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03/05/2006 Archived Entry: "Chicago Chiropractor Receives International Notice for Pioneering Treatment!"
Chicago Chiropractor Receives International Notice for Pioneering Treatment!
The missing link: Why some chiropractors, doctors and physical therapists can’t beat chronic pain. A Chicago chiropractor is asked to speak world-wide at international medical conferences on his breakthrough discovery and treatment
Dr. James Stoxen, a Chicago chiropractor, has discovered that abnormal movement patterns in the arch of the foot is the primary reason why patients with chronic or recurring arthritis pain don’t fully recover.
He has already given presentations to over 4,000 medical physicians and scientists at the World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine. He is the first chiropractor to speak at the famous Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand; the first chiropractor to speak at the Royal College of Physicians and recently instructed doctors from 19 countries at the Asian-Pacific Anti-Aging Conference in Bali Indonesia. This year he will address audiences of an estimate of 40,000 in Tokyo, Taipei, Vienna, Malasia and Madrid, Malasia and he has accepted an invitation in China in October to spread the word of his important discovery.
So why all the attention? His discovery relates to a section of the arch of the foot that is responsible for the spring in the step and absorbs the shock from the foot strike. If this joint, the metatarsal-cunieform joint locks, the foot has to roll over or overpronates to make up for the lack of movement in this portion of the arch. When the foot steps 5,000 times a day there is constant inward rotation andl destructive and painful stress and strain up the kinematic chain of bones from the foot to the head. Dr. Stoxen says that the majority of chronic pain and arthritis sufferers have this locking of the arch, which doesn’t allow the body to have a relaxed environment for healing to take place in any chronic arthritic condition, even headaches.
The reason for the worldwide reaction to Stoxen's treatment method is that he is curing 100% of the patients referred to him by medical doctors, who have documented herniated discs on MRI and CT scans and where every other treatment before had failed. “The reason why they are not getting the results with these severely herniated discs is they simply haven’t considered the strain coming from the unstable foundation of ‘pronated’ feet which is extremely common. Faulty biomechanics of the feet, ankles and lower leg is the reason why these problems won’t heal and why we have never sent a patient to surgery in 18 years while others consider surgery routinely.” He adds that because the body’s joints are linked, the movement of one effects the movement of all other adjacent joints. “You will never get complete recovery without treating the entire structure below the injured area,” he says.
The reason Stoxen gets such amazing results with the toughest cases is he starts with the bottom, first unlocking the spring back in the arch of the foot then working from the feet all the way to the lower back, he meticulously works out every single sore, spasmed muscle inch-by-inch up the leg to the back until there are none left. Some treatments on chronic cases can take an hour and some take 5 or 6 treatment hours. “My goal is to remove every single spasm from the frame below the herniated disc in about 2 weeks,” Stoxen says. “After that the disc heals nicely. Then we begin a series of exercises to strengthen the weakened frame. Because all the spasms are removed around the effected joints below the herniated discs before exercises starts its safer and more effective. When the spring shock absorption is brought back to the arch and every spasm is removed in the entire framework below the herniated disc it will finally allow a suitable environment for the herniated discs and even other chronic conditions like figromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome heal nicely.”
Recently, local medical practices have begun referring patients to Dr. Stoxen for this treatment, including an Independent Physician Association and a local medical practice run by Dr Gregory Smith, M.D., of Trinity Hospital, who was impressed by anecdotal stories. “I’ve seen 20 patients with severe chronic pain and 10 of them were recommended back surgery as the only hope. None has gone to surgery and at least 90% of the pain is reduced and the majority of them are working out or capable of working out with weights and machines in our gym within 2-3 weeks,” Stoxen says. “It would be nice to see how many we can save from unnecessary disc surgery with this approach.”
Biography of Dr. James Stoxen
Dr James Stoxen, DC
President, Team Doctors,
Sports Treatment and Training Center
Dr James Stoxen, D.C., owns and operates Team Doctors Chiropractic Treatment and Training Center. Dr. Stoxen is known worldwide for the treatment of athletes and entertainers at his Chicago location, one of the first Chiropractic care centers in the world to combine treatment and training of world-class athletes.
He is also known for his "on site" work with numerous world-famous athletes. For example, he was the company doctor for The Contact, Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Spamalot national tours and many others. He routinely gets assigned to major recording artists and performers as their Chiropractic physician while they are on tour such as the Backstreet Boys, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Aerosmith, Dolly Parton, The Wiggles tours and many more. For example, in 2005 alone, over 200 national, world champion or professional athletes, Broadway performers and top recording artists were added to the growing list of his famous clients.
He has chaired medical committees for numerous international sports organizations and has been a chiropractor for over 70 national and world championships in Algeria, England, USSR, Canada, Italy and other countries. He was a pioneer, organizing competitions between the US and the former Soviet Union before perestroika. In fact, in 1989, Dr. Stoxen developed and organized the first sports medicine course for western doctors at the famed National Institute of Physical Culture and Sports Sciences in Moscow USSR for the FICS with leading experts of that country.
Dr. Stoxen is a sought-after speaker internationally, and he has given over 1,000 live presentations all over the world. His unique treatment approach has received worldwide attention in the medical field. He has presented his views to the international medical community at the famed National Institute of Physical Culture and Sports Sciences in Moscow, to the members of the Mexican Olympic Committee, at the 10th Annual World Congress of Anti-Aging Medicine in Las Vegas, the Conference on Anti-Aging Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand, a request not normally asked of a chiropractor. He has been invited to speak at the Royal College of Physicians for the Anti-Aging Conference in London UK, the Asian Pacific Anti-Aging Conference and Exhibition, to be held in Bali, Indonesia. He currently scheduled to speak for approximately 40,000 medical physicians at international medical conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Malasia, April 29 – 30, in Tokyo, Japan June 16 – 18th, in Taipei, Taiwan, July 28 – 30th, in Madrid, Spain, October 6-8, in China, October 13 – 15, and in Vienna Austria October 18 – 20th.
He has appeared on numerous television and radio specials and news programs, such as on CBS, NBC, ABC and cable news. Dr. Stoxen is an avid writer and author. He was appointed a member of the editorial advisory board for Muscle & Fitness magazine and has written and published numerous articles and textbook chapters for other international publications too numerous to list.
