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Subacromial Dry Needling & Lumbar Discs With Stenosis Present

April 19, 2023 chiropracticforward 0:17:04 0 Comments

CF 276: Subacromial Dry Needling & Lumbar Discs With Stenosis Present

Today we’re going to talk about Subacromial Dry Needling & Lumbar Discs With Stenosis Present

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OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow, look down your nose at people kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. I’m so glad you’re spending your time with us learning together. Chiropractors – I’m hiring at my personal clinic. I need talent, ambition, drive, smart, and easy to get along with associates. If this is you and Amarillo, TX is your speed, send me an email at creekstonecare@gmail.com If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #276 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Remote Myofascial Release & Manual Versus Instrumental Spinal Manipulation. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. On the personal end of things….. As we speak, I’m getting ready to meet my friends from the MCM Florida Mastermind this coming weekend. Now, I’m a couple of weeks ahead on these podcast episodes for most of you so by the time you hear this one, it’ll have come and gone but that’s what’s happening right now. What the hell is the MCM Mastermind you might ask? Well, Dr. Kevin Christie of the Modern Chiropractic Marketing podcast put it all together a couple of years ago. It started out at about 15 of us from around the country and I think we’re up to about 24 right now. Pretty capped out I believe. Kevin doesn’t want it any bigger than that but listen up!! He has talked about starting a West Coast mastermind as well. A separate sister group. They won’t be the OGs like our Florida group or anything but just as important…..as far as they know. : ) Anyway, it’s a very unique and very professionally run and organized thing. Lots of masterminds are thrown together a little willy nilly but Kevin, through his work with Strategic Coach, has this down to a science. The education and the speakers are always top notch, the networking and bonding opportunities are ideal for the exchange of ideas and inspiration, and it’s a damn good reason to get out of your clinic and experience something besides those walls. Plus, Kevin has some pretty talented connections. Our members include Brett Winchester, Mark King of MPI, Jay Greenstein, Ben Fergus, and lots lots more. Also, you get perspectives from a range of areas of the country. For example, our members are from

Texas
Alabama
Florida
North Carolina
Montana
Ohio
Connecticut
Illinois
Missouri
New Jersey

And I probably missed a few states but you get the idea. It’s a pretty cool thing to be a part of and I value the incredible connections I’ve made over the last two years. Whether it’s one of Kevin Christie’s masterminds or it’s another you come across, I highly encourage you hop into one….or form your own. You’ll thank yourself. In addition, I’m lining up my stuff for the big 100 Men Who Give A Damn event tonight. I’ve talked about this on the podcast before but we have to be in the community. You must. You can’t do business sitting on your ass in the words of Dan Kennedy so get out and go and do. One of the easiest and best ways to do that is through setting up your own 100 Men Who Give A Damn. Although I’d just go ahead and drop the Men from it and say 100 Who Give A Damn because when the wives come, the men spend more so let’s get all inclusive and get everyone there. You don’t have to do much. I asked 3-4 folks to help me and I picked them from different areas of the community and different industries for a wider net. One being internet, website, etc. We got a site up and were off and running. You have one event per quarter. Most businesses are happy to donate their space for charitable events. No membership, no committees or regular meetings. Low maintenance way to have your very own philanthropic group. Check out our site at www.100menamarillo.com and ask me any questions at creekstonecare@gmail.com I’m happy to help you get up and running if interested. No paper work or anything. Just start. Item #1 The first on today is called, “Dry Needling for Subacromial Pain Syndrome: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis” by David Griswold and published in Pain Medicine on 26 August 2022. Dayum. That’s hot. Why They Did It The authors of this systematic review with meta-analysis evaluated the evidence for the effectiveness of various applications of dry needling (DN) combined with other conservative treatments for subacromial pain syndrome (SAPS). How They Did It

Six databases (PubMED, CINAHL, Biosis, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) were searched after the study had been registered in PROSPERO.
The authors included randomized clinical trials investigating the clinical effects of DN in combination with other conservative interventions for SAPS.
Outcomes included pain and disability.

What They Found

Eight studies were selected. All eight studies involving 10 comparisons were included in the analyses (N = 538). A random-effects model was used to analyze between-group effects.
Dry needling performed in combination with other conservative interventions produced favorable outcomes at all time points for pain and disability.

Wrap It Up The meta-analysis suggests that various applications of DN performed with other conservative interventions are more effective than conservative treatment alone for reducing pain and disability in patients with SAPS. Direct-comparison studies are needed to determine whether one application of DN is superior to another. Before getting to the next one, Next thing, go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products That’s Tecnobody as in T-E-C-nobody. They literally have the most impressive clinical equipment I’ve ever seen. I own the ISO Free and am looking to add more to my office this year or next. The equipment you’re going to find over there can be marketed in your community like crazy because you’ll be the only one with something that damn cool in your office. When you decide you can’t live without those products, send me an email and I’ll give you the hookup. They will 100% differentiate your clinic from your competitors. I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com & get $50 off your purchase. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. I love it, my patients love it, and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it. Item #2 Our last one this week is called, “Conservative Treatments for Lumbar Disc Herniation at L3-4 or L4-5 Were More Likely to Fail When Ipsilateral Foraminal Stenosis Was Present at the Caudally Adjacent Segment” by Shuchen Ding and published in PubMed on 14 February 2023. Hot potato! Why They Did It To prove conservative treatments are important in lumbar disc herniation (LDH), but predictors for poor outcomes are unclear. How They Did It

Consecutive patients with unilateral single-level LDH at L3-4 or L4-5 were enrolled. Baseline clinical data were collected, and lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging was evaluated.
Foraminal stenosis was evaluated using Lee’s approach and further categorized as absence (grade 0 and 1) or presence (grade 2 or 3).
Each patient underwent conservative treatments (oral meloxicam and dexamethasone, corset, back extension exercise, physiotherapy, and manual therapy) for 6 weeks.
Conservative treatments were defined as failed if a patient underwent surgery within 6 weeks or reported poor recovery at 6-week follow-up.
Multivariate logistic regressions were used to examine the associations of failed conservative treatments with baseline characteristics and magnetic resonance imaging findings.

What They Found

The study included 222 patients (mean age 45.5 ± 9.8 years). Of patients, 48 (21.6%) had concurrent ipsilateral foraminal stenosis at the caudal segment, and conservative treatments failed in 39 (17.6%).
At baseline, patients with LDH and caudal foraminal stenosis were older (50.79 ± 6.14 years vs. 44.10 ± 10.13 years, P < 0.001), had greater leg pain (7.06 ± 1.17 vs. 6.39 ± 1.40, P = 0.003), and had a higher rate of positive straight leg raising test (54.2% vs. 33.3%, P = 0.008) than patients without caudal foraminal stenosis.
In multivariate regression, failure of conservative treatments was associated with positive straight leg raising test (odds ratio 2.26, P = 0.046), and caudal foraminal stenosis (odds ratio 3.20, P = 0.007).

Wrap It Up In the presence of caudal foraminal stenosis and positive SLR test, conservative treatments were more likely to fail in patients with LDH. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week. Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots.

When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few.

It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient.

And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point:

At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints….

That’s Chiropractic!

Contact

Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes.

Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms.

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Postpartum VAD and Pregnancy CAD

March 22, 2023 chiropracticforward 00:18:25 0 Comments

CF 272: Postpartum VAD and Pregnancy CAD

Today we’re going to talk about postpartum VAD and pregnancy CAD.

But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow, look down your nose at people kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers.

I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. I’m so glad you’re spending your time with us learning together. Chiropractors – I’m hiring at my personal clinic. I need talent, ambition, drive, smart, and easy to get along with associates. If this is you and Amarillo, TX is your speed, send me an email at creekstonecare@gmail.com If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
Then go Like our Chiropractic Forward Facebook page,
Join our private Chiropractic Forward Facebook group, and then
Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #272 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about outdoor play, screen time, and the impact of exercise. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Last week was Spring Break so we were a little slower than I like last week but understandable. Everyone is enjoying their kiddos being out of school and taking them on trips. I guess I’ll just move on and get over it. It’s a big week for me. I’m headed to Atlanta on Thursday for a big voiceover conference called VOAtlanta. It’s actually the largest voice conference in the US from what I’m told. If you’ve been to a chiropractic conference, then I can tell you, it’s very similar but big. You go keynote speeches. You sit in classes and do all that good stuff. Meet, mix, network. But they have X-sessions, which are really interesting. An x-session is taught by an expert in whatever that session has to do with. It’s a 3-hour intensive where you really dial down into that subject.

So one may be eLearning, one may be commercial reads, or one may be the best way to win auditions. That’s what’s on tap for this weekend. It seems more and more voiceover stuff is taking over my weekends and, to be honest, my weekly lunches. I have too many side gigs and too many interests. I want to be the highest level at everything I do. Of course, that’s not possible is it? Nobody can be an expert at everything. I’ll never be the smartest, most capable chiropractor. I’ll never be the busiest vo, or the best real estate investor, or the best painter or sculptor or musician or whatever else I have my fingers in. So we have to be OK with be pretty darn good, don’t we? My point is, we are hard on ourselves many times.

With imposter syndrome and all of the things that go into business and our psyches, it’s difficult to believe that we are where we are and we are on a level that lots of people with they were on. We doubt ourselves instead of lifting ourselves up. I’m the worst. I’m a tweener right now. Lol. I just made that word up by the way. I’m between. I have a successful clinic, thank the good Lord. And I have a successful voiceover career that is starting up. So, I’m between. I’m a tweener. That’s where I’m busy as hell at the one thing that I want to transition out of. Don’t get me wrong. I love being a chiropractor and I love solving the puzzles of my patients. But I’m past the every day, day to day, hands on treatment part of it. It’s time for a younger and hungrier associate or two to come in and rock that part out. At the same time here, I’m building for my future.

How do you retire from day to day patient care and transition into having more freedom of time, freedom of money, and freedom of place? For me, that’s voice over and real estate investing.

These can be done from anywhere at any time. But those have to mature to be able to take over my healthcare provider income. Or at least supplement it once I withdraw from daily care. In the meantime, one is already built and busy. The other two are building and getting busy. So when both are combined and considered, well I’m busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. I think where I’m going with all of this is to make sure you have your plan. I’m 50. Some say that’s young. Especially when I spent the first 8 years or so of having my chiro license being a full-time musician. I gave everyone else a head start on me.

But I feel I’m running behind. I see chiros, many in my mastermind group, ahead of me in being able to withdraw from daily patient care and being able to have multiple locations and things like that. So, what’s your plan? Just work like a mule your whole life and die in your clinic seeing patients at 80 years old? There’s nothing wrong with that by the way. Some love that idea. I have other things I really want to do and accomplish.

How do I get there?

How do you get there?

Start thinking big and beyond your current positions. Start at the end and work backwards. What is your ultimate goal and what’s it going to take to get there financially, emotionally, risk-wise, etc.? Also, like voiceover and real estate is for me, what are your fail safes in case things don’t unfold perfectly. Because you know they rarely do. Just start thinking about it regardless of your age. It’s never too early to plan it out and go down that path. Does it take 5 clinics and you just started your first one? Not too early to start considering what it’ll take to get another up and running in the next 3-5 years, and then on and on. Start thinking, planning, and using some strategery. Alright, lets get into the research.

Item #1 The first on today is called, “Postpartum vertebral artery dissection: case report and review of the literature” by Nicholas T. Manasewitsch and published in Thrombosis Journal on 29 October 2020.

Why They Did It To determine the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy associated with vascular complications, including ischemic stroke and cervical artery dissection and vertebral artery dissection (VAD).

How They Did It A 31-year-old Hispanic woman presented 10 days postpartum with a one-day history of vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and frontal headache. The patient’s pregnancy course had been complicated by preeclampsia, chorioamnionitis, and iron-deficiency anemia, and her delivery was complicated by acute hemorrhage. Physical examination was significant for left leg ataxia.

What They Found

Laboratory studies showed marked thrombocytosis. Emergent computed tomography (CT) scan of the head was obtained and revealed a left cerebellar ischemic large vessel stroke. Subsequent CT angiography of the head and neck showed a left VAD.
Based on correlation of the clinical history and laboratory and imaging findings, a diagnosis of vertebral artery dissection secondary to reactive (secondary) thrombocytosis from overlapping iron-deficiency anemia and acute hemorrhage was established. The patient was started on a heparin infusion and experienced significant improvement after a four-day hospitalization.

Wrap It Up VAD is a rare but important cause of neurologic symptoms in the postpartum period and should be considered in the differential diagnosis for women who present with headache and/or vertigo. Women aged 30 years or older and those with a history of a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy are at particularly high risk. Prompt diagnosis and management of VAD is essential to ensure favorable outcomes. Before getting to the next one,

Next thing, go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products That’s Tecnobody as in T-E-C-nobody. They literally have the most impressive clinical equipment I’ve ever seen. I own the ISO Free and am looking to add more to my office this year or next. The equipment you’re going to find over there can be marketed in your community like crazy because you’ll be the only one with something that damn cool in your office. When you decide you can’t live without those products, send me an email and I’ll give you the hookup. They will 100% differentiate your clinic from your competitors. I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com & get $50 off your purchase. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. I love it, my patients love it, and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it.

Item #2 Our last one this week is called, “Pregnancy Linked to Risk of Postpartum Cervical Artery Dissection” by Kurt Samson, MS and published in American Academy of Neurology on August 20, 2020.

Why They Did It To provide a possible explanation for why pregnancy is a risk factor for stroke.

How They Did It

The researchers analyzed data from emergency departments and acute care hospitals in New York and Florida between 2005-2015 and identified 826 women with cervical artery dissection and 826 matched controls, between the ages of 12 and 42 years, who had been hospitalized for renal colic.
The subjects were matched for age, race, insurance, income, and state of residence, with pregnancy defined as labor and delivery within 90 days before or six months after the index visit. The researchers then compared the risk of cervical artery dissection during pregnancy versus the same time period one year later.

What They Found Pregnancy was twice as common among 826 women with cervical artery dissection compared with the controls, with heightened risk limited to the postpartum period. Postpartum events occurred an average of 21 days after hospital discharge, and 45 percent of women with postpartum cervical artery dissection had hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at the time of their dissection diagnosis.

Wrap It Up New types of headaches, including face or neck pain, should be taken seriously, especially in the weeks just after pregnancy. While migraines, especially if similar to prior migraines, are the most common causes of headaches, new headaches or new types of headaches require prompt medical attention to be considered treatable issues.

Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots.

When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few.

It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient.

And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point:

At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints….

That’s Chiropractic!

Contact

Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes.

Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms.

We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

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We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

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Low Back Surgery & White Rice And Your Heart

January 17, 2023 chiropracticforward 00:17:50 0 Comments

CF 263: Low Back Surgery & White Rice And Your Heart

Today we’re going to talk about spinal surgery for low back pain & white rice and your heart.

But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow, look down your nose at people kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. I’m so glad you’re spending your time with us learning together. Chiropractors – I’m hiring at my personal clinic. I need talent, ambition, drive, smart, and easy to get along with associates. If this is you and Amarillo, TX is your speed, send me an email at creekstonecare@gmail.com If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
Then go Like our Chiropractic Forward Facebook page,
Join our private Chiropractic Forward Facebook group, and then
Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
Last thing real quick, we also have an evidence-based brochure and poster store at com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #263 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about physical and psychological factors in low back pain and we talked about the prevalence of long-term low back pain after symptomatic lumbar disc herniation. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Let’s talk about employees and my situation shall we? After I get through this short story, if you thought you were in a crappy spot, you may change your mind and feel blessed while feeling sorry for your Ol’ Uncle Jeffro here in Amarillo, TX. So, many of you know, this has been a challenging time for me. We started slowing down here in the clinic in September and not intentionally, by the way. Then lost my mother in law at the end of September. Then got a subpoena to testify in a court case that a family member is involved in. That added to our general level of stress for sure. Then started having some staffing issues.

My office manager decided to leave to open her own day care. About the same time, my second most important office member got a job offer to run a urgent care type facility. All the while, my numbers have been down from about 185 appointments per week down to about 135 or so per week. 50 less per week means 200 fewer per month. It’s a hit man. Especially when you carry that through for an entire quarter; September through December.

Especially when you consider I’m also funding starting a nurse practitioner from scratch. Then during this time we opened our second short term rental Airbnb house and fully furnished that sucker and worked on it day in and day out. Throw Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s in on all that and you’re starting to get the picture of what it’s been like around here.

So, we got one replacement hired and so far, she’s out-freaking-standing! The second replacement, after we hired her a little over 2 weeks ago, decided she just wouldn’t show up for her first day of work today. So, back to the drawing board while the girl that would be training her…..well her last day is in 4 days so, yeah. Oh, and I almost forgot, one of my best staff members on my spa side of the business has been having marital problems and had to take a 2-week vacation to work that out.

Then I have two others that I had to give hefty raises to in order to keep them. It’s been a time folks, a real real time. I do not understand employees right now. Especially the ones that get hired and don’t show up for work on Day 1. That’s TWICE in the last month that we hired someone that did not show up for their first day. What is wrong with people right now? I hope you’re having more luck with employees right now than I am. Here’s the thing though, screw it! We’re still getting up and showing up for our staff, for each other, and for our patients. Pain doesn’t disappear because we’re having problems in our personal and/or professional lives. Surgeons are still doing unnecessary surgery that we can prevent regardless of our problems.

If I have to go down to one employee for a while, we’ll figure it out. My wife will answer the phones and set appointments and I’ll bust my tail in the back office until we find another game-changing team that’s ready to make a difference for our patients. The mission is stead and unchanged. We will provide world class care to the population of my area. Period. I promise, I’m not going to gripe on every episode because you won’t stick around but part of my point in sharing with you is:

To let you know that if you’re having issues, you’re not alone. A lot of business owners are having staffing issues.
If I’m going through it and find the way out, you can copy that. Or at least copy my attitude and stay strong through the valleys so you can enjoy the peaks when they come back around.

Item #1

The first on today is called, “The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain”by Lachlan Evans and published in Medical Journal of Australia on 12 December 2022. Dayum. That’s hot.

Why They Did It Low back pain (LBP) is common, increasingly prevalent and the leading cause of lost productivity worldwide. Most LBP is generated by non‐specific degenerative changes affecting the bone and soft tissue of the spine, with congenital and acquired deformity, infection, malignancy and trauma comprising a much smaller cohort.

How They Did It

This narrative review focused on studies of any design involving adult patients (aged ≥ 18 years) with axial pain affecting the region of the lumbar spine. We acknowledge the myriad aetiologies of axial LBP and the corollary that treatment strategies must address the underlying cause and, as such, are similarly diverse.

Studies on neurogenic claudication or radiculopathy treated with surgery were excluded as were those evaluating patients with significant structural abnormalities such as spondylolisthesis and fractures.

Studies reporting spinal cord stimulation, radiofrequency ablation or percutaneous administration of epidural analgesia were also considered beyond the scope of our discussion.

They performed an electronic search of the MEDLINE database for articles published from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 2021, without restriction of language. Theyemployed the following search strategy: “lower back pain OR lumbar back pain” AND “surg* OR operati*”. Articles were not excluded based on study design. The study quality was assessed according to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria.

What They Found

Acute LBP is frequently self‐resolving, but recurrence is common, and a significant proportion of patients will develop chronic pain. This transition is perpetuated by anatomical, biological, psychological and social factors.

Chronic LBP should be managed with a holistic biopsychosocial approach of generally non‐surgical measures.

Spinal surgery has a role in alleviating radicular pain and disability resulting from neural compression, or where back pain relates to cancer, infection, or gross instability.

Spinal surgery for all other forms of back pain is unsupported by clinical data, and the broader evidence base for spinal surgery in the management of LBP is poor and suggests it is ineffective. Emerging areas of interest include selection of a minority of patients who may benefit from surgery based on spinal sagittal alignment and/or nuclear medicine scans, but an evidence base is absent.

Wrap It Up

The increasing burden of LBP presents a significant challenge to health care systems throughout the world. Its management should be overseen by primary care physicians and centred upon a holistic biopsychosocial approach of generally non‐surgical interventions.
Even though spinal surgery does have a role in alleviating symptoms of radiculopathy or neurogenic claudication, or in circumstances where back pain is related to cancer, infection or gross instability, its role in the management of degenerative LBP is not supported by the studies currently available.

Before getting to the next one, Next thing, go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products That’s Tecnobody as in T-E-C-nobody. They literally have the most impressive clinical equipment I’ve ever seen. I own the ISO Free and am looking to add more to my office this year or next. The equipment you’re going to find over there can be marketed in your community like crazy because you’ll be the only one with something that damn cool in your office. When you decide you can’t live without those products, send me an email and I’ll give you the hookup. They will 100% differentiate your clinic from your competitors.

I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com & get $50 off your purchase. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. I love it, my patients love it, and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it.

Item #2 Our last one this week is called, “White rice and pasta are just as bad for your heart as candy” by Caitlin Tilley and published in Dailymail on October 3rd, 2022. Hot potato!

Why They Did It

They examined the risk of heart disease among people whose diets were high in refined grains compared to whole grains.

How They Did It

The study looked at 1,168 healthy patients and compared them to 1,369 patients with coronary artery disease.

Participants answered a food frequency questionnaire to determine how often they ate whole and refined grains.

What They Found

They found those who ate refined grains – processed to give them a finer texture and longer shelf life – were more likely to develop coronary artery disease in middle-age.
They found that a diet that includes consuming high amount of unhealthy and refined grains can be considered similar to consuming a diet containing a lot of unhealthy sugars and oils

Wrap It Up

As more studies demonstrate an increase in refined grains consumption globally, as well as the impact on overall health, it is important that we find ways to encourage and educate people on the benefits of whole grain consumption. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week. Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

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Bibliography

Lachlan Evans, T. O. D., Andrew Morokoff and Katharine Drummond, (2022). “The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain.” Med J Aust II.

Tilley C (2022). “White rice and pasta are just as bad for your heart as CANDY, study suggests.” DailyMail.

Spinal Cord Stimulator vs. Placebo & Low Back Pain, Chiropractic, And Opioids

November 3, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:23:35 0 Comments

CF 253: Spinal Cord Stimulator vs. Placebo & Low Back Pain, Chiropractic, And Opioids Today we’re going to talk about Spinal Cord Stimulators vs. Placebo & we’ll talk about Low Back pain, Chiropractic, And Opioids But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

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OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow, look down your nose at people kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. I’m so glad you’re spending your time with us learning together. Chiropractors – I’m hiring at my personal clinic. I need talent, ambition, drive, smart, and easy to get along with associates. If this is you and Amarillo, TX is your speed, send me an email at creekstonecare@gmail.com If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #253 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about High Blood Pressure And Cognitive Decline & Does The Popping Noise Matter?. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Alright, if you’ve heard me fussing my face off about being slow for like oh I don’t know…..the last 8 freaking weeks or so….then you’ll be glad to hear that I have 43 on the schedule today with 5 new patients. That’s more like it. That’s 5 new patients, one consultation, and 3 re-exams. So….they’re coming back slowly.

Where the hell did they go in the first place? Who knows? But I talked to my buddy, Tyce Hergert down in Southlake, TX and he’s been slow as hell too. Until just last week. He thinks it’s the economy, inflation, back to school kicked it off, and then we have a big election that makes people a bit pulled back and financially more aware. Who knows, but it makes sense. Maybe it was a perfect storm kind of thing but I know I’m ready to get back to business and running around like my ass is on fire unable to keep up. Then you get to hear me fuss about that. Lol. It’s a cycle.

Why can’t it ever just sit right there in teh perfect pocket where you’re seeing just the right number of patients and are right where you want to be as far as being busy during the work week? Yeah, that’s a pipe dream. Never happening. I’ll tell you this though, I’d rather be running around here with my ass on fire, changing people’s lives, and making money along the way rather than sitting here wondering who I made mad and moping around like a whipped dog. Lol. So, for this week…we’re back toward the top of the mountain.

Just real quick on a side gig kind of thought process. I have people asking me all of the time how I started getting into real estate. I want to help you guys. I read a book that’s in the Rick Dad Poor Dad umbrella that’s called Tax Free Wealth by Tom Wheelright. It started talking about how you can pay lower to zero taxes by buying real estate. Well that got me to listening to the Bigger Pockets podcast and taking their webinars. Then I started delving into the niches of real estate. I decided for lots of reasons that Short Term Rentals, or STRs made the most money and the most sense.

That led to a podcast and a book by Avery Carl called Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth. They also have a private Facebook group that I’m a member of. In case you don’t know, STR is what an Airbnb or VRBO property is. Short term rental like 3-5 days or so vs. a year long lease. Trust me; people a hell of a lot dumber than you are making a ton on real estate. Here are the ways you make money on real estate:

Cashflow – You have a profitable property so you make monthly cashflow. On average, our STR in Lubbock, TX profits about $2,000/month. That’s above and beyond our overhead on the house.
Appreciation – You never buy property planning on appreciation. However, assuming it’s not in a terrible neighborhood, it usually appreciates. Which is money in your pocket when, or it, you sell.
Equity – Other people are buying your property for you. They are kind enough to buy down the payment and buy your equity in the property. Meaning, because of them paying you every month, you own more and more of your own property.
Taxes – There are multiple ways that real estate benefits your taxes and I’ll leave that up to a CPA since I am not one but in general;
1. With STRs, you can count your losses and depreciate everything on the real estate side, including the curtains to bring down your tax burden in your chiropractic clinic and try to get your tax burden down to zero for the year.
2. The write offs. You can write off all of the furnishings and everything that fits the real estate realm. Including meals where you sit and talk to your business partner (your wife and kids) about your properties.

Not to mention that if you buy an STR in a place you like to visit, you have a place to stay whenever you need it! Also, if the STR is more than 90 miles from your primary residence, you can qualify for a vacation home loan and only pay 10% down instead of the traditional 20% down.

That makes a million dollar home near or on the beach a hell of a lot more do-able for most of us. I’ll give you all a bit of a tip, you don’t have to go into these things blindly. Go to airdna.co and go down to the Rentalizer link on the left of your screen. Once there, put in any address, including your home address, and see what it might make as an STR. You may be surprised! It’s not a fool proof silver bullet but can give you some ideas. Also, don’t pay a 20% management fee. It takes me literally 15 minutes per week per property to manage.

Don’t lose 20% of your profit. You can do it yourself. Use guesty.com for the property management software and combine that with pricelabs.com for automatic and appropriate pricing from week to week and then……let er rip!!! Thank me later, fools! If you have any questions, join our private Chiropractic Forward Facebook group and start a post in there. I’d be happy to help if I have the answer. If I don’t, I can find it. Let’s get started with the research shall we?

Item #1

The first on today is called “Effect of Spinal Cord Burst Stimulation vs Placebo Stimulation on Disability in Patients With Chronic Radicular Pain After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial” by Hara et. al. (Hara S 2022) and published in JAMA on October 18, of 2022 and that’s some hot steamy salsa right there.

Why They Did It The use of spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain after lumbar spine surgery is increasing, yet rigorous evidence of its efficacy is lacking. The authors wanted to investigate the efficacy of spinal cord burst stimulation, which involves the placement of an implantable pulse generator connected to electrodes with leads that travel into the epidural space posterior to the spinal cord dorsal columns, in patients with chronic radiculopathy after surgery for degenerative lumbar spine disorders.

How They Did It

It was a placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
50 patients were in the study
Done at St. Olavs Univer. Hospital in Norway
Conducted from 2018 – 2021
Patients underwent two 3-month periods with spinal cord burst stimulation and two 3-month periods with placebo stimulation in a randomized order. Which seems like they gave it a good solid chance to work to me
Burst stimulation consisted of closely spaced, high-frequency electrical stimuli delivered to the spinal cord.
The stimulus consisted of a 40-Hz burst mode of constant-current stimuli with 4 spikes per burst and an amplitude corresponding to 50% to 70% of the paresthesia perception threshold.
The primary outcome was difference in change from baseline in the self-reported Oswestry Disability Index

What They Found

The mean changes in ODI score were −10.6 points for the burst stimulation periods and −9.3 points for the placebo stimulation periods None of the pre-specified secondary outcomes showed a significant difference. Nine patients experienced adverse events, including 4 who required surgical revision of the implanted system.

Wrap It Up

The concluded, “Among patients with chronic radicular pain after lumbar spine surgery, spinal cord burst stimulation, compared with placebo stimulation, after placement of a spinal cord stimulator resulted in no significant difference in the change from baseline in self-reported back pain–related disability.” So…..chronic pain…..if you’re a regular listener, you know me and chronic pain. I love learning and talking about it. You can’t solve a problem through burst stimulation that is as much entrenched in the brain as it may be in a physical sense.

You can blast it and blast it and until you treat the centralized portion, you’re pissing up a rope, as they say in Texas. If you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, start going through this podcast listening to anything on chronic pain, get a book by David Hanscum called Back In Control, and dive into the biopsychosocial aspect of pain. That’ll get you started.

Before getting to the next one, Next thing, go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products That’s Tecnobody as in T-E-C-nobody. They literally have the most impressive clinical equipment I’ve ever seen. I own the ISO Free and am looking to add more to my office this year or next. The equipment you’re going to find over there can be marketed in your community like crazy because you’ll be the only one with something that damn cool in your office. When you decide you can’t live without those products, send me an email and I’ll give you the hookup. They will 100% differentiate your clinic from your competitors. I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com & get $50 off your purchase. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. I love it, my patients love it, and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it.

Item #2

This second one I got from my buddy Dr. Craig Benton down in Lampassas, TX quite a while ago. Thank you Craig. It’s called “Association Between Utilization of Chiropractic Services for Treatment of Low-Back Pain and Use of Prescription Opioids” by Whedon et. Al. (Whedon JM 2018) and published in Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in June of 2018.

Why They Did It They say, “Pain relief resulting from services delivered by doctors of chiropractic may allow patients to use lower or less frequent doses of opioids, leading to reduced risk of adverse effects. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the association between utilization of chiropractic services and the use of prescription opioid medications.”

How They Did It

The authors used a retrospective cohort design to analyze health insurance claims data.
The data source was the all payer claims database administered by the State of New Hampshire.
The study population was 18-99 year olds, enrolled in a health plan, with at least two clinical office visits within 90 days for a primary diagnosis of low-back pain.
The authors excluded those with a diagnosis of cancer.
The authors measured likelihood of opioid prescription fill among recipients of services delivered by doctors of chiropractic compared with non-recipients.
They also compared the cohorts with regard to rates of prescription fills for opioids and associated charges.

What They Found

The adjusted likelihood of filling a prescription for an opioid analgesic was 55% lower among recipients compared with non-recipients. Average charges per person for opioid prescriptions were also significantly lower among recipients.

Wrap It Up

They concluded, “Among New Hampshire adults with office visits for non-cancer low-back pain, the likelihood of filling a prescription for an opioid analgesic was significantly lower for recipients of services delivered by doctors of chiropractic compared with non-recipients. The underlying cause of this correlation remains unknown, indicating the need for further investigation.” Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on.

Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

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About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger

Bibliography

Hara S, A. H., Solheim O, (2022). “Effect of Spinal Cord Burst Stimulation vs Placebo Stimulation on Disability in Patients With Chronic Radicular Pain After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” JAMA 328(15): 1506-1514.
Whedon JM, e. a. (2018). “Association Between Utilization of Chiropractic Services for Treatment of Low Bac k Pain and Risk of Adverse Drug Events.” J Manipulative Physiol Ther 17(30): 30136-30137.

Effectiveness Of Neck Exercise For Disc Herniation and Supine vs. Prone MRIs

August 18, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:17:21 1 Comment

CF 242: Effectiveness Of Neck Exercise For Disc Herniation and Supine vs. Prone MRIs Today we’re going to talk about Effectiveness Of Neck Exercise For Disc Herniation and Supine vs. Prone MRIs But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

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Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
Then go Like our Facebook page,
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #242 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Does Supplementation Work & Non-Surgical Treatment For Stenosis. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Well, last week was insanity around my office. I personally saw about 196 appointments and our nurse practitioner had his best week since we integrated and brought medical services into our clinic. He saw 38 appointments not counting me. I say, “Not counting me,” because I got the hormone pellets. If you’re not familiar, go search up BioT or search up Evexipel. We use Evexipel and it’s a hormone balancing or optimization procedure. The provider does some blood work and finds out where you’re at with some key hormones.

I’m way low on testosterone which makes me insane because I could drop some weight but I’m not nearly as bad as a lot of folks I see. I’m 6’4” and about 272. Yes, I should ideally be about 220 or even less if you listen to the government. However, I was a college offensive lineman and I’ve been a pretty thick dude my whole life. I have a dad bod but I’m not waddling around and having a hard time getting through doors is what I’m saying. OK? Anyway, I’m not sedentary either. I get lots of activity from 190+ patients in a week to exercise and throw the discus.

I’m a go-getter so the low T thing makes me a little insane but it is what it be and that’s just me. So, time to do it. We use Evexipel and when I did BioT, it was in the butt cheek and it was pretty freaking sore for about 5-7 days. Evexipel does the pellets in the flank for men and 4 days later, I have had very little to basically zero pain. It’s been amazing.

The pellets take about 5 days to start being absorbed in the body so I’m looking forward to the benefits. I’ll keep you updated. For my practice specifically, you’ve heard me mention that we will patch one hole and another leak will spring and I’m always on the lookout for them. Well, I found one just this morning. We had 1 96 patients on my side last week. I show up for work this morning and look at the schedule and there are only 36 patients on my schedule today.

I guess this issue didn’t register with any of my staff members because when I asked what happened to my schedule this week, they just acted like it’s normal and the week starts filling out on Mondays. Oh no no no. That’s not how we need to be looking at it. Let’s do a little high-level, global thinking here. I saw 25 new patients last week. If they’re all on schedule, that’s at least 25 appointments booked on the following Monday. Remember Monday has 36 currently.

Well, 6 of those are new patients. So, let’s throw out those 6 new patients and that leaves us with 30 today. If we remove the new ones from last week, the 25 that should have been guaranteed…..then that just leaves us with 5 established patients. 5. Cinco. Cinco freaking established patients for a Monday. So, when we’re looking at it in this manner, well, clearly there’s a problem. Patients aren’t on schedule and we’ve had significant fall-off.

This means I’m either not doing my job educating them on why they need to be consistent, or the staff isn’t encouraging the message and supporting the message, or the front desk isn’t getting them rescheduled. Or all three. Either way, we basically bled 25 new patients last week. So, that hole has to get plugged, yet again, this week. Another thing to consider is that it’s basically Back To School time and that’s traditionally a slow-down time for us. So that something else can go stupid next week. Because that’s the way it goes.

Item #1

This first one is called “Outcomes of active cervical therapeutic exercise on dynamic intervertebral foramen changes in neck pain patients with disc herniation” by Wu et. al. (Wu SK 2022) and published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders on July 30 of 2022. Bam!!! Into the frying pain! It’s hot.

Why They Did It

To better understand biomechanical factors that affect intervertebral alignment throughout active therapeutic exercise, it is necessary to determine spinal kinematics when subjects perform spinal exercises. This study aims to investigate the outcomes of active cervical therapeutic exercise on intervertebral foramen changes in neck pain patients with disc herniation.

How They Did It

Thirty diagnosed C4/5 and/or C5/6 disc-herniated patients
8-week cervical therapeutic exercise program
They were followed up with videofluoroscopic images.
The dynamic changes in the foramen were computed at different timepoints, including the neutral position, end-range positions in cervical flexion-extension, protrusion-retraction, and lateral flexion movements.

What They Found

The results showed that the active cervical flexion, retraction, and lateral flexion away from the affected side movements increased the area of the patients’ intervertebral foramen; while the active extension, protrusion, and lateral flexion toward the affected side reduced the areas of intervertebral foramen before treatment.
After the treatment, the active cervical flexion significantly increased the C2/3, C3/4, and C6/7 foramen area by 5.02-8.67%, and the extension exercise significantly reduced the C2/3 and C4/5 area by 5.12-9.18% compared to the baseline.
Active retraction movement significantly increased the foramen area from C2/3 to C6/7 by 3.82-8.66%.
Active lateral flexion away from the affected side significantly increased the foramen by 3.71-6.78%

Wrap It Up

The 8-week therapeutic exercises including repeated cervical retraction, extension, and lateral flexion movements to the lesion led to significant changes and improvements in the intervertebral foramen areas of the patients with disc herniation.

Before getting to the next one, I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! It’s live again. Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com to get $50 off your purchase. Y’all, it makes a world of difference. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds? My patients love it and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it. Hear me now and believe me later.

Item #2

I saw this one in the Forward Thinking Chiropractic Alliance group on Facebook and it’s pretty darn interesting. It’s called, “Prone Position MRI of the Lumbar Spine in Patients With Low Back Pain and/or Radiculopathy Refractory to Treatment” by Avellanal et. al. and published in Pain Physician in August of 2022 damnit this Is the first day of August it just doesn’t get any more fire than that heat!

Why They Did It

There are patients with limiting low back pain (LBP) with or without radicular pain in whom conventional supine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show no causative pathology. Despite the limitations of dynamic axially loaded MRI examinations, these imaging studies have shown a striking ability to diagnose pathology unrecognized by conventional MRI. The difference in findings between supine and prone MRI with patient symptom correlation has not been studied.

How They Did It

Nineteen patients suffering from chronic moderate-to-severe LBP and/or radicular pain
Nonresponsive to conventional therapy or interventional treatment
Both supine and prone MRIs were performed and analyzed by a neuroradiologist.
Specific supine and prone measurements were registered, including spinal canal area, lateral recess diameter, foraminal area, and ligamentum flavum thickness.
Three-dimensional MRI reconstructions of varying pathology patterns were created.

What They Found

In 52.6% of cases, disc pathology or increased disc pathology was seen only on prone imaging.
They observed significant buckling and increased thickness of the ligamentum flavum in 52.6 % of cases in the prone position that was absent from the supine MRIs.
They also documented varying grades of spondylolisthesis and facet joint subluxation resulting in significant foraminal stenosis in 26.3% of prone cases not seen from supine MRIs.

Wrap It Up

Four patterns of pathological findings have been identified by MRI performed in the prone position.
These findings were not observed in the supine position.
Prone MRI can be a significant and useful tool in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with back pain refractory to treatment whose conventional supine MRIs appeared unremarkable.

Which I also take as yet another reason you cannot trust MRI’s for definitive diagnosis of the source of pain.

Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

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The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point:

At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

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Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

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Bibliography Wu SK, C. H., You JY, Bau JG, Lin YC, Kuo LC (2022). “Outcomes of active cervical therapeutic exercise on dynamic intervertebral foramen changes in neck pain patients with disc herniation.” BMC Musculoskelet Disord 23(1): 728.

Brain Activity From Spinal Manipulative Therapy & PT Is As Good As Arthoscopic Surgery For Meniscus Issues

August 4, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:14:12 0 Comments

CF 240: Brain Activity From Spinal Manipulative Therapy & PT Is As Good As Arthoscopic Surgery For Meniscus Issues Today we’re going to talk about the Brain’s Activity as a result From Spinal Manipulative Therapy & we’ll talk about how PT Is As Good As Arthoscopic Surgery For Meniscus Issues But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

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Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #240 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Changing One’s Mind About Pain and how the cognitive aspect of pain has to be addressed. Fascinating stuff, folks. Truly. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

I’m headed to Sarasota this weekend for the MCM Florida Mastermind with Kevin Christie and others. And when I say ‘others’, I mean big-timers. It’s a privilege to be invited and to be a member of this private group of masterminds. I’m talking about Kevin, of course, but Brett Winchester, Jay Greenstein, Mark King, Ben Fergus, Scott Schreiber, and more! Power-hitters. If you are interested in being a part of this mastermind, email Dr. Christie at drkchristie@gmail.com We’re keeping it around 20 members and I believe we have about 15 at the moment. So, there are a few more seats. But don’t waste time because those spots might fill up PDQ. For you Yanks……that means pretty damn quick. Going to Sarasota on Thursday means that all patients are getting packed into a 3 day work week. We have 52 on the schedule today as a result so this one is short and sweet my dear friends. But I will say, the numbers are back to looking encouraging. At least until the back-to-school slow down comes along. We see it every year and I’m sure this one will be no different. Although, we are going to be doing some ‘Back to school doesn’t mean forget the chiropractor’ style marketing to try to combat it. If you see back-to-school slowdowns every year, what are you doing to offset it? Let me know and I can share it with our audience. Email me at creekstonecare@gmail.com Let’s get going with the research.

Item #1

The first one today is called, “Effect of Physical Therapy vs Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy in People With Degenerative Meniscal Tears. Five-Year Follow-up of the ESCAPE Randomized Clinical Trial” by Noordyn et. al. (Noorduyn JCA 2022) and published in JAMA Network Open on July 8, 2022. Aye aye aye, that’s a hot plate of hot pie!

Why They Did It

There is a paucity of high-quality evidence about the long-term effects (ie, 3-5 years and beyond) of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy vs exercise-based physical therapy for patients with degenerative meniscal tears. The authors wanted to know….is exercise-based physical therapy just as good or equal to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy during a 5-year follow-up period in patients aged 45 to 70 years with a degenerative meniscal tear?

How They Did It

278 patients completed the 5-year follow-up
A noninferiority, multicenter randomized clinical trial was conducted in the orthopedic departments of 9 hospitals in the Netherlands. A total of 321 patients aged 45 to 70 years with a degenerative meniscal tear participated. Data collection took place between July 12, 2013, and December 4, 2020.
Patients were randomly allocated to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy or 16 sessions of exercise-based physical therapy.
The secondary outcome was progression in knee osteoarthritis shown on radiographic images in both treatment groups.

What They Found

From baseline to 5-year follow-up, the mean (SD) improvement was 29.6 (18.7) points in the surgery group and 25.1 (17.8) points in the physical therapy group.
The crude between-group difference was 3.5 points.
Comparable rates of progression of knee osteoarthritis were noted between both treatments.

Wrap It Up

In this noninferiority randomized clinical trial after 5 years, exercise-based physical therapy remained noninferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for patient-reported knee function.
For us English speakers, that means that exercise was just as good as arthoscopic surgical intervention and didn’t lead to any increase in knee osteoarthritis
Physical therapy should therefore be the preferred treatment over surgery for degenerative meniscal tears.
These results can assist in the development and updating of current guideline recommendations about treatment for patients with a degenerative meniscal tear.

Before getting to the next one, I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! It’s live again. Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com to get $50 off your purchase. Y’all, it makes a world of difference. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. My patients love it and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it. Hear me now and believe me later.

Item #2 The last one this week is called “Spinal Manipulative Therapy Alters Brain Activity in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Longitudinal Brain fMRI Study” by Tan et. al. (Tan W 2020) and published in Frontiers In Neuroscience on November 19th of 2020. Not as hot as it once was I suppose.

Why They Did It They say that we know Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) helps to reduce chronic low back pain (cLBP). However, the underlying mechanism of pain relief and the neurological response to SMT remains unclear. The authors were trying to get some clarity on the mechanism. Why does it help?

How They Did It

We utilized brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) upon the application of a real-time spot pressure mechanical stimulus to assess the effects of SMT on patients with cLBP.
Brain fMRI was performed for Group 1 at three time points: before an adjustment, after the first adjustment session, and after the sixth adjustment.
The healthy controls (Group 2) did not receive an adjustment and underwent only one fMRI scan.
During fMRI scanning, a real-time spot pressure mechanical stimulus was applied to the low back area of all participants.
Participants in Group 1 completed clinical questionnaires assessing pain and quality of life

What They Found

Before SMT, there were no significant differences in brain activity between Group 1 and Group 2. After the first adjustment, Group 1 showed significantly greater brain activity in the right parahippocampal gyrus, right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and left precuneus compared to Group 2. After the sixth adjustment, Group 1 showed significantly greater brain activity in the posterior cingulate gyrus and right inferior frontal gyrus compared to Group 2. After both the first and sixth adjustments, Group 1 had significantly improved outcomes scores than the control group

Wrap It Up

The authors say, “We observed alterations in brain activity in regions of the default mode network in patients with cLBP after SMT. These findings suggest the potential utility of the default mode network as a neuroimaging biomarker for pain management in patients with cLBP. In a sense, we can re-map faulty wiring through motion, function, and proprioception which are all things provided in a good adjustment and targeted exercise. If all you’re doing is adjustments though, reconsider. A broad management protocol is the key. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

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Bibliography

Noorduyn JCA, v. d. G. V., Willigenburg NW, (2022). “Effect of Physical Therapy vs Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy in People With Degenerative Meniscal Tears: Five-Year Follow-up of the ESCAPE Randomized Clinical Trial.” JAMA Netw Open 5(7).

Tan W, W. W., Yang Y, Chen Y, Kang Y, Huang Y, Gong Z, Zhan S, Ke Z, Wang J, Yuan W, Huang W, Zee C, Chen Z, Chen BT (2020). “Spinal Manipulative Therapy Alters Brain Activity in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Longitudinal Brain fMRI Study.” Front Integr Neurosci.

The Inflammatory Response’s Effect On Chronic Pain & The Entry Point For Low Back Pain

June 30, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:26:36 0 Comments

CF 235: The Inflammatory Response’s Effect On Chronic Pain & The Entry Point For Low Back Pain Today we’re going to talk about the inflammatory response’s protection from chronic pain, which is fascinating.. and we’ll talk about where patients should be starting their journey for low back pain. But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

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Go to Amazon and check out my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and your patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #235 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Chiropractic saving Medicare patients money and adverse events and a better position for preventing strokes when adjusting the neck. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

I had a big weekend in Frisco, Tx. If you don’t know where Frisco, TX is, it is basically North East Dallas. It’s the home of the Dallas Cowboys training facility. It’s where all of the people you hear about moving to Texas are moving to. The place has growth that is just almost unreal. They have to be continually building high schools and highways because they can hardly keep up with their growing population. Anyway, it was the location of the Texas Chiropractic Association’s annual state convention, which is called ChiroTexpo.

This year, I was asked to teach a 2-hour course. My course is called Chronic Pain And The Up-regulated Central Nervous System. Those of you that are regular listeners here are probably familiar with some of what I cover in the course. My main goal for attendees of my course is more responsible in managing of their patients and more responsible in communicating with them. I’m trying to kill the habits some have of catastrophizing imaging findings and scaring patients into a ton of treatment by using harmful words, phrases, and analogies. I had a patient last week whose primary told her that her spine was like a dry twig from osteoporosis.

Seriously?

The daughter was scared to death and the patient didn’t want to move an inch because she had a picture in her mind that her spine was going to start splintering. How awful. But, you get what I’m saying. I’m trying to use guidelines and research to show why words matter and how we can help solve more chronic pain patients’ issues through good communication and broad management protocols. So there. Good times in the metroplex. I got to meet a lot of folks and hang out with some buddies. I got to see Mike Massey from Tennessee. He was speaking on Mastering Medicare. I got to hang out with Jay Greenstein and have some dinner and drinks. He was in town speaking on technology in the profession.

Excellent as always.

I hung out and had dinner with Brandon Steele, his wife and daughter, and my other good friend Craig Benton from Lampasas Texas. I also spent plenty of time with my regular TCA family, Tyce Hergert, Devin Pettiet, Max Vige, Bill Lawson, the new President of the TCA and Todd Whitehead, the new Secretary/Treasurer of the TCA, and always a favorite, Stephen Foster who is the President of Texas Chiropractic College. What a wonderful individual. TCC is fortunate to have him at the helm.

These connections are important to me and I value them greatly. I also got to meet a couple of fellow speakers and get to know them better. Kristi Hudson from ChiroHealthUSA out in Mississippi. She’s just got amazing good vibes and energy. You can tell when people are good at heart and she’s great. I also met Dr. Cindy Howard, a functional medicine mastermind, ninja, and Jedi. She’s just simply a force to be reckoned with. Very impressive, excellent attitude, and a new connection I’m excited to have made.

On top of all of that, I won an award at the awards gala. I won the Executive Director’s award which is amazing and quite an honor. So, overall, it was a great weekend. I’m recovering from all of the festivities but it was well worth it and I’m looking forward to the next one. Again, it’s mid-June 2022 and I’m still looking for a chiropractor to come in here and treat in my clinic and grow my clinic. If interested, send me an email and a CV to creekstonecare@gmail.com please.

I want to get to know you. But, understand, I’m a go-getter. You’ll need to be as well. But for the right person, this might be the place you’ll want to spend the rest of your career.

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Item #1

The first one is called “Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain” by Parisien et. al. (Parisien M 2022) and published in Science Translational Medicine on May 11 of 2022 and it’s a hot potato, coming through.

Why They Did It

They say, “The transition from acute to chronic pain is critically important but not well understood. Here, we investigated the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic low back pain” On a quick side note, there is the suggestion that neuroplasticity may partially explain the slip from acute to chronic. Isn’t it an interesting thought; tissue has a healing time? If we can get the pain to cease after healing occurs, thus preventing the slip from acute to chronic….imagine how much time, money, and suffering we save the system. Low back pain is the leading cause of disability globally and I would venture a guess that the vast majority of that pain is not acute. It’s chronic.

How They Did It

They performed the transcriptome-wide analysis in peripheral immune cells of 98 participants with acute LBP, followed for 3 months.
Transcriptomic changes were compared between patients whose LBP was resolved at 3 months with those whose LBP persisted

What They Found

They found thousands of dynamic transcriptional changes over 3 months in LBP participants with resolved pain but none in those with persistent pain.
Transient neutrophil-driven up-regulation of inflammatory responses was protective against the transition to chronic pain.
In mouse pain assays, early treatment with a steroid or NSAID also led to prolonged pain despite being analgesic in the short term; such a prolongation was not observed with other analgesics.
Depletion of neutrophils delayed resolution of pain in mice, whereas peripheral injection of neutrophils themselves prevented the development of long-lasting pain induced by an anti-inflammatory drug.

Wrap It Up

Analysis of pain trajectories of human subjects reporting acute back pain in the UK Biobank identified elevated risk of pain persistence for subjects taking NSAIDs. Thus, despite analgesic efficacy at early time points, the management of acute inflammation may be counterproductive for long-term outcomes of LBP sufferers. You can’t tell me that’s not somewhat exciting. I also read an article last week asking if we’re close to curing cancer and, based on some more recent results from the immunotherapy strategies they’re using and studying, they’re optimistic that an end for a lot of cancers may be in sight.

That’s worth having some excitement over. If we can cure cancer and figure out how to prevent pain from slipping into chronic pain…..damn. Imagine how our world changes. Almost immediately. I’m a dreamer and I’m dreaming right now. What a party that’ll be if they can get it done. Before getting to the next one, I have to tell you, that Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! It’s live again. Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com to get $50 off your purchase.

Y’all, it makes a world of difference. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. My patients love it and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it. Hear me now and believe me later.

Item #2

The last one today is called, “Where to start? A two-stage residual inclusion approach to estimating the influence of the initial provider on health care utilization and costs for low back pain in the US” by Harwood et. al. (Harwood 2022)and published in BMC Health Services Research on May 23, 2022 and that’s hotter than Texas in June and July. For real, folks. It was already hitting 105 and 108 in Amarillo and Dallas this last weekend. That’s nuts.

Why They Did It

Diagnostic testing and treatment recommendations can vary when medical care is sought by individuals for low back pain (LBP), leading to variation in quality and costs of care. We examine how the first provider seen by an individual at initial diagnosis of LBP influences downstream utilization and costs.

How They Did It

They used national private health insurance claims data on 3,799,593 individuals,
Subjects were individuals aged 18 or older
They were retrospectively assigned to cohorts based on the first provider seen for their low back pain
They excluded those with back pain, serious conditions, or opioid script in the 6 months prior to the study
Outcome measures included imaging, back surgery rates, hospitalization rates, emergency department visits, early- and long-term opioid use, and costs (out-of-pocket and total costs of care).

What They Found

Cost and utilization varied considerably based on the first provider seen by the patient.
The frequency of early opioid prescription was significantly lower when care began with an acupuncturist or chiropractor, and highest for those who began with an emergency medicine physician or advanced practice registered nurse (APRN).
Long-term opioid prescriptions were low across most providers except physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians and APRNs.
The frequency and time to serious illness varied little across providers.
The total cost of care was lowest when starting with a chiropractor ($5093) or primary care physician ($5660), and highest when starting with an orthopedist ($9434) or acupuncturist ($9205).

Wrap It Up

The first provider seen by individuals with LBP was associated with large differences in health care utilization, opioid prescriptions, and cost while there were no differences in delays in diagnosis of serious illness. Frequency and time to serious illness varied little across providers and the total cost of care was the lowest when starting with a chiropractor. Superhero sounds engaged.

Boom, snap, slap, kachow, frickin’ face chop.

So why in the holy mother of common sense are we not being flooded with pain patients coming from the medical community? How is it possible? We keep seeing papers just like this. This just happens to be the newest one. We’ve seen multitudes of this same result. Evidence-based and patient-centered chiropractic saves money, get patients equal or better outcomes, patients are more satisfied with chiropractic care, and we save the patient and the system money.

That’s it, the end of the story. It’s time for a profession that acts as they stand on the shoulders of mother evidence and research….like the medical profession, for example….. to begin paying attention to its own damn research and making it mandatory for spinal and joint pain patients to go to an evidence-based, patient-centered chiropractor first for 2 weeks before they even think of making a different move. If they’re not doing that, they’re 100% ignoring just about every bit of research I’ve seen on this topic in the past 10 years.

Dr. Christine Goertz once told me that it takes on average 18 years for research to filter down to the everyday provider in the field. So…..just like 8 more years before our offices are inundated, right? That is if they don’t cure chronic pain first. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in the leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store

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The Message

I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point:

At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic! Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect

We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

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About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger

Bibliography

Harwood, K. J., Pines, J.M., Andrilla, C.H.A., (2022). “Where to start? A two stage residual inclusion approach to estimating influence of the initial provider on health care utilization and costs for low back pain in the US.” BMC Health Serv Res 22(694).

Parisien M, L. L., Dagostino C, (2022). “Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain.” SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 14(644).

Nerve Flossing Carpal Tunnel & Catastrophizing

May 5, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:15:37 0 Comments

CF 227: Nerve Flossing Carpal Tunnel & Catastrophizing Today we’re going to talk about Nerve Flossing Carpal Tunnel & Catastrophizing But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #227 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Restless Leg Syndrome. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Well if you listened to me last week, then you heard me struggling through an episode. My voice was a straight up mess, I felt pretty dang rough, and really just wanted to be at home in my bed. That business went on for a few more days. I finally figured out that I had COVID. What the hell. Isn’t COVID over? Apparently not. At this point, I’m 8 days out from the first day I felt crummy. I just have a stuffy nose and coughing some stuff out of my chest here and there but doing pretty good overall. I’m just glad I got the omicron brand rather than the DeltaVID or the OG-VID I was beginning to think I was immune.

I had an employee that had the antibodies but never got sick. I figured that was me. I guess not. So, I should be good to go with the Rona for like six months before I get it again. Lol So last week was a bust and I have a short week this week as I head to Florida to meet my buddies in St Augustine fir the MCM Mastermind that Kevin Christie began. It’s an outstanding group of providers. I don’t know if there are any seats left in the group but if you’d like to join the group, gimme a holler.

The next trip and meeting is July 22 in Sarasota. Let’s get to it. Before we do though, I recently connected with a dude. we all know that the number one type of case that we want is a personal injury case – they are gold because the clients are more compliant, and we get paid at rates far above insurance or Medicare or Medicaid. The patient’s attorney tells them to go for treatment as doing so enhances their legal case and gets them more money. That’s on their end of it but we know less medical providers will accept their cases and they need treatment. And we can help.

The problem is, how do we get PI cases? Attorneys don’t generally respond to your invitation for lunch. And let’s face it, they’re a touch bunch. I have the answer. An attorney I know has put together a system, that is both in written and video form, that shares how to approach attorneys and get them to send their PI clients to you. This is the real deal. Attorney Paul Samakow’s system costs $997 and he guarantees satisfaction or your money back. You have to check this out. Even if you only get one case, you’ve made at least 4 or 5 times the investment. Go to gettingpicases.com/cs That’s gettingpicases.com/cs One more time so you get it right: gettingpicases.com/cs

Item #1

The first one is called “Peripheral and Central Adaptations After a Median Nerve Neruomobilization Program Completed by Individuals With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: An Exploratory mechanistic Study using Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation” by Paquette et. al. (Paquette P 2020) and published in the Journal Of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics on August of 2020. It’s just steamy….not too enfuego on this day. Why They Did It The authors say, “This exploratory and mechanistic study aims to evaluate the potential peripheral and central adaptations that may result in individuals with CTS who have completed a neuromobilization program.” How They Did It

Fourteen individuals with CTS were evaluated
Evaluation were before and 1 week after the completion of a 4-week neuromobilization program that incorporated median nerve sliding exercises.
Pain and upper limb functional abilities were assessed using standardized questionnaires.
The biological integrity and mechanical properties of the median nerve and the corticospinal excitability were quantified using musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation, respectively.

What They Found

Upon completion of the program, participants reported both large and moderate improvements in pain and upper limb functional abilities, respectively.
The biological integrity and mechanical properties of the median nerve remained unchanged, whereas a small significant increase in corticospinal excitability was observed.

Wrap It Up The proposed neuromobilization program appears promising to improve pain and upper limb functional abilities in individuals with CTS. These improvements may be preferentially mediated via central, rather than peripheral, adaptations. Before getting to the next one, I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! It’s live again. Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com to get $50 off your purchase. Y’all, it makes a world of difference. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. My patients love it and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it. Hear me now and believe me later.

Item #2

The last one today is called, “Pain Catastrophizing and Pain Self-Efficacy Mediate Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program Outcomes at Posttreatment and Follow-Up” by Schumann et. al. (Matthew E Schumann 2021) and published in Pain Medicine in September of 2021 and THAT one is enfuego today.

Why They Did It

“To prospectively evaluate interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation outcomes, as well as to evaluate the mediating effects of both pain catastrophizing and pain self-efficacy on outcome.”

How They Did It

315 patients with chronic pain participated
They completed a 3-week interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program.
Pain severity, pain interference, pain catastrophizing, pain self-efficacy, quality of life, depressive symptom questionnaires, and measures of physical performance were assessed before and after treatment.
Follow-up questionnaires were returned by 163 participants.
Effect size and reliable change analyses were conducted from pre- to posttreatment and from pretreatment to 6-month follow-up.
Mediation analyses were conducted to determine the mediating effect of pain catastrophizing and pain self-efficacy on pain outcome.

What They Found

Significant improvements from pre- to posttreatment in pain outcomes were observed, and more than 80% evidenced a reliable change in at least one pain-relevant measure.
Pain catastrophizing and pain self-efficacy mediated the relationship between changes in pain outcomes.

Wrap It Up

Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation is an effective treatment, and decreasing pain catastrophizing and increasing pain self-efficacy can influence maintenance of treatment gains. So when you’re managing your words and managing the patients’ yellow flags as much as you’re managing the bio aspect of the condition, then you’re on the right track. If you only manage the bio part and ignore the psychosocial parts, you only get 1/3 of the equation and potentially only 1/3 of the improvement.

Of course boundaries are much more fluid than that with it comes to healthcare and pain but you get my point. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

Website https://www.chiropracticforward.com

Social Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/

Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/

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About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger

Bibliography

Matthew E Schumann, P., Brandon J Coombes, PhD, Keith E Gascho, Jr., Jennifer R Geske, Mary C McDermott, APRN, CNP, DNP, MS, Eleshia J Morrison, PhD, Andrea L Reynolds, PT, Jessica L Bernau, RN, Wesley P Gilliam, PhD, (2021). “Pain Catastrophizing and Pain Self-Efficacy Mediate Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program Outcomes at Posttreatment and Follow-Up.” Pain Med 23(4): 697-706.

Paquette P, H. J., Gagnon D, (2020). “Peripheral and Central Adaptations After a Median Nerve Neuromobilization Program Completed by Individuals With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: An Exploratory Mechanistic Study Using Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.” J Man Physiol Ther 43(6): P566-578.

Return To Play After Herniation & Water vs. PT Exercises

February 17, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:19:08 1 Comment

CF 216: Return To Play After Herniation & Water vs. PT Exercises Today we’re going to talk about return To Play After Herniation & Water vs. PT Exercises But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
Then go Like our Facebook page,
Join our private Facebook group, and then
Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
Last thing real quick, we also have an evidence-based brochure and poster store at chiropracticforward.com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #216 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about the MCM Mastermind that I am a member of & we talked about CAM Acceptance Among Medical Specialists. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

I’m still settling back in after that Florida mastermind that we talked about last week. Still getting my mind wrapped around the information and the best ways to implement the ideas. One of my biggest obstacles to practice has been good, evidence-based, patient-centered guidelines for dosing. Meaning, how many times should a patient be seen? Well, one of the mastermind members is Dr. Jay Greenstein. If you don’t know him, I suggest you get that remedied muy pronto mi amigo. Jay has done a lot of work with Clinical Compass and based on research in the Journal of Manipulative and PHhysiologica Therapies and based on Haas’s research in Spine, Dr. Greenstein has been kind enough to guide me along.

Here’s a lesson for me and for listeners. As far along as you are, whether in the beginning, in middle, or toward the end, you can always learn. Now, instead of saying 3x/week for a couple of weeks, and then we’ll see where you’re at….instead of that, I have firm, research-based, Clinical Compass-approved recommendations for what I tell them.

My biggest gap is patient stick-to-it-iveness. I may see 80 new patients a month but still only see 650 visits that month. Because my new patients don’t typically make it to the first re-exam. It’s not like I don’t know this problem. It’s always been an issue. Some of us have money issues. We do the stuff to make more money but we’re not always sure we deserve more money or deserve to live well, blah blah blah. That’s the mental health aspect of dealing with money.

I turned financial talks over to the staff because I’m not good with money discussions when it comes to people paying me. I’m fine when I’m talking about stuff I’m doing to try to make money. I’m not good when we’re talking about me making money from someone. It’s just what it is. Here’s the thing though, if I know it’s backed and supported and even encouraged as far as guidelines, then it’s on. I have no problem with making the recommendations and making them stronger. So, there you are. Once my recommendations are better, my income improves immediately. This means I can easily training those under me and comfortably hire more providers, etc.

All from one thing; more effective communication with my new patients from the get-go.

Also, I’m reading the book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman. This was recommended by several in the MCM Mastermind so I’m already in Chapter 6 on this sucker and wondering why I didn’t read it years ago. It’s there to help identify issues, communicate more effectively with your team, and get the right people in the right seats. What are you working on professionally this week? Email me at dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com.

I’d love to hear it.

Let’s hop in Item #1

The first one today is called “Return to Play After Symptomatic Lumbar Disc Herniation in Elite Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment” by Sedrak, et. al. (Sedrak 2021) and published in Sports Health on Feb 10 of 2021 and only a year old is still significantly steamy.

Why They Did It

The prevalence of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation (LDH) in athletes can be as high as 75%. For elite athletes diagnosed with LDH, return to play (RTP) is a major concern, and thus comparing surgical with nonoperative care is essential to guide practitioners and athletes, not just in terms of recovery rates but also the speed of recovery. The purpose of this systematic review is to provide an update on RTP outcomes for elite athletes after lumbar discectomy versus nonoperative treatment of lumbar disc herniations.

How They Did It

Systematic review and meta-analysis
A search of the literature was conducted using 3 online databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PubMed) to identify pertinent studies.

What They Found

Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review.
Overall, 663 out of 799 patients (83.0%) returned to play in the surgical group and
251 out of 308 patients (81.5%) returned to play in the nonoperative group.
No statistically significant difference for return to play rate was found
The mean time to return to play for patients undergoing lumbar discectomy was 5.19 months, and 4.11 months for those treated conservatively.

Wrap It Up

There was no significant difference in return to play rate between athletes treated with operative or nonoperative management of LDHs, nor did operative management have a faster time to return to play. Athletes should consider the lack of difference in return to play rate in addition to the potential risks associated with spinal surgery when choosing a treatment option. Clear enough on that, folks? You don’t even need my commentary on it. That’s as plain English as you can get right?

Item #2

The second one today is called “Efficacy of Therapeutic Aquatic Exercise vs Physical Therapy Modalities for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain A Randomized Clinical Trial” by Peng et. al. (Peng M 2022) and published in JAMA Network Open on January 7, 2022, booyah it’s on fire.

Why They Did It

To assess the long-term effects of therapeutic aquatic exercise on people with chronic low back pain.

How They Did It

This was a 3-month, single-blind randomized clinical trial with a 12-month follow-up period
A total of 113 people with chronic low back pain were included in the experiment.
Participants were randomized to either the therapeutic aquatic exercise or the physical therapy modalities group.
The therapeutic aquatic exercise group received aquatic exercise, whereas the physical therapy modalities group received transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and infrared ray thermal therapy.
Both interventions were performed for 60 minutes twice a week for 3 months.

What They Found

Compared with the physical therapy modalities group, the therapeutic aquatic exercise group showed greater alleviation of disability, with adjusted mean group differences after the 3-month intervention, at the 6-month follow-up, and at the 12-month follow-up
At the 12-month follow-up point, improvements were significantly greater in the therapeutic aquatic exercise group vs the physical therapy modalities group in the number of participants who met the minimal clinically important difference in pain

Wrap It Up

The therapeutic aquatic exercise program led to greater alleviation in patients with chronic low back pain than physical therapy modalities and had a long-term effect up to 12 months. This finding may prompt clinicians to recommend therapeutic aquatic exercise to patients with chronic low back pain as part of treatment to improve their health through active exercise rather than relying on passive relaxation. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus.

The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in the leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

Store Remember the evidence-informed brochures and posters at chiropracticforward.com.

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

The Message I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

Contact Send us an email at dr dot williams at chiropracticforward.com and let us know what you think of our show and tell us your suggestions for future episodes. Feedback and constructive criticism is a blessing and so are subscribes and excellent reviews on podcast platforms. We know how this works by now. If you value something, you have to share it, interact with it, review it, talk about it from time to time, and actively hit a few buttons to support it here and there when asked. It really does make a big difference.

Connect We can’t wait to connect with you again next week. From the Chiropractic Forward Podcast flight deck, this is Dr. Jeff Williams saying upward, onward, and forward.

Website https://www.chiropracticforward.com

Social Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/

Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/

Twitter https://twitter.com/Chiro_Forward

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtc-IrhlK19hWlhaOGld76Q

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing/id1331554445?mt=2

Player FM Link https://player.fm/series/2291021

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing-through

TuneIn https://tunein.com/podcasts/Health–Wellness-Podcasts/The-Chiropractic-Forward-Podcast-Chiropractors-Pr-p1089415/

About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger

Bibliography

Peng M, W. R., Wang Y, (2022). “Efficacy of Therapeutic Aquatic Exercise vs Physical Therapy Modalities for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” JAMA Netw Open 5.

Sedrak, P., Shahbaz, M., Gohal, C., Madden, K., Aleem, I., & Khan, M, (2021). “Return to Play After Symptomatic Lumbar Disc Herniation in Elite Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment.” Sports Health 13(5): 446-453.

MCM Mastermind & CAM Acceptance Among Medical Specialists

February 10, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:19:10 0 Comments

CF 215: MCM Mastermind & CAM Acceptance Among Medical Specialists Today we’re going to talk about the MCM Mastermind and CAM acceptance in the medical community. But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!

OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers. I’m Dr. Jeff Williams and I’m your host for the Chiropractic Forward podcast. If you haven’t yet I have a few things you should do.

Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s a great resource for patient education and for YOU. It saves you time in putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections and written in a way that is easy to understand for you and patients. Just search for it on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
Then go Like our Facebook page,
Join our private Facebook group, and then
Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
Last thing real quick, we also have an evidence-based brochure and poster store at chiropracticforward.com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #215 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Sitting On Your Butt And The Future Of American Pain . Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

I just returned from Delray Beach Florida. I am part of a nationwide mastermind group started and led by Dr Kevin Christie. Kevin has been a guest on our podcast and I on his. He is the host of the Modern Chiropractic Marketing podcast and author of the book as well. Super guy. Super doc. Superhuman being.

He just is and I’m honored to know him and call him a friend. He’s a guy you want to root for, learn from, and help. And get help from I might add. This group is about 15 strong as of now but is going to grow. If I get to talking about it and you are interested in being a part of the group, Kevin told me there are some open spots but it is limited. The group will be limited in size to facilitate a tight knit and highly effective group.

The group is high functioning and the docs are accomplished and doing some pretty cool stuff. The point of the mastermind is to get together and form a solid network. To solve each others’ problems and to sol learn from each other and from the special speakers Kevin has signed up to present.

Four trips to Florida. Delray Beach was #1. In April we meet in St. Augustine, FL. In July it’s Sarasota. And in November we are meeting at the Playa Largo resort in Key Largo in the Florida Keys!

Some of the members are me of course, Ben Fergus of the GRIP method, Mark King of The Motion Palpation Institute, Jay Greenstein of Kaizohealth, Kevin. Lots of key members from all over the nation.

So day 1 we were presented to by Jay Greenstein about teamwork, communications with your team, problem-solving with your team, working through and prioritizing your issues, coming up with ideas for approaching them, and lots and lots of other stuff.

Look folks: real talk here, I’ve been following Jay for a few years now and if you don’t know him, please go figure out who he is and see if you can learn something from him. He couldn’t have been better and this meeting could not have been more timely for me. Good time to get jazzed.

Now, why a mastermind? I tried practice management companies and they suck mostly. They’re mostly vitalistic. They don’t typically follow guidelines and they are doctor-centered. Again for the most part. So….they’re out.

I was a member of a mastermind group in Dallas got a couple of years and my practice growth was awesome. My personal growth was even more significant. My reputation and network in the state in this profession were a result of the mastermind and that has been priceless.

We learned from the group leader but even more magic happened outside of the classroom. In the bars and around the lunch tables. In our interactions with each other after we went back home.

Those folks are still some of my best friends in the profession.

So, when Kevin asked me if I’d like to be a member of his mastermind, and he told me the price, which I thought was right on target, I jumped. Masterminds are good for me. I do better with a network of high achievers than I do floundering solo. I’ve proven that to myself. Plus, when you consider that it’s a group of evidence-based patient-centered docs that align with my style and vision, again it’s a no-brainer

Then, do we even need to discuss how awesome 4 trips to different parts of Florida are? Come on seriously. So, I love this group. I like where it’s headed. If you are evidence-based and patient-centered, you are high functioning and have valuable and creative ideas to share with the group while you learn others’ great ideas, and you’d like to be on the train with us, I hope you’ll reach out to me or Kevin.

My email is Dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com and Kevin’s is kevin@moderndeskjockey.com

Lemme be clear, Kevin is the leader and will make the decisions on who is right for the group but if you’d like to send me an email, I’ll get y’all connected.

OK, so even though we are onboarding a new back-office staff while in the process of re-hiring front desk staff after the last one only lasted 8 weeks, and even though the real estate investment in Lubbock STILL has lots of work left to get done before we can rent it out,

I’m STILL jazzed and excited from this mastermind weekend. Now, I gotta get to the research so I can go implant some of the stuff I learned this weekend! Since I’m playing catch up from being gone, we’re just covering one paper today.

It’s the best I can do this week!

Item #1

This one is called, “Acceptance and use of complementary and alternative medicine among medical specialists: a 15-year systematic review and data synthesis” by Phutrakool, et. al. and published in BMC on January 14, 2022 and you can see it sizzle. Foggin up the glasses. Steamy!

Why They Did It

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has gained popularity among the general population, but its acceptance and use among medical specialists have been inconclusive. This systematic review aimed to identify relevant studies and synthesize survey data on the acceptance and use of CAM among medical specialists.

How They Did It

The authors conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed and Scopus databases for the acceptance and use of CAM among medical specialists.
Each article was assessed by two screeners.
Only survey studies relevant to the acceptance and use of CAM among medical specialists were reviewed.
Of 5628 articles published between 2002 and 2017, 25 fulfilled the selection criteria.
Ten medical specialties were included: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesiology, Surgery, Family Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Neurology, Otolaryngology, and Neurological Surgery

What They Found

The overall acceptance of CAM was 52%.
Family Medicine reported the highest acceptance, followed by Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurological Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine, and Surgery.
The overall use of CAM was 45%.
The highest use of CAM was by the Obstetrics and Gynecology, followed by Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology, Pediatrics, Otolaryngology, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Surgery.

Wrap It Up

Acceptance and use of CAM varied across medical specialists. CAM was accepted and used the most by Family Medicine but the least by Surgery. Findings from this systematic review could be useful for the strategic harmonization of CAM and conventional medical practice. And surgery doesn’t utilize us because we cost them money. When we are keeping patients from having surgery, they’re not getting paid. Is that really why? I don’t know, of course. But there has to be some financial incentives with surgeons. Those guys and girls are getting tens of thousands of dollars per fusion, discectomy, etc. Is the incentive low for searching out cost-effective ways to avoid surgery? My off-the-cuff response is…..yeah, the incentive is low.

Alright, that’s it.

Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in the leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

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I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots. When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few. It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient. And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point: At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints…. That’s Chiropractic!

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The first on today is called, “The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain”by Lachlan Evans and published in Medical Journal of Australia on 12 December 2022. Dayum. That’s hot.

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