PROFORM Chiropractic & Sports Performance

11/19/2025

GERD: Do you have heart burn or does someone you know take a PPI for acid reflux? Let’s make sense of what’s going on and talk about how to manage this situation. You may also reach out to schedule a visit with us to get on a better path and maximize your health.

Symptoms:
🔥 Heartburn
😷 Cough
🤒 Sore throat
🗣️ Hoarse voice
💨 Asthma flairs

Treatment:
🥘 Small frequent meals
🚶 Don’t lay down after eating
🛌 Elevate the head of your bed
🍷 Avoid alcohol and caffeine
🫦 Chew gum after eating
🚶Walk after meals

11/15/2025

UNEVEN DUMBBELLS: Trainers sometimes come up with silly exercise variations like standing on one foot while blinking your left eye and rubbing a kettle bell, without much of a goal in mind. Here’s one that can be helpful to improve balance, coordination, and core engagement. You can keep the dumbbells uneven each set or you might choose to use this as a warmup on the lighter sets and use evenly paired dumbbells for the heaviest set. This a fun way to challenge the nervous system and can be especially useful when working with neurological conditions like Parkinson’s, stroke, MS, and ataxia.

11/15/2025

WEIGHT GAIN: Ever feel like you woke up one day and you’re suddenly overweight and out of shape? That’s probably not what happened. The good news is that you don’t have to be a bodybuilder and you can reverse course with a little effort 🙌🏼

11/12/2025

ALTITUDE MASKS: Do these masks simulate training at altitude or improve VO2 Max? The short answer…no.

These altitude masks restrict airflow and challenge the respiratory muscles but do not change the percentage of oxygen in the air so capillary bed density and red blood cell production aren’t effected.

This type of restriction training might be useful for people with asthma or emphysema, where getting the air into the body is the limiting factor. For most healthy people, however, the limiting factor is not how much air they can breath in but rather gas exchange at the level of the alveoli…and this does little for that. It has been studied and these masks do not increase VO2 Max.

The only real benefit for an otherwise healthy person who doesn’t have asthma or emphysema is that these masks might train the diaphragm a bit more. This could be useful to cue proper breathing technique for people who are paradoxical breathers and are using accessory muscles of breathing but otherwise, this is goofy looking gimmick and not really a useful training tool.

You can do a literature search to read the studies or just do a simple google AI search “Do altitude masks imrove VO2 Max” to find out more.

SPARTHOS Training Mask is useful for all athletic sports like running, marathons, cycling, football, soccer, tennis, basketball, triathlons, weightlifting, athletics, Crossfit, hiking, yoga, strength training, mma, boxing, elevation running, track and field, nfl, paintball, baseball, hockey, tenn...

11/10/2025

RUSTIC RIDGE: There was magic in the room last night with lots of new and familiar faces. The ever gracious Donovan Gustofson was able to join me on bass and we were all better because of it.

My voice is far from normal. I’m quite hoarse today and will need a few days rest but I’m so happy to be slowly returning from this vocal cord injury and be playing music again 🤠🤙🏼🎶

11/03/2025

LEG EXTENSIONS: This exercise often gets a bad rap from orthopedic surgeons. I have used them with great success and would argue that they can be a wonderful part of your programming to build leg strength and reduce pain, particularly in strengthening the VMO when patellar tracking issues are involved.

My personal tip is to make sure the back pad is far enough up so your knee is slighty in-front of the joint of the machine for maximum comfort and stabilization and to add weight slowly when dealing with injuries.

I just did another dive to see if there’s a large body of good research showing leg extensions to be the evil maiming knee killers that medical doctors make them out to be…nope. Here’s an article supporting their use that’s worth reading from Pysiotutors, a well respected group of physical therapists who are actually evidenced-based.

Leg Extensions are one of the most criticized exercises in rehab. But are they actually dangerous or great exercise?

10/26/2025

CHOLESTEROL: The current thinking is that once blood vessels get damaged, cholesterol acts sort of like a scab over the injured area. So while high LDL is probably not great for us, it is not the cause of heart disease. People with normal LDL can have heart attacks and certain people with high LDL don’t so there’s more to the picture than just high cholesterol.

Right now, it seems like high blood pressure is the BIGGEST contributing factor and should be avoided and treated ASAP. Wether diets high in sodium and/or sugar have a DIRECT injurious mechanism to the blood vessels or simply contribute to high blood pressure, which then injures the blood vessels, is still being investigated but either way…a healthy diet that isn’t loaded with salt and sugar is WISE.

A one-year prospective study found no correlation between atherosclerosis and extremely high cholesterol levels in 100 otherwise metabolically healthy individuals who had followed a ketogenic diet for an average of five years. A new study from The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at

10/18/2025

SHOCKWAVE THERAPY: Shockwave is a non-invasive treatment that uses high-energy sound waves to stimulate healing in injured tissues. Injuries suck but PROFORM has you covered and is here to help!!

🏆 The shockwave induces microtrauma in the tissues, triggering a cascade of cellular events that promote healing. This includes stimulating blood vessels around the injured area, promoting cellular differentiation involved in tissue repair, such as fibroblasts and collagen, and reducing the pain associated with an injury.

✅ Get back in the game and ask your provider is shockwave might be a helpful addition to your treatment plan at your next visit!!

10/16/2025

DIETING: We’ve misrepresented dieting for a long time with the message to eat less. You actually need to eat more…more protein and more whole food meals. It will end up being less calories because it’s not calorie dense snacky snacks but it will feel like you’re eating a lot. This is a common experience in the beginning but once you get the hang of it, you won’t want to go back 😎🤙🏼

10/10/2025

SHOCKWAVE: You asked and you got it…we now have shockwave!!! It’s been everything we’d hoped for and has allowed us to help so many patients with nagging injuries in just the first two weeks.

✅ Schedule an appointment to find out if your condition is treatable with shockwave and wave goodbye to your pain 👋🏼

10/07/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN: We love seeing your costumes. Stop into our office this month wearing your costume and we’ll give you a complementary nutrition consultation…and a high five 🙌🏼

10/03/2025

REHAB: Here’s a simple variation on a classic leg exercise. The band and the slight rotation across the body helps load and activate the glut. It also helps engage some of the stabilizing musculature. This could be a valuable addition to a rehab program for knees, hips, or even ankles.