San Rafael Chiropractor Dr. Derik Anderson
Get Back to the Good Times: Lengthen, then Strengthen E-mail

Treating musculoskeletal pain, which is the cause of 90% of all aches and pains, can be summarized into two steps:

  1. Lengthen: Breaking up scar tissue within and between the layers of muscles and their connections while stretching out the adjacent ligaments and joints
  2. Strengthen: Increase the endurance of the muscles that support the affected area, which prevents fatiguing and re-injury.
Knowing how to identify which treatment will provide the most effective outcome is a result of Dr. Anderson's over dozen years of experience. HIs multi-disciplinary training and the art of having worked with a wide array of patients, from 8 months to 80 years or age, from athletes to grandmothers.
 
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San Rafael Chiropractor works with Whole Foods Markets to prevent osteoporosis E-mail

Whole Foods chiropractorSan Rafael chiropractor, Dr. Derik Anderson, in conjunction with Whole Foods Markets, has provided a number of free bone density screenings to help people determine if they are at risk for osteoporosis.The ultrasound-based tests, conducted in Whole Foods Markets' stores have tested hundreds of people to determine how much they are at risk for osteoporosis.

Dr. Anderson has also presented Osteoporosis: How to Naturally Treat America's Fastest Growing Disease, in conjunction with Whole Foods. His two hour presentation covered why osteoporosis is one of the most expensive and disabling diseases facing the population today, how to best diagnosis osteoporosis, and how to successfully and naturally treat it. He has spent most of the last decade researching and developing methods to treat osteoporosis, with his patients gaining an average of over 3% bone density per year.Three percent is a markedly fast rate to increase bone density, nearly twice as fast as the leading selling drugs. Dr. Anderson addresses the root causes of osteoporosis, which allows individuals to much more readily increase their bone density and is the cornerstone to successfully treat this disease.

Dr. Anderson has presented to dozens of community, professsiona, and academic groups on the natural treatment of osteoporosis. He is faculty at Dominican University of California, past Director of United Against Osteoporsis, and has collaborated on stem cell research projects.

 
Dr. Derik Anderson in Marin IJ Article about Osteoporosis E-mail
Dr. Derik Anderson, DC, CMUA, IDE, CNS(c), was recently quoted in an Marin Independent Journal article on osteoporosis. Dr. Anderson has spoken widely on osteoporosis, the fastest growing disease among adults in the United States.
 
Dr. Derik Anderson, a chiropractic and nutrition pioneer E-mail
Sol HealthDr. Anderson is one of just a few chiropractors in the United States to hold a university faculty position (Dominican University of California), is the Medical Advisor for the documentary film Sweet Suicide (produced by Nancy Appleton, PhD), and is one of the first chiropractors to be granted hospital privileges. He has collaborated with Warren Hoeffler, PhD on stem cell research for joint regeneration and epithelial cell growth. Dr. Anderson is a board eligible nutritionist with the American College of Nutrition and has worked on a number of projects with leading organizations, including Whole Foods Markets, Elephant Pharmacy, and the YWCA. He has served as a California state-appointed Qualified Medical Examiner as well as an Independent Disability Evaluator, providing expert opinion on injury cases.
 
Disease doesn't happen overnight, it is a process of long term imbalance E-mail

Disease does not occur overnight. Most often, the body has been imbalance for months, if not years. In order to truly cure a disease, the body's balance must be restored. Holistic health, including chiropractic and nutrition, help the body to return to a balanced state. Technically, this is called homeostasis. Homeostasis is a balance, a dynamic, fluid state of the Chiropractic healthbody's processes working in harmony with each other. When an intruder, such as an infection, microbe, or allergen, enters the body, a balanced body fights it off, then returns to its balanced state, resting and ready to pounce on any undesired object that enters it again. When the body is unbalanced, the body does not going back to this resting state. It stays in a hyper alert state, taxxing the body's resources. Over time, this will wear the body down, making it less able to fight off the intruder. This is why disease actually occurs over a period of time; the disease is really a symptom that the body has been worn down and is not ready to ward off what it does not want.

By testing and measuring the body's different systems (musculoskeletal, immune, and digestive, for example), Dr. Anderson is able to determine the cause of the imbalance. A disease such as arthritis, for instance, are often the result of prolonged inflammation and irritation. Determining and treating the causes of the inflammation (e.g. eating dairy when lactose intolerant or untreated hypoglycemia) and irritation (a misaligned joint, often know as a subluxation) can slow, or even stop, the arthritis. Many diseases are similr in this regard: a chronic inflammatory and irritation which the body has had to fight for months or years. The disease (be it arthritis, diabetes, or even cancer) are often the outcome of such an imbalanced state. Restoring the body's balance gives the body a much better chance of fighting the disease, or better yet, preventing the disease frm ever occurring.

Dr. Derik Anderson uses natural therapies to help restore the body's balance. While working with meidcal providers to treat the disease, when needed, he identifies why the body is imbalanced, the truest form of holistic care.