Another talk was with Dr. [Cerbal 00:18:56]. He's a chiropractor PhD in Ontario as well. His interest is in myofascial pain. What he's looked at is, for example, trigger points in the trapezius or infraspinatus or something may actually be a result of something that's going on at the spinal cord level. What he feels is that the adjustment and other modalities that chiropractors use can actually get more to the core of these myofascial trigger points and myofascial pain, and that they have an influence on central sensitization. It takes it not just from what we're doing to the periphery, but also to the nervous system and ultimately to the brain hopefully to mitigate the impact of chronic pain. That was an interesting talk. Then, of course, Heidi [Havek 00:19:49]. She's doing some groundbreaking work in New Zealand. One of her main points that I got from her podcast was that she feels that [subluxations 00:20:01] are thought to be central segmental motor control problems. At a local level, in the spine, for example, those local spinal issues can translate to brain issues. I titled the podcast Brain Adjustments because her research is starting to show that adjustments have an impact on the central nervous system, specifically brain. Some other things that I got out of for the practice were, if it's affecting brain, if it's affecting multiple parts of our central nervous system and even our periphery, than we should probably be assessing for various things in our practice such as strength, fatigue, visual perception, joint position sense, because these things are being shown now in chiropractic to have an impact on the position. Better strength in several papers, reduction in fatigue, better perception, et cetera. [crosstalk 00:21:01] point out that you had mentioned, and it's true ... We know Heidi [Havek 00:21:09] and her work very well. We have sponsored a lot of her work as well. If you have the opportunity to hear her speak, take it, whether it be on a podcast or live, because this woman is doing really groundbreaking work in terms of chiropractic research that's going to benefit all of us. Thanks for bringing that to the table as well. Another thing I'll mention is that she has a great model. She's actually trying to answer the questions that I think a lot of chiropractors in practice have. She is not getting funded, to my knowledge, through agencies like NIH or things like that, but those organizations don't really fund the research that I think a lot of chiropractors may be interested in. Certainly back pain and neck pain are things that we deal with, but I got into research because I was interested in human performance, and that's not really generally something that large granting organizations are interested in. If we have time, I'll tell you about a study that I'm involved in looking at the DOD and the military. We actually have just finished recruiting for that study, and so we're looking at actually some human performance measures. It's pretty interesting. Let's talk about Scott [Haldiman's 00:22:41] talk here, his podcast. Of course he's a huge name in chiropractic. I took away some really interesting points from his talk, and that was he said the spine is the most exciting and interesting organ of the Thank you, Dr. Hoffman.
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