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Tensile Force On Vertebral Artery During Adjustments & Exercising For Pain

December 1, 2022 chiropracticforward 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.
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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.

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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.

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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

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.

Change Your Mind About Pain

July 28, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:16:53 0 Comments

CF 239: Change Your Mind About Pain Today we’re going to talk about changing your mind when it comes to pain and how looking at it differently can help our patients get in control of it. 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 #239 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Benzopdiazapines and Mirror Therapy. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Folks, not a lot going on right now in practice. It seems like I’m just in a holding pattern of sorts at the moment. You’ve probably heard me mention that we’ve been slower lately. For whatever reason. That’s true. I’m not sure why. The economy, gas prices, who knows?

This week though, sitting here on a Monday morning, and counting, I have 162 patients set up for the week and we know more will jump in as the week progresses. That’s 17 new patients set up so far this week as well. That will usually bump up to about 23-25 if I’m guessing. Whack-a-mole people. So, now that numbers are back on the rise, another hole will appear in the bucket. Another mole will pop up and have to be whacked on the noggin with my oversize sledgehammer.

So what’s it going to be?

Patients failing to stay on their schedules because we didn’t have the time available to educate them about the schedule? Not chasing A/R with any real intention? Where’s it going to be? Who knows? It’s always a great mystery but, as one thing improves, the pipes start busting elsewhere.

You better believe I have my eyes out too. At the ChiroTexpo event in Frisco a few weeks ago, I met a vendor that does billing, chases A/R, and things of that nature. They’re spending this week auditing our EHR billing records to make sure we’re up to speed and on target. I’m paying particular attention to the report of findings. I don’t do anything elaborate but when I get in a hurry, I tend to simply gloss right over it and keep scooting.

Not this time. Being in the Florida Mastermind has helped me slow down and give it the importance it deserves. And patient care will not take a step back regardless so….. We’ll see where the next a-hole mole comes popping up but believe me, I’m waiting and ready with binoculars!! Alright, let’s dive in

Item #1

Our first one this week is called, “A clinical perspective on a pain neuroscience education approach to manual therapy” by Louw et. al. (Adriaan Louw 2017)and published in the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy on May 22, 2017 It’s 5 years old but I included it because it’s relevant to a lot of what I teach and talk about here on the podcast.

Before we get into these two papers today, I want you to understand that I don’t for a second discount the biomedical aspect of pain and I fully believe hands-on chiropractors are in an amazing spot and well-placed to handle the biopsychosocial pain model. But only if we understand it and know how to leverage our tools in our favor. Otherwise, we make it worse.

Why They Did It

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in pain neuroscience education (PNE) in physical therapy. There is growing evidence for the efficacy of PNE to decrease pain, disability, fear-avoidance, pain catastrophization, limited movement, and health care utilization in people struggling with pain. So what is PNE? PNE teaches people in pain more about the biology and physiology of their pain experience including processes such as central sensitization, peripheral sensitization, allodynia, inhibition, facilitation, neuroplasticity and more.

PNE’s neurobiological model often finds itself at odds with traditional biomedical models used in physical therapy. Traditional biomedical models, focusing on anatomy, pathoanatomy, and biomechanics have been shown to have limited efficacy in helping people understand their pain, especially chronic pain, and may in fact even increase a person’s pain experience by increasing fear-avoidance and pain catastrophization. Trust me, from the stories I get from my patients, the traditional bio-medical model doesn’t just cause catastrophization, it causes downright fear and terror in some patients. An area of physical therapy where the biomedical model is used a lot is manual therapy. I would add chiropractic to the discussion here as well.

This contrast between PNE and manual therapy has seemingly polarized followers from each approach to see PNE as a ‘hands-off’ approach even having clinicians categorize patients as either in need of receiving PNE (with no hands-on), or hands-on with no PNE. In this paper, the authors explored the notion of PNE and manual therapy co-existing.

PNE research has shown to have immediate effects of various clinical signs and symptoms associated with central sensitization. Using a model of sensitization, they argue that PNE can be used in a manual therapy model, especially treating someone where the nervous system has become increasingly hypervigilant. You guys and gals….if you have chronic pain patients, you have to start listening and paying attention to central sensitization, upregulated central nervous systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, yellow flags, fear avoidance, catastrophization, oh my.

Seriously, if these terms are unfamiliar to you, please do yourself and your patients a favor and go get the smarts. You can start the smarts right here in our podcast episodes. I talk about this stuff non-stop and have been for years here so dive in.

It’s not one thing over the other. Either….or. It’s a broad management protocol that includes PNE, SMT, exercise, massage, yoga, tai chi, low level laser, and some other stuff all piled on top. Oh, and a good provider that communicates in a hopeful and encouraging manner. Put the puzzle together. Start by getting the smarts. And quit being confusion as the kids would say. Do research about it. Lol.

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 second one is called “Changes in psychosocial well-being after mindfulness-based stress reduction: a prospective cohort study” by Hill et. al. (Renee J. Hill 2017) and also published in The Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy on May 4, 2017. Again, yes, old man river here as far as research goes but relevant

Why They Did It

The primary purpose of the current study was to assess the effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, facilitated by non-psychologist clinicians, for improving psychosocial well-being. A secondary purpose of the current study was to explore the role of self-compassion as a potential underlying factor for improvements in emotional distress.

How They Did It

130 participants with a variety of medical complaints completed an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction program at Vanderbilt.
Before treatment and at the 8-week time point, participants completed measures for emotional distress, stress, mindfulness, and self-compassion.
Linear model estimation using ordinary least squares was used to evaluate the association between changes in self-compassion with changes in emotional distress.
I’m not going to lie….I’m ignorant of that last part. Made be feel stupid. Which, of course, isn’t hard to do.

What They Found

Following mindfulness-based stress reduction, participants reported significant reductions in emotional distress.
Additionally, participants reported improvements in mindfulness and self-compassion.
Linear regression model revealed that changes in self-compassion were significantly associated with changes in emotional distress.

Start getting the smarts. Research at least once per day.

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

Adriaan Louw, J. N. E. J. P. (2017). “A clinical perspective on a pain neuroscience education approach to manual therapy.” Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy 25(3): 160-168.

Renee J. Hill, L. C. M., Li Wang & Rogelio A. Coronado, (2017). “Changes in psychosocial well-being after mindfulness-based stress reduction: a prospective cohort study.” Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy 25(3): 128-136.

Chronic Pain Talk & Thoughts

July 14, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:16:43 0 Comments

CF 237: Chronic Pain Talk & Thoughts Today we’re going to talk about one of my favorite topics; Chronic Pain. 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 #237 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about how You Are What You Eat & Screen Time For Kids. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

the personal end of things…..

I just don’t have a lot to report on the personal end of things. We’re a little slower lately. I think it’s because gas prices are sky freaking high and you have to take out a small loan just to fill up your vehicle. I think it’s depressing for a lot of folks. Any time there is confusion or uncertainty with the economy, people pull back. Understandably. Unfortunately, many see chiropractic as an extra and when people are trimming the budget, chiropractic, and healthcare in general, get trimmed and we take a hit. I think that’s what’s up right now.

I’ve talked to a couple of my colleagues in the Dallas area and there are feeling the same dial-back in business. I am used to about 45-50 on a Monday. This week, we have 35. I don’t dig it. Especially when I know I’m marketing and doing the smart stuff. It’s discouraging. But, at the end of the day, there are things out of our control, and rolling with the flow is all we can do. Be moral, ethical, honest, loving, evidence-based, and patient-centered, and treat people right. That’s what good and successful practices should consist of. Those build the base, the foundation of big things in life and in business.

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 #1

This one is called “Manual physical therapy for chronic pain: the complex whole is greater than the sum of its parts” by Coronado et. al. and published in the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy in 2017. They say that “Manual physical therapists can effectively treat patients with chronic pain and other musculoskeletal disorders; however, the field is at a crossroads. The traditional approach to manual therapy assumes that proper technique selection and precise implementation is the primary driver of a successful outcome. In this view, the resultant outcomes are directly attributed to the applied intervention.

They go on, “We propose manual physical therapists will only be recognized as ideal providers for individuals with chronic pain if we accept an updated paradigm acknowledging the complexity of the manual physical therapy experience and accept the robustness of varying contextual elements inherent in our interactions. For some clinicians, this will require a revolutionary shift in their perception of the development, maintenance, and modulation of pain “

You may have heard me say that I’m teaching a 2-hour course called “Chronic Pain And The Upregulated CNS” and this paradigm shift isn’t anywhere near where it will need to be. The information I’m teaching is brand new to 90% of the providers from my experience. “Pain is an experience orchestrated by dynamic sensory, cognitive, and affective processes and is strongly influenced by patient’s expectations (AKA Yellow Flags), mood, desires, and past experiences.

Limiting pain perception to a peripheral impairment is outdated and a more comprehensive, albeit complex, approach to manual therapy accounts for a myriad of interacting factors impacting chronic pain outcomes” “A comprehensive approach acknowledges the impact of patient and therapist factors, which not only include personal and condition-specific patient characteristics, but also the cultural biases, beliefs, and experiences of both the patient and therapist” “Additionally, this view acknowledges the interaction between patient and manual physical therapist, which may yield important outcome contributions, either directly (as in….what techniques we use) or indirectly (like addressing the yellow flags).” “Finally, this approach acknowledges the integration of targeted adjunct interventions such as psychosocial strategies and exercise that may (1) enhance the effectiveness of manual therapy for reducing the impact of pain, and/or (2) promote and maintain positive behavioral change”

We know that when people are sedentary, they have deeper depression, pain, and anxiety. Sleep issues and mood disorders. This is well-researched. On the other hand that movement and exercise reverse these things. Less depression, less anxiety, more fitness, better sleep, and less pain as the CNS becomes more comfortable with the movement and becomes more and more functional.

Pain signals and signals of all sorts run through a filter before they are felt…..or not felt at all. That filter can amplify the signals or dampen them. It’s no longer a straight biomedical view we take. It’s the biopsychosocial construct we use to approach pain now and if we only look at the bio part, we are cheating our patients out of 2/3 of the effectiveness we could have for them. In the end, if your CNS thinks it should hurt, it will. Regardless of whether there is tissue pathology or not. On the other hand, if your tissue is completely jacked up but the CNS determines there is no danger or threat, it will not hurt. Moseley and Butler lay it out straight like that in their book called Explain Pain.

They say it’s as simple and as difficult as that.

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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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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Adjustments For Scoliosis & Importance Of Pain Perceptions

June 2, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:19:18 0 Comments

CF 231: Adjustments For Scoliosis & Importance Of Pain Perceptions Today we’re going to talk about Adjustments For Scoliosis & Importance Of Pain Perceptions 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.
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #231 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about lumbar stenosis. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Weelllll, what a weekend I just wrapped up. You never know when life is going to throw darts with your nose as the bullseye but my pickup truck died a couple of weeks ago. Died died. I had to replace the entire engine. What a sheer joy. I guess COVID has made engines hard to find as well. So, over $3,000 to do that. Now, while it’s in the shop getting a new engine, I bought a 2021 Chevy Silverado down in the Houston, TX area.

I worked from 8-12 last Friday then hopped on an airplane for a 2-hour ride down to Houston, then an Uber from the airport to the dealership in Tomball, TX. About a 45-minute Uber. Then to the dealership, sign some papers, hop in this beautiful black beast of a truck, and headed back on the 10-hour drive to Amarillo, TX. Texas is a big place folk. It just is.

I made it all of the ways to Wichita Falls at about 11:00 that night, slept in a hotel, got up at 7:00 am, and made it the rest of the way. I was back in Amarillo by noon on Saturday. With a new vehicle that I’m in love with. I think side gigs are vital. We can kill it in our personal practices.

But, due to insurance reimbursements or the challenges of a cash practice, or whatever the reasons may be, it always seems the margins are a bit thin. When you have a catastrophe like a vehicle dying and you have to hop out and get a newer vehicle, especially one that runs North of $50 or $55k, it’s nice to have that extra side income. My side gigs are voice-over…..holy cow voice-over. It’s changed my life. For real.

The term ‘game-changer’ is so overused, but voice-over has been a literal game-changer. Real Estate – I’ve been doing some real estate work lately. We bought a short-term rental in Lubbock, TX, the home of Texas Tech. They are a D1 school and have all of the events that come with a D1 school. Without getting too deeply into numbers, my total overhead per month on the house is $1100.

Just last weekend it was graduation weekend. Just last weekend on a 3-night stay we made $1600. So you can see where you can go with short-term rentals. There is a method will encounter if you listen to the Bigger Pockets podcast and that method is called the BRRRR method. It stands for Buy – Renovate – Rent – Refinance – and Repeat.

So you buy it below value and you renovate it and raise the value. Then you rent it to start making some money. After a seasoning period of 4-6 months, you refinance the property and get your down payment mostly back out of the property. Then you put that money down on another fixer-upper and repeat the process. So, we refinanced our long-term rental home here locally and got a good chunk out of it. Now, with that chunk, we are buying another hosue in Lubbock for our kids to live in while they go through college saving us thousands and thousands over the years they’re down there. Then we’ll either convert it to a short-term rental or we’ll sell it all together and put the money on a beach house in Florida. We also are looking at the Texas A&M market for a short-term rental.

Who knows? But for the rest of this year, I think we settle down and watch what the market does. It’s due for a slow down. Just want to see where and how before getting in too deep. So, these two side gigs have been mostly non-time consuming and mostly hands-off. It only takes about 15 minutes per week to self-manage a short-term rental. And…..this truck payment isn’t going to put me in the poor house as it may have in the past.

So, what side gigs are you working on? What’s been successful for you? I’d love to hear about it and maybe share it with the rest of the think tank here at Chiropractic Forward. Shoot me an email at dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com Right before we get to it today…… are you tired of getting paid peanuts for your good work? Insurance pays maybe half. Medicare and Medicaid even less. So how about full payment? This comes with PI cases. How do you get these cases you ask? Learn the system.

Created by Paul Samakow, a 41-year veteran attorney – he explains in detail what to do, how to do it, and how to have attorneys not only send you their clients but how to assure they continue to do so. This system is delivered to you in both written and video form – Samakow is actually pretty funny when you watch – but his content and information are both spot on and serious, and will result in multiple referrals from attorneys if you follow his system. His 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 here is called, “Clinical observation of chiropractic manipulation in the treatment of degenerative scoliosis” by Lu-Guang et. al. (Li LG 2022) and published in Zhongguao Gu Shang in May of 2022 smooookin’! I want to thank my New Jersey friend, Dr. David Graber, for posting this on on Facebook.

Why They Did It

To observe clinical efficacy of chiropractic manipulation in the treatment of degenerative scoliosis

How They Did It

120 patients with degenerative scoliosis were randomly divided into treatment group and control group
From 2017 to 2019
The patients in the treatment group were treated with chiropractic manipulation once every other day for 4 weeks.
The patients in control group were treated with eperisone hydrochloride tablets combined with a thoracolumbar orthopedic (TSLO) brace, oral eperisone hydrochloride tablets 50 mg three times a day, wearing TSLO brace for not less than 8 hours a day.
The course of treatment was 4 weeks.
After the patients were selected into the group, visual analogue scale (VAS) and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) were recorded before treatment, 1, 2, 3, 4 weeks after treatment and 1 month after treatment.
The full length X-ray of the spine was taken before and 4 weeks after treatment, and the scoliosis Cobb angle, sagittal vertical axis (SVA) and lumbar lordosis (LL) were measured and compared.

What They Found

There were significant differences in VAS and Oswestry Disability Index between the two groups at each time point after treatment There was significant difference in Cobb angle between treatment group and control group after treatment, but there was no significant difference in lumbar lordosis and sagittal vertical axis between treatment group and control group.
There was no significant difference in Cobb angle, lumbar lordosis and sagittal vertical axis between two groups before and after treatment.
During the treatment, there were 4 mild adverse reactions in the control group and no adverse reactions in the treatment group.

Wrap It Up

Chiropractic manipulation can effectively relieve pain and improve lumbar function in patients with degenerative scoliosis. The onset of action is faster than that oral eperisone hydrochloride tablets combined with TSLO brace, and it has better safety and can improve Cobb angle of patients with degenerative scoliosis.

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

This last one today is called, “Pain cognitions and impact of low back pain after participation in a self-management program: a qualitative study”” by Joem et. al. (Joern 2022) and published in Chiropractic and Manual Therapies on the 21st of February 2022. Schizahhhh….that one’s bringing the heat!

Why They Did It

Benefits from low back pain (LBP) treatments seem to be related to patients changing their pain cognitions and developing an increased sense of control. Still, little is known about how these changes occur. The objective of this study was to gain insights into possible shifts in the understanding of LBP and the sense of being able to manage pain among patients participating in a LBP self-management intervention.

What They Found

Four main themes, corresponding to the characterization of four patient groups, were identified:
- ‘Feeling miscast,
- ‘Maintaining reservations’,
- ‘Struggling with habits’ and
- ‘Handling it’.
The participants within each group differed in how they understood, managed, and communicated about their LBP.
Some retained the perception of LBP as a threatening disease, some expressed a changed understanding that did not translate into new behaviors, while others had changed their understanding of pain and their reaction to pain.

Wrap It Up

The same intervention was experienced very differently by different people depending on how messages and communication resonated with the individual patient’s experiences and prior understanding of LBP. Awareness of the ways that individuals’ understanding of LBP interacts with behavior and physical activities appears central to providing adaptive professional support and meeting the needs of individual patients. I have repeated this time and time again on this podcast and to my patients. How people think about their pain goes a long way in determining how they will do in the long run.

Communicate through the optimistic and hopeful filter. Make sure you’re pulling your patients back from the cliff with your words instead of pushing them into the chronic pain pit. 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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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

Joern, L., Kongsted, A., Thomassen, L, (2022). “Pain cognitions and impact of low back pain after participation in a self-management program: a qualitative study.” Chiropr Man Therap 30(8).

Li LG, G. J., Gao CY, Sun W, Luo J, Yang KX, Yu J, Li JG, Wang BJ, Yang W, Zhuang MH (2022). “Clinical observation of chiropractic manipulation in the treatment of degenerative scoliosis.” Zhongguo Gu Shang 35(5): 442-447.

Pain And COVID & Images Can Mislead

April 20, 2022 chiropracticforward 0:14:17 0 Comments

CF 225: Pain And COVID & Images Can Mislead Today we’re going to talk about Pain and COVID & how in the hands of the wrong practitioner, Imaging Can Mislead 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
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #225 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about The Complexity & Treatment of Chronic Pain. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. On the personal end of things….. What a damn day folks. What a way to start a Monday. I get to work and have a message to remove the permissions on my page for one of the folks I have helping me with my ad campaign on Facebook. Turns out he got hacked. Which means everyone he has permission with on social media got hacked as well! Including me. Unreal. So I showed up on a Monday going one direction with a ton of focuse. Next thing you know, I’m headed in teh complete opposite direction afraid I’m going to lose every bit of everything that makes up my professional online presence. Including my Chiropractic Forward page and Insta. My Creek Stone Integrated Medical, my voice over page, my art page…..everything. I have a botu 22 pages for various things. Furniture building, bands I’ve been in, charity groups, etc. So, that’s stressful as hell. For that very reason, I’m cutting it short and getting straight to the research. I’ll let you all know how it turns out next week. Before the research though, I have a gift for you! I’m going to turn you on to a system I recently came acros that can result in your getting tons of PI cases from attorneys. Getting these referrals can be done because it’s how I built my practice in the early days. Paul Samakow, a veteran personal injury attorney, put this system together. An attorney telling your how to talk to attorneys – he knows what attorneys want to hear – inviting them to lunch isn’t effective marketing these days. His system, is delivered to you in both written and video form, and really hits the mark. Over 25 concepts on how you can not only get attorneys to refer to you, but endear yourself to them. Samakow’s system costs $997 and he guarantees satisfaction or your money back. Which is always a big deal. That guarantee makes a difference for me. You should check it out. Even if you only get one case, you’ve made at least 4 or 5 times the investment. Trust me, I get, on average, about $2500-$3500 per settled case minimum. Lots of time much more than that. 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 this week is called, “Manifestations of Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Portrayed on Social Media: A Cross-Sectional Study” by D’Souza et. al. (Ryan S D’Souza 2022) and published in Pain Medicine in 2022 holy smokes it’s hot. Why They Did It Pain is an often overlooked and underappreciated manifestation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several permutations of pain should be considered, including: 1) acute pain related to viral infection, 2) exacerbation of preexisting chronic pain, and 3) new-onset pain from post-COVID syndrome. Preexisting chronic pain may worsen, potentially because of lack of health care access, worsening of psychological well-being, unavailability of medications, and other stressors A unique category includes patients without any history of chronic pain who developed persistent pain after recovery from COVID-19 infection [1]. This fits within a syndrome known as “post–acute COVID-19 syndrome” which describes patients who experience persistent symptoms beyond 4 weeks after the onset of COVID-19 symptoms I have been seeing this A LOT! Patients who suffer from pain may not be well informed and may turn to publicly available sources for their information needs, especially during the pandemic when in-person health care was less accessible [2]. With the omnipresence of social media and popular broadcast sites, these platforms should be considered vital in disseminating information on COVID-19 [3,4]. Thus, our objectives were 1) to view videos on the YouTube platform as a source of information on pain during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2) to report on their content on the location, type, and chronicity of pain symptoms, 3) to report the overall goal and target audience of the videos, and 4) to critically appraise video quality. Given the novelty of this topic, we hypothesized that the quality of videos would be low and there would be a paucity of videos published by professional societies. Second, we compared video characteristics between low- and high-quality videos and hypothesized that lower-quality videos would more likely be produced by independent users. How They Did It

It was a cross-sectional study
They sampled videos on YouTube from March 2020 to March 2021 that had to do with COVID-related pain
The authors queried the YouTube platform (www.youtube.com) with the keywords “COVID-19 pain,” “chronic pain after COVID-19,” and “pain related to COVID-19” from March 11, 2020, to March 1, 2021, using the “relevance” filter.
The authors restricted each search to the first 50 videos, yielding 150 videos screened.

Wrap It Up Our findings highlight that musculoskeletal/nociceptive pain in the back and extremities and visceral pain in the abdomen and chest are the most commonly reported pain types. Not surprisingly, the intended audience was patients, with an overall objective to educate on pain symptoms in most videos. This information is important, as it provides patients an explanation of the various pain generators in the body and the expected type of pain quality. The general public may be unaware that COVID-19 infection, a disease primarily having pulmonary and cardiovascular manifestations, can actually cause painful symptoms, even in seemingly disparate areas such as the eyes or genitourinary system. However, only a minority of videos (15%) provided education on pain management. Thus, clinicians should consider focusing time on educating patients on treatment options, as publicly available sources are lacking in this component. Item #2 Thsi one is called “Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations” by Brinjikji et. al. (Brinjikji W 2015) and published in AJNR in 2015. Why They Did It

They say in the abstract that degenerative changes are commonly found in spine imaging but often occur in pain-free individuals as well as those with back pain.
They sought to estimate the prevalence, by age, of common degenerative spine conditions by performing a systematic review studying the prevalence of spine degeneration on imaging in asymptomatic individuals.

How They Did It

We performed a systematic review of articles reporting the prevalence of imaging findings (CT or MR imaging) in asymptomatic individuals from published English literature through April 2014.
Two reviewers evaluated each manuscript. We selected age groupings by decade (20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years), determining age-specific prevalence estimates.

What They Found

Thirty-three articles reporting imaging findings for 3,110 asymptomatic individuals met our study inclusion criteria.
The prevalence of disk degeneration in asymptomatic individuals increased from 37% of 20-year-old individuals to 96% of 80-year-old individuals.
Disk bulge prevalence increased from 30% of those 20 years of age to 84% of those 80 years of age.
Disk protrusion prevalence increased from 29% of those 20 years of age to 43% of those 80 years of age.
The prevalence of annular fissure increased from 19% of those 20 years of age to 29% of those 80 years of age.

Wrap It Up

Imaging findings of spine degeneration are present in high proportions of asymptomatic individuals, increasing with age.
Many imaging-based degenerative features are likely part of normal aging and unassociated with pain.
These imaging findings must be interpreted in the context of the patient’s clinical condition.

Don’t see it on an. Image and immediately assume that’s the issue. Phantom Limb pain exists in chronic pain conditions so why can’t low back pain be a phantom back pain? Take a long hard look at the biopsychosocial part of things. If you cannot line up the cliinical patient with the image, don’t make a big deal out of the findings because it’s likely meaningless. 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

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Social Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/ Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/ Twitter Tweets by 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 Brinjikji W, L. P., Comstock B, Bresnahan BW, Chen LE, Deyo RA, Halabi S, Turner JA, Avins AL, James K, Wald JT, Kallmes DF, Jarvik JG (2015). “Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations.” AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 36(4): 811-816. Ryan S D’Souza, M., Anthony E Kilgore, Shawn D’Souza (2022). “Manifestations of Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Portrayed on Social Media: A Cross-Sectional Study,.” Pain Medicine 23(2): 229-233.

Sleep, Energy, and Pain & Depression and Rehab

March 17, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:16:39 0 Comments

Today we’re going to talk about Sleep, Energy, and Pain & Depression and Rehab

Sitting On Your Butt And The Future Of American Pain

February 7, 2022 chiropracticforward 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.
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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.

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

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Social Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/ Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/ Twitter Tweets by 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 Case A, D. A., Stone AA., (2020). “ecoding the mystery of American pain reveals a warning for the future.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 24785-24789. Mahdavi SB, R. R., Vahadatpour B, Kelishadi R, (2021). “Association between sedentary behavior and low back pain; A systematic review and meta-analysis.” Health Promot Perspect 11(4): 393-410.

Easy, Cheap Way To Fix Cervical Curvature & SMT For Chronic Neck Pain

January 24, 2022 chiropracticforward 00:30:11 0 Comments

CF Ep. 213: Easy, Cheap Way To Fix Cervical Curvature & SMT For Chronic Neck Pain Today we’re going to talk about Easy, Cheap Way To Fix Cervical Curvature & SMT For Chronic Neck Pain 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
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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #213 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about Intermittent Fasting & Dementia And Your Level Of Activity. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Alright, no…it’s not just you….I’m a little slower than normal right now. For most of us, that’s the nature of the beast. We just slow down in January because most of us take insurance and most of those plans re-set in January. People haven’t met their deductibles. They don’t like to spend their own money. And that’s OK. Speaking from 24 years of experience, it’s normal and you’ll start seeing it pick back up around mid to late February. Definitely by March. Like I sadi last week, this is the time that we start playing catch up and taking care of all of the stuff that’s been sitting on the back burner. So start dusting off that stack on your desk and working through it while you have the time. I want to be honest. Which I always am. I think I’m in a mid-life crisis. I’m tired of replacing employees. Re-hiring, etc. I’m tired of the same old questions we get from patients. I’m tired of dealing with the day-to-day stuff I’ve dealt with. Some of you will love what you’re doing so much that you’ll want to die in your office at 84 years old working on someone.

And wouldn’t that be an awful experience for the patient? Just as a side thought. Lol.

Anyway, that’s not me. When I’m answering the question about why someone’s neck is hurting for the umpteenth time, the call for more freedom of time gets stronger. And stronger and stronger. That’s the reason that over the last few years I have started cultivating the side gigs. The exit strategy. Looky here; I write and perform music, I paint, I draw, I play the guitar, I build furniture, I sculpt, I throw the discus and want to compete in old man track meets, and I love spending time with my family and traveling. So…how the hell do you do all of that while you’re in a clinic all day every day your entire life? The answer is….you don’t. You don’t do the things that feed your soul. You either don’t do them at all, or you don’t do them very often.

Until you’re 65 or so for most people. Well, I don’t plan on being most, folks. So, how do you own the practice instead of the practice owning you? Great question. I don’t know but here are some of the avenues I’m using to try to walk the path.

Specialization and Board Certification
Nurse Practitioner
Associate chiropractor – If you’re interested in working for me, email me folks. dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com I’m looking.
Real Estate Investing
Voice Over
Authorship
Speaking and Mentoring

In fact, I have a big presentation coming up at the Texas Chiropractic Association’s MidWinter Conference in Lubbock, TX on February 18th. It’s called Chronic Pain And The Upregulated Central Nervous System. I’m in the process of building that talk as we speak. If that sounds like something your group or association could use, email me at dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com and let’s connect.

I’d love to come present for you and your peeps.

So, anyway, I do all kinds of things. But those are the biggies. Get your exit number in place. Even if you’re brand new. You gotta have your loans paid. You gotta have your retirement finances in the process. You gotta have investments working. Once that’s handled, what is the exit number that would make you secure to make your exit. Or to make a Hybrid Exit. What’s that exactly? A Hybrid Exit would look different for different folks. For one person that might mean treating patients 2 days per week. For others, it might mean strictly being the owner but exiting patient treatment completely. It could mean a million things but, at the price point some of us make per year, it can be difficult to build enough side gig to replace that income. For me, just looking at the numbers and potential, while keeping risk mitigation in mind, real estate seems the quickest way when you combine that with the clinic integration and hiring an associate chiro. Combining these three may get me there. Then you throw in this voice-over blessing that I started last year…..wow. That was out of nowhere, was a complete surprise, and an amazing blessing. Voice over, by itself, has more than funded the down payment and the furnishing of our very first short-term rental house and investment I’ve been mentioning more and more recently.

Let’s be honest though, you don’t have to be in voice-over to invest. You just have to keep the overhead down and save up enough for a downpayment. The rest will take care of itself. And the earlier you start, the faster you get there. I’m 49 and wish I’d had this mentality at 29. Damnit.

But it’s never too late to start taking better care of your future, your physical health, and your mental health. That’s where I’m at. I’ll keep updating you.

Item #1

This first one is called “The Effects of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial” by Cholewicki et. al. (Cholewicki J 2021) and published in PM&R on October 31, 2021.

Aye chiwawa!

Why They Did It

Neck pain (NP) affects as much as 70% of individuals at some point in their lives. Systematic reviews indicate that manual treatments can be moderately effective in the management of chronic, nonspecific NP. However, there is a paucity of studies specifically evaluating the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). The authors wanted to evaluate the efficacy of OMT in reducing pain and disability in patients with chronic NP. And I’m glad they are because they’re right, there is a paucity of research on neck pain. Low back gets all the attention while neck pain…..treating neck pain is the main thing we chiros get beat up over. So why the hell not knock out a ton of high-level research on chiro, manipulation, and neck pain while continuing to highlight the low risk of adverse effects for its treatment? Can we finally get past this chiropractors cause strokes issue? Is there increased risk? Sure. But that doesn’t mean we go arounnd causing them. There are bad patients that shouldn’t be worked on and there are bad chiros that are far too rouugh. But for the most part, its not dangerous whatsoever. Take the UFC for example

How They Did It

Single-blinded, cross-over, randomized controlled trial.
University-based, osteopathic manipulative medicine outpatient clinic.
97 participants, 21-65 years old, with chronic, nonspecific NP
Participants were randomized to two trial arms: immediate OMT intervention or waiting period first.
The intervention consisted of 3-4 OMT sessions over 4-6 weeks, after which the participants switched groups.
Primary outcome measures were pain intensity (average and current) on the numerical rating scale and Neck Disability Index.
38 and 37 participants were available for the analysis in the OMT and waiting period groups, respectively

What They Found

The results showed significantly better primary outcomes in the immediate OMT group for reductions in average pain, current pain, disability, and improved secondary outcomes related to sleep, fatigue, and depression.
No study-related serious adverse events were reported.

Wrap It Up

OMT is relatively safe and effective in reducing pain and disability along with improving sleep, fatigue, and depression in patients with chronic NP immediately following treatment delivered over approximately 4-6 weeks. One big thing here, this improvement was seen with 3-4 visits over 4-6 weeks. Shouldn’t that have been standardized and consistent from patient to patient? Like 4 visits over 6 weeks for example. Not a range. Next thing, this is about chronic pain. Is 3-4 visits over 4-6 weeks really enough to start addressing the issue of chronic pain? To introduce proprioception, movement, function, and all that good stuff?? No is the answer but, they still showed improvement. I’d love to see the outcomes in a design like this with a more robust and appropriate treatment schedule or frequency.

Item #2 Thsi one is called “You don’t need expensive CBP BS protocols with biased research done by the stakeholders to entice the 9 out of 10 patients that naturally have a decreased cervical curvature into a 70 visit $5,000 treatment plan to fix a lack of cervical curve that a 20 year research project proved is no big deal anyway. Oh wait….sorry….check that. The actual title is “Efficacy of Modified Cervical and Shoulder Retraction Exercise in Patients With Loss of Cervical Lordosis and Neck Pain” by Lee et. al. (Lee 2020) and published in Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine on May 29 2020 and it’s hot enough! Sorry for the mistake. I’ll try to pay more attention to the research paper titles. I’m undiagnosed ADD like that. I take the eye off the ball every here and there. I’ll try to tighten that up a bit.

Anyway

Why They Did It

This research was done by medical doctors so there is no chiropractic bias to this lack of curvature research information.
The authors say they wanted to explore if the modified cervical and shoulder retraction exercise program restores cervical lordosis and reduces neck pain in patients with loss of cervical lordosis.

How They Did It

This study was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data.
Eighty-three patients with loss of cervical lordosis were eligible.
The eligible patients were trained to perform the modified cervical and shoulder retraction exercise program by a physiatrist, and were scheduled for a follow-up 6 to 8 weeks later to check the post-exercise pain intensity and lateral radiograph of the cervical spine in a comfortable position.
The parameters of cervical alignment (4-line Cobb’s angle, posterior tangent method, and sagittal vertical axis) were measured from the lateral radiograph.
Forty-seven patients were included.
The mean age was 48.29±14.47 years

What They Found

Cervical alignment and neck pain significantly improved after undergoing the modified cervical and shoulder retraction exercise program.
The upper cervical lordotic angle also significantly improved.
In a subgroup analysis, which involved dividing the patients into two age groups (<50 years and ≥50 years), the change of the sagittal vertical axis was significantly greater in the <50 years group

Wrap It Up

The modified cervical and shoulder retraction exercise program tends to improve cervical lordosis and neck pain in patients with loss of cervical lordosis. So……if we’re evidence-based and patient-centered, we are not taking advantage of others. We don’t see patients as sales targets. We aren’t seeing them as targets to close on. We aren’t seeing them with dollar signs in our eyes. Rather, we are seeing them as human beings that are in our clinic to place full faith, trust, body, mind, physical well-being, and their entire futures in our hands.

If we are honoring this idea and honoring our patients, we are teaching them about this, we are teaching them about moving, we are teaching them how to self-manage at home, and we are doing what we can within a responsible and appropriate 2-4 treatment plan….give or take. You know…..being a doctor and doing doctor stuff instead of doing street corner huckster stuff like I see so many fellow chiropractors doing. It’s sad. We don’t have to put up with it in our profession. We just have to stop ignoring it and start calling it out and not putting up with it. We can run this behavior out of our profession. If we choose to. 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

Cholewicki J, P. J., Reeves NP, DeStefano L, (2021). “The Effects of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.”

PM R. Lee, M., Jeon H, Choi J, Park Y, (2020). “Efficacy of Modified Cervical and Shoulder Retraction Exercise in Patients With Loss of Cervical Lordosis and Neck Pain.” ARM 44: 3.

Manual & Passive Therapies For The Neck and Acupuncture For Post-Surgical Pain

December 30, 2021 chiropracticforward 00:22:22 0 Comments

CF 210: Manual & Passive Therapies For The Neck and Acupuncture For Post-Surgical Pain

Today we’re going to talk about Manual & Passive Therapies For The Neck and then we’ll talk about Acupuncture For Post-Surgical Pain 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 #210 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Chiropractic Cost-Effectiveness & Early MRIs Lengthen Disability. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Just getting ready for Christmas. We talked a little last week about marketing and how we’re trying to set up our nurse practitioner for success. I am currently going through a couple of different Fiverr sellers and creating a sales funnel. We are going to test it on our hormone pellets. Let’s keep our fingers crossed because if a sales funnel works on hormone pellets, then why wouldn’t it work for IV Therapy? PRP injections? Car Wreck patients? Spinal decompression patients? Just regular ol’ family practice patients? And on and on and on.

You could conceivably and easily figure out your services that offer the highest ROI and then you could create a sales funnel for each.

Or….as in my case, have a Fiverr salesperson that knows more about it create it. Wouldn’t that be amazing if you could spend maybe $1000 per month on all of these ads funneling people into your different systems? Then they get the automated email trickles for whichever Funnell they happen to be in? And then they start calling and making appointments?

As we all know, this is a very real thing in lots of industries. Including healthcare. I’m certain I’m not the first to consider it but it’s kind of new thinking for me personally and I’m hoping that my hormone pellet funnel test bears fruit because if it does, it’s on like Donkey Kong.

I’ll be all over it and I’ll already have the people in place that can help me do it. So, that’s exciting.

No interns from Parker picked our office here in Amarillo, TX to come to visit for the Spring so looks like we’re on our own for the first 1/3 of 2022. But that’s OK, I’ve been on my own for like 24 years so I think we’ll be alright.

On the side gig part of things, voice-over is still absolutely killing it. I never would have imagined what was possible for me in the voice-over industry. I’m still small potatoes when compared to what some of the guys make but for someone that’s only been in it for about a year, it’s been a game-changer when you consider keeping my life the same and still being able to fund other interests like real estate investing.

This year’s voice-over activities more than doubled the down payment we made on the investment property we just closed on in Lubbock, TX. If you ever need a voice-over for your phone system, an online ad, podcast, TV/Radio ad, just holler. I got you. Send me an email at dr.williams@chiropracticforward.com or visit my voice-over website at www.jeffwilliamsvoice.com and we’ll connect.

Speaking of investment property, if you’ve been listening, we bought a small house in Lubbock, TX, and closed on it last week. We are turning it into a short-term rental, we’ll call it an STR for short. That’s an Airbnb or Vrbo house. And they pay very well.

Now, why live an hour and a half away from your STR? Won’t that be difficult? The answer to the first question is because, while I love my hometown of Amarillo, TX, we don’t have a Division I college with a medical school and a law school.

Lubbock has Texas Tech there so they have the concerts and the graduations and the big football games and sports and traveling professors and all of that good stuff. Things that Amarillo just doesn’t have. And it’s only an hour and a half from here so we can still get there to handle any issues. Besides that, most issues are not truly emergencies so as long as you have a dependable cleaner and a dependable handyman to be your eyes and ears on the ground and to take care of things when necessary, you don’t need to live in the same market.

People live in Ohio and self-manage their STRs in Florida or the Smokie Mountains. Self-managing remotely should not be difficult at all. The ones doing it say that it takes about 15-20 minutes per week per house to self-manage. If there’s a plumbing issue, you’d call a plumber just like you would for your own house, give them the door code to get in and handle things, and voila!

These days they have smart houses. Wireless thermostats, deadbolts, external property cameras, and water controls for the garden. You don’t have to have any contact with anyone. Just give them the code to the door. That goes for the guests as well. You can buy STRs already furnished, which is my preference. This one was not so we’re having to purchase everything new for the house. They say count on $10,000 per bedroom if you’re furnishing it. So a 3 bedroom house, we would budget $30,000 in furnishings.

Truthfully, I think we’re coming in at about 1/3 lower than that benchmark. Because I have shopper of a wife and she knows how to find the deals.

Anyway, we spent Saturday down in Lubbock setting it up and building furniture and all that good stuff. We didn’t even get close to getting it ready but we got further than we were. We’ll head back down this weekend and keep grinding until we can get it up and running and ready for our guests to have an excellent experience.

Then, we have a long-term rental here in Amarillo that we used to live in ourselves. Once we moved out, we just held onto it and rented it out. We are refinancing it currently. We will take out the money that is there with the increased value of the home and we’ll put that down on an STR in the Florida area. We’re getting our system of self-management down with this closer Lubbock property. Then we’re taking the show on the road and going bigger.

People will always go to the beach and they’ll always go to Disney so that’s the plan. Keep listening in for updates. I tend to share everything with y’all so you know I’ll be talking about it.

Now on with it.

Item #1

Let’s start off with this one called “Are manual therapies, passive physical modalities, or acupuncture effective for the management of patients with whiplash-associated disorders or neck pain and associated disorders? An update of the Bone and Joint Decade Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders by the OPTIMa collaboration” by Wong et. al. (Wong JJ 2016) and published in Spine Journal in December of 2016, As a side note, this may be the longest of any title anywhere. They should work on their naming prowess.

Why They Did It

In 2008, the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders (Neck Pain Task Force) found limited evidence on the effectiveness of manual therapies, passive physical modalities, or acupuncture for the management of whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) or neck pain and associated disorders (NAD). This review aimed to update the findings of the Neck Pain Task Force, which examined the effectiveness of manual therapies, passive physical modalities, and acupuncture for the management of WAD or NAD.

How They Did It

This was a systematic review and best evidence synthesis.
The sample includes randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, and case-control studies comparing manual therapies, passive physical modalities, or acupuncture with other interventions, placebo or sham, or no intervention.
They systematically searched five databases from 2000 to 2014
Studies with a low risk of bias were stratified by the intervention’s stage of development (exploratory vs. evaluation) and synthesized following best evidence synthesis principles.
They screened 8,551 citations, and 38 studies were relevant and 22 had a low risk of bias.

What They Found Evidence from seven exploratory studies suggests that

for recent but not persistent NAD grades I-II, thoracic manipulation offers short-term benefits;
for persistent NAD grades I-II, technical parameters of cervical mobilization (eg, direction or site of manual contact) do not impact outcomes, whereas one session of cervical manipulation is similar to Kinesio Taping; and
for NAD grades I-II, strain-counterstrain treatment is no better than placebo.

Evidence from 15 evaluation studies suggests that (1) for recent NAD grades I-II, cervical and thoracic manipulation provides no additional benefit to high-dose supervised exercises, and Swedish or clinical massage adds benefit to self-care advice; (2) for persistent NAD grades I-II, home-based cupping massage has similar outcomes to home-based muscle relaxation, low-level laser therapy (LLLT) does not offer benefits, Western acupuncture provides similar outcomes to non-penetrating placebo electroacupuncture, and needle acupuncture provides similar outcomes to sham-penetrating acupuncture; (3) for WAD grades I-II, needle electroacupuncture offers similar outcomes as simulated electroacupuncture; and (4) for recent NAD grades III, a semi-rigid cervical collar with rest and graded strengthening exercises lead to similar outcomes, and LLLT does not offer benefits.

Wrap It Up

Our review adds new evidence to the Neck Pain Task Force and suggests that mobilization, manipulation, and clinical massage are effective interventions for the management of neck pain. It also suggests that electroacupuncture, strain-counter strain, relaxation massage, and some passive physical modalities (heat, cold, diathermy, hydrotherapy, and ultrasound) are not effective and should not be used to manage neck pain I don’t know what to think about this one, to be honest.

In one part it seems they don’t assign any effectiveness to manipulation but then in the conclusion, they say it’s an effective intervention. What gives? Who the hell knows. All I have access to is the abstract. I can tell you that while anecdotal, you can’t convince me that manipulation doesn’t provide significant relief. Sometimes immediately. You’ve seen them come in with a locked up neck and one adjustment increases their range of motion immediately and pain levels are reduced fairly quickly. Combined with some exercise and strain/counterstrain, they leave the office skipping down the street and singing along with Louie Armstrong on ‘What a wonderful world.” I know systemic reviews are high-level research. I’ve just seen so many other papers showing impressive effectiveness that this one doesn’t really move me one way or the other.

Item #2

Last one today is called, “Effects of Acupuncture on Postoperative Pain After Total Knee Replacement: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis” by Ko et. al. (Hsing Fang Ko 2021) and published in Pain Medicine on June 21, 2021…damnit….so hot.

Why They Did It They wanted to identify the analgesic effectiveness of acupuncture after total knee replacement by systematic review.

How They Did It

A search of randomized controlled trials was conducted in five English medical electronic databases and five Chinese databases.
Two reviewers independently searched in five English medical electronic databases and five Chinese databases.
Two reviewers independently retrieved related studies, assessed the methodological quality, and extracted data with a standardized data form.
Meta-analyses were performed with all-time-points meta-analysis.
A total of seven studies with 891 participants were included.

What They Found

The meta-analysis results indicated that acupuncture had a statistically significant influence on pain relief.
The subgroup analysis results showed that acupuncture’s effects on analgesia had a statistically significant influence.
Electroacupuncture frequency ranged between 2 and 100 Hz.

Wrap It Up

As an adjunct modality, the use of acupuncture is associated with reduced pain and the use of analgesic medications in postoperative patients. In particular, ear acupuncture 1 day before surgery could reduce analgesia. 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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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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Bibliography

Hsing Fang Ko, C.-H. C., PhD, Kai-Ren Dong, Hsien-Chang Wu (2021). “Effects of Acupuncture on Postoperative Pain After Total Knee Replacement: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis,.” Pain Med 22(9): 2117-2127.
Wong JJ, S. H., Mior S, Jacobs C, Côté P, Randhawa K, Yu H, Southerst D, Varatharajan S, Sutton D, van der Velde G, Carroll LJ, Ameis A, Ammendolia C, Brison R, Nordin M, Stupar M, Taylor-Vaisey A, (2016). “Are manual therapies, passive physical modalities, or acupuncture effective for the management of patients with whiplash-associated disorders or neck pain and associated disorders? An update of the Bone and Joint Decade Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders by the OPTIMa collaboration.” Spine J 16(12): 1598-1630.

Hypermobile Patients, Sports-Related Concussion, & Obesity’s Pain Connection

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CF 187: Hypermobile Patients, Sports-Related Concussion, & Obesity’s Pain Connection

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #187 Now if you missed last week’s episode , we talked about the western diet and its effects and we talked about some pretty cool acupuncture research. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

Our nurse practitioner starts on August 2nd but we are having a hard time getting our malpractice person to respond to us and get that in place. We can’t get credentialing until that happens. Credentialing takes at least 2 months typically. So, you see the issue. That was an unplanned obstacle. We are in the process of changing our signage on the front of the building as well. We have one big sign out on the main street so that’s two inserts…..one for each side.

Then we have two suites here so we have two doors. Which means we have two signs on the front of the building. So, added up, we get to order 4 inserts. Signs aren’t cheap if you’ve had to put one in lately. Those are just some of the things that we’re messing with lately. Clinic numbers, we are in week 3 with some good solid numbers. Not pre-COVID numbers but getting there. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not sure I want pre-COVID numbers. There were weeks I was at 220 appointments for the week. 25 new patients, re-exams running out my ears. Now, that’s not bragging. I’m not there anymore. What I’m saying is that sometimes, it’s too much. In healthcare, you really can be too busy. Things start falling through the cracks. My mom had a bone density test misread because her primary is simply too busy. He took responsibility and, other than putting her back surgery off longer than it should have, no harm was done. But the point is, we can get too busy. I am extremely conservative in my finances. I don’t like taking big chances. I don’t like huge what-ifs. I like small, measured, and reasonable risks. You cannot eliminate risks. But we can mitigate them. We can make them minute instead of big gaping holes. I should have hired an associate. And to be fair, we started to do that. It just simply fell through. And it was a blessing in disguise when you consider what COVID did to our practice. Now we get a chance to potentially say, “‘If I could go back and do that all over again…..”

At this time, I’m at a point in my caseload that it’s all fairly easily manageable. We’re at probably 165-170 per week. That’s manageable for evidence-based, patient-centered practice. We are rehab-heavy. Rehab takes time and I have an excellent staff and ChiroUp to help me make it all happen. However, if we get to the 190-200 appointments per week range, it’s time to start shopping for an associate. It’s too much and too many other things I’m trying to accomplish both personally and professionally suffer from that caseload. And my brain space is just destroyed if I’m being honest. It’s not fun to go to work when you’re overwhelmed every day. It’s unpleasant. Even when the majority of your patients are amazing people. Nobody wants to go to doctors that are overwhelmed like that and I don’t want to be one of those doctors either. So, just a little brain dump there and some free-flow thought for you. I have an intern coming in from Parker College in September. That’ll be my first intern to have onboard so who knows….maybe that ends up being a long-term thing.

Maybe not.

Time will tell. On the horizon for me, real estate investing!! Regular listeners may have heard me talk about exit strategies. If you’re a thinker, you’re not only thinking about today but what you want out of tomorrow. I’ve been in business for over 23 years at this point and have never taken more than 5-7 days of vacation at a time. I’ve never been to Europe or anywhere outside of the Caribbean. So, smart moves is what get us there. We are in a business where our presence is mandatory for a business to continue. In essence, our business owns us. Not the other way around. So how do we flip it? Well, we need people in place that fill the gap when we are out. We need to be the CEO instead of the hands-on worker. That’s part of the reason we are bringing in a nurse practitioner. That’s part of the reason we’ll be looking for an associate when the numbers truly rebound.

That’s the reason I started a voice-over side gig, which is going amazingly by the way. What a blessing that has been, y’all. I can’t even begin to tell you how well that’s going. I’ve voiced over 200 spots just since January. That’s over 33 per month. It’s been insane. That’s also the reason that real estate investing is my next mountain. Mailbox money, y’all. Now, real estate investing takes effort and work so it’s not technically mailbox money but, when done right, is the fastest path to financial freedom. That’s the reason for the book I wrote and the speaking opportunities I’m getting involved in. These are all potential paths toward early, comfortable, happy, partial retirement. Retirement to me doesn’t mean any work. It means control of my time. So in that context, retirement cannot come quite soon enough. So, what’s your exit strategy? Are you going to work until you’re 88 and die at your desk in your office?

Which some want…and there’s not a thing in the world wrong with that. Or, do you have other things in your life to accomplish and need to start planning for that? Some say you need to start with the ending in mind. If you want to sell your business someday, shouldn’t you plan for that from the start? How do you build a business that’s ready to sell when it’s your time? Something to think about. I’m not sure I have all of those answers because they continue to unfold as I progress but I’m getting closer to solid ideas and strategies on it. Alright….on to the research.

Item #1

Let’s get it started this week talking about hyper mobility, Ehlers-Danlos, and all that good stuff. If you don’t really consider hypermobility in your daily treatment…..please….for the love of everything holy, please listen up and pay attention. This is where so many chiropractors are getting it wrong. It’s becoming more and more clear every year that a good chiropractor should know when to mobilize and when to stabilize. Some of you are no doubt asking yourselves, what the hell does that mean? Sometimes the spine doesn’t want to be adjusted. There is already a plethora of movement there. Adjusting only increases the motion in an area that the increased motion is what is actually causing the complaint. In these cases, when in the hands of a vitalistic, subluxation, philosophy, doctor-centered chiropractor, this patient is going to get adjustment after adjustment for weeks and weeks. I’m sure you can predict the eventual outcome here. And it’s not corrections of a subluxation. It’s spinal instability that compounds the issue. The condition and patient population that is at increased risk here would be self-adjusters but mostly, those suffering from Ehlers-Danlos, which if you are unfamiliar, is a connective tissue disorder that allows these folks to behave a bit like an elastic rubber band.

A hint of whether someone is EDS is the Beighton Scale. If I stand a new patient up and have them touch their toes and they put their hands flat on the floor, they’re getting put through the Beighton Scale to test for hypermobility. We need to know if they have too much movement in their joints. Because instead of more adjustments and more movement in the segments of the spine, they typically respond better to weight training, supportive activities and strengthening.

This paper is called “Physical therapy treatment of hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome: A systematic review” by Gregory Reychler and Maya-Mafalda De Backer et. al. (Reychler 2021) and published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics on June 19, 2021…. My glasses….they’re steamed up..it’s hot. Why They Did It The objective of this systematic review was to investigate the effect of the different physiotherapy techniques related to the children and adult patients with hEDS How They Did It

PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane Library, PEDro, Scopus, and Embase databases were analyzed from inception to April 2020.
Characteristics of the studies (authors), patients (sample size, sex, age, Beighton score), and non-pharmacological treatment (length of the program, number of sessions, duration of the session, and type of intervention), and the results with the dropout rate were extracted.
From the 1045 retrieved references, 6 randomized controlled trials with a sample size ranging from 20 to 57 patients were included in the systematic review
There was a huge heterogeneity in the interventions. The duration of the program were from 4 to 8 weeks

What They Found

Pain or proprioception demonstrated significant improvements in the intervention group regardless of the type of intervention.
A benefit of the inspiratory muscle training was observed on functional exercise capacity.
The quality of life was systematically improved.

Wrap It Up

Physiotherapy benefits on proprioception and pain in patients with hEDS even if robust randomized control studies are missing. Now, the full paper isn’t available for me to ingest so who the hell knows what all interventions these patients underwent. We don’t know. But, physiotherapy is Europe and Canada and Australia’s term for physical therapy. We know what PT is and in these patients, I’m assuming it is exercise and building strength and proprioception and balance. All of that also helps clear up the joint and movement map in the brains of chronic pain patients. Which leads to more accurate sensorimotor function, less aberrant movement in the joints, more confidence in abilities and future capabilities, and less pain as an overall result. And yes, I just tossed a bucket of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Diplomate on top of all of your heads. And didn’t it feel warm and fuzzy??

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Item #2 This second one is called “Lose Pain, Lose Weight, and Lose Both: A Cohort Study of Patients with Chronic Pain and Obesity Using a National Quality Registry” by Dong et. al. (Dong HJ 2021) and published in the Journal of Pain Research in February of 2021 and that’s holy mother of Hades hot.

Why They Did It It is known that chronic pain makes it difficult to lose weight, but it is unknown whether obese patients (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m²) who experience significant pain relief after interdisciplinary multimodal pain rehabilitation (IMMPR) lose weight. This study investigated whether obese patients with chronic pain lost weight after completing interdisciplinary multimodal pain rehabilitation in specialist pain units. The association of pain relief and weight change over time was also examined.

How They Did It

Data from obese patients included in the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation for specialized pain units were used, including baseline and 12-month follow-up after IMMPR from 2016 to 2018
Patients reported body weight and height, pain aspects (eg, pain intensity), physical activity behaviors, psychological distress, and health-related quality of life
A reduction of at least 5% of initial weight indicates clinically significant weight loss.

What They Found

A significant reduction of pain intensity was found after interdisciplinary multimodal pain rehabilitation
A similar proportion of patients in the three groups with different pain relief levels had clinically significant weight loss
Significant improvements were reported regarding physical activity behavior, psychological distress, and health-related quality of life, but weight change was not associated with changes of pain intensity.

Wrap It Up

“About one-fifth of obese patients achieved significant weight reduction after interdisciplinary multimodal pain rehabilitation. Obese patients need a tailored pain rehabilitation program incorporating a targeted approach for weight management.”

Item #3

The last on his called “Injury Reduction Programs for Reducing the Incidence of Sport-Related Head and Neck Injuries Including Concussion: A Systematic Review” by Eliott, et. al. (Elliott 2021) and published in Sports Medicine on June 18, 2021. It’s a big ol’ pot of hot.

Why They Did It To systematically review the literature to investigate: (1) the relationship between neck strength and sport-related head and neck injuries (including sport-related concussion (SRC); and (2) whether neck exercise programs can reduce the incidence of (a) sport-related head and neck injuries; and (b) sport-related concussion.

How They Did It

Five databases and research lists of included studies were searched
From an initial search of 593 studies, six were included in this review

What They Found

The results of two observational studies reported that higher neck strength, but not deep neck flexor endurance, is associated with a lower risk of sustaining a sports-related concussion.
Four intervention studies demonstrated that injury reduction programs that included neck exercises can reduce the incidence of sport-related head and neck injuries including sports-related concussion.

Wrap It Up

Consideration should be given towards incorporating neck exercises into injury reduction exercise programs to reduce the incidence of sport-related head and neck injuries, including sports-related concussion. Alright, that’s it. Y’all be safe. Keep changing our profession from your little corner of the world. Keep taking care of yourselves and everyone around you. Tough times are upon us but, the sun will shine again. Trust it, believe it, count on it. 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

Dong HJ, D. E., Rivano Fischer M, Gerdle B, (2021). “Lose Pain, Lose Weight, and Lose Both: A Cohort Study of Patients with Chronic Pain and Obesity Using a National Quality Registry.” J Pain Res 14(1863-1873).
Elliott, J., Heron, N., Versteegh, T, (2021). “Injury Reduction Programs for Reducing the Incidence of Sport-Related Head and Neck Injuries Including Concussion: A Systematic Review.” Sports Med.
Reychler, G., De Backer, M.-M., Piraux, E., Poncin, W., & Caty, G, (2021). “Physical therapy treatment of hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome: A systematic review.” American Journal of Medical Genetics: 1-9.

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