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Community Spirit and Advanced Chiropractic Care: Insights from Dr. Stephen Karp
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Community Spirit and Advanced Chiropractic Care: Insights from Dr. Stephen Karp
How can advanced chiropractic care offer a non-surgical solution for chronic pain? Join us on the Good Neighbor Podcast as we welcome Dr. Steven R. Karp, a dedicated chiropractor with three decades of experience serving the vibrant Delaware County, PA community, commonly referred to as "Declo." Learn how Dr. Karp's journey began with a personal injury in high school, sparking a lifelong passion that led him to leading State Line Chiropractic Center in Glen Mills, PA.
In this episode, host Bob Blaisse invites Dr. Karp to explain his innovative treatments for neck, back, shoulder, knee and hip pain, while highlighting the transformative potential of shockwave therapy to regenerate tissues and provide alternatives to surgery. Dr. Karp delves into the holistic nature of chiropractic care, likening the body to a finely-tuned grandfather clock that occasionally needs realignment. While listening to his expertise on cutting-edge shockwave and laser therapies for chronic conditions such as arthritis and bone spurs, you'll also hear how Dr. Karp has even used the Webster technique to turn a breech baby in the womb, and the Epley maneuver to help treat vertigo.
Throughout this episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast, Dr. Karp demonstrates the versatile applications of his State Line Chiropractic Center, revealing how his practice is truly a Good Neighbor Business in Delaware County, PA with a noticeable "Delco" vibe during this enlightening conversation with the good doctor.
State Line Chiropractic Center
www.StateLineChiroCenter.com
610-459-4114
facebook.com/statelinechirocenter
--- About The Show--- Good Neighbor Podcast is a spotlight on local businesses in and around Delaware County, PA (“Delco” ) and Beyond... The executive producer and host, Bob Blaisse, is a community sponsorship advocate, business branding specialist, and publisher of several hometown magazines, including: Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors, Marple Friends & Neighbors and Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, mailed monthly to more than 12,000 homes in Western Delaware County, PA, and also available for reading online.
Good Neighbor Podcast With Dr. Karp
Speaker 1Hello, delco. This is Michael Barkan, welcoming you to the Good Neighbor Podcast, where fans of local businesses and their neighbors come together. It's my pleasure once again to introduce my friend and neighbor, our host Bob Lacey.
Speaker 2Hello neighbors and welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. We're a podcast that comes to you every couple of days from southeastern Pennsylvania. We call it Delco, but it's really Delaware County, delco for short a nice, cute nickname, but man has it caught on over the last 10 years or so. It is Delco everything here in Delaware County. It's a real vibe that we've picked up on and it's even catching national attention. It's a great place to live in the tri-state section of this country Delaware, new Jersey and Pennsylvania. We're just south of Philadelphia and just north of the state of Delaware in Delco and our podcast, good Neighbor Podcast. Delco is really intended to bring news to our neighbors about good neighborly businesses and if you're a regular listener of the Good Neighbor Podcast, you know that we strive to find those business owners that are already known by their patrons, by their customers, for being good businesses, good services, good practitioners. Today we have a practitioner, a good, very good chiropractor. Let me bring to the stage our Good Neighbor business guest today, dr Karp. Dr Karp, welcome to the Good Neighbor podcast.
Speaker 3Hey Bob, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2Dr Karp is a chiropractor and I'm familiar a bit with chiropractic and doctor. You've been at this chiropractic profession for a while now I think 30 years in Delaware County, specifically Glen Mills section of Delaware County, out there by Garnet Valley area and in the Southern part of Delaware County near really getting closer to the state line of Delaware. In fact, the business doctor you've named your business state line chiropractic. It's a great name. Tell us a little bit about your practice.
Speaker 3It's easy to find here in the tip of Delco. Delco is always in the house when you and I are around, bob. So, yeah, I've been practicing my 30th year of practice. I was 13, 14 years old. I got hurt playing football my freshman year of high school. My mom took me to a chiropractor and I walked out going, wow, I'm going to be a chiropractor, I know it. And so I graduated before I turned 25 and I'm finishing my 30th year of practice before I turned 55. And, yeah, I feel like I'm just getting started here. So I'm a very passionate chiropractor, I love the use of technology and I really wanted to come on today, bob, and really share how different my practice is and how different I practice than most chiropractors in the area.
Speaker 2Well, dr Karp, let me, for the benefit of the listeners and I think there's a good chunk that have never been to a chiropractor. There's a category, I think, of listeners that certainly know what chiropractic is and they have family members or friends that have gone to a chiropractor. They've just chosen not to go themselves. Partly a subgroup of that category is people that are just a little bit uninformed or a little bit freaked out about the manipulation factor or backs cracking and all those movements. They're a little scared.
Speaker 3Hey, listen, Bob, we say no to crack.
Speaker 2No, to crack. That's the way to go. You just do a manipulation and it's much more gentler on the body. But where I was going with that, doc, is that I think that this is a kind of a runway for people to be able to learn that it's maybe not what they think, it's more than they know, and certainly in a friendly voice here to explain it. We have Dr Stephen Karp who is going to be able to explain this to us. Doctor, you were influenced in high school. It's a very impressionable time. You saw the success of chiropractic. You saw it as a potential future for yourself and now, 30 years later, you have a very thriving practice in the southern part of Delaware County, pennsylvania. Tell us how your practice is just different, or is it really modeled after the practice that you saw when you were a young man?
Speaker 3Yeah, so as a chiropractor I'm really skilled at helping people with neck pain and low back pain and especially if there's pain that's writing down the arm from a disc in the neck or disc in the back, and you know muscle spasms and you know getting the body realigned. You know that's something that you know most chiropractors are skilled enough to do and you know, and this area in particular, delco and Chester County there are some fantastic chiropractors. I mean you can find a lot of really great providers who can make a big difference for you. You know I've kind of shifted my practice over the last few years and I'm really focused on helping people with shoulders, shoulder problems and knee problems and hip problems, with shoulders, shoulder problems and knee problems and hip problems, especially those patients who have such degenerative conditions and such painful conditions that they're like looking at surgery as their next option. And there's a lot of people who don't want surgery. So I've created a non-surgical approach to treating shoulders and knees and hips. And you know other areas too, but you know that seems to be a very common region, especially knees. You know it's hard to hide knee pain. You know walking upstairs, walking downstairs, getting out of bed in the morning you know you could feel good laying or sitting, but then you put a little pressure on that knee and it's really uncomfortable.
Speaker 3And so you know I utilize some technology.
Speaker 3The technology I use is called shockwave therapy. Shockwave was invented to treat kidney stones so it has the ability to pulverize like calcium deposits. So, like everybody has the same problem when it comes to a knee right, it's degenerative condition, degenerative tissue, cartilage and ligaments that have, by definition, have no blood supply, no nerve supply, no ability to regenerate right. So we have to force tissue to regenerate and how we do that is combining these modalities. So I have a treatment where people come in and we look at their knee and then we put them in a knee decompression machine that very, very slowly, very gently stretches their knee right, opens up their knee and starts to create a pumping mechanism of pumping new blood supply in there and breaking up some of those adhesions and scar tissue. And then we utilize something called laser. I have a class four, 40 watt surgical laser that is great at being an anti-inflammatory. So it helps to get rid of the inflammation, it helps to break up all the scar tissue in there and create a healing environment for shockwave to do its job.
Speaker 2Laser- is yeah, let me just say that is an amazing. It's the first I've ever heard of this, and when you talked about how, what the problem is, because what's missing and the blood's not getting in there, we're talking about a therapy now that is to help regenerate your knee.
Speaker 3This is a completely regenerative therapy. Thatative therapy.
Speaker 2This is very, very different. I think a lot of listeners are, are are kind of let's say that again and and I had to stop in there and interrupt a bit but but it sounds to me, doc, that is this Will we find this at most chiropractors, or have you?
Speaker 3No, no, you'll, you'll, you'll. You find this at high end rehab centers like the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, and then you find it in the sports world, on the professional levels.
Speaker 2I had mentioned that you had mentioned the laser and I got it, interrupted you. But tell me, when we hear laser, people think cutting laser.
Speaker 3This is not yeah well, no, it actually is a cutting laser. So it's a class four 40 watt surgical laser. So at six Watts my laser is strong to slice your finger off Right. So if we put on a end piece that made the laser come out like, it would come out like a knife edge, right. If we put on like a little half a millimeter aperture on there, it would come out like a knife edge. But we use a large aperture think of like a glass ball and so it creates like a massage component. So as the laser is coming out, you're also getting like a feeling of a massage with a glass ball.
Speaker 3Laser is super therapeutic, it is super soothing, it is warm, it is amazing and it feels great, and shockwave is the opposite. So shockwave is disruptive, is great and shockwave is the opposite. So shockwave is disruptive. Shockwave is like taking a jackhammer and breaking up a tissue, like bone spurs and those calcium deposits and smoothing out the bone. So shockwave is utilized by a device that creates a handpiece that looks like a little jackhammer and there's a bullet in the chamber and the end result of shockwave is called acoustic wave therapy.
Speaker 3And when your body absorbs these acoustic waves it does two things it creates new blood flow and stem cells. So you were talking about tissue that has no blood flow, right? No ability to regenerate, no nerve supply, and now we're creating new blood flow into that tissue. We're creating a stem cell response which is going to create a healing mechanism around that joint. It's going to create less inflammation and a healing response. My treatments typically take about 10 weeks, takes about 18 to 20 sessions to really get somebody to feel good and it's a long-term benefit that will help 90% of my patients not need surgery.
Speaker 2That's the big difference, right the long-term benefit, with a little bit different than most of these seasonal kind of. I did this to my back again, doctor, you know, and I'm going to come back for another four-week session or something to get it back. But you know, you suspect it might happen again. In this case you're talking about a regenerative therapy that could very well stop the problem for good. Wow.
Speaker 3Yeah, so it's going to. It's going to remodel and help to heal the tissue. Look, the aging process is never going to stop, bob right? So we're still going to. We're still going to continue to get older.
Speaker 3So my patients may need some maintenance and a lot of times I send them to a friend of mine down the street, a physical therapist, who will help them with more strengthening and flexibility and range of motion. But the pain has been reduced, the pain is gone. You know, getting somebody who comes in, they're an 8 out of 10, a 10 out of 10. In three or four sessions to get them to a 4 or 5. In three more sessions to get them to a 2 or 3. It's life-changing for these patients.
Speaker 3So you know, just a quick example of a patient who came in yesterday and she's like, I can't get on the floor to play with my kids. You know, with her play with her grandkids. You know she's in her seventies and she's competing with the other grandmother who does get on the floor with her kids and I'm like, look, you know, at the end of the day you may not be able to get on the floor but you're going to be able to walk on the beach with these kids. You're going to take them to the boardwalk, you're going to be able to push them in your cart, you're going to be able to function, and that's a lot more important. I'm 50, almost 55 years old. I don't like being on the floor.
Speaker 2I don't like getting off the floor either. So she said almost 75. I'm like, goodness gracious, the ability to enjoy life, certainly for older people that want to enjoy children and be youthful and get out on the golf course, all that, Doc, when I heard you talk about the shockwave therapy and then the laser therapy. Are they often used together?
Speaker 3Yeah, it's smart to use it together, right, because the laser is that super powerful anti-inflammatory and that shockwave is going to create healing environment.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 3And that, bob, just real quick. It's that long-term, that chronic inflammation that prevents tissue healing from the first place, right? So what shockwave does is it takes that chronic inflammation and turns it into new inflammation, acute inflammation. Acute inflammation always starts the healing process, right.
Speaker 2Right, and then you're on to the therapies with the shockwave that can or the laser, I mean, that can make it bring that healing faster.
Speaker 3That's right and what the laser does also. It forces the tissue to bind like a basket weave right. So the tissue integrity when that tissue heals, it heals really, really strong and very, very stable and it's because of the scar tissue formation in there is what also prevents that tissue from binding strong. So we're eating scar tissue, we're breaking it up and we're getting rid of it, baby.
Speaker 2It sounds like an amazing therapy and, if you're just kind of catching up here, walked away and you're still listening. We're talking to Dr Karp, who is really a forward thinking and frontline technology user for his chiropractic clinic. It's really a center called State Line Chiropractic Center and it's in Delaware County, pennsylvania, as we've said, more specifically, the Glenn Mills area of Delco and the website. If you'd like to see Dr Karp and read up on these therapies and what else the other services for the Stateline Chiropractic Center you can visit the website at statelinechirocentercom.
Cutting Edge Chiropractic Technologies
Speaker 3So cut the chiropractic in half, and it's statelinechirocentercom. And I always, always, always offer a complimentary consultation. It never costs anybody to come in to see if I can help you.
Speaker 2So if the if, the if, the complimentary consultation, because I've heard say about these particular, you know the shock wave and laser therapies, is it specifically usually knees? In that case, when else would those?
Speaker 3So I use it on the spine for people with chronic arthritis, like with moderate to severe arthritis, where you know every morning they wake up it's miserable. So I'm able to use it in the spine area Again. Anywhere there's degenerative changes anywhere there's, there's, there's bone spurs there's, there's, there's osteophyte formation, these little sharp, jagged edges of bone where people say you know, I got bone on bone. We're able to pulverize that bone, we're able to break it down and smooth it out and get rid of the inflammation around it to create a healing environment that is long-term.
Speaker 2And for long-term success. Dr Karp has spenta good deal of this particular podcast episode as a professional chiropractor talking about these really frontline cutting edge technologies. But as a chiropractic center, doc, you talked about how people will come in. They'll complain about pain. You'll certainly figure out some form of modality, some kind of specific therapies. So really the chiropractic center is cutting edge on the front line with those shockwave therapies and laser therapies. But then as a chiropractor for daily maintenance or weekly maintenance, I mean people come in to really bring about chiropractic wellness. And I think, before we close out this episode, for those who are now really interested because they were turned off the chiropractor before, do a little pitch for really what the overall benefit of chiropractic adjustment Sure, I mean.
Speaker 3Look at the. At the end of the day, chiropractic is an art, a philosophy, uh and um, uh and uh, you know, it's science, right. So we're able to help people with all kinds of uh, you know, know, neuromusculoskeletal ailments, from headaches to neck pain and low back pain. You know, sometimes I think of the body like a grandfather clock and just like a grandfather clock, sometimes the gears get out of alignment, the gears get out of whack, and so one of the things that I'm able to do is kind of create motion, force, motion, and get things back in alignment, get those back, the gears of the grandfather clock working again. And you know, and a lot of times things are very straightforward and sometimes they're complicated, but when you have been practicing, you know, as long as I have, for 30 years, I've seen just about everything once.
Speaker 2You have.
Speaker 3Including Bob. One of the best things I've ever done in my career was to flip a breech baby.
Speaker 2That was something I've done that three times in my career.
Speaker 3It's called Webster technique. He was a chiropractor. It's a very easy technique for chiropractors to use. And then also how many people in the last 30 years I've helped with vertigo, using Epley's maneuver, and these are things that, as a chiropractor, it's a versatile degree that allows me to help people in a lot of ways, not just necessarily, you know, with neck pain and low back pain, but with many ways. You know, even the patients who come in who you know have anxiety and depression and but they have neck pain because there's so much stress. You know, sometimes it's just having that conversation, sometimes it's just being there for people. That allows people to relax and feel better and get into a state of recovery.
Speaker 2We can hear it in your voice. The listeners are hearing it. It's a very passionate call to visit your chiropractor, but, more specifically, listeners, I would highly recommend that you do some research. Look on the internet for Dr Karp and, by the way, it's K-A-R-P, like the fish with a K for Dr Karp and by the way, it's K-A-R-P.
Speaker 2Like the fish with a K, Like the fish with a K. Dr Karp, who's a doctor of chiropractic and the founder owner of Stateline Chiropractic Center, you can call them at 610-459-4114. Look them up on the internet at statelinechirocentercom. That's the website. Doc, you have been a wonderful guest today. You've really helped people today because you know all around the country maybe around the world someone has heard about this shock therapy and this laser. They're nowhere near Pennsylvania but through your passion today and sharing that, they will be looking into it because you've given them hope, and that's what the program's all about.
Speaker 3And all these tools, Bob? All these tools are great, but it comes down to the person utilizing the tool, and I've worked really hard to gain the knowledge and the experience to help all kinds of people with all kinds of problems.
Delco Appreciates Good Neighbor Podcast
Speaker 2You have brought those experiences and that knowledge to us today on the Good Neighbor podcast. Thank you for being such a good neighbor. Chiropractor Thank you for being Bob.
Speaker 3You're such a great host. I've listened to a lot of your podcasts. This is great. You're doing a great job for Delaware County. Delco in the house, baby.
Speaker 2Thanks.
Speaker 1Thank you for listening to the good neighbor podcast hosted by Bob Lacey. This is Michael Barkan inviting everyone to get on the Good Neighbor team. Nominate your favorite local business to be featured on an upcoming episode by going to gntdelcocom or by calling Bob at 610-557-3745.