The Jacksonville Chiropractor Who Trained with an Olympic Bobsledder to Teach Speed

Okay, hey everyone, this is Dave from a greater town and as you probably know by now we

Are focusing this entire series is about local businesses where we speak with the owners and sort of get their story

You know what we like to say we're doing here is taking back Main Street. So with that said

today we have Cody Murin from full swing health and

And

Let's just get started with the basics Cody what where you from?

Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville, Florida. Okay, and your practice is in Jacksonville, right? Yes. Yeah, okay

All right. So what we like to do is sort of go chronologically right from like the very beginning, you know, you're from Jacksonville, Florida

Where did you go to school did you go to school for the practice that you're doing now?

Yeah, so I I played college baseball in Georgia

So I went to LaGrange College where I studied biology and then graduated from there and went to

Palmer College of chiropractic in Port Orange, Florida

So just out the Daytona is where I studied to get my doctorate in chiropractic

Okay. All right. So you were you were an athlete you basically said right? Yes. Okay. What was that like?

It's good. It was good. Um, definitely what led me towards my career. I suffered different various injuries and

Loved playing baseball. So nothing kept me off the field too long. Yeah. Yeah

Yeah, well, I'm I've got a bunch of questions for you regarding injuries and athletics and performance a lot

But we'll get to that in a minute

So alright, so when is when did you finish the school?

That's finished getting my doctorate and the end of 2017 and was licensed at the very beginning of 2018

Okay. All right. So alright that brings us to roughly, you know 2018

Did you start the perhaps full swing right away or did you?

No, I actually I practiced as an associate for roughly five years

Under another chiropractor. So I learned from an experienced chiropractor in that fashion and then went off and brand-new

Shelf into making my own practice. Oh, wow. Okay

All right. So and when was that when did full swing start full swing started in it was March 1st of 2023

2023 okay. So is it that's roughly end of pandemic

Yeah, yeah, so it was kind of a crazy time but

Yeah

Okay

Alright, so now you're roughly

Three to four years in yeah, and how's it going good very good

Yeah growing and and tons of services and bringing on new people. Okay, so I want to

Well, let's do that first. So so just give a high level of the services

So our primary service is chiropractic and that's what our office is

But alongside that not only do we do chiropractic services we also offer massage therapy

acupuncture dry needling and

Cupping and scraping so those are tools to help loosen up the fascial adhesions

Okay

It's funny

my one of my boys

Has become obsessed with the fascia. Yeah, I didn't know that was a thing. Okay

And he's like trying to activate it and like, you know, we could talk for hours about this. I'm sure you you know

Anyway, so

Alright, so acupuncture. So, I mean I understand the services the names, but you know as the average consumer

I don't really know what that means. I just know acupuncture as a word. What is it used for?

What what would I how would that help me? Right? So

Everybody always associates acupuncture immediately with the needles, right? That is the

Essentially, that's the key to the ignition what we're looking for with acupuncture is there's these

Essentially these roadmaps along the body in

ancient Chinese medicine that they figured out are either areas of

too much energy not enough or

a lot of stagnant just changes so

Essentially what we do is we use the needles to hit certain spots along the body that I describe as

You're dealing with traffic on the road and you've got a lot of detours

We're clearing those detours so the traffic can flow normally and that comes from our from our energy. Wow

It's fascinating actually. Yeah, okay

So we can treat a various amount of pain issues as well as stress anxiety

Even things like smoking addictions and things like that as well. Wow, really? Yeah, the acupuncture Wow

Yes. Yeah. Wow, that's incredible. I never would have no guessed, you know that

Okay, and then you said

Sorry, I'm gonna get the terminology wrong cup

Puppet. Yeah. Yeah, what's that? Yeah, so cupping is along the lines of the myofascial stuff

So cupping is along the lines of the myofascial stuff

So myo meaning muscle fascia meaning the essentially the webbing between the skin and the muscle that helps those areas glide

So what we do with cups is we will typically hit

threefold different ways so we will put the cups on and

typically we're hitting the musculature the areas of pain or restriction and

We can either have the patient laying with those on just completely static

We have some where we'll actually take them through movements with the cups on to help increase the range of motion

And then we have glided cupping where we will actually move the cups around with that suction already connected to help

Break up areas in a more cohesive manner. Mm-hmm. Okay, so it sounds like a

I

Don't know what the right word maybe more sophisticated version of massaging

Yes

Yeah

A lot of times I'll tell people when we put them on it kind of feels like pushing on that knot or that trigger point

And it helps relieve that tension there. Yeah. Yeah. Wow

Wow, that's fascinating. I'm already learning a lot. Okay

so, okay and

Now everything or this group of services that you just described is

Is not or you tell me if I'm wrong. It sounds like it's not exactly

Chiropractic that like that chiropractic is it is a separate thing. Is that right? Right?

They're kind of like a sidekick to chiropractic, right? So

when we bring somebody in they will typically be analyzed for

muscle restrictions joint restrictions and

nerve either over activity or inactivity

So based off of what we find with that patient will decide whether we're going to be doing

chiropractic which is more joint manipulation

increasing range of motion in the joints where we're finding areas that are kind of stuck not moving as well or

If we're gonna do more of the muscle work things like cupping dry needling and acupuncture or a combination of all

Yeah, okay. All right

Right. So you got a bunch of different tools in the you know toolbox that you know, it's to solve the problem, right? Okay

All right. All right. So now I'm gonna dive into

I'm gonna be selfish. Okay

this is I have twin boys they are

Obsessed is a light word when it comes to soccer, right?

They are waking up before school a couple hours 6 a.m. Before school to train every morning

You know, they go to they go to a soccer academy where they play for four hours every day

And then they go to their club practice after

They're done with school, right?

crazy dedicated whatever right so

They one of them has

developed some knee pain or actually both knees, right and

We went to a physical therapist yesterday

so the first thing I want to try to understand is what is the difference between physical therapy and

chiropractic work

so we have a lot of the same philosophies and values, but the big difference between chiropractic and

physical therapy is with chiropractic we are looking to

immediately very efficiently and quickly

Increase someone's range of motion in their joints so they can be dealing with those restrictions where

They're just not as flexible as they need to be. They're not able to fully

Move a very specific part of their body

Let's say neck or shoulder something like that and we restore that full range of motion

Whereas physical therapy is more focused on

Strengthening surrounding musculature

adapting that through more of a muscle recovery that way a rehabilitation technique and

Those are a lot of things that we do as well

So we will help increase that range of motion and then provide exercises to restore that range of motion and keep it

Yeah, okay. All right. So so following this thread, right?

Like I said, we went to a PT yesterday and we learned that

Matthew is his name

Matthew's

Hip

Hip flexibility is

Not terrible, but not where it should be which is, you know incredibly

Important for a soccer player

So, you know the PT even a bunch of exercises and that's great and he's doing them already

But it sounds like your approach to it would be different than what you know

PT would do so tell me a little bit about what you would suggest for somebody like that. That's trying to I

Guess open up their hips for lack of a better or less technical word, you know

so

In our office we make sure to always educate on the musculature involved a lot of times people will come in with a hip mobility

Issue or a low back issue and both those things go very hand-in-hand

So somebody like Matthew I would analyze for not only the hips but the knees low back

We're always looking above and below those areas as well and making sure we're restoring as much motion as we can in both those areas

So with somebody like Matthew, I would most likely do things to decompress open up hip mobility

through a hip

Manipulation that we do as well as restoring more motion in the pelvis

In that low back to help those SI joints of the pelvis move more properly and that

Attaches into a lot of spots in the hip

Okay, so am I right in saying that

You don't need to have had a

I'll use the word traumatic event or accident or injury like, you know serious injury to benefit from

A chiropractic

From you right from your practices a player like Matthew who is not really injured per se

Could benefit from what you're doing

We see we see tons of different athletes strictly for performance. So

For instance, we'll see baseball players golfers who may have like they feel like they're just not getting through their swing

As well as they should so we'll work on whether that's a shoulder issue a hip issue low back

And make sure we're just taking

Who they are and making them the optimal version of themselves, right? Right? Yeah. Yeah, you know, I'm

I'm learning a lot about this because of through the boys

And it's really fascinating stuff I kind of wish we knew this earlier and

You know

I guess the sad part is we really didn't have a reason to know until like we had a thing a reason to go to a

PT or an author or whatever and that kind of like started the learning process. We started, you know trying to

Yeah, I just wish more people knew about it because it made a giant difference, you know when we went to these places and I

Didn't even really know that performance purely performance enhancement was a was a thing

Right just seemed to me like it was about recovery from an event, right?

So yeah, that's great

Alright, so we've covered the chiropractic part. You talked about the other sort of supplementary or you know

Supplementary services. Is there anything else you would like people to know about how the practice works or just you know, the chiropractic in general?

Yeah, so

Unfortunately about two years ago another thing that we added was our our stem wave device or shockwave therapy

Mm-hmm. So that has really been a game-changer for the office because it works on a cellular level that we can't quite

Get to without this type of technology and it's able to penetrate

deeply into areas of

Really significant injuries where people are able to avoid surgery and drugs and it's not invasive and they can continue going

About their normal life without any downtime

Wow

Okay, I'm gonna just because you know again sports thing, you know

Living in that world now. I'm sort of relating stuff to that right?

another thing I learned

in terms of sprinting right and running mechanics and all that kind of stuff is you know that your hips are

Incredibly important the range of motion and how your legs stride and hit the floor and all that kind of stuff

is incredibly important, so

How how would any of the services you provide?

help with those motions

yeah, I actually like that you mentioned that because I I worked personally with a

former bobsledder for the US Olympic team who

Trained me on essentially how to be fast

There's a lot of ways that you know people think you can't teach speed you can very well teach speed and

From that knowledge that I gained from somebody who is incredibly fast

I learned much more in depth about what muscles are firing through certain parts of a sprint

So if that were something that somebody wanted to increase

Performance-based we look at where they may be having trouble

We may analyze how they sprint what it looks like when they sprint and that lets me know

Okay, this muscle isn't activating as well

Or it seems like they're they're hanging on on one side more than the other kind of asymmetrical with their sprint techniques

So we would look at those open those things up and get those moving properly. Yeah, right. Yeah

It's fascinating. It really is there's so much out there to know which is why we do these videos

You know, I mean part of it is to just

Hear about you and the business and you know get the word out about the great work you're doing

But it's also to help educate consumers, you know, like like like me right now. I didn't really know this stuff until

Recently, so I'm really actually glad that we're we're here talking about it. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah, okay

So is there anything else that you would like people to know?

We

Amongst other things that we take care of in the office. We see people after

auto-accident injuries

Those things are entirely more common than I thought

also when I first started eight years ago, I didn't really understand how detrimental those things are how

chronic they can become and

So we work very quickly after these accidents to try and not let these injuries become chronic so things like whiplash

Discerniations we make sure we're getting that information and treating those patients. Yeah

Yeah, you know, I'm glad you brought it up that way

And again, I'll use my boys as an example

So Luke the other twin had some neck pain and

You know, we went to see someone and they told us that this muscle is

Overpowering this muscle and it's causing his head to go forward, right?

And that's causing stress on the back or on the back muscles and it was giving them neck pain, right?

So they told us how to fix it and he fixed it and it worked. I was

Blown away

I mean, maybe it sounds really simple and silly

But you know again, if you're like the average consumer you think oh, you know

I'm gonna have to suffer with neck pain for the rest of my life

But it's not true. Like, you know you as a professional know these things that

Me as a consumer, you know, dummy basically

Don't know so I'm saying this now because through my experience I now

Much more frequently than I used to be

Much more frequently go to services like yours and PTs

And I just kind of want everybody to hear me say this so that

They'll do the same because it is a hundred percent worth it. It really makes a difference

And you know, I'm sure you see these cases all the time. I mean, that's the point of what you do

So we'll see a lot of times

You know people will have this dark umbrella thinking that chiropractic is scary and dangerous and very often

It is the opposite. So we are I would say the most

The least invasive of any of those services. So our our techniques are gentle. They're safe and

I will see people who have gone through the gambit of

injections and

ortho visits and physical therapy and

Within a couple visits there at a level that they haven't been in in years and they're just like I wish I had done this

first so

I was just gonna say I

Happen to work in

Health care so I have some

Knowledge of sort of the way, you know a patient moves around right with diagnosis and whatever and I was just gonna say that

it's probably the smartest thing to do to start with

Chiropractic first and move up the chain, right?

What everybody does which is go to the ortho first and move down the chain, right?

Would you would you agree with that? Yeah, I mean a lot of times

When you go that route

it's

It is kind of I don't want to call it backwards

But it is kind of like you're jumping the gun a lot of times these you know orthos they do surgery and

Our goal is to avoid that and a lot of times these people can avoid surgery and the answer is very simple

Yeah, right, right

Yeah, and you know just for anybody that's listening. I'm gonna repeat myself because I just feel like this is

It was such a learning moment for me

I'm gonna

Back up what you just said

Sometimes it's so simple

With the next thing with Luke and another sort of similar thing with my wife

The solution was so simple and we spent all this time and effort going down kind of the wrong route

and ended up in

chiropractic and it worked and I was

Surprised to be frank not because I had like that dark umbrella thing going on

but just because I you know, I just didn't know and we tried it and it worked and

I'm happy

It's fantastic those are the you know, those patients that come in with not a lot of knowledge on

What we do and we help them that quickly and they see how comfortable everything is is very cool

Right. Okay. All right

Well, you know, that's probably all the questions I have

I'm happy to keep going if you've got more things you want to cover. I

Think that's great. Yeah, that's been awesome. Okay. All right, cool

Well, you know we'll we'll put this on the channel and

Give anybody that's watching plenty of ways to reach out to you if they they want to so

With that said thanks for coming on and let me know if you've got any questions

Yeah, no, I appreciate very much. It was great talking with you. Yeah, you too. All right. Take care