PROFORM Chiropractic & Sports Performance

05/16/2026

PROMO CLIPS 2026 🎸🤙🏼🎶

stevierayvaughan

05/05/2026

✨ BIG NEWS: I’m super excited to announce that I’m moving back to New Braunfels, Texas June 1st!!

It’s been wonderful working with the people I’ve seen in the Quad Cities over the last several years. There’s just more opportunities for me there, both with music and chiropractic, and I need to go where I can be most useful. I’ve accepted a position in an established chiropractic office and am looking forward to putting my knowledge and experience to good use in serving the New Braunfels community. I’m also looking forward to plugging back into the thriving music scene in New Braunfels and Gruene. It’s really quite magical there and I miss it.

I will be seeing new and existing patients until I leave in a few weeks so if you’re due for an adjustment or would like some workouts, get in now. I’d love to see you!

Dr. Dean

**The practice is available if anyone is interested in taking over this wonderful sports chiropractic office**

03/15/2026

WORKOUT HYDRATION: Should you drink water when you’re working out? Let’s chat 💪🏼😎✨

01/01/2026

THE PALACE: I had a great time at the open mic last night. I’ll be back there January 17th with Luke Abrahamsen-Collins on drums and Donovan Gustofson on bass. For now, here’s a few acoustic songs that rock 🤙🏼 🎶

sweetchildomine

11/19/2025

GERD: Do you have heart burn or does someone you know take a PPI for acid reflux? Let’s make sense of what’s going on and talk about how to manage this situation. You may also reach out to schedule a visit with us to get on a better path and maximize your health.

Symptoms:
🔥 Heartburn
😷 Cough
🤒 Sore throat
🗣️ Hoarse voice
💨 Asthma flairs

Treatment:
🥘 Small frequent meals
🚶 Don’t lay down after eating
🛌 Elevate the head of your bed
🍷 Avoid alcohol and caffeine
🫦 Chew gum after eating
🚶Walk after meals

11/15/2025

UNEVEN DUMBBELLS: Trainers sometimes come up with silly exercise variations like standing on one foot while blinking your left eye and rubbing a kettle bell, without much of a goal in mind. Here’s one that can be helpful to improve balance, coordination, and core engagement. You can keep the dumbbells uneven each set or you might choose to use this as a warmup on the lighter sets and use evenly paired dumbbells for the heaviest set. This a fun way to challenge the nervous system and can be especially useful when working with neurological conditions like Parkinson’s, stroke, MS, and ataxia.

11/15/2025

WEIGHT GAIN: Ever feel like you woke up one day and you’re suddenly overweight and out of shape? That’s probably not what happened. The good news is that you don’t have to be a bodybuilder and you can reverse course with a little effort 🙌🏼

11/12/2025

ALTITUDE MASKS: Do these masks simulate training at altitude or improve VO2 Max? The short answer…no.

These altitude masks restrict airflow and challenge the respiratory muscles but do not change the percentage of oxygen in the air so capillary bed density and red blood cell production aren’t effected.

This type of restriction training might be useful for people with asthma or emphysema, where getting the air into the body is the limiting factor. For most healthy people, however, the limiting factor is not how much air they can breath in but rather gas exchange at the level of the alveoli…and this does little for that. It has been studied and these masks do not increase VO2 Max.

The only real benefit for an otherwise healthy person who doesn’t have asthma or emphysema is that these masks might train the diaphragm a bit more. This could be useful to cue proper breathing technique for people who are paradoxical breathers and are using accessory muscles of breathing but otherwise, this is goofy looking gimmick and not really a useful training tool.

You can do a literature search to read the studies or just do a simple google AI search “Do altitude masks imrove VO2 Max” to find out more.

SPARTHOS Training Mask is useful for all athletic sports like running, marathons, cycling, football, soccer, tennis, basketball, triathlons, weightlifting, athletics, Crossfit, hiking, yoga, strength training, mma, boxing, elevation running, track and field, nfl, paintball, baseball, hockey, tenn...

11/10/2025

RUSTIC RIDGE: There was magic in the room last night with lots of new and familiar faces. The ever gracious Donovan Gustofson was able to join me on bass and we were all better because of it.

My voice is far from normal. I’m quite hoarse today and will need a few days rest but I’m so happy to be slowly returning from this vocal cord injury and be playing music again 🤠🤙🏼🎶

11/03/2025

LEG EXTENSIONS: This exercise often gets a bad rap from orthopedic surgeons. I have used them with great success and would argue that they can be a wonderful part of your programming to build leg strength and reduce pain, particularly in strengthening the VMO when patellar tracking issues are involved.

My personal tip is to make sure the back pad is far enough up so your knee is slighty in-front of the joint of the machine for maximum comfort and stabilization and to add weight slowly when dealing with injuries.

I just did another dive to see if there’s a large body of good research showing leg extensions to be the evil maiming knee killers that medical doctors make them out to be…nope. Here’s an article supporting their use that’s worth reading from Pysiotutors, a well respected group of physical therapists who are actually evidenced-based.

Leg Extensions are one of the most criticized exercises in rehab. But are they actually dangerous or great exercise?