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Outdoor Play, Screentime, And The Impact Of Exercise

March 15, 2023 chiropracticforward Uncategorized 00:19:04 0 Comments

CF 271: Outdoor Play, Screentime, And The Impact Of Exercise

Today we’re going to talk about outdoor play, screen time, and the impact of exercise.

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.
  • 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 #271   Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Spinal Manipulative Therapy Adverse Events & SMT With Lumbar Herniation. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.  

On the personal end of things…..

Things are still back on the growth pattern here at my clinic, we are on the right path.   Part of what I’ve tried to do here at 50 years old, is to start trying to diversify in a way that I can begin to remove myself gradually from my practice.   I started removing my face from marketing years ago when I read a Dan Kennedy book where he said, how can you sell something that is tied up only in you, your image, and only your abilities to perform the function? Made a lot of sense to me.  

I wanted my clinic to be more of a brand that stands on its own rather than something that depends solely on my full time involvement. So that was step one. Now, to be clear, our social media marketers think I have to be involved so I am but, as soon as we get an associate in place, they will be the majority of the presence.   Step 2 has been to be able to replace my income if the bottom were to completely fall out of the deal. Belly up.

Kablam….here’s a nuclear COVID bomb coming to destroy my practice.

Would I survive financially??

Well, we know from COVID that I would survive. I’d be unhappy but I’d make it. But what if I gradually start turning more and more of my patients over to an associate and then a second associate? Well, through real estate investing, through voice over (which is going gang busters), through Board Certifications giving me other opportunities in the medicolegal and speaking realms, and…..if I’m honest, I can make a gob of cash playing the guitar and singing if I wanted to….then lets look at it. I could bail out completely today if I wanted and voice over by itself has almost replaced my salary and the rest is gravy on the top.  

Also on the horizon, I have an opportunity, under the right conditions, to sell 60% of my practice to an investment group and that would set us up for retirement and for success riding into the sunset.   So, steps 1 and 2 are firmly in place. Now step 3.   I need an associate, then I need another once DC 1 is up and running and full. With 2 in place, I begin to work on the clinic instead of in it and that’s exciting. But I have to find one that will come to Amarillo and love it like I love it. Love the people. Love our staff and love our clinic.   We’ll see. I’m on the hunt.   Just some thoughts about what’s going on in my corner of the world. It’s been interesting and I expect it will only get more and more interesting in the very near future.    

Item #1 The first on today is called, “Outdoor Play as a Mitigating Factor in the Association Between Screen Time for Young Children and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes” by Mika Sugiyama and published in Jamapediatrics on January 23, 2023. Dayum. That’s hot. Why They Did It To investigate whether higher screen time at age 2 years is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 4 years and whether this association is mediated by frequency of outdoor play at age 2 years 8 months.  

How They Did It Standardized scores for communication, daily living skills, and socialization domains of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale, second edition, at age 4 years were used (mean [SD], 100 [15]). The mediating factor was frequency of outdoor play at age 2 years 8 months, with 6 or 7 days per week coded as frequent outdoor play.  

What They Found

  • Of 885 participants, 445 children (50%) were female; mean (SD) screen time per day was 2.6 (2.0) hours.
  • Causal mediation analyses revealed that higher screen time at age 2 years was associated with lower scores in communication at age 4 years (non-standardized coefficient b = −2.32; 95% CI, −4.03 to −0.60), but the association was not mediated by frequency of outdoor play.
  • Higher screen time was also associated with lower scores in daily living skills (b = −1.76; 95% CI, −3.21 to −0.31); 18% of this association was mediated by frequency of outdoor play. Frequency of outdoor play was associated with socialization (b = 2.73; 95% CI, 1.06 to 4.39), whereas higher screen time was not (b = −1.34; 95% CI, −3.05 to 0.36).

  Wrap It Up

  • Higher screen time at age 2 years was directly associated with poorer communication at age 4 years.
  • It was also associated with daily living skills, but frequency of outdoor play at age 2 years 8 months alleviated it, suggesting outdoor play mitigated the association between higher screen time and suboptimal neurodevelopment.
  • Future research should specify the nature of the associations and intervention measures, enabling targeted interventions that reduce the potential risk in screen time.

  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, “Massive study uncovers how much exercise is needed to live longer” by Sara Berg, MS and published in American Medical Association on October 26, 2022. Hot potato!  

Why They Did It

They author wanted to know how many minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity are needed to lower the risk of premature mortality?  

How They Did It

From two large prospective U.S. cohorts, 116,221 adults self-reported leisure-time physical activity—defined as exercise that is not done at work—through a validated questionnaire. The questionnaire was repeated up to 15 times over the course of 30 years.  

What They Found

  • The study found that those who worked out two to four times beyond the minimum physical activity recommendations had a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
  • Those who worked out two to four times above the moderate physical activity recommendations—about 300 to 599 minutes each week—saw the most benefit.
  • Participants had a 26% to 31% lower all-cause mortality while 28% to 38% had lower cardiovascular mortality. On top of that, 25% to 27% experienced lower non-cardiovascular mortality.
  • Additionally, adults who worked out two to four times more than the vigorous physical activity recommendations—about 150 to 299 minutes per week—were found to have 21% to 23% lower all-cause mortality, according to the study. They were also reported to have 27% to 33% lower cardiovascular mortality and 19% lower non-cardiovascular mortality.

 

Wrap It Up

This study suggests there is no harmful effect of high, long-term vigorous physical activity on cardiovascular health. More studies are needed to better understand the effects of high amounts of vigorous physical activity on cardiovascular outcomes and to identify the optimal amount and intensity of long-term exercise for health benefits.   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.    

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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.

 

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Tensile Force On Vertebral Artery During Adjustments & Exercising For Pain

December 1, 2022 chiropracticforward Cervical Artery Dissection, Cervical Manipulation, Exercise, Vertebral Artery Dissection 00:15:05 0 Comments

CF 257: Tensile Force On Vertebral Artery During Adjustments & Exercising For Pain Today we’re going to talk about Tensile Force On Vertebral Artery During Adjustments & Exercising For Pain 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. 
  • 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 chiropracticforward.com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #257 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Aspirin And Fall Risk & Caffeine And Child Growth. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. 

On the personal end of things….. What’s going on with me lately? Well, still riding some inflation and recession stuff here these last two months and working on marketing and my customer experience to right the ship as quickly as possible. My trip to Florida and Thanksgiving are playing hell with some of the recoveries but that is what it is and that’s OK. That’s life. 

One of the things we started last week was ‘Your benefits re-start in January so use them while you have them.” Also, am I in too big of a hurry with patients?

Do they feel my need to be in and out or do they each feel special in some way? I am trying to slow down and be more present with each patient. More interested in them and in their story.  We can always blame outward forces when our practices slow up a bit. And that’s legit. You have to consider all aspects. Is it the economy? My website SEO? Inflation? What is the outward cause?

But also, what are the potential in-house causes? Am I too rushed? Am I no longer focused on the customer experience and only focusing on all of my stuff that has to be done instead? Is there something going on with our new patient process and our booking procedures?  Internally, have we changed anything about how we are functioning and doing things? Let’s review how we’re doing things and let’s figure it out. That’s what I’m looking at right now.

No coach or mastermind has all of the answers to a slowdown. It is up to us as business owners to diagnose the cause and the effect. At least to the best of our abilities.  I’m not dramatically slower than in August but September and October and November have been slow enough compared to my regular load that it’s past time to get it fixed and headed back in the right direction. 

And that includes looking in the mirror. We should all do that. A good leader doesn’t ask where the staff failed, but asks, where have I failed.  That’s what I’m doing. 

Also, I’m looking at where I can delegate tasks that have put me in a hurry most days. When I can’t keep up with stuff, it’s time to figure out how to farm out stuff so that I don’t feel rushed and overwhelmed all day every day.  I’m an immaculate stat keeper. That’s about to change. I have an excellent virtual assistant in Nigeria that is helping me figure out how to automate and delegate balancing bank statements, which I still do myself and stat keeping.

This will save A LOT of time on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays freeing my brain up to work on more productive tasks like the customer experience.  Alright, enough introspective discovery for this week. Onto the research. 

Item #1

The first on today is called, “Vertebral arteries do not experience tensile force during manual cervical spine manipulation applied to human cadavers” by Gorrell et. al. (Gorrell LM 2022) and published in Journal of Manual Manipulativer Therapy on November 15, 2022. Dayum. That’s hot. 

Why They Did It The vertebral artery (VA) may be stretched and subsequently damaged during manual cervical spine manipulation. The objective of this study was to measure vertebral artery length changes that occur during cervical spine manipulation and to compare these to the vertebral artery failure length.

How They Did It

  • Piezoelectric ultrasound crystals were implanted along the length of the VA (C1 to C7) and were used to measure length changes during cervical spine manipulation of seven un-embalmed, post-rigor human cadavers. 
  • Arteries were then excised, and elongation from arbitrary in-situ head/neck positions to first force (0.1 N) was measured. Following this, vertebral arteries were stretched (8.33 mm/s) to mechanical failure. 
  • Failure was defined as the instance when VA elongation resulted in a decrease in force.

What They Found

  • From arbitrary in-situ head/neck positions, the greatest average vertebral artery length change during spinal manipulation was 5.1%. 
  • From arbitrary in-situ head/neck positions, arteries were elongated on average 33.5% prior to first force occurrence and 51.3% to failure. 
  • Average failure forces were 3.4 N

Wrap It Up

Measured in arbitrary in-situ head/neck positions, vertebral arteries were slack. It appears that this slack must be taken up prior to vertebral arteries experiencing tensile force.  During cervical spine manipulations (using cervical spine extension and rotation), arterial length changes remained below that slack length, suggesting that VA elongated but were not stretched during the manipulation.  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, “The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Pain in U.S. Adults” by Ray et. al. (Ray 2022) and published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise on October 26, 2022. Hot potato!

Why They Did It The authors wanted to assess the relationship between physical activity (PA) and pain within the available sample, with secondary aims to assess prevalence of pain, physical activity levels, healthcare seeking behaviors, and impact of pain on daily activities and work.

How They Did It They conducted an epidemiological cross-sectional observational study utilizing National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 2020.  They examined the self-reported adherence to current physical activity guidelines and the prevalence of pain.  They hypothesized those dealing with pain were less likely to meet physical activity guidelines. physical activity levels, pain prevalence, frequency, and intensity were assessed via the survey and relationships explored via modeling.

What They Found

  • 31,568, subjects
  • 12,429 (39.37%) reported pain on some days, 2,761 (8.75%) on most days, and 4,661 (14.76%) every day. 
  • The odds of engaging in physical activity decreased in a stepwise fashion based on frequency and intensity of pain reporting when compared to no pain. 
  • Importantly, physical activity is a significant correlate affecting pain reporting, with individuals engaging in physical activity (strength and aerobic) demonstrating 2 times lower odds of reporting pain when compared to those not meeting the physical activity guidelines.

Wrap It Up

There is a significant correlation between meeting physical activity guidelines and pain. Meeting both criteria of physical activity guidelines resulted in lower odds of reporting pain. Additionally, the odds of participating in physical activity decreased based on pain frequency reporting.

These are important findings for clinicians, highlighting the need for assessing physical activity not only for those dealing with pain but as a potential risk factor for minimizing the development of chronic pain. Get ‘em moving folks!

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!

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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

Gorrell LM, S. A., Edwards WB, Herzog W., (2022). “Vertebral arteries do not experience tensile force during manual cervical spine manipulation applied to human cadavers.” J Man Manip Ther.  

Ray, B. M. K., Kyle J.; Eubanks, James E.; Nan, Nan; Ma, Changxing; Miles, Derek, (2022). “The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Pain in U.S. Adults.” Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.          

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Gluteal Tendinopathy – You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

November 9, 2022 chiropracticforward Gluteal Tendinopathy 00:18:14 0 Comments

CF 254: Gluteal Tendinopathy – You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know Today we’re going to talk about Gluteal Tendinopathy – You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know 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. 
  • 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 chiropracticforward.com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #254. Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Spinal Cord Stimulators vs. Placebo & we talked about Low Back pain, Chiropractic, And Opioids. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. 

On the personal end of things…..

You may have heard me talk about it a time or two but I’m really impreessed with a contraption that we have in our office. When I bought mine it was only the third purchased in Texas. Texas is a big place, folks!  One had been sold to a research lab, one had been sold to a Physical Therapy outfit, and then mine. Definitely we’ve been ahead of the curve. When I have a car crash patient or a chronic pain patient, we can run the BESS test and the mCTSIB tests to test for concussion and proprioception.  Not just test proprioception but train it as well. Balance training, rehab training, movement evaluation, and excellent shoulder rehab as well. It’s called the ISO Free by Tecnobody and it’s cool and it makes me different from the rest of my colleagues by giving us capabilities nobody else has.  Check out these products and see what you think.

Go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products. Once you decide you have to have more information, email me at creekstonecare@gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with the people that can get you a deal on it.  This week I’m really starting to look forward to a little trip we’ve been planning for a while. Remember, you should take a solid trip about once per quarter. It’s the only way to preserve your sanity. You have to get out of your office and spend time on your loves or risk losing your mind completely.  Our trip this go around is part of Dr. Kevin Christie’s Florida Mastermind. We are all meeting in the Florida Keys. Key Largo to be specific. Which is the first Key south of the mainland.

Kevin picked this resort because my wife and I went there in February 2020. Just one month before the pandemic set in on the world.  People were just starting to think seriously about masks and all of that stuff back then. It was a blast and this resort called Playa Largo was the bees knees. Massages every day, drinks poured in cored pineapples on the beach at sunset, ,dining on the beach and being served funny umbrella drinks as you lounge in the hammock reading Stu McGill’s Back Mechanic book was amazing.  Check it out.

Just Google up Playa Largo and see what you find. It’ll make you consider Key Largo instead of Key West.  So that’s coming up November 11-13 or somewhere around there. We’re taking my daughter with us and I believe all other Mastermind members are bringing wife and kiddos so it should be a really special time of bonding, swapping ideas, and growth.  Speaking of growth, you’ve been hearing me fuss about being slow. We’re still slower than I want but it looks to be picking up a bit. Just in time to go to Key largo, right?

I have anxiety about it but I’m going and I’m not letting business worry me or stress me out. I have to compartmentalize that stuff and step away from it. Which I am. 

What do you have coming up that you’re looking forward to? I talked about the Tecnobody products earlier. Are you using anything new and cool? I’d love to hear about it and check it out. I love new gadgets that get patients better! Email me at dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com and tell me all about it.  Let’s hop into the research

Item #1

Let’s talk about Gluteal Tendinopathy, shall we. My friends at ChiroUp recently put out an awesome rundown of GT through their email list. Check the show notes for the link to their rundown on it at this poin in the show notes. https://chiroup.com/blog/what-is-the-most-common-cause-of-hip-pain After going through the Ortho Diplomate, GT has been on my radar and it’s amazing. Once you know to look for it, you’re going to find it EVERYWHERE!

Literally everywhere.

You just don’t know what you don’t know and I didn’t know before the Ortho Diplomate.  First, Why do people get it? They say it’s from excessive tension or compression of the area.  Secondly, what does it look like? GT is lateral hip pain and is tendinopathy of the glute medius or minimus. It hurts to walk but very tellingly, it hurts to lay on that side because of the compression but it also hurts to lay on the other side because we always stretch the leg over the other one so there is tension on the area. Pain on going up and down stairs for sure. One of our patients could barely get into and out of their RV and she was unhappy. 

Also, there is usually significant pain on palpation of the area. You can get their attention very quickly by poking around on it.  Current thinking is away from bursitis and more toward GT. If bursitis is present, it’s probably more a symptom of GT.  This thinking is fresh enough that I found myself in a pissing match with an ortho surgeon about whether it’s bursitis or it’s GT.

We’re always going to have less authority than the ortho in this case so, I told the patient what the research shows and said that ultimately, the terminology doesn’t matter because it will be treated the same. That worked out fine. Try to avoid pissing matches on GT because it’s just not widely known about right now.  Orthos are injecting corticosteroids into the hip joints of these GT patients and they’re stunned that it has no effectiveness. That’s because the problem isn’t in the joint. It’s in the connection on the posterior aspect of the greater trochanter.  How do we test for it and treat it?

  1. Hip Lag Sign
  2. FaberEx
  3. Palpation

What I do in my office is I use the Drop Release, which was invented by my friend, Dr. Chris Howson of the Great State of North Dakota, to beat it up just a little bit. I use regular SMT to make sure things are moving well. Then I recommend they do some cold laser on the insertion to work down some inflammation. We combine that with targeted rehab exercises from ChiroUp.  We have also combined my side with trigger point injections from our Nurse Practitioner.

It has been an awesome combination for us here at my clinic and we are helping these people get past GT a lot faster.  Recent research is showing, that PRP injections at the site show promise in helping chronic GT recover quickly as well. That’s exciting because we do PRP here at my clinic! I have the luxury of those not responding to the trigger points and my help to also try PRP now.  So, let’s cover that paper briefly before wrapping up for this week’s episode.  It’s called “The Effectiveness of Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections in Gluteal Tendinopathy: A Randomized, Double-Blind Controlled Trial Comparing a Single Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection With a Single Corticosteroid Injection” by Fitzpatrick et. al. (Fitzpatrick J 2018) and published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine and was published on January 2, 2018. 

Why They Did It

There would be no difference in the modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS) between a single platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection compared with a corticosteroid injection in the treatment of gluteal tendinopathy.

How They Did It

  • Randomized controlled trial;
  • There were 228 consecutive patients referred with gluteal tendinopathy who were screened to enroll 80 participants; 
  • Participants were randomized (1:1) to receive either a blinded glucocorticoid or PRP injection intratendinously under ultrasound guidance. 
  • A pain and functional assessment was performed using the mHHS questionnaire at 0, 2, 6, and 12 weeks and the patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) at 12 weeks.
  • Participants had a mean age of 60 years, a ratio of female to male of 9:1, and mean duration of symptoms of >14 months.

What They Found

  • Pain and function showed no difference at 2 weeks or 6 weeks
  • The mean mHHS was significantly improved at 12 weeks in the PRP group compared with the corticosteroid group 

Wrap It Up

Patients with chronic gluteal tendinopathy for greater than 4 months, diagnosed with both clinical and radiological examinations, achieved greater clinical improvement at 12 weeks when treated with a single PRP injection than those treated with a single corticosteroid injection 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! 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 Fitzpatrick J, B. M., O’Donnell J, McCrory PR, Zheng MH, (2018). “The Effectiveness of Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections in Gluteal Tendinopathy: A Randomized, Double-Blind Controlled Trial Comparing a Single Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection With a Single Corticosteroid Injection.” Am J Sports Med 46(4): 9336-9939.  

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Vertebrogenic Pain – A Thought Shift & Leisure Time Physical Activity Effects On Mortality

October 6, 2022 chiropracticforward Exercise, Mortality, Physical Activity, Vertebrogenic Pain 00:19:22 0 Comments

CF 249: Vertebrogenic Pain – A Thought Shift & Leisure time Physical Activity Effects On Mortality Today we’re going to talk about Vertebrogenic Pain. Time for A Thought Shift & Leisure time Physical Activity Effects On Mortality 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.   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 chiropracticforward.com

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #249 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about steps per day and how that’s related to dementia and we talked about vets and chiropractic. What a wonderful combination.  Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. 

On the personal end of things…..

Ugh, slow Monday man. I hate it and it give me anxiety but I’m using the extra time to make things happen, my friends. Yes indeed. This is being written on September 19th so we are still in the middle of the yearly back to school slowdown.  When back to school gets us down, what’s the best way to handle it? Frist, as I’ve mentioned in recent podcasts, you get stuff done! Start through all of the things that have been piling up. Get that stack knocked out.  Secondly, marketing wise, what has been successful for you in the past? Have you slowed down on your posting frequency on social media? Pick it up and get to posting. Has it been any community outreach or direct marketing?

Time to re-engage, right? Thirdly, settle the hell down. You didn’t pee on the mayor’s dog and the whole town is not mad at you. Or me. I think this is me talking to me by the way. Lol.  Marketing is the most effective thing we can do for our clinic so we are spending this time calling and checking on patients that are more recent but have not really kept up with their schedule. Not in a bully or harrassing kind of way but a ‘staying top of mind’ kind of way and showing concern.  What are the big things that speak to people? For me and my practice specifically, I think it can be boiled down to 10 things. 

  1. No long waits
  2. Evaluation and treatment on the same day
  3. New patient appointments within 48 hours
  4. They will know the cost before their visit – at least as close as we can get to the cost
  5. Not everyone gets x-rays
  6. No pills and no surgery
  7. Online scheduling
  8. No long treatment plans
  9. Treatment by a Board Certified Orthopedic specialist
  10. Fast and efficient first appointment

These go for our medical side as well as for our chiropractic side. I think hammering these points consistently is an effective strategy. And, they aren’t talking points. It’s how we do things.  Here’s another thing I’ll share with myy patients when appropriate; when I have a difficult decision to make as far as recommendations or treatment, I fall back on one principle. That principle is ‘what would I do with this person if this person were an immediate family member?’ That is a guiding principle that will get you the closest to every right answer out there that you can make.  Alright, that’s enough of the personal side of things. Let’s get to the meat and taters. 

Item #1

The first one is called “Vertebrogenic Pain: A Paradigm Shift in Diagnosis and Treatment of Axial Low Back Pain” by Conger et. al. (Aaron Conger 2022) and published in Pain Medicine on July 20, 2022. Hot sauce coming up!

  • Clinicians and researchers have long recognized that better subgrouping of individuals with CLBP is necessary for more targeted and effective treatments. Commonly described sources of CLBP include the zygapophyseal joints, sacroiliac joints, and intervertebral discs (often termed “discogenic” pain)
  • Historically, the term “discogenic pain” has been associated with disc degeneration and internal disc disruption with the presence of fissures in the annulus fibrosus and associated nociception via branches of the sinuvertebral nerve 
  • Previously, it was thought that pathological neurovascular ingrowth penetrated into annular fissures, leading to increased sensitivity and nociception via the sinuvertebral nerve
  • However, more recent evidence appears to refute the occurrence of such neurovascular ingrowth in many cases
  • In the late 1990s, a team of researchers led by Dr. Heggeness reported that vertebral bodies were richly vascularized by vertebral capillaries and innervated by nociceptors that traced back to a single source, the basivertebral nerve. Basivertebral nerve. Let’s call it the BVN, please and thank you. 
  • It’s a branch of the sinuvertebral nerve and it densely innervates the endplates. 
  • With progressive segmental degeneration or acute injury, altered force transfer and endplate stress can result in changes to endplate morphology and composition with concomitant impairment in permeability and transport 
  • Vertebral bodies demonstrated endplate nociceptor densification in areas of damage that were associated with increased disc degeneration. 
  • They also found that only 30% of annular tears in degenerated discs had pathologic neural ingrowth, compared with 90% of adjacent endplates (which were twice as densely innervated) 
  • This distinction between annular and endplate innervation is likely due to differences in nerve ingrowth potential. For the annulus, nerve ingrowth is inhibited by physical pressure and proteoglycans whereas nerves can easily proliferate in fibrovascular bone marrow adjacent to sites of endplate damage 
  • Accumulated damage to the discovertebral complex may result in chemical and mechanical sensitization of endplate nocioceptors 
  • These histopathological findings led to exploration of an “endplate-driven” model of discovertebral pain, with nociception largely occurring via the BVN to a greater extent than the sinuvertebral nerve
  • This research supports an “endplate-driven” model of anterior column degeneration and existence of a fourth distinct structural source of low back pain, popularly termed vertebrogenic pain

The rest of the article goes on to talk about the research and the benefits of BVN nerve ablation. Of course, that’s not where our minds go immediately when we’re looking at a disc issue, endplate or annular.  We’re looking at movement, functionality, and things of that nature.

But, I thought it was interesting because I have been taught over the years, even more recent years, that when an annulus cracks, it’s easier to become painful again because the nerves grow into that fissure and are deep toward the nucleus pulposus upon healing than they were prior to injury.  So, for that reason, we have assumed that’s why the biggest predictor of future pain is the presence of prior back pain. This updated information seems to, for the most part refute that information. And I’m OK with that. I love new knowledge.

I love updating my education and staying on top of the cutting edge when I’m able to. 

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

The last one this week is called, “Association of Leisure Time Physical Activity Types and Risks of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality Among Older Adults” by Watts et. al. (Watts EL 2022) and published in JaMA Network Open on August 24th 2022. That’s slapy ya mama hot!

Why They Did It

  • Higher amounts of physical activity are associated with increased longevity. However, whether different leisure time physical activity types are differentially associated with mortality risk is not established.. 
  • They wanted to answer the question, “Are different types of leisure time physical activity differentially associated with mortality risks among older adults?”

How They Did It

NIH Cohort study of 272 550 older adults

What They Found A total of 272,550 participants age at baseline, 70.5 years provided information on types of leisure time activity, and 118,153 died during follow-up of 12.4 years. 

  • In comparison with those who did not participate, 7.5 to less than 15 metabolic equivalent of task hours per week of racquet sports and running were associated with the greatest relative risk reductions for all-cause mortality, 
  • Followed by walking for exercise, 
  • other aerobic activity 
  • golf 
  • swimming
  • and cycling 

Each activity showed a curvilinear dose-response association with mortality risk; low metabolic equivalent of task hours per week of physical activity for any given activity type were associated with a large reduction in mortality risk, with diminishing returns for each increment in activity thereafter.  Associations were similar for cardiovascular and cancer mortality.

Wrap It Up

This cohort study of older individuals found differences between different types of leisure time activities and mortality risk, but there were significant associations between participating in 7.5 to less than 15 metabolic equivalent of task hours per week of any activity and mortality risk. There you have it go jump into some tennis, racquet ball, or pickle ball and then go for a run. You future self with thank your current self.  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.   

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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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Bibliography

Aaron Conger, D., Matthew Smuck, MD, Eeric Truumees, MD, Jeffrey C Lotz, PhD, Michael J DePalma, MD, Zachary L McCormick, MD, (2022). “Vertebrogenic Pain: A Paradigm Shift in Diagnosis and Treatment of Axial Low Back Pain.” Vertebrogenic Pain: A Paradigm Shift in Diagnosis and Treatment of Axial Low Back Pain 23: S63-S71.  

Watts EL, M. C., Freeman JR, (2022). “Association of Leisure Time Physical Activity Types and Risks of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality Among Older Adults.” JAMA Netw Open 5(8). s

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Exercise For Depression & Manipulation For Tendinopathy

May 12, 2022 chiropracticforward Uncategorized 00:14:47 0 Comments

CF 228: Exercise For Depression & Manipulation For Tendinopathy Today we’re going to talk about Exercise For Depression & Manipulation For Tendinopathy But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music

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OK, we are back anrd 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 #228 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about nerve flossing carpal tunnel and we talked about catastrophizing. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. 

 

On the personal end of things….. I just got back from the MCM Mastermind that was started by Dr. Kevin Christie. This group is just outstanding y’all. I mean honestly, Dr. Mark King of the Motion Palpation Institute is a member. How do you beat that?? Dr. Jay Greenstein of Kaizenovate and Kaizo care clinics in Washington DC. Dr. Ben Fergus of the GRIP method. Seriously. THE Dr. Brett Winchester is joining us at the next one. You can’t make this stuff up. 

One theme we discussed a lot this weekend was The Front Stage and Back Stage Systems in your practice. Strategic Coach was kind enough to be our guest presenter and they rocked it.  Another theme I kept on bringing up was whatever you can have a vision on and take consistent action on, will happen for you.  BUT YOU MUST HAVE BOTH VISION AND ACTION. 

In our Mastermind Group we have: 

    • A Doc who takes one week off per month 
    • A Doc who lives in a different state than 
    • where is practice is located 
    • At least 5 practices clear well over 1M in revenue (and they are high quality of evidence informed care) 
    • One that is exiting patient care in the Fall
    • A Doc who is building a short term rental business – that’s me! 
    • All Docs who no matter their accomplishements and the size of their practices…..they are still pushing the envelope and humble enough to come to each meeting with a Beginner’s mind. Eager to learn and eager to share thier knowledge and experience. 

Remember, it’s not HOW….it’s WHO.

Who do you know that can help you get where you want to be? I know 14 others right now in this group.  What would you love to have in 5 years that is big? Our group has top chiros from North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Maryland, Minnesota, Alabama, and Illinois.  We meet four times a year to raise our games. World class care through a mastermind and collaboration of some of the best in the country. To be the best, it makes sense to learn from the best. It’s pretty exciting! 

Next meeting is in July in Sarasota.  I’m already making plans. I believe Dr. Christie is interested in growing the group by about 5 or so more seats. If you’re interested, let Dr. Christie know. Send him and email to drkchristie@gmail.com 

Before we get to the research, 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. 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 tough 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

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Item #1

This first one is called, “Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Depression A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” by Pearce et. al. (Pearce M 2022) and published in Jama Psychiatry on April 13, 2022 – Dayumm that’s fresh and hot. 

Why They Did It

To systematically review and meta-analyze the dose-response association between physical activity and incident depression from published prospective studies of adults.

How They Did It

PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and the reference lists of systematic reviews retrieved by a systematic search up to December 11, 2020

What They Found

  • Fifteen studies comprising 191,130 participants and 2,110,588 person-years were included. 
  • Heterogeneity was large and significant. 
  • Those accumulating HALF the recommended volume of physical activity had 18% lower risk of depression. 
  • Adults accumulating the recommended volume of 8.8 marginal metabolic equivalent task hours per week had 25% lower risk with diminishing potential benefits and higher uncertainty observed beyond that exposure level. 

Wrap It Up

This systematic review and meta-analysis of associations between physical activity and depression suggest significant mental health benefits from being physically active, even at levels below the public health recommendations. Health practitioners should therefore encourage any increase in physical activity to improve mental health.

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, “”The analgesic effect of joint mobilization and manipulation in tendinopathy: a narrative review” by Savva et. al. (Savva C 2021) and was published in the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy in 2021 – aye chi wa wa. Steamy. 

Why They Did It

To summarize the available literature with regards to the potential analgesic effect and mechanism of joint mobilization and manipulation in tendinopathy. 

What They Found

  • The effect of these techniques in rotator cuff tendinopathy and lateral elbow tendinopathy, applied alone, compared to a placebo intervention or along with other interventions has been reported in some randomized controlled trials which have been scrutinized in systematic reviews. 
  • Literature in other tendinopathies such as medial elbow tendinopathy, de Quervain’s disease and Achilles tendinopathy is limited since the analgesic effect of these techniques has been identified in few case series and reports. 
  • Therefore, the low methodological quality renders caution in the generalization of findings in clinical practice. 
  • Studies on the analgesic mechanism of these techniques highlight the activation of the descending inhibitory pain mechanism and sympathoexcitation although this area needs further investigation.

Wrap It Up

Study suggests that joint mobilization and manipulation may be a potential contributor in the management of tendinopathy as a pre-conditioning process prior to formal exercise loading rehabilitation or other proven effective treatment approaches. 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!

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

Pearce M, G. L., Abbas A, (2022). “Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.” JAMA Psychiatry.  

Savva C, K. C., Korakakis V, Efstathiou M, (2021). “The analgesic effect of joint mobilization and manipulation in tendinopathy: a narrative review.” J Man Manip Ther 29(5): 276-287.    

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Sitting On Your Butt And The Future Of American Pain

February 7, 2022 chiropracticforward Chronic Pain, Pain, Sedentary Lifestyle 0:11:55 0 Comments
CF 214: Sitting On Your Butt And The Future Of American Pain Today we’re going to talk about Sitting On Your Butt And The Future Of American Pain” 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 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 
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #214 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about the Easy, Cheap Way To Fix Cervical Curvature & SMT For Chronic Neck Pain. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.    On the personal end of things….. Short ans sweet today folks becauuse I have just 3 days to fit in 5 days of work. Come Thursday, I’m off to Delray Beach, FL. Now that sounds amazing and all vacation-y right?/ Well it’s bidniz. I’m taking my wife and duaghter so it’s vacation-y for them but for me, I was invited to be part of a nationwide chiropractic mastermind. To help each other solve their problems, to network, and to conquer. And that’s the stuff I love being a part of. I can’t wait to put the things I learn into effect here in my cliniic and I can’t wait to help someone else that can maybe learn something from me. Who knows what they can learn from me? Guitar maybe. Lol So, the front desk girl I bragged on. She got a better job I guess. Working only 3 days a week and making the same money. Can’t blame her. I jsut got the back office staff filled and now to fill the front desk.  Time’s are tough folks. But that’s OK. I’ve been at it 24 years. No keeping this old dog down. I was here far before any staff and I don’t plan on going anywhere any time soon.  So, off to Indeed I go to find a new employee.  Let’s get on with the show so I can go hire someone.    Item #1 The first one this week is called ‘Association between sedentary behavior and low back pain; a systematic review and meta-analysis” by Mahdavi, et. al. (Mahdavi SB 2021) and published in Health Promotion Perspective in 2021 so that means it’s steamy hot.    Why They Did It Sedentariness is a substantial risk for many chronic diseases. We aimed to investigate the correlation of sedentary behavior and its indicators with low back pain (LBP) among adults and children   How They Did It
  • Original articles published up to April 28, 2020, using PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Scopus were evaluated
  • We reviewed 49 English articles with analytical observational study design, of which, 27 studies with cross sectional/survey design were retained in the meta-analysis
  What They Found
  • Among adults, sedentary lifestyle was a considerable risk factor for LBP; prolonged sitting time and driving time were the significant risk factors. 
  • Sedentary behavior was associated with LBP in office workers. 
  • Moreover, excess weight and smoking were associated with LBP. 
  • Among children, sedentary lifestyle was a remarkable risk factor for LBP; prolonged TV watching and computer/mobile using and console playing time were significant risk factors for LBP. 
  Wrap It Up Sedentary behavior, whether in work or leisure time, associates with a moderate increase in the risk of LBP in adults, children and adolescents.   Item #2 The last one this week is called, “Decoding the mystery of American pain reveals a warning for the future” by Case et. al. (Case A 2020) and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in September of 2020.    Why They Did It There is an expectation that, on average, pain will increase with age, through accumulated injury, physical wear and tear, and an increasing burden of disease. Consistent with that expectation, pain rises with age into old age in other wealthy countries. However, in America today, the elderly report less pain than those in midlife. This is the mystery of American pain.   How They Did It Using multiple datasets and definitions of pain, we show today’s midlife Americans have had more pain throughout adulthood than did today’s elderly.   What They Found Disaggregating the cross-section of ages by year of birth and completion of a bachelor’s degree, we find, for those with less education, that each successive birth cohort has a higher prevalence of pain at each age-a result not found for those with a bachelor’s degree.  Thus, the gap in pain between the more and less educated has widened in each successive birth cohort.  The increase seen across birth cohorts cannot be explained by changes in occupation or levels of obesity for the less educated, but fits a more general pattern seen in the ongoing erosion of working-class life for those born after 1950.  If these patterns continue, pain prevalence will continue to increase for all adults; importantly, tomorrow’s elderly will be sicker than today’s elderly, with potentially serious implications for healthcare. Dayum…..I know I need to get an associate in here because my back hurts all the damn time and I don’t have time to be running around town looking for a chiropractor that can fit me in.  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.   

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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.   Website
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Intermittent Fasting & Dementia And Your Level Of Activity

January 13, 2022 chiropracticforward Dementia, Exercise, Fasting 1:27:38 0 Comments

CF 212: Intermittent Fasting & Dementia And Your Level Of Activity

Today we’re going to talk about Intermittent Fasting & Dementia And Your Level Of Activity 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 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 your 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 
  • The 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 #212 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Chiropractic And Colicky Babies & Breathing With Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.  On the personal end of things….. Things slow down in January for most of us. That’s a time to set some goals, a time to get your taxes prepped for your CPA, and a time to reflect on the year we just wrapped up and where we can leverage our experience to springboard beyond next year.  You never can tell with some offices. But for me, January through the end of February is traditionally slower than the rest of the year. We usually see a slow down again around back-to-school time in late August. Other than those times of the year, it’s typically nonstop busy busy.  So, while it’s slow, we use that to our advantage. Have you lined up your marketing plan for the next year? Have you started gathering your tax info for your accountant? It’s probably a decent time to do a recall effort. Have your staff contact patients you haven’t seen in forever and ask them how their holidays went and make sure they’re doing good. Just a check-in type of thing.  You’d be amazed at how many people just like to know they weren’t forgotten and how a checkin from our office can spur them to go ahead and come on back in because their back has been nagging lately or those headaches have started creeping back in later.  Employees. If you’ve followed along, we just recently replaced the front desk staffer. Now, just this morning we got a 2-week notice for one of our best back-office staff members. Ugh, right?? So, now it’s off I go to find a replacement there. You always hate losing one of your best. The job she’s going to pays $1.50 more per hour and offers a 401k. Well, she was due next month for a yearly raise and we’ve offered 401ks in the past but no employees ever took us up on the offer. But, she never asked and I’m never going to beg someone to stay. That’s not in my DNA. But if employees would talk to us before jumping ship, there may be something we can do to hold on to the best of them.  But it is what it is. Now, we have a staffer trying to take vacation days she doesn’t have and it’s just blah around here so here we go. I’m just going to get into this episode and forget all my woes.  Item #1 The first one today is called “Intermittent Fasting and Obesity-Related Health Outcomes An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials” by Patikorn et. al. (Patikorn C 2021) and published in JAMA Network Open on December 17, 2021, Hot tamale! Why They Did It The authors wanted to answer the questions, “What is the association of intermittent fasting with health outcomes and what is the strength of evidence of studies on intermittent fasting?” How They Did It
  • This was a meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
  • They went through databases that included Embase, PubMed, and Cochrane
  • The search was done from April 2021
  • They found 11 meta-analyses comprising 130 RCTs, 38 participants
What They Found
  • There were 28 statistically significant associations (27%) that demonstrated the beneficial outcomes for body mass index, body weight, fat mass, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting plasma glucose, fasting insulin, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance, and blood pressure. 
  • IF was found to be associated with reduced fat-free mass. 
  • One significant association (1%) supported by high-quality evidence was modified alternate-day fasting for 1 to 2 months, which was associated with a moderate reduction in body mass index in healthy adults and adults with overweight, obesity, or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease compared with regular diet. 
  • Six associations (6%) were supported by moderate-quality evidence. 
Wrap It Up In this umbrella review, we found beneficial associations of IF with anthropometric and cardiometabolic outcomes supported by moderate to the high quality of evidence, which supports the role of IF, especially modified alternate-day fasting, as a weight loss approach for adults with overweight or obesity. Item #2 Our last one today is called “Association of Physical Activity Level With Risk of Dementia in a Nationwide Cohort in Korea” by Yoon et. al. (Yoon M 2021) and published in JAMA Network Open on December 16th of 2021. Hot hot hot. A lot hot.  Why They Did It The authors wanted to answer the question, “Is physical activity, especially light-intensity physical activity, independently associated with new-onset dementia?” How They Did It
  • It was a nationwide retrospective cohort study, 
  • They analyzed 62,286 participants aged 65 years or older without preexisting dementia who had available health checkup data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service database from January 2009 to December 2012. 
  • Participants were followed up until December 31, 2013, and 
  • data analysis was performed from July 2020 to January 2021.
  • Physical activity level was assessed using a standardized, self-reported questionnaire at baseline. 
  • Physical activity-related energy expenditure was calculated by summing the product of frequency, intensity, and duration.
What They Found I’m not going to tell you. Because we try to keep it simple light and fun around here and getting into the specifics here will make you wonder what happens when you turn on your headlights if you’re car were to be moving the speed of light. Like….why are there braille dots on a drive-up ATM? What’s up with that? Anyway, we’re skipping right to the conclusions.  Wrap It Up In older adults, an increased physical activity level, including a low amount of light-intensity physical activity, was associated with a reduced risk of dementia. Promotion of light-intensity physical activity might reduce the risk of dementia in older adults. This is a bit different from previous findings. They recommended medium intensity or higher to reduce dementia risk. They also have now shown that total sedentary behavior is associated with unfavorable health outcomes. Which is really no surprise, is it??  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.   

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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. Website
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Social Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/ Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/ Twitter 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 Patikorn C, R. K., Veettil SK, (2021). “Intermittent Fasting and Obesity-Related Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials.” JAMA Netw Open 4(12).   Yoon M, Y. P., Jin M (2021). “Association of Physical Activity Level With Risk of Dementia in a Nationwide Cohort in Korea.” JAMA Netw Open 4(12).