The next podcast, or one of the next ones, I did was on pediatric chiropractic. That was done with Dr. Katie Pullman who is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Alberta. She is running a study at the moment called Safety Net, or she's a part of the study, which is looking at academic and professional partnerships to create a culture of safety for spinal manipulation therapy in children. She's running a study at the moment to look at how safe chiropractic adjustments are, and I'm sure it's going to bare out to be safe. I think we know that as practitioners, but we need the research to be able to back that up. I applaud Katie for doing that on pediatric safety. I do too. I just want to go back to her. I was always involved with the pediatric community and always had a family-oriented practice. We know, from clinical experience, how amazing chiropractic results are in the pediatric environment. What you're saying is she's actually documenting it in a research method to document what we've already experienced in the clinical environment, and I think that's really important. We do have that experience and no outcomes, just not as much documentation as could be, I guess. That's correct. That's part of evidence-based practice: looking at the doctor's experience over the years, looking at patient values. Some patients don't want to take medicine. They want to get adjusted. They want what we have. We have the experience, but what we don't currently have is a lot of empirical evidence through research that demonstrates the safety and the effectiveness. I can tell you that there are several large-scale studies that are going on right now, and the next couple of years are just going to be amazing. I'm just so pumped up about what's coming out in the pediatric realm. Another podcast, what I took away from it from Bernadette Murphy who's in Ontario, she's chiropractor PhD in neuropsychological ... She talked about strain in the brain during the podcast. This got me thinking. Most of the time we think of strain as the physical aches and pains and muscular injuries or things that our patients come in complaining about. What she made clear to me was that you get these things that are out in the periphery, but where it really has an impact, these types of injuries, are in the brain, and the way the brain processes the information changes when you have joint dysfunction. In her words, she basically was saying that chiropractic can reverse that. Her work in conjunction with Heidi [Havek 00:18:04], and I know you've had Dr. [Havek 00:18:06] on the show before, and I've interviewed her as well ... Both of them are doing some fantastic work in that. One of the takeaway points that I got from her talk was, to make these changes neurologically in the brain, it takes time. She used a term, I don't know if it's a common term, but she said "replasticize." In other words, they've undergone plastic changes after injury, so we need to replasticize it when we give her adjustments. These adjustments are not going to replasticize overnight. It takes time, so we have to realize you're probably not going to be a hero after one adjustment. If you are, that's fantastic, but it's probably going to take some time to change the way the brain is functioning.
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