Leopold Chiropractic

02/25/2026

Patient was experiencing numbness I. The medial left knee after healing from several breaks and contusions after being hit by a car several months ago. The black line shows the distribution of numbness and altered sensation as I marked out with a pen. I tested the medial femoral cutaneous, and obturator before settling on the saphenous nerve. I found it entrapped between the gracilis and sartorious muscles where they begin to merge just before the pes anserine. I treated the space between these muscles where myofascial density has built up entrapping the small peripheral nerve. After just a few passes, the nerve was mobilized and the distribution of altered sensation immediately reduced to the smaller red circle. I expect the numbness to continue to reduce as the nerve recovers from the compression. I love this type of work. It feels like surgery done with the hands. # peripheralnerveentrapmemt

02/06/2025

What is facia?

It can be understood through different lenses:

Anatomical
Histological
Bio mechanical
Neurological

and from the perspective of a movement therapist/manual therapist who will consider all of these together.

01/31/2025

06/22/2023

I’ve been rocking since 2004 when I learned about them practicing . Since the structureless shoe revolution and the influence of .ido movement culture, they have become very popular and I am happy to see more varieties beyond the black and white pair they have made for 100 years. Even though their recent popularity has seen the price doubled (from $20 to $30-40) they are still the most inexpensive, versatile athletic shoe that lets your foot move the way it evolved to. I recently went wild and bought 4 pairs during a sale.

If you live on Oakland and want to support a local shop, I recommend checking out Young’s trading on Telegraph for a pair.

Fun fact, my friend Andrew let me know Feiyue means ugly in Portuguese!

06/20/2023

I’m in love with this incredible woman Tawny Holt and today is her birthday!

Sometimes I get caught up in all we are doing: businesses, parenting, community, buying a home, that I forget how good it feels to just BE with Tawny. That underneath all the other ways we have of relating, there is this core deep recognition that I love and respect this person so deeply and just spending time with you is more than enough, it is everything.

We are so lucky to have you. Happy Birthday!

09/26/2022

Solidarity with all workers!

Showing up to support with the ways I know how.

09/13/2022

Personal stash delivery!

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08/25/2022

At. LabCorp, running a comprehensive metabolic panel on myself.

Turning 40 this year, so I am running all my functional panels to set baselines and fine tune my biochemistry for prevention of disease and aging and to optimize my health!

The Comprehensive Bio-Screen from Principal Labs is a great and affordable way to begin your functional medicine journey. It is a collection of 65 bio markers and 13 urinary metabolites that covers:

-Blood sugar analysis
-Cardiovascular analysis
-Infection analysis
-Electrolyte analysis
-Anemia analysis
-Thyroid analysis
-Lipid analysis
-Liver & Biliary analysis
-Urinalysis

The coolest component is the thyroid examination. Normally, a thyroid panel contains only TSH and T3, maybe T4. This panel contains 13 thyroid hormones to look up and downstream and get the data which will tell us the root cause of thyroid dysfunction. Not just that is imbalanced.

06/30/2022

If you know, you know!

05/27/2022

Instrument assists soft tissue mobilization is a powerful tool for sports injuries. Tissue glide is one core element I focus on. It happens between layers of tissue and can easily y be overlooked by chiro and soft tissue treatment alone. If those tissue layers don’t glide, fasciae mechanoreceptors will literally inhibit muscle underneath causing weakness, compensation and overloading of other tissues.

If you are at a plateau in your recovery, ask about scrapping!

05/21/2022

Food is Medicine!

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05/20/2022

College athlete concussion baseline and after 1 treatment!

These scores reflect different aspects of balance, but indirectly show the function and integration of the nervous system.

This athlete had 2 good hits to the head during a game and was concussed. She was dizzy, disoriented, fatigued, photophobic and sound sensitive with eye strain and fatigue. All of these symptoms were dramatically decreased post treatment in the first session!!!

Treatment followed the developmental blue print: brain stem, cerebellum, vestibular and visual systems, sensory motor processing and finally frontal lobe stimulation.

Metabolic support will be general at first, but include mega doses of omega’s, B-vitamins and magnesium threonate. From there we will look at some labs to fine tune her treatment.