This blog includes three valuable patient education tools that you can download, plus a video interview with Dr. Anthony Nicholson - a practicing chiropractic clinician and leading expert on chronic pain neuroscience.

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Brad Russell from Birmingham, Alabama. His clinic regularly prescribes the MOST initial and release reports within ChiroUp as compared to the rest of our network. In this entertaining interview, I learned several tips that I will incorporate in my practice. I hope you will find it as informative as I did.

Check it out as we cover the essentials of effective patient recall and patient re-activation programs, including an interview outlining the specific steps to make that happen, along with a customizable template for your reactivation message.Reaching out to existing patients requires much less work than obtaining new patients- because these patients have already seen you and know your good work.

Today's blog will interview a highly respected source of information--Dr. Marc Bronson from the Evidence-Based Chiropractic Facebook group. We’ll break down Dr. Bronson’s standard for credible evidence, and then explain how ChiroUp utilizes similar peer-reviewed literature sources and automatically delivers content to you and your patients.

I have had a lot of time to think during the COVID crisis. Who hasn’t? As I was pondering the effects of the shelter-in-place mitigation policies, I began to take inventory of what is important to me and to what entities I belong. Professionally as a chiropractic physician, I feel confident I chose the right profession for me. To be honest, I didn’t always feel that way.

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.

This blog will discuss how chiropractors can successfully integrate into sports and why these relationships benefit our profession, highlighted by a one-on-one interview with Dr. Hirad Najaf Bagy, team chiropractor for the Washington Redskins, Washington Nationals, and DC United Soccer.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

In today’s blog, Dr. Tyler White of Gestalt Performance provides three of the most common pitching mechanic flaws leading to elbow injury. In the next five minutes, you will learn how these three throwing patterns cause an elbow injury.

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.

Evidence-based chiropractors study new research with the intent to be empowered. So, this blog reviews some of the most significant studies from 2019 that you can use to relay the facts about SMT.

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.

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.

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.