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What is the most important item in an associate contract? How do you know where to practice? How do you get new patients in the door when you first start as an associate? These are some of the questions asked by soon to be chiropractors...

Two recent non-chirorpractic science articles that I read are both 'evidence-based' but the big question in my mind is not the 'evidence.' Rather it is the understanding of the concept: science can do something, but SHOULD they? Should they create brain organelles? Should they teach neurons to do tasks? Yes... science now has the technology to do so, but at what future cost?

Some things never change. What lessons can we learn from that concept? The climate crisis didn't really start in the 1900's but with the beginnings of 'modern civilization' and the creation of cities. It accelerated with the rampant use of fossil fuel but it's been going on for centuries!

Jimmy Buffett, one of my favorite musicians and a legend in the music industry, passed away recently. Always been amazed by Jimmy Buffett's incredible ability to create something out of an idea. Imagine all the brain power behind taking 1 hit song, Margaritaville, and literally turning it into a mega-business worth $1 Billion! He turned his business into a brand, something chiropractic needs to learn! Hope you are having 'cheeseburgers in paradise', Jimmy!

The Polyvagal Theory is critical to learn and understand especially in a pediatric based practice. It is about setting up a zone of safety and then basing your examination and adjustment technique on where they fall on the Polyvagal Scale.

"With it, nations rise. Without it, nations fall. This is the biggest idea I know of." So wrote BJ Palmer in his 1949 text, 'The BIgness of the Fellow Within', one of the famed 'Green Books.' Even though its called 'chiropractic philosophy', it is really more than that...it is vitalistic, it is about living life to the fullest because you have and live by a philosophy!

A rainbow. Stars in the night sky. A sunrise or sunset. How many of us sprint through the day and forget to look up or look around us? One author calls it "Nature Deficit Disorder." Are we so fixated on moving fast that we forget that there are moments of awe and wonder all around us?

Part of my mission is to help more children & adults with Autism, and the best way to spread this message is to promote a different way of understanding how their brains work. That is where the Polyvagal Theory comes in.

The Wave 2023 at Life West had a huge turnout, standing room only, for an incredible weekend. Dr Rubin spoke Friday afternoon about "Polyvagaling Pediatric Chiropractic", giving the chiropractors and chiropractic students concepts on how to apply the Polyvagal Theory in practice.

Guest speaker Dr. Amanda Blonigen talks about how to use the concept of the triune brain in determining what sort of adjustments to use on each individual child. She is the co-creator of On-Site Chiropractic, helping chiropractors work with kids within school systems. Find out more about On-Site Chiropractic here: https://www.on-sitechiropractic.com/

Dr. Dick Santo helped me years ago by challenging what I thought it meant to look, act and speak like a chiropractor!

Life always happens. No matter what you do, stuff is going to happen. It's what you do after that counts. Can you 'take a lemon and make a lemonade'? Can you take what might be a challenge and turn it into an opportunity? The key is: can you pivot?

Want a pediatric exam that is adds functional neurology to chiropractic analysis? And that gives you information not only for your assessment but also for home exercise recommendations? Dr Rubin describes a brief but information rich exam procedure in this podcast originally posted in August 2022 and was last year's most listened-to episode.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the CDC's 2022 changes to the developmental milestones. Crawling is still a milestone whether it was removed from their list or not! Walking and talking generally start around 12 months of age not 15 or 18 months of age! This podcast was recorded live at the 2022 ICPA Gathering and was previously posted in August 2022

Salutogenesis is one of my favorite words to describe what chiropractic does for those humans who receive it. Whereas pathogenesis looks at how disease occurs, salutogenesis focuses on how health occurs, and chiropractic adjustments (as BJ Palmer said) "add life to years and years to life!"

Every quarter I get questions about business but this quarter had some very far-reaching ones!

There is so much more going on than we can possibly understand in how our bodies actually work. There are "critical windows" during development that are so sensitive. During these critical periods, if there is any sort of epigenetic disturbance, it can lead down the line to disrupted neurodevelopment which in turn can totally alter the course of that person's life. For more information, check out our website: https://www.theadjustment.com/ Links to the articles here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10738584231176233 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578299/figure/ch3.fig1/

In the late '90's, scientists cloned a sheep. Today they are creating multicellular organisms out of 1 celled organisms, and have figured out a way to take any cell in the body and make it into a 'gamete' cell that can create new life (in vitro gametogenesis). Sounds like what used to be called science fiction is turning into science fact, and although the concept is to 'revolutionize fertility', my concerns are the moral and ethical considerations of such experimentation. Articles: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06052-1, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01592-9

Social media is here to stay. Are there benefits? Sure...but there are costs, huge costs, especially to the mental health of our kids. It's too late to truly regulate Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. We can try as parents to minimize use of these platforms, but ultimately, the one factor that we as chiropractors can do is to make sure that their brain-body connection is as strong and healthy as possible!

Two articles about Autism were published recently that seemingly contradict each other. One says profound Autism is on the rise. The other says that in Autism we have an 'epidemic of diagnosis' which the author calls 'progress.' Taking care of kids on the spectrum for over 30 years, there is NO DOUBT in my mind that there has been a huge increase in the number of kids with Autism, and it is NOT just a case of better diagnostics! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00333549231163551 Article about 'Profound Autism' https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804698 Article about Autism & Progress in Diagnosis