Hands–On Therapies

Cranial–Sinus therapy

Most patients come in without any sense that the skull bones have a part to play in the well–being of the body (other than protecting the brain). Osteopaths began to unravel the mystery of the cranium almost a hundred years ago, chiropractors have helped over the last fifty or so.

Dr. Walsdorf loves to use his Cranial–Sinus techniques on patients with headaches, sinus problems, a history of head trauma, as well as to those with a lot of mental strain and stress. There are actually two anatomically distinct skull centers. One is the cranium, the other are the facial bones — which includes the sinuses. Sinus congestion can be helped by cranial work.

Chiropractic spinal adjustments

One of the greatest hands–on treatments ever discovered is the spinal adjustment. The spine is where nerves, muscles and bones come together. Releasing structural distortions, muscular strain, and pinched nerves can do much not only for pain but also for headaches, ergonomic and sports injures like carpal tunnel and tennis elbow.

Nerves from the spine go to every organ of the body; it is always a good idea to make sure that there is no nerve impingement from one or more vertebra pinching those nerves, which innervate organ tissues.

Curvature Rehabilitation

Many patients with chronic neck/arm, or low back/leg problems are found to have a loss of the proper curvature in the involved part of the spine. Spinal adjustments by themselves will often not be enough to help remodel, or bring back, that curvature. Dr. Walsdorf has special techniques to help renew those lost curves, which are so important for the vitality of your body.

Sports–Biomechanics Improvement Therapy

Patients who are athletes gain much with their work with Dr. Walsdorf. He in fact especially enjoys working with those who want to be the best they can be. Dr. Walsdorf is willing to be the one who works to improve your sports ability, your coordination, your biomechanical acumen. SBIT works to help you to maintain alignment and improve your sports biomechanics not only during sports activities but throughout your whole life. Some patients are found to need a heel lift to shore up a short leg.

Acupressure

While the acupuncture coursework Dr. Walsdorf took in chiropractic school would allow him to use acupuncture in most other states, New York does not permit him to. He therefore use "acupressure" and other "Oriental Therapies" to help his patients gain access to the healing power of the acupuncture "meridians". Chiropractic has always influenced acupuncture meridian energy—important energy channels run through the spinal area. Special pressure, rubbing, and tugging techniques stimulate these acupuncture channels.

Body Awareness Therapy

Most people today lack a sense of their body &ndash which often is a major cause of the breakdown in not only skeletal structure, but also organ health. Dr. Walsdorf's work with BAT, comes out of his 30 year work with such techniques as Yoga, Feldenkrais somatic work, Alexander Technique, and Bioenergetics. The goal of BAT is to improve the functioning of what collectively are the largest functional group of nerves – proprioceptive (or body awareness) nerves. There are literally hundreds of these nerves in every square inch, thousands per cubic inch!

Chronic injuries often have turned these important nerves off. BAT helps you to reawaken these smallest of nerves in areas that are "dark" to your nervous system. As they are stimulated with our techniques they light up the associated area in the brain so as to give the brain an improved sense of what is specifically happening in the local area where an often painful problem is.

Four Element Organ Massage

Before modern medicine came along, there were a variety of ways that healers helped people regain health. Just like today, not all techniques would work for every problem. No technique – even modern medical therapies – has a claim on understanding the total picture, and hence the variety of ways to turn on the healing power of the body.

Four Element Organ Message uses special hands–on technique to induce healing currents in a desired part of the body. Generally this technique incorporates both breathing and movement as it stimulates the renewal of healthy physiology within organ and other tissues of a sick part of the body. 4 Element Yoga is an exercise that one is often taught so as to be able to do this on one's own.

Nutritional therapies

Osteoporosis therapy

Dr. Walsdorf is especially concerned with the epidemic of osteoporosis. He will work with you to fine–tune a program that offers you the best way to keep your bones strong as you age – without fosamax or other such drugs. There has been evidence that these drugs strengthen bone density at the expense of bone flexibility. In other words, there are two parts to bone: the calcium hardness and the connective tissue flexibility. Fosamax's increased density comes at the expense of collagen and other flexibility–giving proteins, making bones more brittle over time.

Contact Reflex Analysis

Oftentimes patients come in with some diagnostic term given to them by another doctor, with a prescription that they are taken—often reluctantly, or avoiding altogether. CRA is a technique that has helped thousands of people by allowing the doctor to figure out where the body needs help. We might find that the stomach is weak—meaning it is not digesting protein well; or that the adrenals are fatigued by too much stress; or that the immune system is running low.

Applied Kinesiology

"A.K." is a family of techniques used to parse out the weak links in a circuit. This circuit may be musculoskeletal, involve acupuncture channels, or nutritional needs. Often it is uses as in CRA, muscle testing of the patient by the doctor to draw out from the patient different nutritional weaknesses that are weakening the patient, and his or her organs. Often we use our Standard Process line of nutritional formulas to help a patient when we use AK.

Standard Process glandulars and other formulations

Standard Process has been working for over 80 years to help people rediscover their vibrant health—without the use of drugs. They've been around longer than most every other "vitamin company". Still, their products are anything but a formulation of vitamins. They use special low temperature processes to draw out from foods their most vibrant, active biochemistries. Sometimes these are such things as buckwheat juice, other times they are liver extracts, or adrenal tissue, or bovine ovarian extracts. They work wonders as they feed the body the biochemical raw materials needed to get organ physiologies back in working order.

Though we use other nutritional suppliers, we find that Standard Process (which can only be prescribed by health care professionals), often supply the missing materials needed by patients in today's world of "counterfeit" and soil depleted foods. If you want a DVD that discusses the unique qualities of Standard Process, feel free to call us at 422–HEAL (4325) for one.

Live Food Powders

While Standard Process products do well for improving the health and vitality on the cellular level of organs and other body tissues, we find that patients benefit from using our special "green foods", or "live food" powders. Dr. Walsdorf scours the world for the best nutritional products for his patients, and often finds that many patients benefit from getting a regular supply of natural food concentrates by way of specially processed, good tasting green drinks.

Vitamins, Herbs and Plant extracts

Some health issues benefit from a select grouping of vitamin, herb and plant extracts to boost cellular vitality. Dr. Walsdorf uses special formulations based upon scientific studies that give compelling reasons to use them for helping renew organ and other tissue physiologies. Whether it be for helping you deal with osteoporosis, or weight loss; menstrual irregularity, hypertension, or immune system weaknesses; there are important studies that show the value of specific nutrients, and/or herbs for the particular cellular renewal you will need to reclaim your health.

Nutritional Counseling

Many patients need a doctor who will take the time to help a patient to understand important "whole food principles". If weight loss is a goal of yours, his "natural health weight loss program" will help you to understand how to wean your way from your present dietary habits.

Dr. Walsdorf has incorporated into his own life, whole food principles, for over 30 years. He very much enjoys helping others to understand how to get Nature's health–bearing, vitality–building principles through one's foods. He gives courses on changing one's eating habits and incorporates his nutritional counseling into his very valuable Nutrition–Organ Vitality programs.

Physiotherapy

Infrasound

A relative of ultrasound, infrasound is the therapeutic use of vibrations in air (sound) to vitalize specific tissues. We use it in musculoskeletal conditions—the lower back, shoulder bursitis, neck stiffness for example. At the same time, it is useful for organ related issues. It is sometimes referred to as "the chi machine". Chi, as in Tai Chi, Qi Gong. Chi is thought of in the Orient as the vibrational energy of life.

Dr. Walsdorf explains chi as the "elbow–room" needed by all cells, organs, joints, even nerves. When there is not enough elbow–room on the cellular, organ, joint, or nerve tissue level, that anatomic unit of the body feels and acts less empowered. It becomes soft even "wimpy", anxious or on edge. Over time those tissues or organs that are composed of weakly vibrating cells—fall apart, get injured, arthritic, or become "diseased".

Studies have shown that the gentle infrasonic vibratory energy of our infrasonic machines helps injured and other weak cells to let go of the vibratory patterns which come from trauma, and regain more normal cellular function. Our infrasonic therapy also calms the nervous system down. Many patients use its 20 minute therapeutic time as a time to let their brain and whole nervous system renew—infrasound has been shown to increase the generation of alpha–waves by the brain. This induces a dreamy state with a subsequent feeling of rest and renewal.

Electro–acupuncture

We use a special electro–acupuncture therapy along acupuncture meridians of our patients. It has been called needle–less acupuncture. Acupuncture circuits of the body have been theorized to be pathways of very small electrical current. The body clearly uses electricity for many purposes in the body. We are only beginning to understand it. Putting the stimulation near injured tissues has been shown to induce quicker and stronger healing.

Electro–acupuncture has been shown to work in part, by increasing the cellular production of ATP—the energy currency of each cell. At the same time, it is thought that each cell type—bone, organ, ligament, etc, is spurred into its specific function for the body by this "piezo–electrical", or small micro–amperage electrical current normally active in the body. Electro–acupuncture does not overwhelm the electrical systems of the body like a TENS unit does, but works with the body's own electrical systems to rev up the weak circuits within a patient.

Hot moist packs

There is something therapeutic in our hot moist packs that patients don't quite gain with the use of home heating units. Their 20 minute therapy (often in conjunction with our infrasound or electro–acupuncture) permits heat to penetrate deeper. Injured tissues, tight muscles, arthritic joints feel nurtured and supported by the way the thick, hot packs approximate, or nestle against what lies below them.

Far–Infrared sauna

Natural Health recognizes and uses a wide variety of "natural principles". We saw how vibrations in air—infrasound—helps to give cells the elbow–room they need to stay empowered; and to remove old trauma–induced patterns of cellular vibration. We saw the power of small currents of electricity—which work with the currents the body itself produces—to induce health in electro–acupuncture. Sauna works with a special part of the light spectrum—the far–infrared wavelengths of light.

Unlike most saunas, our special sauna uses a coherent, well organized, specific part of the infrared frequencies of light to induce healing powers. It penetrates deep into the body so as to stir up intracellular movement, which activates life in the cell. Studies have shown that it induces detoxification processes by the liver, fat cells, and the kidneys. At the same time it stimulates the movement of blood through the body. This kind of sauna does not require you to sweat to gain therapeutic benefit. 10 minute periods of it penetrate deep into tissues—including spinal joints. This often allows more effective spinal releases with one's chiropractic adjustments.

Light therapy

Light therapy is the application of high–lumen lights to weak, "dis–eased", or what Dr. Walsdorf will often say, "dis–organized tissues". Light energy, is an expression of what is sometimes called, "the Fire Principle" of Nature. This Fire Principle acts as the organizing principle in life, in organs, within each cell. Within our body, it acts with the flow of nervous system impulses that fire organizational information into and out from the brain.

Light therapy works to stimulate deep levels of organization in the body. It wakes up areas that have been made timid and disorganized. Like other Natural Health therapies, it works on deep levels that are still somewhat mysteriously. In this case, to spark a weak, somewhat disorganized part of the body to rediscover its proper functionality.

Exercise Instruction

Movements Into Life Exercises

Over the course of his 25 years in practice, Doctor Walsdorf has found a variety of exercise protocols not only for painful conditions but also for renewing his patient's organ health. One important exercise group, called "Movement Into Life Exercises", are built upon a set of four easy to understand principles.

These principles are shown to operate on every level of your body—such as your cell, musculoskeletal, or organ tissue levels. When you work with Dr. Walsdorf, you will learn the exercises that are important for your health issues. As Dr. Walsdorf is fond to saying, "Life is movement; Movement is life". His exercises pump movement into the needed areas of your body so as to get more of the power of life there.

Posture, Breathing, & Walking Therapies

When you become a patient of Dr. Walsdorf's, you will find a doctor unlike most others you are bound to know insofar as the interest he will take in how you posture yourself, move and even breathe. You will hear Dr. Walsdorf say that "structure rules", which means that whether it be the function of the heart, the stomach, the liver, the sinuses—resiliency is given or diminished by way of your posture.

What is interesting about breathing is that it relates to what is happening within us. Even though we do it unconsciously, it relates to our consciousness. Breathing is the bridge between our conscious and unconscious self. We can change our consciousness by focusing on this typically unconsciously done activity. As we slow it down, we often will find our self feeling less stress, able to slip into a more at–ease state of mind.

Dr. Walsdorf is a passionate walker. He believes walking is the perfect activity for humans. In many ways, walking is what defines our human nature. Furthermore, there is nothing as rhythmic, balanced, and synchronous (the right arm does this while the left arm and your legs do that) as is walking. He can test out of his patients, different parts of the walk that they need to focus upon and strengthen. As you learn his walking therapy, walking will never be the same for you!

Natural Health/ Personal Growth Counseling

You can choose to work with Dr. Walsdorf in his capacity as a natural health counselor. Dr. Walsdorf often uses the "Four Element Personal Growth" model in his counseling with patients. In this model of wellness, the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and practical parts of one's life are given definition, better appreciated, and then consciously drawn into a more effective, harmonious, happiness–inducing balance. If you are someone with headaches and stress, this part of his healing work can be especially helpful.