Aligning the facts about my spine – and yours, too!

We have had all sorts of conversations over three decades with our team (and family) chiropractor Steve Elliott, who returns to a happier, healthier Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Koco’s Pub as the adjustments continue to aging, sitting, standing, traveling, walking and running away from old age. Now is the perfect time to get comfortable…

Nestor Aparicio and Dr. Steve Elliott discuss chiropractic care and its benefits. Nestor shares his long-term relationship with Dr. Elliott, highlighting how chiropractic adjustments have helped him manage back pain and posture issues. They talk about the impact of modern habits, like sitting for long hours and using mobile devices, on spinal health. Dr. Elliott explains various chiropractic techniques and the importance of maintaining good posture. Nestor mentions his recent purchase of a seat cushion to alleviate back pain during long flights. They also discuss the challenges of chiropractic care in Baltimore and the importance of preventive measures.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Call David Noll at MOI to get ergonomic advice and set up an appropriate computer screen setup.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Visit Dr. Steve Elliott at his Joppa Road office at the end of the shift to get an adjustment and discuss the new seat cushion.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Purchase crab cakes for Dr. Steve Elliott and his mother to thank him for fixing Nestor’s back and for the new seat cushion.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Follow up with Viviano to invite him back on the show.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Talk with Brian about neck and eye strain from phone and computer use and discuss posture adjustments.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Have Andy on the show to talk more about the Safe program and sexual abuse awareness.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Cover the upcoming NFL draft on-air with Luke, including previewing and analyzing the draft.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Travel to Las Vegas with Bill Cole in a couple of weeks.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host on-air events at Pizza John’s on the 1st, Planet Fitness in Timonium on the 7th, Faith Lee’s on the 13th, and The Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville on the 21st.
• [ ] Evaluate the new seat cushion Nestor brought in and provide an opinion on whether it is helping his spine and posture.

Koco’s Pub Atmosphere and Show Introduction

• Nestor Aparicio welcomes listeners to WNST AM 1570, highlighting the energy at Koco’s Pub and mentioning sponsors like the Maryland Lottery, GBMC, and Farnham and Dermer.
• Nestor reminisces about past shows at Pappas’s and mentions various guests who were present, including Steve Elliott, John Eisenberg, and Barry Stitz.
• Nestor and Steve Elliott discuss their mutual acquaintances and local connections, including Jamie Costello and Baysville.
• Nestor shares a humorous anecdote about working at Phillips and the challenges of being a waiter, including dealing with parking tickets and customers.

Nestor’s Back Issues and Chiropractic Care

• Nestor discusses his long-term relationship with Steve Elliott, who has been treating his back for 28 years.
• Nestor talks about his recent trip to South America and the seat cushion he found that helped alleviate his back pain.
• Nestor describes the challenges of sitting for long periods, especially on hard surfaces, and how it affects his posture and back health.
• Nestor mentions his wife’s hamstring issue and the importance of good posture and ergonomic setups at home and work.

Chiropractic Care and Adjustments

• Steve Elliott explains his chiropractic practice on Joppa Road and his early interactions with Nestor on the radio.
• Steve discusses the historical challenges of chiropractic care in Baltimore and how it has evolved over the years.
• Nestor shares his experiences with various chiropractors and the importance of finding the right one for his specific needs.
• Steve talks about the different adjusting techniques he uses and how he tailors his approach to each patient’s unique needs.

Impact of Modern Life on Spinal Health

• Nestor and Steve discuss the impact of modern devices like smartphones and computers on spinal health and posture.
• Steve emphasizes the importance of maintaining good posture and using ergonomic tools to prevent long-term damage.
• Nestor shares his struggles with bad habits, such as sitting on a wallet and not sleeping on his back, and how Steve has helped him overcome these issues.
• Steve explains the concept of gravity and how it affects spinal health, and the importance of staying active and strong.

Chiropractic Care for Different Individuals

• Steve talks about the spectrum of spinal care needs, from those who are very sensitive to those who are very resilient.
• Nestor reflects on his own experiences and how his body has changed over the years, requiring more frequent chiropractic care.
• Steve discusses the importance of being aware of one’s body and making adjustments to maintain good health.
• Nestor shares his recent checkup at GBMC and the importance of regular health screenings.

Chiropractic Techniques and Patient Experiences

• Steve explains various chiropractic techniques, including non-force techniques, and how they can be tailored to different patients.
• Nestor shares his positive experiences with Steve and how his adjustments have helped him stay active and healthy.
• Steve discusses the importance of communication between chiropractors and patients to ensure the best possible care.
• Nestor reflects on the long-term benefits of chiropractic care and how it has improved his overall quality of life.

Challenges of Modern Life and Health Awareness

• Nestor and Steve discuss the challenges of modern life, such as long hours of sitting and the impact of technology on spinal health.
• Steve emphasizes the importance of staying active and using ergonomic tools to prevent long-term damage.
• Nestor shares his experiences with various health issues and how Steve has helped him manage them.
• Steve talks about the importance of being aware of one’s body and making adjustments to maintain good health.

Chiropractic Care for Different Age Groups

• Steve discusses the importance of chiropractic care for different age groups, from children to seniors.
• Nestor shares his experiences with chiropractic care for his wife and how it has helped her manage her health issues.
• Steve explains the different adjusting techniques he uses for different age groups and how he tailors his approach to each patient’s unique needs.
• Nestor reflects on the long-term benefits of chiropractic care and how it has improved his overall quality of life.

Chiropractic Care and Preventive Health

• Steve emphasizes the importance of preventive care in chiropractic medicine and how it can help patients maintain good health.
• Nestor shares his experiences with various health issues and how Steve has helped him manage them.
• Steve discusses the importance of staying active and using ergonomic tools to prevent long-term damage.
• Nestor reflects on the long-term benefits of chiropractic care and how it has improved his overall quality of life.

Chiropractic Care and Community Engagement

• Steve talks about his involvement in the community and how he engages with local residents to promote chiropractic care.
• Nestor shares his experiences with various health issues and how Steve has helped him manage them.
• Steve emphasizes the importance of community engagement and education in promoting chiropractic care.
• Nestor reflects on the long-term benefits of chiropractic care and how it has improved his overall quality of life.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

chiropractic care, back pain, posture, Maryland lottery, GBMC, Koco’s Pub, spinal adjustment, ergonomic devices, bad habits, health awareness, chiropractic techniques, spinal alignment, physical therapy, patient education, chiropractic practice.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Steve Elliott

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Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 tacit, Baltimore, Baltimore, positive. We are positively back here in the place that I text Marcelo this morning, and I’m like, you know, there’s always like such energy going on when we’re here at Koco’s Pub. It’s all brought to my friends at the Maryland lottery. In conjunction with our friends at GBMC, I walked a mile in their shoes last week. We’ll be talking more about that. Also our friends at Farnham, Dermer and I’ve been giving away the Maryland treasures, lottery tickets. They’re beautiful pieces of art unto themselves, some local artists, some fun. I haven’t had anybody yell I want, I want, I want. But that usually happens sometime when I’m in the middle of the show, you come up over my shoulder and they hold the ticket up and, you know, I probably should just get the Maryland lottery app out now to zap. I call it zapping, you know, you just do the little QR, Oh, you mean,

Steve Elliott  00:52

you don’t even scratch it off. You just go right to

Nestor Aparicio  00:55

the QR is, I don’t win any of the money. But, like, I have the little scanner, see the little QR, and it goes boop, and it says, when you’re a winner, I get the balloons, and I get to say, hey, you won five bucks or 10 bucks or 50 bucks, or whatever it is. So Dr, Steve Elliot is no stranger to our audience here, especially if you’ve your back’s been hurting you’re anywhere in the north side of Baltimore. You know, he is usually a foil I try to get you on a couple times a year. Was last time you want to show man, like it’s been a while we were at pappas’s. Yeah, we Steve Pappas was there that day. John Eisenberg was there that day. Yeah, and

Steve Elliott  01:33

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somebody else, I’m trying to remember that that’s terrible that I don’t remember.

Nestor Aparicio  01:36

Was it Barry Stitz, my dude from curly, was he there that day? No. Jeannie Nestor.

Steve Elliott  01:41

It was, it was a guy, first time he’d had him on, and he was,

Nestor Aparicio  01:45

oh, it was John patty. John Patty was on that day. Yeah, yep. He hasn’t come back. John, where are you? It’s okay. You can come on.

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Steve Elliott  01:54

You know? I mean, I thought, I thought he was gonna be here because I was here. You know what?

Nestor Aparicio  01:58

Viviano, who came and did the show here. He’s threatened to come back on, so I have to hit him again. So, you know, I’m in, like, Jamie Costello, you know, I mean local guy, right? I mean, you’re right in the middle of it, right? You’re like, a real lock Raven, dude, yep. What neighborhood are you? Bainsville, yep. I grew up in one of those.

Steve Elliott  02:18

Grew up in bainsville, baysville, in the old

Nestor Aparicio  02:20

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duplexes number three, boss said, Painesville. I, I know a

Steve Elliott  02:25

guy stopped at the bottom of my street. That’s how I got to work on the number three when I used to work at Harbor place,

Nestor Aparicio  02:31

yeah, which would work? Hold on, I don’t even know this method. Yeah, that’s been fixing my back for 28 years.

Steve Elliott  02:39

Yeah, when Harvard place opened, I I worked at Phillips.

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Nestor Aparicio  02:44

Would, did you do it? Phillips? Listen to a lot of jazz music, for sure. Yeah, oh my gosh, no.

Steve Elliott  02:50

I waited tables. I was the world’s worst waiter. I was horrible.

Nestor Aparicio  02:56

Yeah? Oh man, I would Hannah’s fried dough upstairs, right? Since ice cream going on, right? That stuff, right? No Hooters yet, by far. City Lights, American, cafe, American,

Steve Elliott  03:11

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yeah, right, right. That was there, yeah. I mean, I would, I would. I was so bad that they would put me today. They would put me in the back of the restaurant, and the only people that sat in that section were people would come on a bus trip. They were all there was more blue hair than you would ever gonna find in a natural environment.

Nestor Aparicio  03:32

You weren’t doing the buffet thing you’re doing.

Steve Elliott  03:34

No, I was,

Nestor Aparicio  03:37

yeah, I would, I would make about his big too.

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Steve Elliott  03:41

I mean, it was huge when my

Nestor Aparicio  03:42

mother, who loved me dearly, that you never really knew that mother, my real mother, when in the early 80s, when she wanted to do something really like my best memories of her were going to Phillips and getting lobster and, you know, and filet mignon, and that was like she would take me down there twice a year to do that in 1981 8283 and I probably did that with her six to eight times, but that’s where we went.

Steve Elliott  04:11

It was her prime rib

Nestor Aparicio  04:13

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in 1982 I mean, my mom had some extra money. That’s where she wanted to take me. It was

Steve Elliott  04:19

great because I would make about 16 bucks. That’s how bad a waiter I was. I was. I would make about 16 bucks, and my parking ticket was $17 Oh, man, no, no. I would park legally, but I wouldn’t get out in time to put more money in the

Nestor Aparicio  04:33

dude McCormick was still there. That’s where I

Steve Elliott  04:35

was, right? Yeah, it’s McCormick. McCormick lot, and it was

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Nestor Aparicio  04:38

either a pepper day or a cinnamon day. You smell it in the air.

Steve Elliott  04:40

You can taste it. Taste it. Taste it

Nestor Aparicio  04:43

out of the garlic. Oh, yeah, just get up on you.

Steve Elliott  04:45

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Man, yeah, you’d run across light street like a crazy person because it cars are all going

Nestor Aparicio  04:49

65 we’re talking old Baltimore. Steve, look at us. Man. So I’ve got, like, a whole gig I want to talk to you about with my back and posture, and I’m gonna wet my whistle. To do that. We’re here at Koco’s. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Dr Steve Elliott, tell me what you do and how we got involved in this

Steve Elliott  05:10

lifelong friendship relationship. Yes, I’m a chiropractor, and I practice on Joppa road between lock Raven and Perry Parkway, and I stumbled into your radio station early on in my

Nestor Aparicio  05:22

in my career, right? I know it was early on. Some people said thought it was the end.

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Steve Elliott  05:28

You never know what’s ahead. Time is a river flowing backwards, right? Anyway, so,

Steve Elliott  05:34

so anyway, I had heard your station, and I thought this guy is, he’s, he’s a bit of an outsider, right from the outside looking in, sort of working the fringe. And I always used to think that, sort of in that framework in healthcare in Baltimore, chiropractors were also on the outside looking in. We were sort on the fringe. So I thought I got to get in touch with this guy, and I want him to advertise. I want to advertise with him, and that’s, and that’s how

Nestor Aparicio  06:02

I, you call me, like I did the first month having a radio station

Steve Elliott  06:07

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in July, or Steve came out.

Nestor Aparicio  06:09

I remember meetings summer. Yeah, windows were open. It was, you know,

Steve Elliott  06:13

was that kind of thing. But, I mean, I remember Steve coming out, and he was, like, talking to me about, you know, rates, and blah, blah, blah and all this stuff that I didn’t really understand, because I was, I had opened in 97 I 97 I had never done any radio advertising, and next thing you know, you came out said, Hey, let’s, let’s believe, yeah, because you used to go to Bartlett Joe

Nestor Aparicio  06:34

bartlinsky, yeah, I used to take Bob Haney home after he interned for me. And Bob lived in Brooklyn, and Joe bartlinsky was down in Brooklyn. The other bartlinsky was down further down more Pasadena. So I had gotten introduced to chiropractic before to learn about it a little bit, because it’s not something they teach you at a Dundalk high or Dundalk Community College or University of Baltimore. God bless you. Kurt Schmoke, I did not get that sort of training when I was there, or even when I was a reporter going to rock concerts and doing sports and sports medicine and people breaking bones and getting hurt.

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Steve Elliott  07:18

Baltimore was a backwater for chiropractic care. It had always been that way since, since the 30s. You know, we had large medical institutions here between Hopkins or University of Maryland complex. So chiropractic care was not, was not very popular, very common in Baltimore. Now you go to New Jersey, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a chiropractor, okay, but in Baltimore, it was really on the DL, not, not too many people partaking. It was actually early 90s.

Nestor Aparicio  07:53

Yalich did a lot of advertising, and I knew Larry little bit. Yep, he’s a Pittsburgh guy. Think what he might think. So, yeah, he advertised on pal when I was first on the radio, nearly he was real. First time Josh Lewin was here, and I do love Josh. Good to have you back in Baltimore. It’s great. I mean, actually, it’s great to hear your voice. I mean, it’s a I left refreshing. So nonetheless, but the first time he was here, I’m talking about that, that was yolich. Was an advertiser, fan, big

Steve Elliott  08:19

advertising, right? Yeah. And he blew up. I mean, he had multiple, multiple offices all over town, yeah. And as a matter of fact, one of my good buddies, Alan Sokoloff, had the, had the Alex clinic down in

Nestor Aparicio  08:32

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Glen, Burnie, when I know Alan from ravens

Steve Elliott  08:35

for years, right? And Alan was the chiropractor for University of Maryland, UMBC and the Ravens so Nestor once or twice. Yeah, right. So Al is a good buddy of mine, and so anyway, I actually interviewed to work for, for soccer law, I mean, for, for y’all, okay, yeah, when I first got out of school and we found out that we weren’t really meshing with what we were looking for in, you know, into the future, I was looking for a place to go and learn things and get out and do my own thing, right? He was looking for somebody who was going to stay around for a while and be in a certain long term associate, right? But I wanted to have my own practice. But I did an interview with him, and we had it. It was a great, great talk. I mean, very interesting. I mean, he was a guy who’s running, you know, 1000s of people through, you know, several, several large offices well,

Nestor Aparicio  09:19

and I guess in the early part of our relationship, and even to this day, I had a friend about a year and a half ago, you got to get away from that chiropractor, you know, like, like, mad at me because they just believe, they don’t believe in what you do. And then there’s the other side of Oh yeah. Well, I’ve got 30 years of experience, practical experience, and I’m about to, like, get into this with you, because, and I just put my phone somewhere, because, you know, it listens to you, right? So it listens to you then, so what happened? What had happened was I was booking my trip to South America, and I started getting served ads for seat cushions, right? That would make my butt better. Her. And you know, what am I l3 for? What’s going on back there. I break all hip here, but it’s okay, whatever it is.

Steve Elliott  10:07

Yeah, yes. About that, yeah,

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Nestor Aparicio  10:08

down low, right? So, oh, just something. Just move there. So this is a great example of something that I do. And I love everyone here at Koco’s, they know that and but sitting on a hard seat, I would say a church pew or a wooden seat. It’s like the Rocky movie. It breaks me, you know I’m saying like you’re my chiropractor. You know this, he loves me. So it got to me here, where I brought the old seat cushion with the sit on my face thing. Remember that pub? Yes, you remember that? So I brought that, and that’s not a very good cushion. It’s 30 years old. It was $5 cushion. And then Jen’s like, Hey, we’ve got this cushion we have on our couch. Take this. And I’ve been sitting on that. And you know that when I come to you after doing four hours of sitting here, Costas I stand at fayley’s. That helps me a little bit, especially now that the floor is level in the new place. So I am challenged by being 58 I walked 23,000 steps in New York, 48 hours ago, and you’re the one that like Humpty dump these and puts me back together again, right? And my wife’s got a hamstring issue now because she’s had cancer twice, and things fall apart, and it’s about posture sitting. I gotta call David Noll over at moi and get my computer screen so, like, I’m ergo, right? But like, all of this keeps me away from you, and I like seeing you when I just need an adjustment, not where, like my neck falling apart, yeah, dude. And part of falling apart are bad habits with this damn evil satanist device that we can’t live without. The mobile device. Yep. And how many heads go like this text all day long, and I’ve got these drifting glasses. They got to talk to Brian about where, like, I got to do that neck up and neck down in the computer. And you’re my chiropractor. And I, like, I told you, this was happening, and I ordered this seat based on what my clone was telling me to do. I sat in this seat, and I flew from BWI to Panama City, not the one in Florida with the oysters, the one in the canal with El presidente. That’s actually Nicaragua Nicaraguan. He was Panamanian. Panamanians of Mariano Rivera was Panamanian. So anyway, he might need the president but I landed in Panama, well, actually, watch baseball that night, and then I landed in Montevideo. And you can do that long it’s long airplane ride, probably 14 hours of flying. And I got up off the plane in Montevideo, and I’m like, oh my god, I found this great device. So I flew a couple places, and I got to Lima Peru, and I had a really awful connection, and I jumped off the plane and I left it, and I didn’t have it the rest of the way. I would have liked to have had it the rest of the way, my wife got one for Italy and has gifted it to me. Thank you. We’re gonna get two more, and I am sitting on it right now, Steve, that’s why I’m a little high. That’s why I’m taller than you, see, because I said to him, I’m taller than you because, see, I’m like, floating and like, don’t tell anybody, all right. Nobody listens to this show. Anyway, Steve, I had a water bed for like, 20 years. This, to me, feels like an advanced version of sitting on a water bed. And I’m going to tell you right now that I’m going to come and see you at the end of this shift. I’ve got great guests coming up today on the program. And you know that I’m I can’t I can’t stand I have to sit to do this. I’m going to have these segments. We’re doing a segment on diabetes today. I got all the guests coming in. Todd Schuler is coming by today. We’re gonna talk about law. Let’s see Oh Andy Andy’s coming by. And Casper wells, former big leaguer Gary adonado, who I work with at the Dundalk eagle in 1983 or 84 is coming by. We’re gonna talk about high school sports. So I’m gonna be sitting here through all these segments, right? And then I’m going to head back to Towson. I’m going to see you, and you’re going to tell me as to whether this thing is not some semblance of a $32.95 cent miracle that I found on ebay.

Steve Elliott  14:34

So I will be very politic about that. If you spent 33 bucks, I will make sure that that you think it’s working.

Nestor Aparicio  14:49

All I know is it keeps the weight off of my spine. Because the way can I show it to you? You haven’t seen it yet. I just see the edge. See the edge? It. Has a little bit, maybe too much air in it. But when I show it to you, gonna be like that? Looks like you need to blow it up. You’re gonna put it in the pool. No, no. This stage actually

Steve Elliott  15:08

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little better off with it being a little soft, because what it does, okay,

Nestor Aparicio  15:12

is it it will now I’m gonna sit back down here on the hard surface, and not, oh, oh, dude, that’s like, a world of difference. So this is the little seat. It’s called a cabo, C, A, B, A, E, A, U. It says this side down in front. So your your nature would be to plop down like this, like you would sit and think that this, no, it’s the exact opposite, and upside down. So this is the way you sit. Yeah, took me a minute to figure that out, yeah, and anywhere I put it, but I would tell you right now, Dr Steve Ellie is here. He is my chiropractor. Ellie, chiropractic life, love all, serve all. And I think that was already taken, but so now I’m tall again. I can’t begin to tell you, over five hours. How safe, how much this is gonna rescue me, even to the point well, now, like, I would be honest, Jen, struggle with this because she’s got shorter legs, right? So on the plane, she’s like, I liked it, but I needed a foot rest so she wouldn’t got it. She got a foot rest so for work, because she’s being bothered. I mean, we’re all let this. This is the best announcement or pronouncement or proclamation, yeah. I mean, well, yeah, like all that gift from the gods is like you help fix all of this, but I’m breaking it all day. Steve, yeah. I mean,

Steve Elliott  16:39

that thing is doing a great job for you. Everybody’s different with regard to what works. And the problem is, you can’t just say, Hey, this is for everybody, because it’s not for everybody. It’s going to be, it’s going to be for certain people. That’s what I mean. I used to sell pillows. I used to sell stuff in my office. You know what? I stopped doing that because you don’t know what’s going to work for somebody based upon, you know, Hey, I like this pillow. It should work for you. Well, guess what? You’re a different person, right? So you’ve got different biomechanics and different spine. Do you want to tell

Nestor Aparicio  17:10

everybody what a jack wagon I was when I first met you, and what the original problem I had with my ass was,

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Steve Elliott  17:19

oh, geez, I don’t remember I had, I had,

Nestor Aparicio  17:21

I’m looking at your wallet, yeah, oh, that’s nice to put my wife. I had a raven wallet with a raven bird on it stick and it was thick. It had credit cards, Marriott Rewards cards, just like all, all the things that are now in your app, right? Had pictures of my kid, right? You know what I mean, like, that’s what we kept in our wallets, right cash and the credit cards were thicker, you know what I mean? And I had it in my right ass cheek for years and years and years. And I would come in and say, sciatic, sciatica, like whatever that that electricity was. And there I literally had a habit, a bad habit that I was never going to be fixed, like you telling me I shouldn’t sleep on my face, which I also did for 25 years. And you said, Dude, you need to learn to sleep on your back. It helps your neck. And you explained it all to me. It worked. Apparently, I’m not a good listener, no, you’re a great listener.

Steve Elliott  18:27

It’s just, well, okay, you’re an okay listener, let’s not go over. It took me, dude,

Nestor Aparicio  18:32

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you were gonna strap a tennis ball to my chest.

Steve Elliott  18:35

I told you to stick a tennis ball in a pocket on your T shirt, and you will

Nestor Aparicio  18:39

not sleep when you’re coming. I’m speaking gospel to people here on the show right now, of things for me that have severely impacted and caused me great pain, right? So because I had bad habits, did you tell them that

Steve Elliott  18:51

you took the wallet out of your pocket and no longer sat on it? Because it was like 25 years ago, it was like having a high heel

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Nestor Aparicio  18:57

shoe, and within a week and a half I was fixed, and then computers happen right like now, we have all of that going on. I mean, there’s

Steve Elliott  19:04

always going to be something, there’s always going to be something that affects us, whether it’s, you know, there’s okay, there’s always one thing going on for everybody, and that’s gravity. There’s nothing you can do about that. So how do you, how do you get around that? And how do you, you know, you keep yourself strong. You want five bucks.

Nestor Aparicio  19:20

High five bucks. All right, nice.

Steve Elliott  19:24

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Love that. So anyway, you know, we’re gonna battle gravity all our lives. There’s nothing we do about that. But there’s other things we can do along the way, right? Don’t sit on a big fat wallet on one side. Try to sleep on your back, if possible. You know, put a pillow under your knees while sleeping on your back. You know, use a pillow that supports your neck, not just your head.

Nestor Aparicio  19:46

When I eat at Koco’s, I eat at the bar on the padded stools that they like, literally, they had so like, but here, when I do the show, I would bring a little padded cushion, because I’m gonna die if I don’t like, right? I mean, it doesn’t work for you and every airplane. Pain was going to be different, yep. And I went for this device, and it like really worked for me, so much so that I’m going to sit at home. But I’m convinced that my problem here, that I have is on the video it’s left shoulder is because of the computer screen, and I’ve already learned to not wear my real glasses here, because I would have to look through the bottom of your line. I come and see you at six o’clock tonight and be like, Steve, fix me. And you touch the side of my neck, and you’d be like, dude, what do you been doing all day, sitting on a hard surface, like this cocked this way, trying to, like, sit normal and do like the airplane seat thing. You know, the airplane seat thing is the worst ever, right? Fly to Vegas with your wife four and a half hours, and you’re turned in like, you’re cocked like this, talking the whole way, because the seats don’t allow for you to there’s no room. There’s no room. So, like, halfway through we change seats, so we we then sort of undo what we did. Otherwise, I’m going to land in Vegas, and

Steve Elliott  21:06

you could just stop talking. There’s not enough vodka

Nestor Aparicio  21:09

to make my back feel better when I’m out of line.

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Steve Elliott  21:11

You know this? You know? No, it’s not the best way to go about it. But, I mean, it works for some people.

Nestor Aparicio  21:17

Am I the worst patient you’ve ever had? The best partnership? I mean, like, because like, we like each other, but like I from a chiropractic standpoint, from just a pure I’ve seen you once a week, every week, for almost 30 years, sometimes twice a week, sometimes twice a day, sometimes at my wife’s bedside when she’s half alive, like all sorts of you know, on the table at the barn back in the like, right? So, like, like, right now, if I were hurting a little bit, you could figure out my neck. Is it typical that somebody like me, as I fall apart over 30 years. Need Somebody more, and also needs to educate myself about diet, sleep, the tennis ball you told me about all these years ago. I mean, I’m really kissing your butt right now here at Koco’s because, like, had I taken your advice at 33 right? Yeah, I would have been in better shape all along. Now I really have to plot things out, even to the point where I have, I have an ass cushion, Steve, that has to go everywhere I go.

Steve Elliott  22:33

You know, you don’t have

Nestor Aparicio  22:35

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ass everybody. I just think I got a little

Steve Elliott  22:39

taller on the radio. I mean, I could have just said, just sit on a donut, right? That’s, that’s a thing that people do anyway. I just

Nestor Aparicio  22:47

got a little adjustment there going my chiropractor.

Steve Elliott  22:50

Gosh, everybody’s different. Nestor, you, you are one of those people that might be a little bit more sensitive than than John Doe, okay, than the guy on the street. Your system is a little bit more finely tuned than some. I have some people, you could hit them with a hammer and it’s not going to do anything to them. And other people, you look at them wrong and their back goes out. It’s just the nature of humanity. Everybody fits on a spectrum from the most sensitive to the most stubborn, Hardy, whatever you want to call them. So you know, I’m not going to say that you’re the worst or the best. It’s you, just you fit somewhere on the spectrum of Spinal Care that I’ve seen in the last

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Nestor Aparicio  23:32

30 I got rid of the wallet. Yeah, right. I started sleeping on my back.

Steve Elliott  23:36

That only took a while, though, right? I mean, I’m I’ve took a while to get you

Nestor Aparicio  23:41

on your back. I have identified even a year ago, I had like I was losing my vision a little bit. My prescription was going weird, yeah? And that was doing really, really weird thanks to my neck. That was That took a while. That was a six to eight week process to figure out it was my vision, yeah, that it wasn’t and it was that created my postural problems that, really, I mean, have shut me down. And obviously my friends at Planet Fitness keeping me healthy

Steve Elliott  24:07

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this, what this is the bane of our existence, going forward like this. I mean, everybody, yeah, absolutely, people that used to have beautiful curves in their neck, 2530 years ago, no longer do I see, I see young folks come in with loss of curve in their neck, right? And that’s not great. Loss of curve in the neck is not great. It leads to problems down the road, and people that used to and

Nestor Aparicio  24:31

as humans were not built to have a have the kale, because our heads a 10 pound like bowling ball, right? I mean, it’s meant to sit in the socket up here. It just,

Steve Elliott  24:40

yeah, yeah. It’s, it’s meant to look across the horizon. That’s why our eyes are positioned the way they are, in the way our head moves, the way

Nestor Aparicio  24:46

it does, the way I walk through Manhattan on Monday with my head up, and that’s why I felt better on Tuesday, right?

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Steve Elliott  24:51

Yeah. Our our structure is to look forward and across the horizon. We’re looking for see

Nestor Aparicio  24:56

those crab cakes in the kitchen right here, because I

Steve Elliott  24:58

haven’t seen one yet. Come. Done. So that’s how we’re built. We’re not built for this, right? So stare at a device all day, and it puts a lot of strain on the neck and changes neck bone positions so that we lose our curve in our neck. And that has long term ramifications for I’m going to say, for the population. I would just want

Nestor Aparicio  25:19

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to say to people, be aware of it. Yeah. I mean, I’ve become far more with the issues I’ve had the last year, year and a half, with my neck, even through all of the Yoga I do. And I’m a warrior. I mean, like, but even all of that, if I’m sleeping wrong, or I catch myself on my phone, or I catch myself in bad posture, but the one thing for me is just this, even this, this thing I have, I mean, it’s literally, like a, like a, like a pool, like something, you’d sit on a pool, right, and just moving around on it a little bit. And the give and the fact that you could do some sort of Pilates, kind of, you know, moves on. It’s recruiting

Steve Elliott  26:01

musculature that you don’t typically recruit, right? So you’re sitting differently, dude,

Nestor Aparicio  26:05

tell me about my psoas. Tell them. What about how it fell apart during a plague because I wasn’t moving all that right? I didn’t have a stand desk until David Noll from from moi hooked me up with a stand desk. I was only working sitting. How much was I working? 18 hours a day. I sat, I sat and I sat more, and I sat more and I got off the yoga mat because my class, my my studio, shut down. Right, right. I mean, literally, I was a victim of covid in that way with my back from having the awful habit of sitting and working like it, but not doing it in a way that was smart, that’s all right, sitting

Steve Elliott  26:49

in a chair is tough, right?

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Nestor Aparicio  26:51

I could talk sports and a lot, yeah? But like this is for me. I that’s what I mean about me being like a chronic patient. But also this work of 30 years of you seeing me go from being a 30 year old guy to a 60 year old guy and having all these bad habits that if I weren’t a rock head, you said young people doing this thing, right? How you gonna

Steve Elliott  27:14

change that? It’s gonna be tough, right? People are gonna need to be aware. I mean, listen, I find myself doing it. I’m no saint. I’m human like everybody else. I find myself, at the end of the day on the couch, if I’m looking at something on my phone, yeah, and then I’m like, Whoa, hold on, right? Get up. Got to get up and move. Put that thing down. So, so it’s not easy, right? We are. We have become sort of slaves to that thing, really. I mean, all of our information travels through it, and I don’t know how to get around it, but that’s not my that’s not my

Nestor Aparicio  27:47

mic was hot till you hit it with the phone.

Steve Elliott  27:49

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Boom. I didn’t know that either. Yeah, it was cool though.

Nestor Aparicio  27:50

Let’s turn it down. It’s all good. All right. So I don’t think anybody said the F word.

Steve Elliott  27:55

I didn’t know that. I know of no, not yet.

Nestor Aparicio  27:59

Dr, Steve Elliot’s my guest. We’re here at Koco’s doing a Maryland crab cake tour. It’s all brought to you by our friends at GBMC. I’ve got, I had a $5 winner come by a minute ago. I hold the tickets up. Tickets are beautiful too. I got a Shirley Temple because boss hooked that up. So there’s nothing special in here. It’s way too early in the morning for all that. I’m trying to feel at home here. Also, our friends at Farnham and Durham are there the comfort guys, they may be a lot more comfortable. Jenny hit me. I was at morning. I went to Minneapolis, six in the morning. My phone goes off. She like, got a flood called foreign Dermer, who the comfort guys? Sean got there in about an hour and a half. So I am appreciative. Get on that it’s gonna be warm again here, then it’s cold and it’s warm, then it’s cold and it’s warm. Dr Steve Elliot is located on Joppa road, right between pairing and lock Raven. You know the thing? The first time I met you, I remembered a big golf club that was added like your parking lot. You remember this? It was like a big

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Steve Elliott  28:55

golf club, but the next door neighbors were they sold clubs, and they put

Nestor Aparicio  28:59

they had a gigantic golf club. You could see from 695, I don’t remember that. Remember that past. Bob Davidson Ford, no, I don’t

Steve Elliott  29:05

remember that. I remember the bull. There used to be a bull on the top of Kelly’s deli, which was about four doors down for me, really. Yeah, it was a big, it was a big fiberglass cow. Look, man. You know, I’ve been

Nestor Aparicio  29:15

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getting my hair cut with Sam LaMantia, right there. Gentlemen’s gentlemen. Not you know what I was getting adjusted with you before I went there to get my hair cut, really, yeah, even though I knew them through Ed block, yeah, but I had a different hair stylist at that point in my life. Then I then I woke up and got Paul. Now look at me.

Steve Elliott  29:33

Hey, still have hair.

Nestor Aparicio  29:35

Yay. Still nice of New York rock and roll. Here. It’s all brought to you by the other Maryland lottery. I have the Maryland treasures you want Bay Bridge. You want herons and crabs and eagles? I think that’s black water. Do you want acetate ponies or the most popular one lately has been this, this boardwalk one is like orange, so I think it just, you know. Attention.

Steve Elliott  30:00

I think I need the Bay Bridge because my wife is petrified to drive across.

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Nestor Aparicio  30:04

Yeah, it’s a little that ugly. And that would be that might be the winner. The ironic nature of this. Tell anybody about coming in to see you for the first time, because I just talked about coming get, getting the plumber, H back. Everybody’s used to that. How often do you see somebody? I mean literally every day of your life that has never had a chiropractor, and they’re maybe a little afraid of you that makes a sound like all of the things that would bring them to you might they’re already in pain, or they’ve already done five other things

Steve Elliott  30:33

keep them from coming to me. Right. Okay, right. Yeah, okay. You know, there, there are loads of different ways to improve people’s, you know, health in their spine, and you know, if somebody is really nervous about that concept of a adjustment, an adjustment, or the popping noise, I mean, there’s, there’s techniques that we utilize that don’t make any of that noise. There are techniques that we can utilize that are basically non force techniques. They’re best just based upon gravity and position. So there’s lots of ways to take care of folks. I mean, there are, there are probably between 140 and 160 different adjusting styles or techniques out there that are documented taught in schools. And you know, they all have their different parameters. What? What leads the chiropractor decide, okay, this is the segment to adjust, and this is the time to adjust it. But you know what we do is, you in school, you’re going to learn three, four or five different adjusting techniques, and you’re always going to keep a couple in your back pocket for those folks that don’t respond, or for those folks that are very nervous about, you know, any sort of

Nestor Aparicio  31:36

as a long time patient with you, I can definitely say that sometimes you assess me a little differently, and I’m hyper aware of, you know, where things are, yeah, and good at communicating with you, and that’s one of the wonderful things that we have that makes our radio situation a little more awkward. But I think the fact that you put out my fires, once you start doing that, that people, it becomes very clear that it might hurt here, because it’s locked there, you know, right? I mean, and I think conceptually, I didn’t even understand that well 25 years ago, you know, I feel like I know more the last 10 years about all the dumb ish I was doing that was bringing me to you, like having a wallet on my ass every minute of every day and refusing to move it to my front pocket. That’s all.

Steve Elliott  32:24

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I went to school in the south. The chiropractic school was in Atlanta, right? And a lot of our instructors were southern gentlemen and ladies. And you know, the South has a great way to turn a phrase. And one of the professors used to talk about, you step on his dog, a dog’s tail, he barks out the other end, right? The problems at the tail, but, but the warnings coming at the other end, right? So, so that was always a, makes me laugh, because people were like, but it hurts here, yeah, it might hurt here, but that’s a that’s the result of this over here not moving properly, right? So we need to get that the we need to take

Nestor Aparicio  33:01

that person. Steve man, I go all day with you, and I got some other guests, and you got to get back and get mom a crab cake as well. But like that part of it, and even, like what Trump didn’t understand about the plague and what a virus, like the notion that I grew up with, take a pill for that. You get a backache. I’m getting an ad on TV saying, take a doan’s pill. Yeah, right. I mean, like, literally, take a pill for that. So that is, I mean, you’re kind of fighting.

Steve Elliott  33:32

It’s a it’s an uphill climb, right? It’s, you’re swimming against the stream. In this particular culture, we are very medically oriented, and as I was saying earlier, in Baltimore, even more so because we’re the home of Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland medical complex, and so, you know, we’re very med centric in this culture. I mean, medicine is great for certain things, right? But great for prevention, right, right? They’re not great for, you know, some of these physical issues that go on. They’re not great for maximizing people’s potential in certain aspects of their lives, neurologically and physiologically, but they’re really good for when stuff starts going downhill fast and you know you’re in trouble, they will, they will stop that downhill slide right and hopefully start to pull you out so then you can again, undertake the things you need to do, health

Nestor Aparicio  34:26

wise, to get better. Well, I was not going to have the S word surgery, but I do have a checkup at GBMC next week. It’s my first checkup in many, many, many years. So I even got my week in. Check check in. You know, check in online.

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Steve Elliott  34:42

Do all that you have an appointment with us?

Nestor Aparicio  34:44

I know I’m good. I’m working on it. Man, I told my friend I walked a mile in their shoes last week for the Safe program on sexual abuse awareness. And I’m gonna have my buddy Andy’s coming by today. We’ll talk some more with him about this, that issue as well. What’s about diabetes today? A buddy Todd Schuler’s pub, buying talking about the law, and certainly going to talk about the Preakness. He’s going to have some very candid thoughts on the Preakness and selling off to the gypsies at the Churchill Downs. Steve Elliott has been my chiropractor for almost 30 years. You can find him. You want phone number. How do you want people to find Allison

Steve Elliott  35:19

Elliot, Cairo, calm and 884, 10, 8827670,

Nestor Aparicio  35:24

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all right, so your mom loves crab cakes. I’m gonna get you some crab cakes to go. It’s the least I could do for you. Fixing my back and my new little toy. You can actually see it now, but like, I steal so much candy. You know, as a boy, I used to go into the bank and get dumb, dumbs at the mall. And that was like part of going to, you know, if you went to the bank with your parents, you got to go up to the teller and they gave you, they gave you a dumb, dumb, you know, or sometimes it was less than that. It was some non denominational lollipop that was lime, or something awful, the yellow one, the lemon, the lime. Who wanted those? I was one of the grape or red cherry or the tutti frutti. So your place is the place I like. I steal a lot of chocolate from your family. I know it’s there to be shared. So I want to share crab cakes with you tonight. Crab cakes for chocolate.

Steve Elliott  36:20

What do you mean? That sounds like a good trade. You know, I do have a candy basket on my front counter. Everybody tells me I shouldn’t have it there because it’s not healthy. It’s not good for you. But, you know, don’t take it away. Things in moderation. Don’t take it away things in moderation, even moderation,

Nestor Aparicio  36:36

sometimes I take two. Oh, well, the

Steve Elliott  36:39

word, there’s the word, there’s a really good you do owe me

Nestor Aparicio  36:41

a crab cake toffee. It’s nice. Dr, Steve Elliot is my dude. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery, GBMC, as well as foreign and Durham. We’re here at Koco’s. I have a Shirley Temple. Have a lot of guests coming by. We have an NFL draft that we’re looking ahead and forward and over the hill with that. Luke and I’ll be checking out as well. All that breaking news will happen first on the WNS D tech service that is brought to you by cold roofing and Gordian energy. Bill Cole’s been hiding from me. We’re going to Vegas together in a couple weeks. I’ll be able to figure all that stuff out as well. But back in the in the cockpit here next week, we’re going to be at Pizza John’s on the first we’re going to be a planet fitness and Timonium on the seventh. We’re gonna be at Faith Lee’s on the 13th, and then at the fishmonger’s daughter in Catonsville on the 21st I got a little sneak preview of that the other night, and it’s a damn fine cheeseburger for the fishmonger’s daughter. That’s all I’m gonna say. Steve Elliott is my dude. You can find him over Joppa road. Do not be afraid the gentle chiropractic care that I have been talking about here at AM 1570 is available to you. Back for more from Koco’s crab cake tour is alive and may include a bowl of cream of crab soup, because it’s tasty. Stay with us. You.