Modern Health at Independent Physical Medicine

Modern Health at Independent Physical Medicine Performing health miracles in Allen county since 2014. Passionate about helping others feel good, be healthy and live with vitality.

Offering relief of foot and knee problems using chiropractic care, warm laser therapy, vitamin D producing phototherapy as well as other modern therapies to help our patients achieve optimum health & wellness

08/18/2026

Collaborative care shouldn’t feel like a custody battle.
Our doctors work collaboratively with our patients different providers, thats how we achieve the best possible outcome for every patient. 🤝

🎂Join us in wishing Doctor Goecke a very happy birthday! ☀️We hope this trip around the sun is his best one yet! 🙏We’re ...
08/04/2026

🎂Join us in wishing Doctor Goecke a very happy birthday!
☀️We hope this trip around the sun is his best one yet!
🙏We’re blessed to have him on our team!

07/27/2026

“Don’t put bananas in smoothies”
Have you heard this misguided advice from “health experts” and influencers lately?

The claim is that bananas reduce the amount of antioxidants you absorb when they’re added to your smoothie and comes from a study recently published.

 Before you go and change your favorite smoothie recipe,  there are some things you should know about the study:

The study only looked at specific antioxidants. They did not measure the thousands of other polyphenols found in fruits and vegetables.

The sample size was tiny and only included men.
The primary experiment included only 8 healthy men, and the follow-up included 11 people.

The study looked at blood levels. Some compounds are metabolized differently, stored differently, or exert effects within the gut before ever appearing in the bloodstream.

🍌🍌🍌bananas provide nutrients like potassium, vitamin B6, resistant starch (especially less-ripe bananas), fiber, prebiotic compounds and more! Bananas can be apart of a healthy diet and if adding them to your smoothie makes it easier and more accessible and yummy, then you absolutely should!

🍒🍓🍇🍎🍉🍑🍊🥑🍌🍍🍋🥥🥝🍏🥭🍅🍋‍🟩🫒🫐🥦🥕🥬🧅🧄🫜🫛🫑🍆🥔🥒🌽🍅🌱🫑🍠🌶️Including more colorful fruits and vegetables in your meals, snacks and smoothies is always a good idea!!

07/26/2026

Chat… I clocked your X-rays and your neck looks sus. 💀

If you keep doomscrolling with your chin glued to your chest, your cervical curve is cooked. Your posture is low-key mogging your disc height, your muscles are crashing out, and your neck is sending out an SOS.

Your nerves to your hands? Negative aura.
Your lymph? Just sitting there… living rent free.

It honestly looks like you’ve been ghosting this area of your health.

So get locked in, fam.

📱 Hold your phone up closer to eye level.
🧍 Pull those shoulders back.
👂 Keep your ears stacked over your shoulders.
And maybe even get off of that phone and look up and move around.

Future You is gonna be glazing Present You for not ending up with “text neck.”

You got this, twin. W posture only.

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07/21/2026

Steadier on Your Feet When It Counts
One bad fall can change everything. 🦶
And it's not just the injury. It's the long recovery, the lost confidence, the moment independence starts quietly slipping away.
Here's the hopeful part: in a study of 60 adults over 65, those who received 12 weeks of chiropractic care showed real, measurable gains in the very things that keep you upright — a sharper sense of where your body is in space, and faster "catch yourself" stepping reactions when your balance gets challenged. The group that didn't receive care saw no such improvement.
Why does it work? A well-moving spine feeds your brain cleaner information about where your feet, legs, and body actually are. Better information in means quicker, steadier responses out — on the stairs, on uneven ground, getting up in the middle of the night.
This isn't about chasing youth. It's about staying confident, capable, and independent for as long as you can.
Want to feel more sure-footed?

📞567-940-9334 to see if you qualify as a patient.
📖 Source: Holt et al., J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2016) — 60 older adults, randomized controlled trial.

07/21/2026

🦴 Could low vitamin D be fueling your arthritis?

When vitamin D levels are too low, your body produces higher levels of inflammatory signals that can increase the breakdown of collagen and cartilage within your joints.

At the same time, vitamin D deficiency reduces the efficiency of the cells responsible for repairing and maintaining those tissues.

The result?

Over time, the balance can shift toward more tissue breakdown and less tissue repair.

Think of it like this…

Your joints experience tiny amounts of wear and tear every single day. A healthy body is constantly repairing that damage. But when inflammation is elevated and your body’s ability to rebuild connective tissue is compromised, the damage can begin to outpace the repair.

Maintaining adequate vitamin D levels is about giving your body the tools it needs to repair itself every day.

Vitamin D plays an important role in hundreds of processes throughout the body, including immune function, bone health, muscle function, and connective tissue remodeling. Because most of our vitamin D comes from sunlight, people who live farther from the equator are at a greater risk of deficiency—especially during the fall and winter months.

At our office, we often recommend checking vitamin D levels throughout the year, particularly around the equinoxes and solstices, when seasonal sun exposure changes the most. Some individuals with complex health concerns may benefit from higher target levels than the minimum needed to prevent deficiency, although those goals should be individualized with their healthcare provider.

The good news? Monitoring your vitamin D is simple. A blood test is an affordable way to determine whether your levels are in a healthy range and whether supplementation or lifestyle changes may be appropriate.

If you’ve never had your vitamin D checked, ask your primary care provider, or we’d be happy to help you determine if testing is appropriate.

07/17/2026

Here's a number worth a double-take. 👀

In a 2024 review of 43 studies, people were nearly TWICE as likely to be satisfied with chiropractic care than with standard medical care — and they reported trusting their provider more, too.

Researchers are now showing what's behind that satisfaction: real, measurable changes in how the body and brain work together.

If you have a low level of satisfaction with your current healthcare providers, its time to consider adding a chiropractor to your team.

Want to feel that difference for yourself?

📞 567-940-9334 to see if you're accepted as a patient.

📖 Source: Newell & Holmes, Journal of Patient Experience (2024) — review of 43 studies.

07/16/2026

What does “Unhealthy Air Quality” mean and what you can do.

Air quality becomes unhealthy when there are too many particulates—tiny microscopic specks of material—floating in the air. In the current Ohio air quality alert, those specks are primarily smoke and other byproducts from the Canadian wildfires.

These particles are incredibly small—more than 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Because they are so tiny, they can travel deep into your lungs when you breathe.

The more particles that are suspended in the air, the poorer the air quality becomes. Breathing in a few of these particles is something that happens every day and is generally not a concern. The problem occurs when the particles become highly concentrated, causing you to inhale far more of them with every breath.

A simple way to think about it is a bonfire. Standing near a bonfire, you might inhale a small amount of smoke without noticing any effects. However, if the smoke becomes very thick, breathing it can quickly irritate your eyes and lungs, make it difficult to breathe, and in extreme situations become dangerous. Air quality alerts are issued when the amount of these tiny smoke particles in the air reaches levels that may pose a health risk—especially for children, older adults, pregnant women, and people with heart or lung conditions.

So what can you do?

Firstly, don’t go outside if you don’t need to. If you do for prolonged times or if you are apart of an at risk population, consider wearing an N95 mask.

Close windows and keep the doors closed.

Use a HEPA filter that is effective at removing very small specks.

Consider a high quality air filter for your hvac system.

In your car turn the air setting to recirculate to reduce outside air entering.

Increase your antioxidant intake to help bolster your body against damage. Vitamin C, E, NAC, Ergothionine, astaxanthin, dha/epa are just a few examples. Colorful fruits and veggies are also good sources.

Now especially, but it is always a good idea to avoid creating more indoor pollution.
Avoid:
…Burning candles or incense
…Using wood-burning fireplaces or stoves
…Smoking or va**ng indoors
…Frying foods or other activities that produce a lot of smoke
…Synthetic fragrances in personal care and home products
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07/15/2026

The first doctors treated illness with co***ne, magnets, and a belief in evil spirits.
No shade to the field of medicine, 👍 it's just where it started.
For centuries, sickness got blamed on restless spirits 👻👻 and used co***ne tonics and "magnetic" healing,
Then, slowly, science caught up to the instinct.
🚿 In the 1860s, surgeons finally learned to sterilize their instruments
💧 In 1970, the sealed sterile IV bag we still use today arrived.
💊The first lab-made medicine appeared in 1869 from coal tar first, then petroleum, which is still the starting point for nearly every medication on the shelf today.
Humble, even strange, beginnings, refined and perfected over time.
Chiropractic has walked that very same road.
People have moved the bones of the spine to ease pain for thousands of years. Hippocrates himself wrote, "Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases." The modern profession took shape in 1895, with its first school in 1897.
Those early chiropractors knew they were onto something. But their explanation was simple: a bone is "out," put it back; a nerve is "pinched," or relieve it, "remove the interference."
Patients of chiropractic knew it was onto something as well, while they didnt understand the biology they knew from the way they felt.
Those early doctors and patients weren't wrong, but
they had no idea what the science of the 2000s would uncover about the power of the adjustment.
Using brain imaging and careful measurement, modern researchers have shown that an adjustment doesn't just move a joint, it changes how the brain processes signals coming from the body.
Studies have measured sharper body awareness, better balance in older adults, increased muscle strength, reduced pain, improved joint range of motion increased visual acuity, and clearer communication between brain and body after care. The old "bone out, nerve pinched" picture has grown into something far richer: a story about your spine, your nervous system, and how well your brain reads your body.
The instinct was right all along. The science just needed time to explain it.
That's how progress works, in medicine, and in chiropractic.
Curious what modern chiropractic care could do for you?

📞 567-940-9334 to find out if you're a candidate.
📖 The research: peer-reviewed studies including Lelic et al., Neural Plasticity (2016); Holt et al., J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2016) and Scientific Reports (2019); Haavik et al., Eur J Appl Physiol (2021).

Eating seasonally means choosing produce that is available during the time of year when they naturally grow and are harv...
07/14/2026

Eating seasonally means choosing produce that is available during the time of year when they naturally grow and are harvested in your region.
In the summer this means tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, berries, peaches, watermelon and more! 🍑🥕🌽🫜🥔🧄🫑
🍓🍉Seasonal produce is often fresher, more flavorful, less expensive, and may retain more nutrients because it has not been stored or transported for as long.
🍉By varying the types of produce you eat each week and season, you can help your gut stay healthy by nourishing the colon lining and feeding the beneficial bacteria.
😟Choose Glyphosate free produce. Glyphosate is patented as an antibiotic and cause a loss of bacteria, leaving opportunistic bacteria to expand disporportionately. You can look for the organic label to help you avoid glyphosate.

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