I'm happy to do that as a courtesy consultation while you're there at no charge as well, because I'd love to meet you and I'd love to teach you this chiropractic kata for you to come by and be able to use every day to help you with those great experiences that you're trying to create every day. So the email's at the bottom of this video. Reach out. I would love to hear from you.
