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Santa's Chiropractic Care!

12/6/2018

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T’was the Night Before Christmas when all through the house
Two creatures were stirring; it was Mr. & Ms. Mouse!

He and she were scurrying in the kitchen looking for a snack,
when suddenly he felt a “pop” and then pain in his back!


On the rooftop they heard a sudden noise,
as Santa and his reindeer landed with toys!


Waiting in anguish by the cold fireplace,
Mr. Mouse knew of Santa’s wisdom and grace.

“Why are you holding his back?” asked Santa of Ms. Mouse, with a concerned look on his face.

Cried she as she said, “He threw his back out and now he can’t walk!”
“Santa,  he’s in so much pain, he can’t even talk!”

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“What were you doing when this pain hit thee?”
questioned Santa as he was laying the toys out under the tree.


“I was chewing on crumbs under baby’s chair,
and then a Saltshaker fell from baby’s tray  up there!

It hit my back and I felt it pop
and now the pain that I have, it won’t stop!”


“I have an answer,” said Santa with glee –
“I’ll traction your spine at the count of three!”

So, Santa picked up Mr. Mouse and did as he said
and Mr. Mouse’s back cracked from his tail to his head!


“What relief!” squeaked Mr. Mouse with cheer
and thanked him as he turned to go back to his reindeer.


Ms. Mouse asked curiously, “Santa, how did you know what to do?”
Santa’s belly shook with laughter as he said,
“it’s easy, with all this lifting and bending, I go to a chiropractor too!”


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You Didn’t Just Throw Your Back Out..!!

11/8/2018

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(An excerpt from my upcoming book)

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   One of the hallmarks of neuropathy is a progressive but silent atrophy of the soft tissue elements which are required to stabilize the spine. This form of silent neuropathic soft tissue atrophy is documented in the research by Chan Gunn MD.*   His work validates one of the principles of chiropractic which is that gradual or repeated trauma to the spine in the way of poor posture, one-sided activities, or other forms of abnormal body use run counter to how the body was built to be used. This leads to pathological changes in nerve function. The neural tissue sends two types of input to the cells they communicate with, the nerve impulses that coordinate body function as well as life-sustaining chemicals called trophic factors. The word atrophy has as its root the word “trophic”. Dr. Gunn’s research revealed that silent atrophy of the soft tissue stabilizing elements within the spine progressively occurred over a period of time prior to the onset of pain. The onset of back pain typically occurs only after spinal instability resulting from ongoing neuropathic atrophy of supportive ligaments, tendons, discs and muscles within the region of lost spinal motion and symmetry causes those weak stabilizing elements to eventually fail. Once the supportive elements within the area of spinal damage fail and you first began to experience back pain, you may think you just “threw your back out.”

"It is like having a muffler silently develop a rust spot internally over time."

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Over a number of years, as the rusting area on the muffler weakens and thins, it becomes more susceptible to developing a hole in the weakest point within the rusted area. It is only at the moment when you hit that big bump that the rusted area within in your muffler crumbles apart that you first hear the loud noise. Although you may think that you have just developed a muffler problem, the rust spot within the muffler had been developing for two to three years. It is only when this weak point in the muffler went from sub-failure to total failure that you were alerted to the problem for the first time. Similarly, when you simply bent forward to pick up a pencil and you first began experiencing pain is the moment that the damaged area of the spine has crossed the threshold from sub-failure of the soft tissue stabilizing elements to total failure of spinal stability. This moment where spinal stability fails and pain begins is referred to as a crescendo event.
 
   Please pass along these important insights to your friends and relatives. Everyone receives traumas in their life and most people do not activate their body properly. Help them to prevent unnecessary pain, suffering and spinal degeneration in the way of arthritis from limiting their life.
 
We are here for all of you...
Anthony A. Blisko DC

*C. Chan Gunn, MD (from chapter 28 of Bonica’s Management of Pain, Third Edition, John D. Losser, MD, et al., Linnincott Williams and Wilkins.)

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Chiropractic increases your power to heal...!!

11/1/2018

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Children are full of energy because there is an unrestricted flow of the vital force of life moving freely through them. This miraculous life energy flows at trillions of impulses per second through your body within highly specialized cells within known as nerves. These electrically conductive cells convey the intelligence that allows all of the separate cells within your body to work together.

Many of these nerves migrate together after conception to form the brain and spinal cord. In the developing embryo the spinal cord is flanked by blocks of primitive stem cells. Spinal nerves grow out from the spinal cord into these blocks of undefined stem cells and turn on the genes necessary for the development of all of your organs and tissues. Your brain and spinal cord are so important that they are the only organs encased in a protective bony covering known as the cranium and vertebral column.


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As an adult, your nervous system is the primary system responsible for coordinating all of the aspects of your life. As we go through life, the spine becomes damaged by avoidable traumas such as poor posture and unavoidable traumas like falls, sports injuries and accidents. Just like a rheostat dims a light if the flow of electricity is reduced, the life energy within you can’t flow fully through your body if your nervous system is damaged. If areas of your nervous system are not working at 100%, the cells those unhealthy nerves communicate with can’t work at 100% either. If any part of your nervous system develops pathology, the cells that those unhealthy nerves control can weaken or even die. As a result, this absence of the flow of life energy due to nerve pathology can result in a loss of the normal body functions associated with those nerves.
Dr Daniel David Palmer, the founder of the Chiropractic profession defined nerve damage resulting from spinal distortion with the word “subluxation.” When you break this word down into its component parts “sub” means less and “lux” means light. It is the “light” within you in the way of the life energy conveyed as nerve impulses which promotes your body’s ability to heal itself. As chiropractic care aligns your spine it is like turning the rheostat for the flow of life energy back up toward full power. It is this increased flow of life energy, the light within provided by those trillions of nerve impulses per second that promotes healing. This is simply because when you are adjusted your life energy is able to flow through your nervous system more freely like it did when you were a child. In the spirit of this image of how spinal care increased the flow of the light of life energy within their patients, some chiropractors of old used to call themselves emissaries of light.
By restoring a greater flow of the life energy, the light within each of my patients, they often find that they are able to do more of the things they love to do for longer in their life.
 
Dr Anthony A. Blisko

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Proper Sleeping Posture

8/9/2017

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Letterman's Top 10 Reasons To See Dr. Blisko (take 2!)

7/3/2017

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#10  -  Since he sculpts people back into place Dr. Blisko is called the “Michaelangelo of Kingston!”



#9  -  He is one of the only Doctors in town licensed to make “wise cracks!”


#8  -  Dr. Blisko has been told that his writing is so voluminous it is as if he is selling words by the pound!


#7  -  No Crescent shaped pretzel that crosses his path goes unstraightened!


#6  -  Dr. Blisko resists checking his email so much that his friends call him “Horse & Buggy Blisko!”


#5  -  Dr. Blisko eats at least 2 cloves of Garlic a day to help ward off his patients’ worst adversary “the Discus Thrower!”


#4  -  Dr. Blisko has his patients sign a disclaimer before he does his “Swan Dive Adjustment” off a six foot ladder!


#3  -  Dr. Blisko has convinced himself that he can fix your computer if it has a slipped disc!


#2  -  Dr. Blisko’s biggest practice mishap occurred when Humpty Dumpty cracked up!


#1  -  Dr Blisko has performed so many shovelectomies on people’s backs that he could open his own hardware store!

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Proper Posture For Standing

6/19/2017

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How to correctly activate and stabilize your spine while standing as described by Dr Anthony A Blisko
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Letterman's Top 10 Reasons To Choose Dr. Blisko...

6/10/2017

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Letterman’s Top 10 reasons why you may want to consult Dr. Anthony A. Blisko to receive spinal care at his office:


1) Dr. Blisko has 34 years practice experience where he has both learned and also developed new gentle approaches to spinal care.


2) He has received continuing educational certification training in Advanced Spinal Rehabilitation from which he has created 24 injury prevention videos you can view at midhudsonchiro.com.


3) Dr. Blisko has established a trademark within The Library of Congress for his new, innovative approach to chiropractic care: Neuro-Reintegration. This approach to spinal health and patient wellness arose from his realizations about how our hunter gatherer ancestors had to auto-activate their body in very specific ways in order to survive all of the challenges they faced. The advanced spinal rehabilitative programs which Dr. Blisko has studied provides his patients with training about how to correctly activate and use their body and mind the way it was instinctually used by our forebearers. His patients receive auto-activation methods that help them maintain good spinal stability while living in our modern soft culture. Those that are chronic worriers also receive training in how to maintain the healthy state of a quiet mind, the natural state our ancestors had before there were words.


4) Patients get well in about half the number of treatments it used to take Dr. Blisko on average with this new approach.


5) Patients are given at home exercises, body activation methods and activity modifications which dramatically quicken their pace of healing.


6) Patients are well educated about how to use their body the way it was built to be used to reduce the occurrence of new or repetitive spinal injuries.


7) Dr. Blisko is completing the writing of his first book: Unlock your Power to Heal


8) Dr. Blisko screens his patients for red-flag functional losses beyond his scope of care and advocates for those that he refers out for surgical procedures. He also screens for yellow-flag psycho-social stress issues which medical research has revealed that it causes patients to be 3 times more likely to experience chronic pain and organic dysfunction. By providing patients who would benefit from breathing methods which quiet their mind, he is able to assist them in reducing their levels of perceived stress and chronic pain.


9) Dr. Blisko is certified by the Laser Spine Institute in post-surgical chiropractic care.


10) Dr. Blisko is in the process of creating a wellness center with massage therapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, and psychology specialists available on site. Those practitioners interested in finding out how they can become a participating therapist in his wellness center can contact Dr. Blisko directly by calling him at 845-389-0111.
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Healthy Walking...You Can Do It!

6/5/2017

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Dr Anthony A Blisko describes how to engage your torso, abdominal muscles, upper and lower body as well as the muscles of your hip and leg region for achieving a correct stride while walking to prevent injury.
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Correct Posture...  Why Royalty Insists On Proper Posture!!

4/20/2017

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Prevent Atrophy!


The Europeans of Old taught their children to walk with a book on their head because over the generations they noticed that poor posture often leads to back problems.

Incorrect activation of your spine can lead to muscle atrophy of essential spinal stabilizing muscles. Dr Anthony A Blisko describes how to prevent this atrophy through the activation of correct posture.

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April 12th, 2017

4/12/2017

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If you are sick or injured Chiropractic Care is a valuable addition to your healing process.  As a Doctor of Chiropractic with 33 years of practice experience,  I have handled many difficult health concerns.  In addition to the health benefits I am able to provide for many. 

I am trained to recognize conditions that are beyond my scope of care.  In those cases I take on active roles in helping coordinate your access to the appropriate health professional. 

Chiropractic Care proves its' worth everyday in my office.  My years of experience and advance rehabilatative training that I have received over the past 8 years has provided me with the technical expertise to help my patients perform activities in ways that help them avoid injury.  These advanced approaches to spinal wellness care are accessible to you in my video gallery found on my website www.midhudsonchiro.com

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No Drugs For Your Back Pain! (WSJ)

4/6/2017

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New Guidelines From The American College Of Physicians Say Patients Should First Try Natural And Alternative Therapies

Skip the meds. Lower back pain—one of the most common reasons for a doctor’s visit—is best treated with alternative, natural and psychological therapies, say new guidelines from the American College of Physicians

Direct Link To Wall Street Journal Article


Quote From Wall Street Journal Article:
"For acute and subacute pain, the guidelines recommend nondrug therapies first, such as applying heat, massage, acupuncture or spinal manipulation, which is often done by a chiropractor. If a patient requests drugs, the first line of treatment should be nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)—over-the-counter, such as Advil,"


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Preventing Back Injuries During The Spring Season!

4/6/2017

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Spring is injury prevention season at Mid-Hudson Chiropractic Center.  People are beginning to work their body in ways they may not have during the long winter months.

As a service to our community I am including a link to my 24 injury prevention videos which I have created with two of my children.  It is my hope that my videos help you to learn about bending and lifting properly so that you may avoid back pain, as well as how to stabilize your shoulders by "packing" them to help prevent rotator cuff tears.  Other videos provide valuable information about other subjects such as proper sitting and standing posture.

Helping my patients prevent unnecessary pain and injury is an integral part of my mission at the Mid-Hudson Chiropractor Center.

To Your Continued Health & Well Being,

Anthony A. Blisko


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Proper Breathing Techniques...

3/9/2017

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Breathe correctly using abdominal and rib cage expansion and contraction as guided by Dr Anthony A Blisko.
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Late winter, early spring neck or back pain relief special offer:

3/2/2017

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If you know anyone who has neck or back pain from shoveling snow, slipping on the ice, or any other painful injury, please have them call our office
at 845-331-6233 to receive a complimentary chiropractic spinal examination,
a value of $60.00!

As you know, Dr. Blisko specializes in injury prevention. During your initial treatment and as part of your normal treatment, you received some of the most recent exercises and correct body activation methods taught to new doctors of chiropractic graduating from college which helped you to heal quickly. You learned important proper body use and activation methods that have helped you avoid further spinal injury. Since you have been taught these valuable injury prevention techniques as part of your treatment program, you will have that knowledge available to use for the rest of your life.

Dr. Blisko's primary goal is to help his patients to learn how to use your body the way it was built to be used so they are less prone to injury and unnecessary, preventable pain.

Have those that you wish to refer visit his website: www.midhudsonchiro.com click on the "video gallery" tab. There they will find 24 injury prevention videos created by Dr. Blisko to help them begin to learn the techniques they need to know to help them to avoid more serious spinal injury. Please let others know that Dr. Blisko is certified in Post-operative spinal care by the Laser Spine Institute. He has received training about the most effective forms of low force spinal treatment and target exercises which help resolve the symptoms and limits to activity caused by disc herniation. Please have those you care about call Dr. Blisko’s office today for them to receive their complimentary spinal evaluation. The number to reach our office is 845-331-6233. This special complimentary examination offer ends on April 1st, 2017.

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How Our Spines Evolved

2/25/2017

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Chiropractic Increases Your Power To Heal

12/15/2016

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As an adult, your nervous system is the primary system responsible for coordinating all the aspects of your life.  Over time, the spine becomes damaged by avoidable traumas such as poor posture and unavoidable traumas like falls and injuries.
Just like a rheostat dims the a light if the flow of electricity is reduced, the life energy within you can't flow fully through your body if your nervous system is damaged.  If areas of your nervous system are not working at 100%, the cells those unhealthy nerves communicate with cannot work at 100% either.  If any part of your nervous system develops pathology, the cells that those unhealthy nerves control can weaken or even die.  As a result, this absence of the flow of life energy due to nerve pathology can result in a loss of the normal body functions associated with those nerves. 
By restoring a greater flow of the life energy, the light within each of my patients, they often find that they are able to do more of the things they love to do for longer in their life.
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Children And Their Boundless Energy

12/8/2016

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Children are full of energy because there is an unrestricted flow of the vital force of life moving freely through them.  This miraculous life energy flows at trillions of impulses per second through your body within highly specialized cells known as nerves.  These electrical conductive cells convey the intelligence that allows all of the separate cells within your body to work together.
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Caring For Our Children...

8/28/2015

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So many children have poor posture habits.  I know that every parent loves their child and wants the best for them.  The fact that their children are allowed to slouch informs me about how little parents truly know about maintaining the spinal health of their children.  If left unattended to poor posture can lead to rotator cuff tears, neck pain, disc herniation in the low back, as well as chronic mid-back pain and early arthritic changes within the spine.  In recent years, a great deal of emphasis in chiropractic continuing educational training has been placed upon the rehabilitation of incorrect posture and poor body movement habits which are known to promote injury. With the employment of posture correction, proper bending techniques and other healthy body activation exercises, the patient’s condition often resolves more quickly. Training healthy movement habits will provide patients with long term corrective disciplines they employ on their own to auto-correct the cause of their pain. I have recently learned that nurses are being trained in these and other healthy lifestyle modifications as an essential component of patient care. 
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Always Learning...

8/28/2015

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It is essential to always continue expanding my base of knowledge within my field.  I recently attended an Advanced Spinal Rehabilitation Seminar for Patients who have undergone Spinal Surgery.  The knowledge that I gained has helped me to deliver effective treatment and specific target exercises which help my Patients to reclaim and maintain stability and function as they do the activities they enjoy doing in their lives,   

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Serving Our Community

7/22/2015

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We are reaching out to serve our community over this next year by offering every new patient who seeks care in my office a free initial chiropractic examination.  May the rest of your year be healthier and happier as a result of the care you receive here in our office.
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Looking forward to being out on the water

4/30/2015

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Need I say more??

- Dr Anthony A Blisko

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Welcome Spring!

4/30/2015

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I always marvel at the wonder of spring.  My favorite color is green because it signifies the rebirth of life which occurs each and every year.  Enjoy Nature's Bounty!!

- Dr. Anthony A. Blisko  

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How To Lift Properly

4/6/2015

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Back To Basics...
Take a minute and review this "How To Lift Properly" Video From my helpful Video Library.
It May Save Your Back!!!
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Soft Culture

4/1/2015

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I have referred to our modern way of life as a “soft culture” because it does not serve us to be as comfortable as we have become accustomed to. Disuse atrophy of our body systems progressively occurs if we do not engage all of our body regularly. The regular activation of your muscles, organs, supportive ligaments, nervous system, and even their bony frame is essential for optimal health. Each time you activate your body through movement and exercise you are engaging many systems of the body, such as muscles and organs that synergistically support your health and survival. 
So...Go For A Walk!!  You'll Feel Much Better!!
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Stretch Like A Cat!

3/27/2015

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People always know the answer to the question “what is the first thing that a dog or cat does when they get up?” If you thought the word “stretch” then you also have the correct answer. When I observe animals, they will often be using their body in a way that keeps them tones. Think of all of the muscular strength and endurance that a cat develops as they hunt while staying low to the ground as they approach their prey. The main reason that a cat is said to have nine lives is because they keep their body flexible by actively stretching or lying in ways that stretch the rib cage and spine. As a result, when they fall from thirty feet they are often able to survive the ordeal with little or no injury. It is their body’s ability to flexibly adapt to trauma combined with the healthy tone of their muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, and bones that ensures their survivability. 
So...Stretch Like A Cat!! You'll Feel Much Better!!
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