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Dr. Stu Hoffman:
Hi I'm Dr. Stu Hoffman president and founder of ChiroSecure and this is another follow-up show from our recent strokes strategy event. The goal of today's show is to do our best to bring the practicality of dealing with a potential stroke risk patient. This is not going to be an anatomy or physiology lesson. We're going to look at some key things you need to be aware of to help you lower the risk of doing what you do. The information we are presenting today is taken from my good friend Dr. Gerry Clum's presentation Cervical Spine Adjusting and the Vertebral Artery and the DVD of the same name. The DVD I available from the Association of Chiropractic Colleges at www.chirocolleges.com. On behalf of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges, I'd like to express our thanks for you taking the initiative and making the time to review this lecture. In the final analysis, we hope that it will prove to be useful to you, more importantly to your patients, and also to the profession. Thank you very, very much. The concept of cervical spine adjusting and the vertebral artery and potential injuries to the artery is a very important and sometimes a very emotional subject for chiropractors. I think it's safe to say that at this point in time in our history, the issue of cervical spine adjusting and possible relationship to CVA is one of the most important public safety issues that we have on the table. There is nothing in our circumstance that rises to the level of concern that this situation does in day in, day out practice. It's a very rare circumstance. That doesn't mean because it is rare that we can pay less attention to it. It means the fact that if it's rare but serious we need to continue to attend to it, and we need to continue to learn as much as we can about it, hence, one of the main reasons why this lecture is being presented. The second consideration is, that without a doubt from a public relations perspective this is one of the areas of greatest concern for our state associations, for our national associations, and for individual practitioners. The concept that we do something to the neck, this problem is somehow related to the neck, therefore what we do is related to this problem in a direct cause and effect relationship is what the media seems to pick up, and that the great, great majority of these cases have nothing to do with a doctor of chiropractic. That being said, there are relationships with the chiropractor that we need to be aware of, we need to understand fully, and we need to address in our professional lives. Two recent issues have brought stroke back into the public's attention. The first is the Katie May issue that has been all over social media. Katie May was a model having appeared in Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and other magazines and websites. She self-proclaimed herself "Queen of Snapchat", but she also had nearly 2 million
Dr. Gerry Clum:
Dr. Stu Hoffman:
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