Top celebrity entertainers and the rich and famous all agree that Dr. Stoxen has “magic in his hands.”
Many consider him a wizard, and others say it is as if he has extrasensory perception (ESP) in the way he is able to predict where problems lie, even before the first sign of pain. Well, he doesn’t have ESP, he’s not really a wizard, and he can’t pull a rabbit out of a hat.
The secret to why he is the top requested doctor on the international lecture circuit at medical conferences, and why he zigzags the globe treating A-list actors, top recording artists, elite athletes, and the rich and famous of the world, is the new approach you are about to learn from this book.
In 2002, I sustained a severe back injury during a workout in Australia. What scared me was that I started developing herniated disc symptoms. I later found out I had a herniated disc that was so severe it led to a severely pinched sciatic nerve in my lower back, causing severe lower back pain, numbness, and sciatic leg pain. I couldn’t sleep for days. The combination of no sleep, a herniated disc, a pinched nerve, constant numbness, and severe sciatic pain made me think surgery might help.
What was worse was that this bulging disc was pinching the deeper, motor portion of the nerve. I developed a form of foot paralysis called foot drop, or drop foot paralysis. A drop foot gait is an abnormal walking pattern, also called a foot-slapping gait, in which a person’s foot drags because of severe damage to the sciatic nerve and/or the peroneal nerve of the leg.
Normally, there is no foot drop treatment. Usually, an individual is rushed into spine surgery.
On top of the severe lower back condition, I had extreme neck and shoulder pain. I started to feel tingling and numbness in my right arm, and the tingling sensation kept me up at night. When I looked in the mirror, I noticed a general decrease in muscle mass, particularly muscle atrophy in my shoulder and chest area. I had a severe case of thoracic outlet syndrome.
I had heard that Dr. Stoxen made several trips to the former Soviet Union to study the work of famed sports scientist Yuri Verkhoshansky, the father of modern plyometrics. Doctors and scientists told me he had developed a new model based on Verkhoshansky’s research that was reversing severely herniated discs and thoracic outlet syndromes, so I went to see him.
For more than 30 years, we have been teaching doctors that the human body is designed to move through a series of levers. We examine patients by asking them to bend and twist while checking the range of motion in the injured area.
Then, in 2002, Dr. Stoxen made the bold statement that, according to the laws of physics and nature, it is impossible for the body to move only as a series of levers. He demonstrated to the medical community that the way the body moves, protects itself from impacts, recycles energy, and, most importantly, opens spaces and tunnels for the safe passage of blood vessels and nerves can only be accomplished through spring engineering. In a sense, the human body is engineered as both a lever system and a spring.
Verkhoshansky’s plyometric approach to training involves exposing the body to impacts and strengthening its spring mechanisms. This approach has become a game changer. Dr. Stoxen’s model of studying, examining, and treating the human body as a spring, based on Verkhoshansky’s research, has also become a game changer in medicine.
When nerves are pinched in your lower back and blood vessels and nerves are compressed in your thoracic outlet, you hope that his theory and treatment approach will work. You hope for a miracle because you are not expected to recover from foot drop or from the degree of upper-body nerve damage caused by thoracic outlet syndrome.
In less than four weeks, his Human Spring Approach completely reversed both the herniated disc in my lower back and the thoracic outlet syndrome. My back pain, leg paralysis, neck pain, upper back pain, shoulder pain, and thoracic outlet syndrome were all gone. I have trained using the exercises listed in this book for the past 15 years without any exacerbations.
You probably expect that medical doctors and chiropractors do not see eye to eye. The fact that Dr. Stoxen is a chiropractic physician addressing the world’s medical elite at major teaching institutions, hospitals, and associations is truly unique. Dr. Stoxen’s approach to understanding how the human body moves and protects itself is revolutionary.
Regardless of where doctors earned their degrees, doctors and patients are coming to realize that the integrated spring-mass model, also known as the human spring model, is the most advanced model of human mechanics in the world today. This extraordinary approach to examining and treating the human body as a spring, rather than solely as a lever, has spurred breakthroughs in medicine, fitness, and overall health.
This new model and approach have made Dr. Stoxen one of the most sought-after speakers in the medical world today. With every lecture, he puts this model and approach to the test before live audiences of medical doctors from every specialty, including neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and other spine specialists.
Once doctors and patients understand the human spring model and the information presented in this book, no one will look at the early detection, treatment, and prevention of thoracic outlet syndrome in the same way again.
I am one of Dr. Stoxen’s many thoracic outlet syndrome recovery stories and one of the only foot drop recovery stories I have heard of during my 40 years in medicine. It changed my life. I am confident that by understanding how your body works through the human spring model and the Human Spring treatment approach, you can effectively reverse your thoracic outlet syndrome.
Dr. Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP