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Sagging Pants Could Lead to Knee Replacements
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ome of the same
activities and behav-
iors that can cause
disease can cause health
problems in your bones,
joints and your neuromus-
cular system.
“For every one pound of
weight that you gain, you
put three pounds of pressure
on your knees; so the oppo-
site of that is, for every
pound that you lose, you
take three pounds of pres-
sure off your knees.”
Spine expert Chiropractor
Michael Gerdine of West
End Chiropractic said when
it comes to wellness, the
approach should be proac-
tive rather than reactive.
“There are many stresses
in life that contribute to ill-
ness, whether it be stresses
from work, family, job, poor
diets, lack of exercise, not
getting enough rest” Ger-
dine said. “All of those
things lead to problems with
the nervous system, due to
what we call in chiropractic
care ‘subluxations.’”
Subluxations occur when
the body’s infrastructure
gets out of alignment.
“Its bones out of place
irritating the nerves,” Ger-
dine said. “Subluxations are
shoulder cocked up on the
phone … and one of the
contributing factors to sub-
luxations, a big one – is
posture,” he said. “Most
human beings have bad pos-
ture and people who are
sedentary have even worse
posture.”
Think of this balancing
act; poorly postured humans
with bowling balls sitting on
top of the smallest area of
the spinal column.
“Most people don’t real-
the world today.”
Although not so high tech,
a low-hanging fashion state-
ment of the millennials,
hip-hoppers and the “OGs”
who try to dress like them
may come back to bite when
where the sun didn’t use to
shine.
“These young men who
are walking around with
their pants sagging – you
can rest assured there’s
going to be an epidemic of
hip replacements because
‘For every one pound of
weight that you gain, you put
three pounds of pressure on
your knees’
ize that our heads weigh
about the same as a bowling
ball – between 10 and 15
pounds,”
Gerdine
explained. “The cervical
spine – the neck, those are
the smallest bones in the
vertebral column and now
you have this head that is
leaning forward and that’s
putting a lot of pressure on
those bones and it can cause
problems over time.”
Gerdine said the boom in
tech gadgetry that has peo-
ple looking down at their
cellphones, tablets and other
personal devices will wind
the way they have to alter
their gait and swing those
legs to keep those pants up –
they are wearing the hip
joints out,” Gerdine said.
Sagging pants get blamed
for a number of health
issues, from urological and
sexual dysfunction to severe
posture and bone growth
deformities.
Gerdine said seeing a chi-
ropractor is the conservative
approach to wellness.
“We are going to look at
the bony structures, the
musculoskeletal system to
try to prevent people from
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Michael Gerdine, DC of West End Chiropractic, recently moved into his
Central West End location next to his detail shop at Boyle and Laclede in St.
Louis.
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up being a major pain in the
neck.
“You can rest assured that
there is going to be an epi-
demic of neck problems
with headaches, tension in
the shoulders, pain between
the should blades, pain radi-
ating into the arms,”
Gerdine said, “and a lot of
it is going to be due to this
repetitive motion that we
have developed to exist in
going to surgery and using
all the different drugs with
the major side effects they
may have,” Gerdine said.
“We are interested in people
doing functional health. My
goal is to get people doing
the things they are supposed
to do, that they want to do,
the right way.”
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‘The way they have to alter their gait and swing
those legs to keep those pants up – they are
wearing the hip joints out’
caused by – I call them the
three T’s: Trauma – which
could be an accident, sports
injury, repetitive motion on
the job, weekend warrior
stuff; Thoughts – which
would be stress-related; and
Toxins – bad food, poor
diet; medications can be
toxic to the human body;
bad air, recreational drugs,
cigarette smoke, all of those
things are toxic.”
The Missouri Chiroprac-
tors Association describes
subluxations as a response
to stress, causing the mus-
cles to spasm, spinal bones
to lock up and choking or
chaffing nerves. Nerve
impulses
communicate
messages to the brain and
throughout
the
body
through your spine. If
there’s a hitch somewhere in
the nervous system, it will
manifest as some type of
health problem.
“Most of us have subluxa-
tions and don’t even know
we have them,” Gerdine
said.
He said that occasional
“crook in the neck” or stiff
back when you wake up in
the morning – subluxations.
“It could be because you
slept wrong or it could be
because you hold the tele-
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