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When BJ Palmer said that we "have been given a sacred trust. Guard it well," he was talking about taking care of the suffering multitudes. Suffering includes pain but is not limited to pain. There are so many suffering people out there, especially kids. Make sure your mission is to reach those kiddos!

Neanderthals & Chiropractic? A recent article (see below) discussed why modern humans have back pain...essentially because of poor posture due to societies change towards more sedentary occupations and lifestyles. And when do these lifestyles start? During childhood, with kids glued to their phones and iPads. That's where chiropractic fits in! See article: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/1/pgab005/6540637?login=false

Mass sociogenic illness? Never heard of it until I read an article in the Atlantic Magazine last week (see below for link). It relates the concept of a functional Tourette's Syndrome-like issue that occurs when young people watch YouTube or TikTok videos of people with Tourette's and, in a way, begin to imitate them. The relevance: they define a Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) differently than Brain-based chiropractors do...but we work on these 'disconnected kids' by reconnecting them to their brains and nerve systems! https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-media-illness-teen-girls/622916/

Why change milestones? Eliminate crawling as a milestone? Add 3 months to milestone of talking and 6 months to the milestone of walking??? I thought that the definition of milestone is "a stone set up beside a road to mark the distance in miles to a particular place." You can't change a mile marker like that! If it is a mile from one place to another, that DOES NOT CHANGE!

No greater way to build safety and trust in your practice members than to focus on what is called patient-centered exams and adjustments. That means going at their speed, performing examination procedures that they are ok with, doing adjustments that their nerve system tells you they are ready for. Not doing what we want to do, but doing what they are capable of handling at that moment. This is called being Polyvagally-informed. Check out Dr Rubin's seminar with Dr. Porges (founder of the Polyvagal Theory) on Saturday, 4/2/2022 at this link: https://bit.ly/34X5MOk

Want to see neuroplasticity in action in neuro-divergent, special needs kids? In pregnancy? Then investigate tonal techniques such as Network Spinal Analysis (NSA). How NSA works so effectively, specifically in kids with Autism and ADHD, and how impressive it works with pregnant mommas, can be understood by looking at it from a brain-based perspective.

Dr. Jeanne Ohm was a legend, an icon, a once-in-a-generation leader who passed away in 2019. Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine, the amazing healthy parenting magazine that she helped create, recently released a tribute issue to her that contained articles that Dr. Jeanne wrote over the years. She explained chiropractic so purely, so simply, so elegantly, that reading her words in this latest Pathways brought tears to my eyes. We miss you Jeanne!

The world is full of sick and suffering people. "It's your time" to take care of them, to reach them, to tell them that there's another way, to give them hope and resources and brain-based gentle chiropractic adjustments.

'What will you do' means what you can do, might do, want to do, dream about doing. The key, however, is DID you do it? If you have 'that something' in your head and your heart then it can translate through your hands and into that pregnant momma or newborn or child on the spectrum, and you can help transform their lives. "I will" is predicated on finding "that something."

"Get the Big Idea...all else follows" said BJ Palmer. Chiropractic is the biggest idea I know of. Sure, when patients come into your practice or clinic, they potentially will experience amazing results. But what about you, the chiropractor or chiropractic student? As Larry Webster said, if you go deep into chiropractic, it will share all its secrets with you. Go deep! Read Green Books. Study philosophy. Serve the people. Adjust more kiddos!

"What is the hardest part about dealing with kids?" is a question asked recently, and so began a series of queries relating to creating a thriving pediatric and prenatal based practice.

Verticalization? It is the goal of the brain in an infant's 1st year of life. Get the body from the horizontal plane to the vertical plane in 1 year, through a series of developmental milestones that take the baby from non-mobile to mobile. That 1st year, that verticalization, is critical to happen in very a specific order in a very specific time sequence. The next goal of the brain after verticalization is communication (from age 1-2), and then from age 2-3 the brain's goal is socialization. You can see how a disruption in any of these 3 can create a cascade of effects to the growing child.

1 in 10,000. 1 in 44. Those are the rates of Autism in the 1970's vs the rates of Autism in 2021 (just released by the CDC)! That is close to a 100% increase in 50 years! Dr Rubin passionately discusses the concept of Neurodiversity...accepting kids (and adults) where they are in their social communication abilities. People with Autism are not disabled...they are differently-abled. Some people with Autism are not non-verbal...they are minimally speaking. Accept people where they are not where 'society' says they should be!

Concussion of forces? When one force meets another force, the stronger force will prevail. This is how an adjustment works. The 'force' of the subluxation (its resistance or inertia) meets the 'force' of an adjustment (not a forceful adjustment...a specific adjustment applied with the perfect amount of force needed for that specific person). If the 'force' is applied precisely and with focus, then the patient benefits and the subluxation is reduced. As BJ Palmer said, "it is as simple as that!"

"Responsibilities are many, obligations are providential...you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well." BJ Palmer's famous quote from the last book that he published while still alive rings in my ears every day. What are we doing to 'guard it well?'

There have been almost 300 school shootings since Columbine in 1999, according to the Washington Post. What no story really talks about is how the underlying problem with school shooters is their brain. Something has GOT to be wrong with their brain to do what they do. What we HAVE to do as pediatric chiropractors is to help repair kids brains. That is my mission. Help fix disconnected kids brains and nerve systems!

Being in practice for over 30 years gives one a unique perspective. I used to be so amazed at the 'old-timers' and now I am one of them! Being faculty at Life University, having had over 75 Life U interns in my office since 2010, and speaking for the ICPA allows me to meet a lot of chiropractors and chiropractic students, and I am blessed to be able to answer the same questions I myself asked back in my rookie years.

One simple and single idea can change the world. Newton, Einstein, Edison, Ford, the Wright brothers, all changed the world with their ideas! So did DD Palmer when he gave his first adjustment on Harvey Lillard in 1895. And his simple, single idea was not the adjustment of the spine, since that has been done for thousands of years. DD Palmer's new idea was the concept that chiropractic is "founded on tone." DD Palmer was already speaking neurology 126 years ago!

What is your level of consciousness? Are you vibrating at a level of peace or joy (high levels) or vibrating at fear or shame (lower levels)? Where you vibrate will determine what you attract in your life. The law of attraction says, "what you think about, comes about." If that is true, Wayne Dyer told us, then we 'better be careful what we think about!' Map from Power vs Force, book by Dr. David Hawkins.

Climate change and chiropractic? A recent article in Lancet gave disturbing details to what we already know about climate change, but even more disturbing was that it failed to truly describe the toll on our children. Our children are directly impacted by climate change and are sicker and have more neurological issues than ever before, but so are their parents and caregivers! Chiropractic can help kids by enhancing their neuroplasticity and that of their parents! Article link: https://www.lancetcountdownus.org/2021-lancet-countdown-us-brief/