Foods Promoted As "Healthy" But Are Not...Do You Still Think Whole Wheat Bread Is Good???

Well, I found another fellow food renegade like myself. Here's a great video on how we're all being scammed into thinking certain foods are good for us when they're contributing to our sickness and disease. Do you feel better eating whole wheat bread rather than the white bread...thinking you're doing your body good? Watch this video and you'll be surprised.

For those about to embark on the May 15th 21-Day Purification Program, this video is basic training for you as you get set to take the journey. Watch, learn, understand and enjoy.




for more info on the purification program, go to: www.21daypurificationprogram.com

'nuff said.

Dr. T


Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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Dr. Narson's Natural Sports Medicine Blog - Awarded Top Sports Medicine Blog 2011

I'm quite proud to announce my rantings and ravings over the past year(s) about sports medicine, nutrition, rehab and health in general have rung a bell with the folks at HealthcareColleges.net. We were picked as one of the top 35 Sports Medicine Blogs on the internet.

Nice to know someone else reads them besides mom & dad.

If you ever have a sports injury, nutrition or other musculoskeletal injury question and would like the issue addressed on my blog in the future, feel free to email me at: miamibeachdoc@yahoo.com

Happy & Proud

'Nuff Said

Dr. T

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Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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It's Alive - IT'S ALIVE: Fascia, More Than Just A Cover Surrounding Your Muscles

By Miami Beach Chiropractic Sports Physician, Dr. Todd Narson

Most of us grew up in our sports injury profession, albeit sports chiropractic, physical therapy, orthopedics, athletic training or the like thinking that fascia was simply a covering that surrounded various structures in the body. Kind of an envelope that surrounded the stuff inside and kept is separate from it's neighbors and allowing for the sliding and gliding of the individual parts.

However original research by Stecco et.al., Histological Characteristics Of The Deep Fascia Of The Upper Limb show that what we once thought of as a kind of a sock or wallpaper type tissue covering on the inside is more like that of a proprioceptive information superhighway interwoven into the fascial weave. This proprioceptive information superhighway relays information throughout the musculo-skeletal system allowing the coordination of movement throughout a kinetic chain.


Imagine having an injury such as a contusion, muscle or tendon strain or having surgery that interrupts or cuts through the fascial planes and no real consideration is given to the condition of it's state of healing. No longer can we think it's just incidental connective tissue keeping things compartmentalized. We must now think about fascia as an integral part of our neuro-musculo-skeletal system as it gives afferent information into the system that that helps to provide for our movement, balance and coordination.

This information now places more importance on treatment modalities like Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (Graston Technique(r), AYSTM, SASTM, FAKTR) as well as manual hands on mobilization systems like ART(r), Fascial Manipulation (Stecco & Hammer) & NIMMO.

For surgeons, you need to think more about the post surgical rehabilitative process to account not only the proper healing of the target structures of your surgery, but the supportive systems of muscle, tendon, joint capsules AND fascial planes.

Fascia my friends is alive and well...AND loaded with proprioceptive organs: Ruffini and Pacini corpuscles and woven around the muscle fibers, muscle spindles reside in the fascia surrounding them.

If you want to learn more, go to www.pubmed.gov and in the search screen type only two words: stecco facia. They (brother and sister) have written over 40 articles on this very subject.

Quite interesting and enlightening information indeed. A big thank you to Warren Hammer, DC, DABCO for his lecture on the subject at the ACBSP Sports Science Symposium, Boston MA, April 2011.

'nuff said

Dr. T

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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21-Day Nutrition Purification Boot Camp

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Dr. T

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Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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Rotator Cuff (Shoulder) Injuries & An Interesting Email: Food For Thought(s)...

By Miami Beach Chiropractic Sports Physician - Todd M. Narson, DC, DACBSP

I received this email below that I'm not going to comment on...I just want you to read it, sit back and think about it. I'll add a little color & some bold for emphasis, but as FoxNews says, we report-you decide.....................

From the OrthoSuperSite:

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Directors recently released a clinical practice guideline for the treatment of rotator cuff tears and related problems, according to a press release from the organization.

A work group chaired by Robert A. Pedowitz, MD, of Los Angeles, and co-chaired by Ken Yamaguchi, MD, of St. Louis, developed the guideline after a review of 74 studies on rotator cuff treatment published through 2008.

“Although there is a tremendous amount of research on the rotator cuff, much of it does not reach the quality levels necessary to be considered definitive,”“Thus, we cannot say there were recommendations that could be unequivocally supported.” Yamaguchi stated in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) press release.

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You know.. I just can't resist; I will make this comment..

If you're going to a physician that is going to give you some type of treatment to your rotator cuff/shoulder (or any other part for that matter), ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS AS TO (1) What's specifically wrong with you(2) How does that contribute to my symptoms (3) exactly how is your recommended treatment going to help(4) What outcome can I expect (5) what you can do at home to help yourself.

Oh, those question should be posed to the physician AFTER an examination which should include:

1. A full history of how the problem came about
2. Reflexes
3. Range of motion
4. Orthopedic tests of the injured areas and related areas
5. Palpation of the area and adjacent areas
6. Motion palpation of association joint structures
7. Imaging studies if necessary AFTER the physical exam

If you can't get a good and thorough explanation.....walk out.

'nuff said

Dr. T



Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Does Knuckle Cracking Cause Arthritis?

By Miami Beach Chiropractic Sports Physician - Dr. Todd Narson

So ever since I've become a chiropractic physician one of the most popular questions has always been does cracking my knuckles cause arthritis?

You would think that popping and popping your knuckles would eventually cause so much repetitive trauma that it would lead to arthritis. Arthritis being an inflammation of the joints caused by overuse (actually caused by abuse or mis-use). There's also a genetic version of arthritis known as Rheumatoid arthritis, but that's not a concern here.

In a recent edition of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Kevin deWeber, MD, FAAFP, Mariusz Olszewski, MD and Rebecca Ortolano, MD put this old wives tale to the test. In an article based on original research-entitled Knuckle Cracking and Hand Osteoarthritis, their conclusions were somewhat surprising to some, but not to me.

It's not too technical and very interesting to find out that there is actually no correlation between cracking your knuckles and getting arthritis.

For those that also ask about why your joints make that cracking sound, you'll also find your answer in this report of their original research.

Read the article and let me know your thoughts.

'nuff said

Dr. T




Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Icy-Hot Patches Do Not Replace Ice Packs or Hot Packs

By Miami Beach Florida Chiropractic Sports Physician - Dr. Todd Narson

I'm really getting tired of people listening to TV commercials and "interpreting" my advice. I'm sure I'm not the only doctor this happens to either.

So someone comes into my office here in Miami Beach with a particular complaint. Shoulder (rotator cuff) pain, back pain, neck pain, knee pain, I.T. band pain, plantar fascitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow...you get the idea. I do an exam and then make my recommendations for treatment in the office and what they need to do at home to help.

I will recommend applying an ice pack for 15 to 20 minutes for 3, 4, 5, or more times per day. Or, if the condition requires heat, the recommendation is a moist heating pad for 20 minutes several times throughout the day as well. Then, on their next visit when I ask how they're doing? - they say they aren't getting any better. I question them about following my home recommendations and invariably find out they are using some type of "pain patch" or topical pain relief cream that "feels" cold or "feels" hot.

The problem with these pain patches that people Like Shaq and others are paid to sell on TV is that their one and only purpose is to mask your pain. They are very simply skin irritants that will distract you from feeling pain by a chemical perception of heating or cooling. some of them may have some interesting ingredients to help it "get down deep" but they don't get into the muscles, they don't go into the joints. They sit on the surface, smell horribly and don't do anything to reduce inflammation or spasm.

When I make a recommendation for using ice or moist heat, I mean apply an actual ice pack or an actual moist heating pad. Both of these have specific physiological effects that will help inflammation, spasm and pain. They have specific effects that will help your condition heal.

So, when I or your physician, therapist or trainer tells you to apple ice or apply heat, we're talking about the real thing. Save the topical stuff for when you leave your home. Yes, they will make you "feel" better but they don't help you actually get better.

I your bicycle is broken you can certainly paint it to make it look better, but unless you fix it, you still have a broken bicycle. Stop listening to Shaq and his TV commercial with his pain patches and take the advice from a real doctor. Afterall, when Shaquille O'Neal gets hurt, he goes to his team physicians and trainers, not the box of pain patches.

'nuff said

Dr. T

PS, if you're a physician, PT or ATC, please chime in here. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.



Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.