High Skip - Vertical And Horizontal Excerpt from the book, 'How I Got My Wiggle Back' page 169, As you skip rhythmically, concentrate o lifting each leg, bent at the knee at the highest possible point. Use your arms to pump through the routine. When the leg lifts, the right arm should lead and vice versa. When you're doing a vertical skip don't think about speed, concentrate on height. A horizontal skip switches that priority (think speed, not height) … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #177 Side Lunge With Cable
May 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Side Lunge With Cable Instructions: Place the cable strap around your wrist (waist height) get into a wide stance Go down towards the cable so that it pulls you into a side lunge, then step back up. It's very important to keep the correct form You can also do this exercise by tying a band to a machine. … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #176 Improve Your Balance With Half Foam Roll Exercises
May 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You can improve your balance with exercises on a half foam roll Standing on the half foam roll, balance on it rolling back and forth from one side to the other. You can also face perpendicular to the board for dorsiflexion and plantar flexion of the foot and ankle. Balance, Combined Card Toss, Catch This is a really fun exercise and challenges not only your balance but at the same time your reflexes and hand eye coordination. You can use a foam board or the … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #175 Barefoot Running? What If I Step On Something? part 2
April 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As you can see in the video when I was barefoot running on the trail I was meandering around the rocks. This adds another dimension to the barefoot running. When you are running barefoot you have to watch where you step. This adds an extra dynamic to the 'running training' What that means is if you have shoes on you don't pay much where you are stepping or the environment. Just running perhaps listening to your ipod and the latest music. I try to get into the training … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #174 Barefoot Running? What If I Step On Something?
April 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dr James Stoxen DC shares and demonstrates Video Tutorial #174 What If I Step On Something? part 1 Coco Cay, Bahamas November 9, 2011 As the barefoot running doctor one of the first things people ask me is: Aren't you worried about stepping on something? such as: a piece of glass? a rock? a syringe? (crazy as if there are syringes all over the place?) When you are running with shoes on you don't have to worry so much about stepping on those things but when … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #152 Ricochet Box Jump
April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This exercise develops the foot, it's arch and ankle with a twisting motion. Controlled performance is a must. This exercise will help you with your foot, arch and ankle to gain stability, agility and coordination with activities of living and your performance in sports. … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #151 Lateral Cone Jumps
April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lateral Cone Jumps Taken from excerpt from the book, 'how I got my wiggle back' From side to side jump over three or four markers (cones) keeping your legs together and throwing your arms upward. Strive for maximum height and concentrate on landing midfoot or forefoot. Don't rest between jumps. Form is so important while performing any of these exercises. Have you ever seen those heroic scenes of elite marathon runners willing themselves over the finishing line? In some of the … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #149 Figure 8 Runs
April 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This drill exercises the spring of the foot in many directions as well as all floors of the body. excerpt from the book, ‘How I Got My Wiggle Back’, page 169 Figure 8 Runs In a 16-foot, figure 8 circle, walk before gradually increasing speed, angling your body inside the circle as you do so. Tighten the circle to 12 feet or even six and try to maintain speed. This drill can be performed shod or barefoot. … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #150 8-Point Step, Lunge, Hop or Bound
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
excerpt from the book, ‘How I Got My Wiggle Back’, page 170 8-Point Step, Lunge, Hop or Bound Set up four cones or markers in a row. Between each two, identify eight different spots. Stand between the cones and jump to and from the spots in front, behind, and to the side of you. Land on your midfoot, not your heels. … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE: Dr. James Stoxen DC, Tackles Inflammation-Depression Connection at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Conference, May 26th – 29th, 2012
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Depression ICD-9 296.3 PRESS RELEASE: Chiropractor, Dr. James Stoxen DC, Tackles Inflammation-Depression Connection at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Conference, May 26th – 29th, 2012 Depression is aging and killing us prematurely and as our population grows older, the need for a better understanding of the disease and methods to counter it has grown more urgent. Recognizing the relative inconsistencies and growing concern for a lifetime reliance on antidepressants to treat depression, … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #169 How To Land Your Foot When Walking, Running And Barefoot Running
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The next tip I'm going to share with you is the correct way to land your foot. The body is the mass and the speed of which we are running is the acceleration. The force of the landing is how the mass engages with the human spring. There are three ways your foot can land your foot with your bodyweight and the relation of your spring mechanism: 1. The first way is when your mass is behind the spring. I call this a deceleration spring landing. It's also called 'breaking' in … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #148 Bosu Ball Foot Training
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This exercise strengthens the spring suspension system muscles in eversion, inversion, the combination of inversion and eversion dorsiflexion and plantarflexion. excerpt from the book, ‘How I Got My Wiggle Back’, page 161 Bosu Ball Foot Training Point the big toes slightly inward (pigeon toed) as you stand up straight on the ball. Push down, it's resistance. Shift your weight from the left side of the foot to the right, rolling the foot in and … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #147 Single Leg Hop
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The lateral lunge is a spring strengthening exercise because the body doesn’t leave the ground. In the impact version, the single leg hop, the body leaves the ground as a hop or jump. That is the difference between spring strengthening and spring supercharging, the impact into the human spring mechanism. excerpt from the book, ‘How I Got My Wiggle Back’, page 170 Single Leg Hop Stand with your feet about a shoulder-width apart. Bend your knees before … [Read more...]
Media Alert!!! CNN, Anthony Field and Dr. James Stoxen Interview With Shannon Cook Airs Saturday, August 4th
April 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
Be sure to tune in Saturday, August 4th as Dr. James Stoxen DC is Interviewed by Shannon Cook about his treatment approach that helped Anthony Field back to health. Dr. Stoxen's treatment approach, 'The Human Spring Theory', which states: The human spring stores mechanical energy therefore it is an efficiency mechanism. The human spring provides the protective mechanism for the body. The human spring allows us to land our bodies on uneven surfaces by adjusting the body … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #68 The Exercise Your Doing Could Be Aging You Faster!
April 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Is it true that exercise could accelerate the aging process? Of course! Exercise is ONLY healthy if your body is moving the way it was engineered to move. Would you take your car for a 10 hour trip if your front end was out of alignment?’ NO! Would you lift weights knowing that your form and technique could lead to stress and strain of your joints causing arthritis over time? No! So by telling your patients that you should exercise as a form of anti-aging … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #172 Sticks And Stones Won’t Break My Barefoot Running Bones
April 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dr James Stoxen DC shares and demonstrates Video Tutorial #172 Sticks And Stones Won't Break My Barefoot Running Bones Coco Cay, Bahamas November 9, 2011 What if you step on something? I get that asked a lot! I do step on things. Little rocks, sticks, seeds and stuff. When my foot feels the tiny thing (I run around bigger things) my skin is so aware of "things" that my reflexes pull me right off it before I feel anything that would take me off stride. I step on … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #171 Barefoot Footprints In The Sand – What They Can Tell You About Your Walking and Running Form And Technique
April 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dr James Stoxen DC shares and demonstrates Video Tutorial #171 Footprints In The Sand - What They Can Tell You About Your Barefoot Running Form And Technique Coco Cay, Bahamas November 9, 2011 What you can do while running in sand or a more solid ground with sand on the top, is to analyze your footprint to determine how your biomechanics are and what your step looks like. By looking at your imprints in the sand you can determine whether the step was primarily a … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #173 Can You Run Barefoot On Rock, Concrete or Asphalt?
April 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dr James Stoxen DC shares and demonstrates Video Tutorial #173 Can You Run Barefoot On Rocks? Coco Cay, Bahamas November 9, 2011 A big concern when running barefoot on hard surfaces is the high amount of impact or force on the body. The body's human spring is a natural protective mechanism that allows you run on hard surfaces. Joint damage from running on hard surfaces is a result of the person's protective mechanism being broken down, or locked. The first step is to release the … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial # 108 Cable Hip Adduction And Foot Inversion
April 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Instructions: taken from page 162 from How I Got My Wiggle Back While standing, attach a Velcro cuff to your foot. Start in full eversion and invert your foot fully. Your leg crosses over and back to the end range of motion. the cable runs across the body. Do not move your shin bone. The lower leg must not not move at all. (no cheating!) By holding it still, the muscles in the foot are isolated. Spring Action: This exercise … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial #109 A Great Hip Adduction Exercise Demonstrated by WBC Pro Boxing Champion Miguel Macho Hernandez at Team Doctors
April 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
excerpt taken from, 'How I Got My Wiggle Back', page 162 Hip Adduction (Cam Resistance) On the four-way hip machine, raise the bar and the cam so it's high enough to offer resistance. Position the cam at the hip socket. Straddle it - start abducting and adducting within a range of 30 degrees. Keep all toes pointing straight ahead. This works the adductor muscles of the hip joint. Again, don't stop between repetitions. Hold on to the rail if you … [Read more...]
