The one thing that I really want to talk about today, that you and I have talked about in the past, is history and exam and how very important it is for us as chiropractors to understand that history is super important in the life of a child. It gives us clinical information as to what was going on while the child was in the womb of the mother prior to them entering our office for chiropractic care. I think that it is important for the chiropractor to understand that there are certain exposures during pregnancy that can affect the neurological well being of a child that we may see in our practice. And for that reason, we need to talk to the mother about several issues, not only maybe any traumas that she sustained during pregnancy, but whether or not it was a planned pregnancy. Whether or not there was any use of medication, or recreational drugs, or alcohol, which we all know can impact the developing baby that she is carrying within her womb. And secondary to your question is also an exam form. I know that in lecturing all over the United States and all over the world, several chiropractors do not have age appropriate exam forms in their office. And each child, depending on their age, has different clinical findings, or different types of exams that would be appropriate or normal for their age. And those are some of the things that we need to be aware of as chiropractors as well, is when we're doing the examination, are we doing the appropriate exam for that child? Are these exam findings normal for age, and when do these exam findings go away? But those are some of things that today, when we spend this short time doing this webinar, that would be important to your viewers. And Lora, I can already imagine so many people that are watching this are saying to themselves, "What the heck are you talking about for an exam or a history?" I have mothers bring in their kids, I check them, one leg may be shorter than the other, I palpate them, whatever, and I go on adjust them, I'm only a chiropractor, why do I need all of that additional history and information? Well, you know me, I never believe that we are only just chiropractors. We are health care physicians. We are chiropractors, not only do we assess subluxation within patients, but we are fully taught and capable of looking at conditions, and diagnosis, and red flag warnings, and abnormalities within patients. So I don't think as a profession we should ever short change ourselves into being just the chiropractor. Because I believe that patients access our office because we are a hand on, educated, kind of like all knowing profession when it comes to anatomy, physiology, subluxation, outcomes. Put it this way, in a different light we are not medicine, we are chiropractic, but we are certainly trained to know more than just detection of subluxation and correction of that. And I totally agree with you. And from a risk management perspective, my concern always is if we have any patient that comes into our office, all of a sudden they have a health crisis, but they were in our office at a similar time. It always becomes an association between the chiropractor and that health crisis, and a lot of people like to place blame. And if we have an infant come into the chiropractor and all of a sudden they're autistic, or some neurological challenge
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