Choosing the Right Orthotics

by Sergey Kochelayev | Jun 18, 2018 | Advice, Video, Wellness

Every orthotic needs to contain these 4 key elements. In this video, Dr. Sergey Kochelayev from Amazing Life Chiropractic and Wellness explains the benefits of custom orthotics. A good pair of orthotics may be able to completely change your life.

Four Key Points

First and foremost, your insert has to be custom. There’s just no way around it! More specifically, we’re not talking about going to your local retail store and just getting one of the five or six that are pre-made, we are truly talking about custom to you. If it doesn’t fit properly to you – how can it help?

Second of all, your orthotic has to be dynamic. What we mean, it has to bend nice and easy. For example, when you walk, your foot is dynamic; it moves, it bends and so does your shoe, so does your insert. Thus, your custom orthotic should be doing the same.

The third thing you should be looking for is support for the arches of your feet, which you actually have three of. Everybody knows the inside arch, but there’s also one going across your foot following your toes, one going down the length of your foot on the outside. If you’re missing one of those arches, its like having a tripod and with only two of the legs. Not very stable!

And lastly, we’re looking for a little bit of padding under the heel of your foot, which will give you additional comfort and support.

We recommend company called FootLevelers that we work with in our office. Their orthotics have a great warranty and all of the four key points we’re looking for in orthotics to be able to effectively support our skeletal system and reduce back, shoulder, hip, knee, and neck pain.

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For more information or if you have any additional questions, feel free to contact us or visit our clinic at the Mill Creek location in Washington State

Not all supplements are created equal

by Sergey Kochelayev | May 23, 2018 | Wellness

If you have no idea what you are looking at in this picture, let me help you. Those are undigested supplements in the colon. What does that mean? Well, I’m glad you are interested. Simply, you spent your hard-earned money on supplements that were supposed to help you when instead they are indigestible because the manufacturers were more focused on making a good profit than a great digestible product. We can safely say that these supplements that you see on the x-ray, are not of any benefit to this person at all. They go in one end and leave from the other still fully intact. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to differ you from supplements, but not all of the supplement are created equally.

When we purchase supplements and vitamins for our patients, I look for the following: purity, quality, potency, dissolvability, etc. How do we find this? We do an extensive research: visit the manufacturers’ warehouse; figure out where they get their herbs and materials; how they control the quality of these ingredients and what is the company’s standards when making their products.

We know that for the most people it would be impossible to do such extensive research before buying supplements, so here are a few rules of thumb to follow. If possible, buy the supplements from a provider (doctor, chiropractor, naturopath, acupuncturist, etc.). If that is not possible, try to find a local vitamin shop with knowledgeable workers. Those stores in comparison with Walmart, Target or GNC, will carry a much higher grade product. Always choose capsules over tablets, because tablets have to be held together by fillers (15-40% of tablets are fillers while capsules are 97-100% of the product). And lastly, for the best way to know if you will be digesting your supplements, the capsules should dissolve very quickly when mixed with saliva 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Don’t be afraid to test it out by breaking open a capsule and putting the empty shell in your mouth. It should dissolve very quickly!