piece of research that you are working on right now that a doctor in the field would find a value to them directly? Does that make sense? Yes, it does. I will try to tease. We actually have three different things from my perspective really make a difference for the chiropractic. If it's okay with you then I will go ahead and share some of it. Is that okay? Okay. First off, let’s see, I will start with research link. Research link is where we are really working with the doctors in the field to engage them in the research process. What we've tried to do with research link is create a chiropractic learning healthcare community. Instead of us doing practice based research where we go to you as a field doctor and we ask you to provide some information, we are saying it's more than that. We want to engage, we want to develop with you as a clinician. What's important to you in the research? What will help you best in your practice? Then we also want to do, for instance the next research study that's going to roll out with research link we are looking at different mechanisms of vision. It will be amazing to be able to show your patients how you impact vision. There were a lot of studies done back in the 90s and early 2000s that showed chiropractic had a real benefit on the visual system but nothing has really been done since then. We are going to explore it in the practice based realm so that it's not in that sterile environment when you bring folks into the lab, it's really where you are at or what you do every day with your patients. That's one of the exciting-- Stephanie, let me ask you this. I'm not really sure that the viewers of today's show really understand what the research link actually is. I know it's community based, meaning the chiropractor is down the field but can share with them where it is and is there a place they can find it and things of that nature? Thank you. That's a very good question. We actually have a website where the doctors can get involved. If you go to www.life.edu/researchlink. I've got a PowerPoint to show just a little bit and I can kind of pause on that page so that they can see it. Basically what it does is it allows us to not only work with the field doctors to collect information from the practice on specific research studies, but we also provide information, what's going on in the field of chiropractic research. We get information on what they are interested in. Some of the really exciting things that we are doing, have you ever heard of the nurses’ health study or the Framingham Heart Study, these longitudinal studies? Please. That's exactly what we want to go through.
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We are going to launch that. There hasn't been one done for chiropractic yet and I think we need to. What amazing lifestyle difference chiropractic can make on the health of individuals! We have to launch that in foresee. Everything we've done with research link and we are setting up this chiropractic learning healthcare community is designed so that it's relevant. Then let’s say on this vision study that's
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