Dr. Alan Smith
Dr. Smith graduated from Life-West Chiropractic College Sept. 1991. He brought professional chiropractic quality to this area in 1992 with 57 E. Main, being his third location in Rexburg. He has been examined, tested, and licensed in the state of Idaho, and is an active member of Southeast Idaho Chiropractic Association. Is also a member of the State of Idaho Chiropractic Physicians along with American Chiropractic Association on the national level. He has been trained under the tutelage of Dr. John Brimhall, a world renown chiropractor, from Mesa, Az.
He has been honored and accepted as a life member of the National Registry of “Who’s who” published in the 2000 edition. He has been certified in Functional Muscle Therapy for both upper and lower body. He received his Basic and Advanced certification in NAET, a revolutionary technique for eliminating allergies. And as of May 2002, Dr. Smith has been welcomed to the staff of Madison Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Smith is an active member of his church and is currently involved with the youth, (young men 14-16 yrs old), in which he is helping out with the Varsity Scouts branch of the Boy scouts of America. He is married to the former Heidi Heimbach and they are the proud parents of eight children.
Currently, Dr. Smith treats many of his patients in the “new technique” he has learned called NeuroMuscular Re-education. It is not a massage, it is not pleasant, it’s just plain effective. Neuromuscular Reeducation is a “stand-alone” hands-on technique/approach to the evaluation and functional treatment of 90+% of the soft tissue injuries a professional will see in practice. Every muscle in the body is surrounded by a smooth facial sheath, every muscular fascicule and fibril is surrounded by fascia that can exert pressures of over 2,000 pound per square inch. When an area is injured, whether it's muscle, connective tissue, fascia, tendon or some combination of these elements (as most injuries are), the body handles this inflammatory response of the tissues to trauma the only way it knows how, through a hyperplasia of the affected tissue followed by a fibrous healing, the laying down of a less elastic, second grade, poorly vascularized scar tissue to protect the involved areas. Adhesions occur wherever damage and inflammation have occurred and they limit both strength and range of motion.
Once there is fibrous healing these adhesions pull us out of a three dimensional orientation with gravity. As a muscle tendon begins to stretch and encounters an adhesion, the muscle contracts to prevent any further stretching and to protect the area involved.
