The Family Health Center is a multidisciplinary center located in Bellevue Washington dealing with family health and chronic pain problems. Their staff is composed of medical, naturalopathic and chiropractic doctors, nurses, and massage therapists.
Below are snip bits from an interview between GRD BioTech Inc and Dr Carl Jelstrup. Dr Jelstrup discusses his philosophy and experience using proprioceptive insoles (activators) in his practice to help chronic pain patients.
What reasons do you give your patients for using proprioceptive insoles?
I point out their faulty gait pattern and I point out the effects of a faulty gait pattern on the rest of the skeleton. I explain that in detail; how the resulting stress patterns manifest themselves through the knees, through their sacro-iliac joint, lower lumbars, lower dorsals, mid dorsal through the mid dorsal cervical junction and finally all the way up to the temporal mandibular joint.
How would you describe the benefits of wearing proprioceptive insoles?
Less pain.
Why did you decide to provide proprioceptive insoles to your patients?
I read the handbook. It impressed me. I tested it and it worked out. I was also familiar with the concepts from past experience, as I had worked with Dr. Rothbart 10 years ago.
Being a chiropractor, my primary interest is structure. It has bothered me over the years that many practitioners in their field have not fully embraced the fact that structure does indeed affect function on many levels. I feel that if you are going to be a successful doctor today, with the enormity of foot problems that has affected this nation you have to integrate a full understanding of foot care. And you have to integrate a full understanding of dental care. As we see human beings start to go into degenerative patterns in the cranium as well as the feet, it has dire consequences on the health. There are too few doctors today that can appreciate this concept. Many chiropractors are adjusting strictly the spine. You cannot obtain a permanent result in the spine unless you also address the cranial problems and the problems of the feet.
Do you have a philosophy that predisposes you to use proprioceptive insoles?
I have seen generations of people. I have pointed this out to the mothers, and now the offspring is worse. Often the problems are related from mother to son and from father to daughter, so you can check this, and the scary part is that the problems are getting a lot worse. It is a little bit like diabetes. Before we had diabetes, it was a problem and many people were affected, but now it is pandemic and we are starting to look at diabetes as part of our civilization. We will also be starting to look at posture control and the need for proprioceptive insoles as part of our civilization. This is indeed part of the breakdown process of the structural system with far reaching neurological consequences.
I focus on gait pattern as well as the bite pattern. The movement of the feet provides a strong input to the central nervous system, and the bite pattern equally provides input to the central nervous system, so if you have the bite pattern and the gait pattern under control, your work as a chiropractor becomes immensely easier.
