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02/16/2026

"Stop chasing pain!"

This may be (or should be) one of the most influential messages I've sent!

Most people walk into our office and complaining about the mid back or shoulder blades. It feels tight, sore, and never quite settles.

But here’s the part that's misunderstood. A lot of the time, the mid back is not the starting point. It is the reaction.

The front of the rib cage, especially the sternum, is often the driver.

This is why I spend so much time massaging and mobilizing the chest wall, the subclavius, the costal cartilage, and why I’ll even hit specific points with the Dolphin units in that region. The goal is not just “loosen the pecs.” The goal is to get lymph moving and promote expansion of the entire rib cage.

And Dr. Perry Nickelston has been one of the people who helped me think this way.

If you know his work, you know he is big on the idea that you cannot treat the body like it is made of separate rooms. One hallway gets clogged and the whole house starts acting weird. His holistic approach is simple in concept but deep in application.

Stop chasing pain. Start clearing the traffic.

Stick with me and let’s connect the dots!

Lymph is your clean up crew. It is fluid movement, immune traffic, and waste management. It moves because of pressure changes, breathing, muscle contraction, and movement.

High pressure flows toward low pressure.

The lowest pressure drain point for lymph is at the collarbone area where the ducts empty back into the bloodstream. So if the drain is at the collarbone, the highest pressure tends to show up furthest away. Think hands, feet, legs, head.

This is why Dr. Perry and others emphasize clearing the main junctions first. He calls them the “Big Six.”

1) Collarbone region
2) Top of the neck behind the angle of the jaw
3) Armpit area
4) Abdomen
5) Crease of the groin
6) Back of the knee

The sternum, T5, and why your mid back gets smoked

Here is where most people miss the mark. They treat mid back stiffness like it is purely a joint or muscle problem.

But the sternum is the front anchor of the rib cage. The ribs attach through cartilage. The thoracic spine is the back anchor. Your rib cage is the bridge between them.

So when the sternum and anterior chest wall are stiff, tender, puffy, guarded, or just not moving well, the thoracic spine is forced to take extra load.

If you press on the sternum, people are often shocked by how tender it is, even though they never complained of pain there.

Then where do they usually feel symptoms? Right through the mid back. T5 to be specific

That spot becomes the “sweet spot” of irritation. Not because it is weak, but because it is stuck in the middle of a system that cannot expand and rotate like it should.

And once T5 gets irritated, it rarely stays isolated.

Segments “broadcast.” T4, T3 above it. T6, T7, T8 below it. Suddenly the person has pain here, tightness there, weird symptoms over there, and they are chasing the pain everywhere.

Meanwhile the front of the rib cage never got addressed (unless you come see me ;))

The sympathetic chain lives right where this problem lives

Now bring in the nervous system.

The sympathetic chain runs along the thoracic region, near the spine and ribs. That is the relay station for fight or flight output to a huge amount of the body.

So if you have chronic irritation in the mid thoracic spine, and the anterior rib cage is stiff and guarded, you are basically poking the bear.

You are feeding a region that is already loaded with sympathetic wiring. This plays a way bigger role in why some people feel like they cant ever truly rest.

They stretch more. They roll more. They crack more. They try to posture their way out of it.

How this ties into “organ issues” without getting weird about it

This is the part I want to handle carefully!

I am not saying your sternum causes every gut problem. I am not saying lymph work cures disease.

What I am saying is this...

The thoracic spine segments influence the autonomic output to organs. The mid thoracic region has major relationships with visceral function through sympathetic pathways.

So if someone has an irritated thoracic spine, a compressed rib cage, shallow breathing patterns, and a nervous system living in fight or flight, it is not surprising when they also report things like:

-Digestive sensitivity
-Reflux or bloating patterns that come and go
-“Pressure” feelings in the chest and upper abdomen
-Trouble sleeping
-More reactivity to stress

Could be a hundred reasons. But it is a pattern worth respecting!!

In practice, I see this all the time.

We calm the rib cage. We restore expansion. We reduce sternum guarding. We improve thoracic motion. We get the system to exhale again.

And the person feels like their body finally took the foot off the gas!

What we actually do with this at Charge

This is why I do the combination of:
-Chest wall and sternum work
-Costal cartilage mobility
-Subclavius and first rib attention
-Dolphin microcurrent points in that region when appropriate
-Then immediate movement to lock in the change

Because if you open the front of the rib cage and then you teach the body how to use it, the thoracic spine stops having to yell.

This is also why I am not impressed by “just cracking the mid back” as the whole plan.

It is a tool to create movement, but it cant alone address the system.

So if you are the person who has been living in mid back tightness, shallow breathing, and constant tension that keeps coming back, book an Rebuild visit and let me help you find better tools that address it all!

Dr Dom + Team

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02/09/2026

"Its all connected."

Hey yall!

I want to share a quick story from this week because it explains how I think about pain and why our process have evolved over the years.

A patient who has been doing our shoulder micro mobility work for less than two weeks sent this message:

“My heels don’t hurt no more!”

Little heel specific work.
No calf stretching.
No foot drills.

Just a recent add of shoulder work.

Here is the important context. She is hypermobile.

That matters more than most people realize.

When someone is hypermobile, their joints move easily, sometimes too easily. Range of motion is not the problem. Stability is. Their system is constantly scanning for the safest way to move. It prefers positions that feel predictable and controlled, even if those positions overload certain tissues over time.

This is why so many hypermobile people resonate with things like:
- Chronic tightness despite stretching constantly
- Pain that moves around
- Always feeling like one wrong move could set something off

When stability is lacking in one area, the body finds it somewhere else. It stiffens joints that are not meant to be stiff. It overuses tissues that are meant to assist, not dominate.

Pain is often the result of that strategy. In her case, the shoulders were a missing piece.

Here is where the bigger picture comes in...

I was watching some content recently from ALTIS, one of the most respected performance training organizations in the world. They have produced Olympic medalists, world champions, and some of the fastest humans to ever walk the planet.

What makes them special is not flashy exercises. It is how deeply they understand movement as a system. They shared a story about a high level track athlete who had chronic Achilles pain. He had tried everything. Local rehab. Soft tissue work. Strengthening. Rest.

Nothing stuck.

One of the Altis coaches asked a simple question about an old shoulder injury from adolescence. They shifted their focus to restoring shoulder function and control.

The Achilles pain disappeared.

That story stuck with me because it perfectly describes what we see in everyday people, not just elite athletes. The body moves in cross body patterns. One shoulder connects to the opposite hip. That hip connects to the opposite leg and foot.

This is how force travels when you walk, run, or simply get through your day.

If a shoulder cannot accept load well, especially in someone who is already hypermobile, the system looks for stability elsewhere. Often it finds it by stiffening the opposite leg and foot.

The heel becomes the anchor.

The Achilles becomes the shock absorber. The system feels safer, but the tissue pays the price.

Add in a nervous system that already struggles to feel secure and you get pain that seems disconnected from the actual cause.

So when we worked on shoulder control, awareness, and tolerance to load, something important happened.

Her system felt safer.
Movement cleaned up.
Force spread out instead of getting dumped into the heel.

The brain stopped asking the Achilles to do the job of the entire system.

The pain did not move because we chased it. It moved because the pattern changed. This is why "micro mobility" matters.

Not because it stretches things. Not because it loosens you up.
But because it gives your nervous system small, controlled signals that say, this joint can handle load.

This position is safe. You do not need to over protect somewhere else.

That said, micro mobility is not the end goal. It is a habit. A starting point.

One piece of a larger system.

Long term change comes from building strength, capacity, and confidence once your body trusts those positions again.

Mobility gives access.
Strength gives ownership.

If this story made you think about your own body or an old injury that never quite went away, I want you to do one simple thing.

Reply to this email with the word “shoulder”.
No pressure. No sales pitch here.

We have our own shoulder micro mobility program available as a standalone option for those who want to start building this habit at home.

You do not need to chase pain anymore.
You need to change the way your system feels about movement.
That is where real progress starts.

Dr. Dom

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01/19/2026

How wide is yours?

Happy Monday!

With the awesome power of the algorithm, my feed is full of movement professional and normal folk trying to solve everyone's problems.
One thing that sticks out to me is how many people talk in absolutes.

“I need eight hours of sleep or I’m wrecked.”

“Training your fascia will turn you into an athlete.”

“Lifting heavy causes injury.”

What I rarely hear is curiosity about range.

Not a perfect number. Not a magic rule. Just an honest understanding of what your body can tolerate on the low end, what it can tolerate on the high end, and how well it can move between the two.

That idea stuck with me after listening to a recent conversation from Dr. Mike T Nelson, where he described what he calls human dynamic range. In simple terms, it is your capacity to operate across highs and lows, and your ability to oscillate between them without breaking down. Heart rate, workload, fuel, sleep, stress, even focus. The principle shows up everywhere.

We love linear answers. One target. One number. One protocol. But the human body does not work that way.

It works in ranges.

From a biomechanical standpoint, think about tension or in a training environment we call it "load."

There is a low end where the body is underloaded and starts losing tolerance. Muscles shrink. Tendons get less stiff. Joints lose awareness.

Then there is a high end where the load exceeds what the system can absorb. That is where flare ups, injuries and a multitude of other symptoms can live.

Health is rarely found at either extreme! It is built by spending most of your time inside a tolerable range, then occasionally nudging the edges to expand it.

Physiology follows the same rules!

Fuel is a great example. Some people swing hard to one side and decide carbs are the problem. Others rely on them constantly and crash without them. The reality is most people have a usable range of fuel sources, but they have lost access to part of it. Spending too much time at one end shrinks the other.

Sleep works the same way. If you can only function when everything is perfect, that is not resilience. That is fragility. On the flip side, living in chronic short sleep and stress is not toughness, it is erosion. A healthy system has a range of sleep durations it can tolerate, and more importantly, the ability to recover after a short night or a hard week. That capacity is trained, not gifted.

Psychologically, range matters even more. People who feel best only when life is calm tend to unravel when pressure shows up. People who live in constant grind mode eventually burn out. Emotional and mental health are not about eliminating stress or chasing constant stimulation. It's about being able to downshift and upshift when needed, without wrapping up your identity to either end.

Again, most of y'all miss this part... Spending too much time at either end of a range does not just stall progress, it shrinks the range itself!

The goal is not balance in the way people usually mean it. The goal is range with control.

The awesome part is though that over time, most ranges can be expanded! Slowly. Intentionally.

Too many people try to jump straight to the edges without earning them. They want high output without a base. They want restriction without flexibility. They want resilience without exposure.

Even if you're not an athlete yourself you see this clearly in elite athletes. They are not fragile. Their ranges are massive. They can tolerate high workloads and still recover. They can handle imperfect sleep during travel. That does not happen by accident.

The same concept applies to longevity. I have clients in their seventies who are not trying to be athletes, but they are trying to stay adaptable.

So here is a simple place to start this week: Pick one system and get curious about your current range.
1) Workload. What is the lowest amount of movement you can do before stiffness and pain show up? What is the highest you can tolerate before recovery suffers?
2) Fuel. What foods feel easy to use? Which ones consistently leave you foggy or flat?
3) Sleep. What happens after six hours? After eight? After a late night?
4) Stress. How quickly can you calm down after a hard day?

Do not judge it. Just observe it. Then ask a better question.

Not “How do I optimize this?” but “How do I widen this slightly without blowing myself up?”

That is exactly why our process at Charge is built the way it is. We are not chasing perfect protocols. We are rebuilding lost capacity. We expose people to just enough load, just enough stress, just enough challenge to expand their usable range without overwhelming the system. Over time, life gets easier not because it is softer, but because you are more capable!

If this email hit a nerve, it probably should. Most people are not broken. They are just living inside a very small range.

If you want help expanding yours, that is what our core programs are designed to do. Not quick fixes. Not band aids. Just a smarter way to rebuild resilience across your body and nervous system.

Reply to this email with one word: workload, fuel, sleep, or stress. I want to know which range feels tightest for you right now.

Take control of what you can, today!
Dr. Dom + Team

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01/12/2026

Everything you need is within you!

Mernin yall, lets get right to it today...

Every January, people like me in the health and fittnes space see the same thing happen.

People start looking for the next thing.
The next peptide. The hot new supplement.
The next best form of workouts. The next piece of equipment that promises less pain and more energy without changing anything else.

To be fair, there are new tools, better research, and smarter ways to approach health and performance today than there were ten or twenty years ago so being curious about "what's best" is great!

But here’s the boring & uncomfortable truth I keep running into, both in my own life and in the clinic.

The basics, done consistently, still win.

No biohacker headlines. Just fundamentals applied over long enough periods of time that the body is allowed to adapt instead of constantly being yanked in a new direction.

So I narrowed things down to five priorities that move the needle the most for health, energy, pain reduction, and quality of life, these would be them:

1. Fix your circadian rhythm before chasing hormones
Most people think hormone issues mean they need to “boost” something. Testosterone. Cortisol. Thyroid. Estrogen.

What they miss is that hormones are not independent k***s you turn. They are outputs. Signals that respond to timing, light, sleep, and stress.

For most of human history, we woke with the sun and went to sleep shortly after it went down. Light exposure early in the day told the brain, “It’s safe to be alert.” Darkness at night told the brain, “It’s time to recover.”

Fast forward to now. Screens at midnight. No morning sunlight. Irregular sleep times. Artificial stimulation all day. Then we wonder why energy is low, weight creeps up, sleep is trash, and labs look off. Simple improvements like consistent sleep & wake times, morning light exposure, dimming lights at night, and protecting sleep windows can regulate cortisol rhythms and downstream hormones far more effectively than most people realize.

2. Lead with protein and fats in the morning
This one tends to rub people the wrong way for some reason. Too many of us are emotionally connected to their food choices.

Charlie Francis (all time great Olympic coach) was big on this idea for his athletes, and the logic still holds up.

In the morning, your nervous system is already coming out of a cortisol driven state. Dumping a big hit of sugar on top of that pushes blood glucose up fast, which then requires a strong insulin response to bring it back down. For a lot of people, that sets the tone for crashes, cravings, and poor focus the rest of the day.

Protein and fats digest more slowly. They stabilize blood sugar. They provide amino acids for repair and neurotransmitter support without spiking energy and dropping it an hour later.

It’s about earning your carbohydrates later in the day when your system is better prepared to handle them. Most people don’t have an energy problem. They have a regulation problem.

3. Use creatine later in the day and separate it from caffeine
Creatine isn’t just about muscle. It plays a role in cellular energy availability, brain function, and resilience to stress. What gets overlooked is timing.

Caffeine increases energy output and stimulation. Creatine supports energy storage and buffering. Taking them together early in the day is like pressing the gas pedal while trying to fill the tank at the same time. Spacing creatine into the second half of the day allows it to support recovery, hydration at the cellular level, and nervous system resilience without competing with stimulants.

4. Train with lower volume and higher intent
More is not better. Better is better. I see a lot of people bury themselves in volume because it feels productive. Sets upon sets. Endless variety. No clear direction.

Lower volume, higher intensity training with a single metric to progress keeps you honest and keeps you safe. Focus on 3-4 movements that you feel confident with and focus on one variable to improve: one more rep each week. That allows for cleaner ex*****on week after week.

That approach stacks small wins without frying your nervous system or beating up your joints. It also makes training sustainable instead of something you have to recover from emotionally and physically.

Consistency beats novelty every time.

5. Protect time for your mind
This one gets lip service and then ignored. Journaling. Quiet walks. Creative outlets. Time without input.

Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between physical stress and mental stress. It just counts total load.

If you never give your mind a place to downshift, your body stays on edge. Recovery suffers. Pain lingers. Sleep degrades. Mental health practices are not optional extras. You don’t need to do everything. You just need to do something consistently.

I hope yall see that’s the common thread here...
Not perfection. Not optimization. Consistency.

If you’re tired of bouncing between ideas and want help applying these basics in a way that fits your life, your stress level, and your body, that’s exactly what our core work is built around.

Control what you can. Stack small wins. Let time do the rest.

Dr. Dom + Team

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01/05/2026

Reaching Goals Don't Equal Happiness

Hey guys,

The last couple weeks have felt quiet in a good way. We took an extended period off and Ill be the first to say, WE NEEDED THAT!

The end of 2025 felt "slow," though the schedule may not have reflected that (lol.) Fewer big announcements. Less noise. More people just showing up, doing the work, and asking better questions about their bodies. I always take that as a good sign. When things "slow down" a bit, you get a clearer view of what actually matters.

As we roll into 2026, I’ve been reflecting on effort. Not the grind-for-the-sake-of-grinding kind, but the kind that still matters when progress feels boring or unclear. Most people quit not because they are incapable, but because the process doesn’t reward them fast enough. Pain lingers. Strength takes time. Change asks more patience than we expect.

One of my favorite historical examples of this is Thomas Edison. People take the light bulb for granted like it was some overnight stroke of genius. What gets left out is that he failed thousands of times before anything worked. When asked about it, he didn’t frame those attempts as failures. He framed them as learning what didn’t work. That mindset matters!! He wasn’t chasing a finish line. He was committed to the process long enough for the result to eventually show itself.

That idea hits home in healthcare too.

At Charge, we continue to refine our passive care. Hands-on treatments. Massage therapy. PEMF. Laser. Shockwave. These things matter. They calm the nervous system. They improve tissue quality. They give people relief and breathing room. When done well, they create opportunity.

But opportunity only turns into results when it’s paired with intentional activity!

Strength. Movement. Awareness. Rebuilding capacity instead of chasing symptoms.

This is where most people get frustrated, because it requires consistency instead of intensity. Small wins instead of dramatic ones. Learning how your body responds instead of forcing it to behave.

That is the puzzle we are committed to solving with you.

Not just getting you out of pain today, but helping you understand why it showed up and what needs to change so it doesn’t keep repeating.

Sometimes that looks like lifting lighter than your ego wants.

Sometimes it looks like slowing things down.

Sometimes it looks like doing less, but doing it better.

The truth is most of the good things in life don’t come from hitting an arbitrary metric. They come from the version of yourself that gets built along the way. The confidence of showing up. The awareness of knowing what your body needs. The quiet wins that stack when consistency becomes the goal.

As we head into this year, our role stays the same. Help you take control of what you can. Give you the tools. Give you honest feedback. And if you choose to lean into it, our hybrid rehab/training programs exists for one reason. To put all the pieces together in a way that actually holds up long term.

No pressure. Just clarity.

Here’s the only ask I’ll make today. Take a moment and ask yourself one simple question. What would change this year if consistency mattered more than speed?

If you want help answering that, you know where to find us.

Welcome to 2026.
Dom

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12/16/2025

“Do More” or “Do Nothing”

Morning everyone,

There’s a principle I keep bumping into no matter what field I'm studying.

Psychology, finance, relationships, strength training, pain science, they all share one simple truth...

Human beings live at the mercy of contrast. Every important behavior sits between two competing forces.

And earlier this week, during a meeting with a high-level sports psychology team, that idea hit me and I was excited to share it yall today. The main doc shared a framework built on a triangle. At the top of the triangle sits anxiety, with the bottom corners representing two directions anxiety pushes us toward: control on one side, avoidance on the other.

And the important part? Anxiety is not going away. It’s not a glitch. It’s part of being human. The only question is what direction it pushes you.

This applies perfectly to pain, injury, and mobility issues. When your shoulder hurts, or your low back nags you, or you wake up every morning wondering why things feel tighter than last year, anxiety becomes the background noise driving your decisions, searching for solutions to dampen the noise.

Some people respond by leaning hard into control. They stretch every day. They Google a hundred solutions. They do band drills at their desk. They try to fix the problem by force.

Others (or most if were being 100% honest) go the opposite way...

They shut things down. They stop reaching overhead. They avoid the gym. They “wait and see.” They focus on factors they CANT control instead of acting on the ones they can.

Lets be clear though, one isn’t morally better than the other. They’re just different reactions to the same discomfort. But both can get us into trouble if we stay there too long!

When you’re in control mode, you can do too much. You can over-stimulate tissues that are already irritated. Especially if your actions are based off some Instagram video you saw. Or, you can create so much conscious thought around the area that your brain is hyper focused on it, increasing pain sensitivity.

On the other hand, when you’re in avoidance mode, you slowly lose tolerance, strength, and confidence. Your world shrinks, and you don’t even notice it happening until simple movements feel dangerous.

This is the real reason people struggle to get out of pain. It’s not because pain means something is “broken.” Often it doesn’t. It’s because pain exposes our default coping style. It shows us where we drift under pressure.

The good news is this: pain, weakness, and injury are not personal failures. They’re universal human experiences. And the way out usually begins with three things:

1) Awareness — knowing which corner of the triangle you gravitate toward.
2) Structure — having someone in your corner who can separate noise from signal.
3) A plan — graded steps that teach your brain your body is safe again.

When someone comes in with a frozen shoulder, or a stubborn rib issue, or a hip that’s been tight for a decade, the first thing we look for is not the “perfect exercise.”

I look for the behavior pattern underneath the pain!

Are they doing too much? Are they avoiding? Are they bouncing between the two and burning out?

Once I know that, I change my language, propose a plan that respects your current status, and encourage action based on things we have immediate control over.

If today’s message hits home for you, do me one favor:

Reply and tell me which corner you slide into when something hurts: control or avoidance? (provide a quick example too) I love reading the responses I get!

It’s a simple awareness exercise. And it’s usually the first step in actually solving the problem instead of circling it for years.

Have a great week,
Dr. Dom + Team

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12/11/2025

Be the first to experience a new offering to Fort Wayne!

Whoa! Email back to back days??

YUP! Just a quick update, but it’s an exciting one.

Most people know they should stretch more… I hear it 10x/day!

I get it though. It’s tough make time, know the right positions, know how long to hold, which intensity to choose, and how not to hold your breath the whole time lol.

So we brought in help!

Introducing Assisted Stretching at ReCharge

Before now, there were no stretching services in SW Fort Wayne! We are excited to the be first and integrate it to everything were doing in the Charge Ecosystem.

Adam just completed a professional certification in assisted stretching and is officially open for booking. If you’ve ever had your hips, ribs, or shoulders worked through a full range with the right amount of pressure and support, you know it hits differently.

These stretches will be performed to you while you're laying/sitting on a therapy table. There may be some stretches that require some light resistance (similar to isometric drills you've used with me at Charge) but for the most part, it will be a session in which you can purely relax and feel the effects of proper stretching sequences, hold time, breathing practices, etc.

Think of it as the bridge between your chiropractic adjustments, your training, and your recovery tools.

Intro Pricing Through December 31

We want the whole Charge fam to try this, so we’re running a launch period through the end of the year:

30-minute stretch session: $20

60-minute stretch session: $50

No limit on how many you can book during the intro window.

Morning Sessions Now Available
Cody, a new hire at ReCharge continuing my hybrid physical therapy there, is also trained in the same stretching techniques, is highly capable, has tons of real world experience, and is available for morning appointments starting now.
He and Adam will be splitting availability so you’ll have options regardless of your schedule.

Sooo Who Should Book First?
If you’re dealing with:
- Chronic tight hips or hamstrings
- Mid-back stiffness
- Shoulder mobility limitations
- Training volume that’s outrunning your recovery
- A job that keeps you sitting more than you’d like
…this will help you feel better almost immediately.

How to Schedule
Book using the link below, utilizing the same Square platform you use to book to see me.

And with this being holiday season, buying a couple at a discounted rate would be a great gift for a loved one needing some help but doesn't want to engage is a major commitment. (If a "gift card" is something you're interested in, reply to this email and we can send you virtual gift card to send to you fam/friends)

Give these guys a try, they are great additions to the team.

See you soon,
Dr. Dom

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