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What is your intention? Are you manifesting your dream practice? What does it look like? Feel like? Take pictures of your practice members (especially the kids)...not just posed pictures but that show how much fun the kids are having while in your office. Recorded live at ICPA Connect Atlanta on Saturday, May 13th, 2023.

Is humanity in the process of de-evolving? Evolution in theory shows humanity's ascending from agricultural revolution to industrial to informational ages...but what is happening now? Maybe we are de-evolving to re-evolve? This episode aired also as a Chirosecure webinar.

A recent article in the journal Nature had an obtuse title but profound impact, "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex." Translation: the homunculus that was 'discovered' in 1948 actually was an inaccurate description! Really? So we don't REALLY know everything about how the human body works? No surprise there! Just like The Polyvagal Theory has upended what we thought of as the Vagus nerve, research shows that we still have a lot to learn!

The US health situation is in a precarious position. We are the only country in the top industrialized countries in the world to have a further decrease in life expectancy in 2021! Every other major player has rebounded except the US. More info, click here: https://www.theadjustment.com/ Here is the link to the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24006554/

The statistics are in. 1 in 36 kids have Autism, up 800% in the last 20 years. 1 in 5 children have a mental health disorder. But it's not just in kids. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's have skyrocketed during this same time too! What's wrong with our brains? Originally aired as a webinar for Chirosecure. More info? Check out our website at https://www.theadjustment.com/ or our blog at https://www.theadjustment.com/blog/chiroblog/

Chiropractic adjusting technique as it is taught is based mostly on the sense of touch. Maybe we can learn to use more than just the tactile sensation of our hands, by learning to 'listen' with our hands, with our eyes, with our ears, and with our hearts. This is how I suggest to better serve the kiddos who are minimally speaking, either because they are infants(pre-verbal) or because they are on the spectrum. Recording at Spizz Night hosted by Chuck Ribley

Be relentless. Like the moss that is devouring a tree that has fallen, one molecule at a time. The moss doesn't think, "this tree is too big. We can never do this." It may takes months or even years but that tree will be 100% fertilizer in 'X' amount of time...whatever time it takes, the moss will accomplish its goal. How about you? Want more info? Check out https://www.theadjustment.com/ or read our blog at https://www.theadjustment.com/blog/chiroblog/.

Every quarter there are questions...questions about 'where do we start, what should be in a contract, how do we hire staff, how do we attract new patients, what is the biggest mistake you made early on in practice." Here are some answers...

My wife and I years ago sat in a restaurant and wrote down our goals, dreams and ambitions on a napkin. We have met or exceeded all of those goals and then some. It makes a difference when you actually write them with a pen rather than typing them on a device. What's your napkin moment?

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose." What is the stimulus? And more importantly, before the response, there exists a space and what you do with that space decides your future! Because in that space you make a choice and your choices accumulated over time equal your life! Quote from Victor Frankl, read in Stephen Covey's phenomenal book: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

"Life is difficult...but when you accept the fact that life is difficult, life becomes easier." Chiropractic helps make life the best it can be, within its limitations. Life isn't easy, but our goal is to make life just a little bit better for each practice member, each time we see them.

A recent article states that if labor is induced, those children have lower school performance at age 12! In Australia the article reports that a shocking 36% of labors are induced (in the US the stats are 25%). What does this mean? That there are always unintended side effects to any intervention! Article link here: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aogs.14520

Health care in the US is not about 'health' nor is it about 'care.' It often is about what gets paid by insurance. Chiropractic has a unique opportunity to truly be about healthcare, educating our practice members that health comes from within, that health takes time, that health is an inside job.

Gravity is ever present and in a recent journal article, it mentioned how gravity might be the cause of certain GI related issues such as Irritable Bowel. Ultimately what this means is that the brain and nerve system are unable to accommodate gravity's ever-present 'caudal pull' and dysfunction occurs. The dysfunction is in the brain and nerve system but its effects are noticed at the GI level. Hmm... Article found here: https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2022/12000/gravity_and_the_gut__a_hypothesis_of_irritable.15.aspx

Chiropractic gives kids hope! It gives parents hope! Most health related offices base their services on fear...we base chiropractic care on possibilities! Our offices are like an oasis in a desert of negativity and fear. Hope, possibilities, potential...that is the 'lasting purpose' philosophy.

What do you do when a child for whatever reason is unable to go face down on an adjusting bench? You adapt your technique to the child. Adapting to them vs making them do it 'your way' is imperative for building trust, especially among neurodivergent children.

There is no competition if your build yourself a niche practice. If your 'jam' is pediatrics, and your focus is on optimizing brain and nerve function, your brand is unique, different, special. There is so much competition in back pain. Stand out! Adjust more kiddos!

What can someone do to prepare themselves for the most difficult pediatric cases? Learn as much as you can, become a sponge, reading articles & books about pediatrics, the brain and nerve system, immersing yourself in places & with people who are doing what you want to do, and go to seminars like the ICPA seminars that make you an authority in your community.

Why pediatric chiropractic? We've got to disrupt how chiropractors take care of kids, and why! Kids are our future, and if we don't focus on the kids, who is going to?

Ever cut open an acorn? Is a little tree inside of it? No...it's just a bunch of tree dust! But that dust knows just what to do, IF given the right food and soil and sunshine and rain. Isn't that like all of us? We have everything we need inside of us...we have the potential to grow into a mighty oak tree. Introduction by Dr. Chuck Ribley