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Lowering Your Overhead: What To Do & What Not To Do

New challenges require business owners to review the past, then plan for the future. Clinics are looking at their balance sheet and asking how they can improve their financial stability. Every business leader understands this entails spending less and/or generating more revenue. Watch Tim and Brandon review the keys to understanding what people, products, and services are vital to your business. And, provide suggestions to eliminate or reduce non-essential costs.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

How To Automate 95% of Your Patient’s Care

Patients want to get out of pain quickly. This week’s blog is going to break down the strategies that I use in my clinic to alleviate my patients’ pain quickly and allow them to heal faster. Check out the video below for a demonstration of these strategies.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

5 Reasons to Consider Modified Scapular Retraction Test

The Scapular Retraction Test (SRT) is quite possibly the most critical component in my shoulder exam. It provides valuable information as to the etiology of shoulder dysfunction. In today's blog, you will learn simple modifications to the SRT that will provide valuable clinical information and subsequent improved adherence to care.

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February Chiropractic Research Roundup

This week’s blog covers 15 practical research studies from the past few weeks. We reviewed hundreds and highlighted only those papers that have the ability to enrich our practice, then summarized each with one or two sentences. We hope that you’ll enjoy this month’s “quick hits.”

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

Maigne Syndrome: Sciatica of the Thoraco-Lumbar Junction

Lateral hip, lumbosacral, and groin pain are often due to lumbar spine or hip joint dysfunction. However, the next time you see these symptoms, be sure to assess the thoracolumbar junction (TLJ). TLJ dysfunction, often described as Maigne Syndrome, may result in nerve irritation with referral to the lumbopelvic region. Proper assessment and treatment results in highly satisfied patients. In the next ten minutes, you will learn five tips about why Maigne syndrome should be on your shortlist of differential diagnoses.

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Managing Cervicogenic Headaches: Assessment and Treatment Tips

Headaches affect almost half of the population. Up to one-fourth of all headaches are referred from the cervical spine and are classified as "cervicogenic" (1,2). Cervicogenic headache can be as debilitating as migraine headaches, and a loss of cervical spine function compounds the problem. Chiropractors generally enjoy treating cervicogenic headache patients. Our primary tool of cervical SMT is a highly effective treatment, as demonstrated by multiple studies. (3-16) However, the successful long-term resolution of CGH patients often requires a multifaceted approach, including more than isolated SMT. This week’s blog provides three invaluable tools and a video tutorial to help you assess and manage this problem more quickly and thoroughly.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

The Best Shoes For Running: What To Recommend To Your Patients

In 2019, male marathon runners recorded the five fastest times ever. Eliud Kipchogebroke broke the two-hour mark running the Vienna marathon in 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds. In the same weekend, Brigid Kosgei ran a 2:14 in the Chicago marathon. Two extraordinary feats, (pun intended), with one common denominator—the shoe. Shoe companies have been inserting (another pun… I know, the lowest form of humor) their technology into shoe construction for years. However, many health professionals and consumers do not understand the importance of these modifications. Chiropractors must be up-to-date on how shoe technology may affect athleticism, performance, and injury prevention.

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Clinical Findings: The Top 6 Threatening Spinal Diagnoses

Spinal compressive disorders rank high on the list of back pain emergencies due to the threat of cord ischemia and nerve cell death. This blog will cover the six most common spinal-compressive diagnoses and the clinical findings that can alert us to these ominous problems- including a video tutorial with at tip so that you’ll never forget what UMNL pathology looks like.

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January Chiropractic Research Roundup

It’s that time again! Your ChiroUp research team has compiled clinical tips for 17 common conditions from this past month’s research. From whiplash to plantar fasciitis, we’ve got you covered on the latest news.

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Business Tim Bertelsman Business Tim Bertelsman

10 Tips to Seeing A Highly Successful Chiropractic Practice

At ChiroUp, we know what makes a highly successful evidence-based practice. Why? Well, for starters, our advisory board has nearly 400 years of combined clinical and business expertise in our field. Our team has recognized ten common themes that almost all of these practices embrace. How many of these themes are you currently following? Find out in this week’s blog.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

A New Twist on ROM Testing

There have been several recent papers supporting a TWIST (pun intended) on standard cervical range of motion testing. Spinal ROM testing identifies deficits in joint motion across multiple segments of the spine; however, the Cervical Flexion-Rotation Test (CFRT) isolates a specific location of dysfunction within the cervical spine—C1/C2. This blog will teach you how to perform the test, specific diagnoses associated with a positive test, and interventions to correct this dysfunction. Also, watch the video below as I will cover the treatment and patient education pieces to use with a positive test.

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12 Overlooked Questions That Will Impact Your Clinical Success

Outstanding clinicians ask outstanding questions – and lots of them. In most cases, asking the right questions is the difference between clinical success and failure. And repeating either pattern defines a business’ trajectory. This week’s blog uncovers a dozen commonly overlooked questions that have the ability to change the course of our care, and our ultimate practice.

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Chiropractic Research Update | November 2019

This week we’re hitting you with the most pertinent research gathered from last month’s published literature. Over 1,000 articles were scoured and summarized into the following 11 summaries -- it doesn’t get easier to stay up-to-date than this.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

Peeing in the Wind

Research-driven diagnosis and treatment strategies allow evidence-based chiropractors to become the most clinically competent musculoskeletal providers. Today's blog will explain how accurately identifying the source of tissue dysfunction will focus your management and prevent undesirable outcomes.

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Top Clinical Pearls for Lumbar Supports

This week’s blog will highlight the most up-to-date evidence on four types of lumbosacral supports, then provide clinical pearls for indications, contraindications, and implementation -including a live video demonstration.

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October Chiropractic Research Roundup

It’s that time again! Your ChiroUp research team has compiled clinical tips for 15 common conditions from this past month’s research. From concussions to plantar fasciitis, we’ve got you covered on the latest news.

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Clinical Brandon Steele Clinical Brandon Steele

Top Sleep Positions for 6 Common Conditions

Detrimental positions, postures, and activities are obstacles to healing. Today, we will discuss ONE significant variable that, when corrected, allows patients to heal more quickly—sleep posture. This blog will identify six condition-specific sleep faults, and recommend clear-cut solutions through modifications of the sleeping routine.

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