long stick and you just let the hockey puck drop and you grab the stick and it goes a certain distance, and then from that you can determine the reaction time. To simple things, but it gets the conversation going. Then if people are interested in research, they'll ask you about it and then you can talk about it. In lay lectures, again, I would use something similar to what I have in the waiting room. Talk about some slides that have some snippets on them about whatever you're talking about. If you're a sports doctor, talk about some sports studies and put quotes to that in there. Now, this also gets into my office intakes forms as well, Dr. Hoffman. For example, before ChiroSecure had the stroke informed consent form out, I would take a study that just came out and use language from that study and actually insert it into my intake forms as part of the informed consent. When Cassidy Study came out, I got so excited and I was able to implement that the same day that the study came out. It was already on my intake form, ready to go the next day. I think one of the things chiropractors can do is be early adopters of information, get the information, and then start using it. I think that's really the key thing. Other things that you can incorporate into your intake forms would be information about red flags. We know recently in the, not just chiropractic literature, but spinal literature in this case, that red flags, for example, or cancer or ominous signs and symptoms, those things you can actually ask for in your intake forms. During the history exam and assessment, in terms of what clinical tests, you can listen to Dr. [Hessbeck's 00:40:30] podcast. She gives some good pointers about what the evidence is for clinical testing. We know that there is a lot of good stuff for outcome assessment forms. I intend to have a podcast about that. There is good evidence when it comes to actually adjusting people now that ... We know the evidence is best for provoking pain in someone with a history of pain or a chief complaint as pain to try to find out which segment to adjust. There's actually some good research there and there's good evidence to support the static and [inaudible 00:41:11] patient there. How about during your table talk? As you're adjusting people as well, you could pick a study of the day to talk to your patients about. Whatever interests you that day. If you want to talk about headaches or you can just go patient by patient. If someone's complaining about headaches, you could say, "Mrs. Jones, I don't know if you knew this, but there was a nice study done last year that showed a reduction of headaches, et cetera." You can do whatever you'd like that way. Table talk is another good way. I like doing summaries for other providers. If you have a mutual patient or you get referred a patient from a medical doctor or a PT or something, one thing that I do is I do my little summary, my little case note narrative review for the other doctor, and then put a little quote or two from the chiropractic science literature to support the things that I've done with that patient. You can do the same thing with PI cases, or workers compensation, or things like that. I always like to try to
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