Chirocast

How do we build resilience? How do we decrease vulnerability? Especially in our kids? Number one suggestion: get their nerve systems right through chiropractic adjustments. Combined with neurologically based exercises, you can improve kids (and anyone's) resilience! Originally recorded in 2018.

What do you do get new patients when you first open up? Where is the best place to practice? Why do you need a chiropractic assistant even when you are a new practitioner? How do you run a cash practice? These are some of the questions answered during the quarterly questions episode of Chirocast!

When you look at research articles through a chiropractic lens, you 'read between the lines.' You see things from a different vantage point. When the research says sub-concussive forces are changing the brains of kids, I wonder how many kids are getting adjusted? If the research says that life expectancy has dropped in the US, my thought is: what is the percentage of people in the US utilizing chiropractic?

Aside from mentioning the words chiropractic and chiropractor, BJ Palmer does not talk about the spine, subluxations or adjustments in this famous quotation. Its focus is on 'impulse', 'force' & 'power'...the nerve system. His father (DD Palmer) said chiropractic is 'founded on tone'. It's all about the nerve system, ever since the start of chiropractic in 1895! (Chapter from BJ Palmer's 'Bigness of the Fellow Within', 1949.

Newton's laws are relevant to so many topics. In this talk, Dr Rubin is talking to the NY Chiropractic Council about Newton's 1st law (bodies in motion and at rest) and 3rd law (equal and opposite reactions) and how they are so applicable and parallel to what a chiropractic adjustment does. Read an interesting twist regarding Newton's laws here: https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-three-laws-of-human-behavior/

"You never know how far reaching something you may think say or do will affect the lives of millions tomorrow." When I was in college, I worked at a home for the developmentally disabled because a friend of mine knew I needed a job and she worked there. It was an unexpectedly amazing experience, and that paved the way for me now taking care of so many kids with developmental issues! You never know!!!

"What to do about your brain-injured child" is one of my top 3 books that should be required reading for any pediatric chiropractor. Most health care providers work on the highest level of challenged function but this book teaches you to find the lowest level of brain issue and work from there. This concept was revolutionary in my practice! Originally recorded for Chirosecure

Look inside an acorn. What do you find? A miniature oak tree? Actually, you find what looks sort of like dust and an egg yolk. Somehow that stuff knows how to turn into a 100 foot tree, IF (and it's a big IF), all the right stuff happens. Isn't that the same with each one of us? What lessons can we learn from an acorn?

The concept of "maturational dysregulation" as discussed in one of Dr. Robert Melillo's 2022 paper (see link below) explains how kids with ADHD have issues with common findings such as impulsivity, inattention and hyperactivity. The brain matures from the bottom-up, and then top-down regulation occurs...but if the bottom-up maturity isn't complete, then issues like impulsivity, inattention and hyperactivity are more likely. See article here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2022.936025/full

Kids are generally ignored in most doctor's offices except for someone doing something to them. How do we really reach kids? By paying attention to them. By making them feel special and important. By not judging them. By making them feel loved!

The rise in Autism has created a huge demand for pediatric chiropractors around the world who are trained in how to take care of kids on the spectrum. Webster said, "taking care of kids is not like taking care of little adults"...I will add to that "taking care of kids with Autism is not like taking care of a neurotypical child."

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.