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GC Life Center 4 Health - Health and Wellness Spa

 

 

 

GC Life Center 4 Health - Pain Relief Center

 

  • Dr. Carl Held MD, Pain and Stress Relief

  • David Skinner DC, Chiropractic

  • Class IV Laser Pain Relief Treatments

  • Spinal Decompression

  • Deep Tissue Body Work

  • Thai & Shiatsu Massage

  • Nutrition / pH Balancing / Herbology

  • Far-infrared Treatments / Somatic Disciplines

Our state of the art equipment and services include: Three Far-infrared Thermal Massage Beds, Chair  Massage, Personal Fitness Training, Whole Body  Vibration Platform Exercises, Pilates, Yoga, Core  Strengthening, and Far-infrared Reflexology Treatments.

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We also sell our proprietary Pristine Alkaline Magnesium Bicarbonate Water. First we use a industrial reverse osmosis unit to clean water. Then we run the water through an industrial deionization cartrage, this cleans the water down to laboratory grade water (everything is non-detectable). Next we inject our proprietary pharmaceutical grade Magnesium Bicarbonate into the water (for high alkalinity) it then goes into a 300 gallon holding tank. We then chill the water to 4 degrees Celsius, next we aerate the water and run it through a Viktor Schauberger copper vortex tube, we then run it through our duel left vortexing unit @50 gallon per minute into thousands of pounds of rocks from the local San Juan River, lodestone, tourmaline, crystals, and other precious stones. Basically, it is a miniature river.


 

David N. Skinner, D.C.

Dr. Skinner’s interesting and varied background in athletic coaching and chiropractic broadens the scope of his insight and understanding of how the body functions and what it takes to attain wellness, stay fit and maintain health. His practice offers all aspects of chiropractic care specializing in the treatment and rehabilitation of conditions of the neuromusculoskeletal system. Dr. Skinner is known for his personalized treatments and his ability to educate, motivate and coach individuals, who seek honest conservative solutions to their health problems and a real desire to improve their quality of life. 
 

If you suffer from pain, you know that it can affect every aspect of your life. Fortunately, there are new cutting edge treatment options that can help you become pain-free again. If you’re considering pursuing a non-surgical, non-drug approach to treating your pain, GC Wellness Center‘s professional and knowledgeable staff can help.
 

We believe in a three-prong approach to pain relief and wellness which includes bodywork treatments, balancing your pH and purifying your body with alkaline pristine water (Pristine Hydro), and helping the body heal and protect itself with nutritional superfoods. 
 

Featured modalities for bodywork include our Avicenna Class IV laser treatments, Migun Massage Beds with far infrared, and our highly trained and experienced professional staff.
 

The Avicenna Class IV laser is not a “cold laser” or low-level laser; it is a high-power therapeutic laser with the ability to simulate accelerated healing energy within a continuum of treatment depths from superficial to extremely deep. This enables the accelerated treatment of superficial wounds, calcified (hard/stiff) muscles, fibrotic adhesions, sprains/strains, arthritis, and deep intraarticular tissues (insides of joints) unreachable by any other modality. Clinical studies have shown that laser therapy helps to accelerate tissue repair and cell growth, heal wounds faster, reduce the formation of scar tissue, reduce swelling and pain, improve vascular and metabolic activity.

The ProAdjuster—A Breakthrough in Healing

  • Pain

  • Nerve Impingement Syndrome

  • Fatigue

  • Headaches

  • Sleeping problems

  • Mood swings

  • Sinus and allergy problems

  • Arthritis

Chiropractic treatments and reorientation of the nervous system can now be done comfortably, while you sit in an upright position without any turning or sudden movements. Even newborns as well as the elderly with osteoporosis can be treated safely and gently.
 

The ProAdjuster utilizes a precise oscillating force with uninterrupted motion. It is able to increase the mobility of the spinal segments by reducing or enabling motion in the abnormal areas. In other words, the ProAdjuster is “unsticking” the joint. Have you ever seen a woodpecker tapping in an oscillating fashion on a tree? It is hard to believe, but you can watch them bore right through the hardest wood! The ProAdjuster taps in much the same way but uses soft tips that are comfortable to the human body and do not create damage.

Dr. Carl Held MD

THE PHILOSOPHY

In chronic pain syndromes there are three factors, problems with the muscles, with the joints, and with a chemical imbalance.

That working on two of the three factors will be more effective than working on only one of them; that working on all three factors is more effective than working on just two.

It’s a natural approach- treatments that really work are treatments that help the body to return to more normal functioning, and that once the body is functioning normally, there is no pain.

THE DOCTOR

I am a medical doctor, and am a graduate of Albany Medical College, upstate New York.

I have completed residencies in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. But I have limited my practice to pain and stress relief since 1982.

How this came about: Twenty years ago, I set out to find things that really did work in chronic pain. One by one, as I began to do these things, and as I learned more, I began to combine them. I became flabbergasted with the positive results of combining multiple disciplines, and decided to restrict my practice to pain relief.

Lisa D. Sheridan, MAOM, BFRP, LMT

Her passion is to see her patients realize thriving health. She coaches during Tui-Na treatment, laser therapy, and her newest offering "hike and learns". These valuable moving workshops are how she educates on optimal lifestyle systems. Patients are assigned "homework" which will save them both money and time by doing simple to understand techniques at home with their family and friends to integrate their new knowledge into everyday life.
 

Glen Caulkins, MT, Researcher, Inventor

32 years experience in healing and deep tissue bodywork.  Spinal decompression, laser technician, somatic disciplines, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization, nutrition, pH balancing, and gerontology.

 

 

 

 

 

If you suffer from pain, you know that it can affect every aspect of your life.  Fortunately, there are new, cutting edge treatment options that can help you become pain free again. If you're considering pursuing a non-surgical, non-drug, approach to treating your pain, GC Life Center can help. 

Avicenna’s Class IV laser is not a “cold laser” or Low-Level Laser. It is a high-power, therapeutic laser with the ability to stimulate accelerated healing energy within a continuum of treatment depths from superficial to extremely deep. This enables the accelerated treatment of superficial wounds, calcified  (hard/stiff) muscles, fibrotic adhesions, sprains/strains, arthritis, and deep intra-articular tissues (inside of joints) unreachable by any other modality.

Clinical studies have shown that laser therapy helps to accelerate tissue repair and cell growth, heal wounds faster, reduce the formation of scar tissue, reduce swelling and pain, improve vascular and metabolic activity, aid in immunoregulation, help erase muscle trigger points, and stimulate acupuncture points on a non-invasive basis.
 

BENEFITS:

  1. Most conditions start to show signs of improvement in just a few visits.
     

  2. There are no harmful side effects like those associated with pain medications or surgery.
     

  3. Laser therapy is not habit forming. The results of laser therapy, for many individuals, have been shown to last for years.
     

  4. Laser therapy is a safe, pain free treatment that only takes a few minutes per visit.
     

  5. It’s effective. Laser therapy works well for a variety of painful conditions. See more

Decompression Protocol

  

Non-surgical Spinal Decompression + Class IV Laser = Relief from back and neck pain!

The GC 4 Health Chiropractic, Spinal Decompression, and Class IV Laser Protocol© is a state of the art system that relieves lower back and neck pain by increasing disc space, reducing herniation, decreasing high intradiscal pressure. It will help heal, strengthen, and regenerate ligaments, tendons, muscles, and bones. It also helps release soft tissue adhesions and fibrosis at the deepest level, erasing and unlocking trauma recording. A GC 4 Health decompression session typically lasts 45 minutes to one hour. see more

The GC 4 Health Deep Tissue Manipulation and Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Protocol© is an innovative and unparalleled approach to soft and hard tissue repair, flexibility, agility, and strength.

The GC 4 Health protocol is based on traction and stretching relating to muscle and joint physiology; the physiologic properties that synovial joints and muscles have and how those properties act when subjected to traction, stretching forces, and deep tissue manipulation.

Our pinning-and-isolating (with articulation and instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization) modality with Class IV laser application uses a combination of specific short-level arm deep tissue manipulations, passive stretches, traction, and specific articular and postural kinesthetic integrations with our Avicenna Class IV High Power Laser to obtain a desired outcome.

The specially designed soft tissue mobilization instruments are designed to locate restrictions and allow the clinician to treat the affected area with the appropriate amount of pressure. The instruments introduce of controlled micro trauma to the affected soft tissue structure causes the stimulation of a local inflammatory response. This initiates reabsorption of inappropriate fibrosis or excessive scar tissue and facilitates healing activities. The Class IV laser treatment minimizes new fibrotic scar formation.

We also utilize non-intrusive modalities in conjunction with Pilates, Yoga, and Active Isolated Stretching.

In conjunction with chiropractic adjustments, movement education, and our nutritional program -- GC 4 Health is on the cutting-edge of health and rehabilitation. We give professional athletes the ability to push the edge of the envelope.

We use the most advanced techniques and technology to give our patients the best results in the least amount of time. You will get better faster.

The GC 4 Health Protocol© has been created and developed over a period of 34 years by Glen Caulkins, gerontologist, MT, and Michael Hartman D.C..
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Deep Tissue Body Work

The GC 4 Health Protocol will help diminish or eliminate trigger points, deep fascial and muscular fibrotic adhesions, calcifications (calcareous infiltration), restore elasticity and lengthen restricted fibrous connective tissues. It stimulates the healing of muscles, ligaments, tendons, and promotes bone repair. The Therapeutic Laser penetrates deep enough to stimulate “target (injured, damaged) tissues.” Combine this with the ability to palpate, penetrate, articulate and treat Musculoskeletal Disorders with this type of instrumentation and manipulation surpasses all other release and rehab techniques in use today. see more

Chiropractic Treatment...

...can relieve pain, increase mobility, energy and resistance to illness; improves balance and blood flow; increase physical and mental performance. It is not necessary to be suffering from a back problem in order to benefit from chiropractic treatment. see more



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24102 El Toro Rd., Ste. D
Laguna Woods, CA 92637
949-581-9191

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