Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I'm Dr. Theresa L. Smith, D.C., the founder of Spinal Flow Tehachapi. After 28 years as a chiropractor, I've witnessed countless patients struggle with persistent pain and dis-ease. Throughout my career, I've explored various modalities, but it wasn't until I discovered the groundbreaking Spinal Flow Technique, a method involving gentle touch on specific access points on the spine, that I decided to return from retirement and open this office. This transformative technique has changed the lives...
New business offers healing and wellness in downtown On Thursday, Sept. 5, Dr. Theresa Smith D.C. cut the ribbon for her new practice in Downtown Tehachapi. Surrounded by friends, family, clients and representatives, such as Karen Sanders from Kern County District 2 Board of Supervisors, City Manager Greg Garrett, Assistant City Manager Corey Costelloe, Mayor Michael Davies and the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Smith shared her journey from working as a chiropractor for many years,...
Everyone has questions before visiting the chiropractor. Here are easy answers to some of the most asked questions. Q: Does Chiropractic care hurt and is it safe? A: Chiropractic is the largest, non-invasive, drug-less and safest forms of health care available. Statistically, patient risk is substantially lower when receiving chiropractic care as opposed to medical care, where the use of prescription drugs and surgery pose a greater risk. Chiropractic adjustment is a highly controlled procedure...
The warm weather is in full force and everyone is starting to get outside for their favorite activities. Some of us take to the athletic field to play our favorite sports, others are heading to the mountains or national parks for hiking. A lot of people are taking to their properties to improve their aesthetic appearance. This involves all types of strenuous activity. While mowing the lawn and other yard work is strenuous, one of the household activities that impact our musculoskeletal health...
Great! Keep reading... Let's face it, "good posture" is something we all strive for, but it's hard when routine activities throughout everyday life can put a strain on our posture. Things such as stress caused by working from home, fatigued muscles form the latest DIY project, the hours spent sitting slouched over gaming with the squad, and even our shoes, impact our body's ability to achieve and maintain good posture. In fact, they actively work against this goal. To maintain good posture, you...
As revealed in a previous article, because Kern County did not move from the purple tier into the red tier until the end of March, the Calgonquin 25k and 50k Trail Races scheduled for April 17 were postponed by the race organizers until 2022. Although a virtual race option is still available for the month of April, a few stalwart athletes showed up Saturday, April 17 to run the distance, if not the exact course, of both the 25K Calgonquin and the 50K Calgonquin trail runs at the TMTA Lehigh moun...
Seasonal allergies, despite coming around every single year, are a big challenge for many people. Sure, you can take allergy medications to help, but those just mask the symptoms. The real problem is that your immune system has been kicked into overdrive by the pollen in the air. Aside from moving into a bubble, it can seem like options to escape pollen are slim. There simply has to be a better way to help calm your immune system and be a little less miserable, right? The good news is that yes,...
My husband, Terry Brady, and I moved to Tehachapi in 2006. In 2008 we met Rene Champagne who had been a teacher at Wayside Elementary in Bakersfield for the previous 20 years. It turns out she was teaching not only at my elementary school but actually in my 5th grade classroom. Rene invited us to visit her and her students at my old classroom whenever we would like. We did just that and became acquainted with her students. I told the students I had been in that classroom when I was their age,...
Hi. I'm Dr. Brown, and I want to be your chiropractor. Most people come to the chiropractor when they are in pain, usually back pain, neck pain, headache or a similar symptom. That is like waiting to go to the dentist until you have a toothache. By then it is too late; you missed the chance to prevent decay and the resulting pain. After 25 years in practice I am still giving the same message. Don't wait till it hurts. Chiropractic treatment is called an adjustment. It is not called an overhaul...
Most folks come to the chiropractor because they are in pain. Injuries new and old, accidents of many types, and the unknown pain that no one can figure out are the common reasons to come in. However the best use of chiropractic care is maintenance. Your car, tractor, and machinery all benefit from maintenance to prevent expensive repairs and so does your body. Whether you are looking to improve performance, reduce pain, or fix something that is broken, try chiropractic first. Here are a few...
Tehachapi Chiropractor Kevin Brown is celebrating two years of serving Tehachapi by moving to a larger office located at 20733 South St., Suite B. His family has a long history in the healing arts in Kern County. In fact, he is the great nephew of Newell Jonathan Brown Jr., MD who was Tehachapi’s first Medical Officer in 1909 when the city was founded. Dr. Brown’s mission is simple: Provide affordable, healthy and convenient chiropractic care to the residents of our community. • Affor...
Dr. Dean Alan Brunner, 72, died on August 6, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina. He was born July 29, 1948, in Akron, Ohio, the son of Eber C. and Martha Jean (Snyder) Brunner. Dr. Brunner graduated in 1968 from Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio. Following graduation, he served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the California South Mission from 1968 to 1969. Upon completing his mission, he attended Rick's College (now Brigham Young University Idaho) and...
Halloween is upon us again, so let's talk about your skeleton. What a magnificent piece of bio-engineering is the bunch of bones we call our skeleton. It holds us up against gravity, it allows us to bend and twist through an amazing range of motion and it is extremely strong. There are 206 bones in the body and about half of them are in the hands and the feet. There are "long" bones and there are "flat" bones. Long bones are those that are mostly in your arms, legs, hands and feet. Flat bones...
Dr. Kevin Brown D.C. is descended from nine generations of physicians and that includes Tehachapi’s first Medical Examiner (1909) Newell Jonathan Brown Jr. M.D. who was his great uncle. His grandfather Newbern Nucholls Brown M.D. was a partner in San Joaquin Hospital in Bakersfield from 1929 to 1938. Both of these relatives are mentioned on the Adventist Health website. When Kevin Brown first came to Tehachapi in 2018 as a short-term substitute for a local chiropractor, he wasn’t aware of the...
Aviation historian Giacinta Bradley Koontz recently moved to Tehachapi from Prescott, Ariz. where she worked as a columnist for aviation maintenance magazines, gave occasional public lectures at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and was commissioned by the city to create a display of local aviation history in the Prescott airport terminal. A former resident of the San Fernando Valley, Giacinta sought to return and be closer to her friends and professional colleagues. She chose Tehachapi with...
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity ... something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." –Henri Matisse. The painter Henri Matisse started painting late in life. He was recovering from an illness and used art as a form of therapy. Perhaps comparing art to a "good armchair" was his way of saying that creating art has healing properties. It certainly did for him. But making art isn't the only way to appreciate and glean from the power of c...
This is an article I wrote a few years ago, and recent events have brought the subject to the surface again. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had known about the problem for years and nothing seems to have been done about it. There are so many prescription drugs advertised to the general public on television these days, there seems to be a need for regulatory control by the Federal Drug Administration. Cigarettes and alcohol cannot be advertised on network television, but prescription...
Exercise is what a lot of us do to stay healthy and fit. Exercise is what all of us should do to stay healthy and fit. Exercise is good for your heart, your lungs, your digestion, your liver, your kidneys and in fact all the organs and systems in your entire body. It’s good for everything that has to do with any of your body’s functions. Period. There are many ways to include an exercise regimen in your life to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. Remember, everyone is different, wit...
This article was first published in 2010, but have things really changed? I think not. An article written by Lauran Neergaard, and appearing in the Bakersfield Californian on June 22, 2010 suggested that back pain is over-treated in a lot of cases. As a practicing chiropractor I have thought this for a long time. The article begins: “Why did they cut you?” “This question came from a respected spine surgeon to a man who was still in severe pain following an earlier operation. This, after two o...
A group called the Global Burden of Disease Project 2010, and made up of a collaboration between the World Health Organization, the University of Queensland (Australia) School of Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Tokyo and the Imperial College of London, clarified the worldwide health burden of musculoskeletal conditions and in particular, neck and back pain. Lower back pain was identified as the number one...
Chiropractic is definitely unique. It is probably the only branch of the healing professions that treats the cause of your condition and not just the symptoms. Thomas Edison was quoted as saying. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and the cause and prevention of disease”. This quote from such a man as Thomas Edison is very meaningful for us as chiropractors because he seemed to tap into the basic philosophy of...
Halloween is upon us again. Let's talk about your skeleton. What a magnificent piece of bio-engineering is the bunch of bones we call our skeleton. It holds us up against gravity, it allows us to bend and twist through an amazing range of motion and it is extremely strong. There are 206 bones in the body and about half of them are in the hands and the feet. There are "long" bones, and there are "flat" bones. Long bones are those that are mostly in your arms, legs, hands and feet. Flat bones are...
Michelle Vance, Economic Development Coordinator for the City of Tehachapi, spoke to the Tehachapi Lions Club on May 19 about three proposed projects for the Active Transportation Program Grant. The grants, if awarded and implemented, will greatly enhance public safety and non-vehicular connectivity for our community. The three proposed projects are: 1) Cherry Lane Southside Sidewalk Project: This project will close the existing gaps in the sidewalk from Tucker Road to Elm Street 2) Tehachapi...
Christmas is coming and apparently so is El Nino, whether we like it or not. It’s getting colder, there is more snow and ice, more rain, it’s more windy, and more foggy, and so on and so on. So, what should we do when all these things happen? Do we stay hunkered down inside and only come out when the sun shines? That doesn’t sound feasible at all. If you are anything like me, you still have to go out and get things done because it is just a regular day in Tehachapi. You dress according to what...
Halloween is upon us again; let’s talk about your skeleton. What a magnificent piece of bio-engineering is the bunch of bones we call our skeleton. It holds us up against gravity, it allows us to bend and twist through an amazing range of motion and it is extremely strong. There are 206 bones in the body and about half of them are in the hands and the feet. There are “long” bones, and there are “flat” bones. Long bones are those that are mostly in your arms, legs, hands and feet. Flat bones are...
