Koren Wellness Articles
Posted Mar 11, 2020
Subluxations, the POS and Chinese Medicine
Playing with posture to find subluxations What’s in a posture? A world of difference. A massive amount of structural stress (subluxations) may occur when posture changes. As a person changes his posture, subluxations come and go. Put simply, subluxations are “state-specific.” To make things even more interesting, the posture or “state” may be physical, emotional or…
Posted Feb 25, 2020
Allergy Relief Using the POS with KST
Allergy relief can be easily and quickly obtained using a recently-discovered physiological phenomenon. Allergy relief question Who gets subluxated lying face down (or face up) on a table? Allergy relief answer Pretty much no one! Real-life scenarios In real life, most people get subluxated when they are active: playing sports, involved in accidents, running, jumping,…
Posted Feb 12, 2020
KST: Discovering What Most Doctors Miss
KST: a snapshot or a movie? What’s the difference between a snapshot and a movie? A snapshot records a moment frozen in time while a movie records a continuous flow of time. Here is a little personal story that shows how this relates to healthcare and KST. We were traveling from Philadelphia to Williamsburg, Virginia…
Posted Jan 30, 2020
The Coronavirus is Coming!
Coronavirus: Oh no! Head for the hills! Is it coronavirus or deja vu? I’ll never forget the scene. A few years ago, I was in a hotel teaching a KST seminar and during a break I went into the lobby. I was attracted to the large screen TV with the latest breaking story. On the…
Posted Jan 28, 2020
Posture-Personality Correlations
Posture-personality correlations: emotional profiling As discussed in my previous post on spinal stress, posture reveals emotional stress as well as physical stress. Posture-personality correlations exist. My mentor, Dr. Lowell Ward, discovered that it was possible to accurately “read” a personality by analyzing a person’s posture. For example, a person with their head in front of…
Posted Jan 14, 2020
Spinal Stress: What It Can Tell You
Spinal stress: an accidental discovery The spinal stress story started in an unlikely place, in Middletown, Pennsylvania. After graduation, I worked for Monroe Schneier, DC in Middletown for a total of one week. I liked Dr. Schneier but didn’t like Middletown. Shortly after I left it was the site of a partial nuclear reactor meltdown…
Posted Dec 31, 2019
2019 Top Ten
2019 Top Ten: Highlights of the Koren Wellness blog So many posts this year touched upon so many powerful and unique topics that it was difficult to pick only ten as the 2019 Top Ten. But I tried. Let me know what you think of my selection. Click on the post title to read the…
Posted Dec 17, 2019
Weight Loss: Waiting for Poundage to Go
Longing for weight loss: are you fat? Oh my! That’s not a very politically polite thing to say, is it? Let’s rephrase that, are you pleasingly plump? A bit pudgy? Do more parts jiggle than you’d like? As Rodney Dangerfield once said, “Do you leave potholes when you jog? When you’re given a menu at…
Posted Dec 3, 2019
Gratitude: Count Your Blessings & Focus on the Positive
Gratitude and blessings Reflect on your present blessings, on which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. —Charles Dickens (M. Dickens, 1897, p. 45) How much of you is mind? How much of you is body? Yogi Berra once famously said, “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half…
Posted Nov 12, 2019
Back Pain: Learning the Lessons it Offers
For back pain: a natural alternative to the orthopedic surgeon, steroids and opioids A well-known chiropractor was suffering from back pain and disc pain, sacroiliac pain and searing pain going down his leg (sciatica). Some days he couldn’t walk more than ten feet before the intense pain forced him to stop and sit—even on busy…