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Episode 93 of the Chiro London podcast is a flashback to some archive audio I found from an interview on the BBC 5 Live late news show on a day where the news was all about the Queen having low back pain. She was unable to open the new Arsenal Emirates Stadium because her back wouldn't let her leave Buckingham Palace.

The BBC 5 Live team called up our clinic randomly. We didn't have any direct connection. It was just a bit of a cold call and they asked if I, Craig McLean, would be willing to do an interview with the late news show at 10:00 p.m. that night hosted by Anita Anand. 

The first part of the interview went fairly smoothly and they just had a bit of banter and conversation around the Queen's back and back pain in general and how it has a big impact on the Uk works force with days off for back pain. 

But then the interview took a turn halfway through where one of the panel members had a dodgy shoulder, neck, upper back problem. He'd been seeing a physio for months, was due to have an injection in the shoulder and so they just laid down a challenge to see what I could do for him when they were breaking for news, sport and weather.

So I was up for the challenge, I took the guy out to a little reception area bench. We did a little bit of Chiro work on him and you get to hear what happened in the second part of the interview when he made the statement, "I feel better in five minutes with you than I have with months on the physio bench."

This was nearly 20 years ago. I was 35 and what a laugh it was.

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Meet Dr Mika, my good mate from Finland, an awesome skier and chiropractor. 

https://www.newgradbootcamp.co.uk/

The New Grad Boot camp is something he's been working hard on over the winter and we have a good chat about the program supporting new chiropractic graduates. It's a great sounding program and its very affordable. Go and check it out from the link above. 

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Anna was very new to chiropractic but in the lead up to a huge ultra marathon event the Spartathalon, the 246km race from Athens to Sparta, her body went into melt down. It was only a month out from the event and she sought help from us at Putney Chiro.

This episode is in 3 parts.
1. the race review, from the time she arrived in Athens to when she crossed the finish line, one of only 200 of the 400 people who completed the 2024 edition of the race in searing heat over 2 days (34 hours of non stop running)
2. the review of the month leading up to the event. From when she passed/blacked out with a huge headache and back pain and ended up in hospital. After they were unable to find a medical cause, she sought help, after a recommendation, from a chiropractor. We follow this journey over the month leading up to leaving for the event.
3. the examination of how Anna felt chiropractic treatment worked for her and helped get her to the start line.

Spartathalon website 

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Long overdue chat with Melissa who is more committed to the development of the profession in the UK than most chiropractors are. She is the executive advisor to the United Chiropractic Association and has been involved with the UCA for 21 of its near 25 years existence. She is the brains and energy behind UK's biggest gathering of chiropractors the UCA CE seminar. She runs a Chiropractic Assistant  training program called 'The Vital CA' and a Women in Chiropractic Seminar.

So good to hear her origin story of how she got involved with chiropractic and it aligns well with the UCA origin story.

She's also married 2 chiropractors and has 6 kids, 3 of whom are studying chiropractic or have recently graduated.

Links to the UCA or Melissa's other programs

The UCA
https://unitedchiropractic.org/

CE seminar
https://unitedchiropractic.glueup.com/event/chiropractic-essentials-2024-90499/

The vital CA
https://www.facebook.com/melissavitalca/

Women in Chiropractic
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/crystalclearsolutions/1227979?

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Dr Matt Doyle, Chiropractor with over 20 years experience, a Masters in Chiropractic Paediatrics and now a PhD candidate in the subject talks to us about babies, pregnancy and chiropractic.

Links

The paediatric intake and follow up forms and research
www.chiro.london/blog/ypk9ftalethxf9e7ydym8hgkdymbpy

The events

https://unitedchiropractic.glueup.com/event/assessing-and-adjusting-the-infant-with-matt-doyle-106545/

https://www.salutogeniceducation.com/events/uk-london-event

ASRF links

https://spinalresearch.com.au/

https://spinalresearch.com.au/membership/full-membership/


More from his bio...

Dr Matthew Doyle has been passionate about chiropractic since he was a teenager and saw the amazing impact that family chiropractic care had on his own family's health and emotional wellbeing.  He has been an associate, locum, and practice owner in full time practice for the past 19 years. This began with 8 years of study, completing a Bachelor of Science (Neurobiology) at the University of Queensland in 2000 and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Clinical)/Bachelor of Chiropractic Science at RMIT in 2005. Upon finishing his requirements, he moved the United Kingdom.  There he worked as a family chiropractor in England and Scotland. 

In his 7 years in the UK he completed a Masters in Advanced Practice Paediatric Chiropractic at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic and Bournemouth University. He created and taught the first Paediatric, Pregnancy, and Geriatric Chiropractic care course at the Barcelona Chiropractic College.

Upon returning to Australia he created and taught courses for three years at Central Queensland University(CQU) in its chiropractic program, whilst completing a Grad Certificate in Tertiary Education.  He finished at CQU in 2016 to spend more time being Dad for his young family and running their practice. He completed the Academy of Chiropractic Philosophers program in 2017.  He has published 10 articles in the peer reviewed literature between 2011 and 2022. Two of these are around safety and evidence for paediatric chiropractic care, as a Best Evidence Topic in 2011 in Clinical Chiropractic, and a selective review of the literature in 2016 in the Chiropractic Journal of Australia(CJA).

He is currently completing a mixed methods project PhD through Southern Cross University on Chiropractic Philosophy in Chiropractic Education.

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Great to have another chat with Guy Riekeman, truly an elder statesman of the chiropractic profession. We first had a conversation in 2021 when we covered most of Guy's legacy for the chiropractic profession and I'd recommend you give this a listen as well as the current episode. 

However today is all about how the role of the chiropractor has changed over the years. We start by exploring the different ways chiropractors have educated their patients. It started with brochures, then patient lectures, then in clinic video tapes and now he has a new optimal health promotion app that has launched in the USA. 

From their website this is what its all about...

'My Lifestyle iQ is a content-rich Remote Patient Engagement App that allows you to manage critical areas of health and prevention.'

'It is self-directed and can also be used to enhance in-office care by integrating multiple health domains, including Exercise, Nutrition, Brain Health, Positive Psychology, and the six areas of Functional Preventative Health.'

Melissa and the UCA in the UK are looking into how UK docs can get involved in using the app. Have a listen to what it's all about and get in touch with Melissa if you are keen to give it a test in the UK. 

Thanks for listening 

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We follow Kat's journey from being one of the groups top 10% chiropractors to now being a coach helping others in the Chiro One set up perform at their best. Bailey our CA worked with her for 5 years in Chicago, thanks for the introduction. 

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Great chat with Laurence, who, it could be argued is afraid of what a cosy and comfortable life looks like. I loved hearing about the early days with the Wellness Guys, (a before its time podcast about wellness - not chiropractic). 

We follow his life from being a Chiro in Perth, to a Chiro coach in Sydney to 2 years ago again moving and ending up in Portugal. 

As a chiropractic coach he loves helping you make decisions you didn't even know you needed to make. Thanks Laurence for sharing that heart wrenching story about your father-in-laws life changing accident and how it has shaped your life and decisions from then on. 

Recorded minutes before a gathering of UK chiropractors in the Putney clinic in London, enjoy...

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Loved the chat with Jess Hambly, the Aussie chiro who has been in the UK for 6 years but just recently joined the Chiro.London team. She has 16 years experience, is a doula (birth partner) and has a super strong chiropractic philosophy. We signed off the week with a glass of rose and a chat about all things health and chiropractic. 

Summary of what was discussed. 

• What is chiropractic , Jess's elevator pitch. 
• Jess Hambly the chiropractor, her story from the beginning to now. 
• Jess the professional associate - her opinion on why life as an associate is better than being a practice owner, given the right environment. 
• Bourbon v Cognac - blind tasting live on the pod
• Unpopular opinions: challenging the germ theory of disease in a post covid world, how exposure does not always equal infection. 
• Definition of health - Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
• Jess's past roles as a doula and how its helped her understand and help more pregnant women. 
• Jess and her coaches/mentors - how its helped her navigate 16 years as a chiropractor. 

You can find Jess in our Fulham Clinic or on instagram @dr_jesschiro

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Loved this chat with Nimrod Mueller. This podcast episode essentially is about two things. 1. levelling up your chiro philosophy to a new unknown chiro philosophy 'gaming' level that I didn't know existed. 2. Unpacking the day I spent with Nimrod and some of the UK leaders of chiropractic plotting course for Chiro in the UK and discussing the next event taking place in March 2024. 

If you don't now him, Nimrod is an Aussie chiropractor who graduated from Sydney college, Australia, practiced in the UK, then 10 years back in Sydney and now in Barcelona. If you haven't heard Nimrod speak he's one of the cleanest thinking docs and clearest communicators of chiropractic around. He's been politically active in the Aus and more recently he has teamed up with Mark Postles and become a coach at Quest.

If you are keen to get involved in the next chiro meet up just email Nimrod and the details are....

- Chiro meeting in London, March 24th
- ⁠my email: nimrodmueller@gmail.com
- ⁠my blog: nimrodmueller.wordpress.com
- ⁠Quest www.questchiropracticcoaching.com

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Loved this chat with Martin Harvey, one for the chiropractors, I (Craig McLean) was in London 2ºC he was in Melbourne 30ºC and we covered in one episode so many ways to engage better with your clients to enable you to provide better service which naturally will encourage people to stay with you longer.

At the beginning, after setting the scene, we tackle the question as to whether it's appropriate to encourage people to be life long chiropractic patients. Some in the profession suggest it's not appropriate and we should be able to teach/train/coach all people out of a problem and dis-engage with them as soon as possible or you are just ripping people off. We came to the conclusion that with todays stressful lifestyles and peoples desire to be as healthy as possible there is a need and desire by many to add chiropractic to their healthy lifestyle choices hence it is appropriate to some people. 

So listen on to find out things to do during your 1st, 2nd or routine visits that can help you engage better with your clients. Martin is an expert at helping us communicate more effectively to help people move from focus on pain to prevention and eventually performance. Spoiler alert - all about building bridges from where the person is at or focused and bridging to the possibilities of a different paradigm.

Thanks Martin here are some links to Martin's work.

Under the influence podcast - Martin chats with me Craig McLean

To sign up for Martin's  email list

To learn more about Martin's Retention Recipe 2.0

Email Martin - martin@insideoutpractices.com

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Vismai is a chiropractor with over 25 years experience and our paths keep crossing. We grew up in the same country town in rural Australia, we studied together in RMIT, Melbourne, Putney chiropractic helped during his near death experience after an illness pick up in West Africa, he practiced in Holland for years around time I was first in London early 2000s, and now he has a daughter living here in London.

He currently practices  in Singapore, lives in Bali with his chiropractor wife Joyti, and his two kids Dali and Finn are global nomads. 

Over the years he's gained a reputation of simply and easily engaging with his clients, often found speaking at Chiro Euro about the topic. He's shared his ideas in his book Keep Your Clients and the coaching program that links with this.

I hope you enjoy our fireside chat.

The Chiropractor Singapore
 
Keep Your Clients 

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Craig McLean, your host, welcomes Adrian Wenban, chiropractor and head of Barcelona College of Chiropractic. Following on from our last episode where a recently graduated student from both RMIT and Barcelona filled us in on the differences between the two programs. 

We ask Adrian about the history of the Barcelona college, when it started, how big it is, how many students per year, but mainly how the ethos of the education is true to the origins of the chiropractic profession, keeping the students focused on the founding principles of the profession. 

He expands on this to explain how three main techniques are taught, the students are hands on from year one and its not discouraged to discuss the term subluxation and DD Palmer. He encourages all of his students to find and develop their own personal philosophy around health, healing and chiropractic. 

We talk about the recent RMIT situation in Melbourne Australia, where without warning or consultation the program was closed down and the profession lost 140 graduates a year. He has an opinion on where that program went wrong. 

Hope you enjoy this episode, Adrian and I have history and he reminded me that he actually worked in Putney Chiropractic back in the 1990's before I took over ownership. 

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Isaac reached out after finishing chiro college in Barcelona and after finding a little bit about his story I thought it would be a journey others may enjoy. He started chiro school at RMIT Melbourne Australia 6 years ago during the hardest hit covid years eventually finishing  his  studies at Barcelona College of Chiropractic. He's in the UK at the moment awaiting to sit the GCC test of competence and looking to work in the UK.

The news that RMIT is closing its doors to new chiropractor students in 2024 made me want to find out what is happening downunder, at the place I trained. Isaac shares some insight into life at RMIT and how it compares to the Barcelona college experience.

Here's the link to the Martin Harvey Pod with Phil Embrall about the RMIT situation.

Isaac is a 3rd generation chiropractor, son of Wayne Whittingham and Melissa Sandford (UCA fame). 

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We've asked Tom Mackay to come back and record his 3rd episode on the chiro.london pod with host Craig Mclean. He's just back from running a sub 2h:30min marathon in Berlin and at 2:26 it was a pb by 8 minutes. It took him 20 marathons and a load of life lessons along the way to find a way to conquer his nemesis time. This episode was recorded in London but we were joined by fellow chiropractor Ravi Ruder who dialled in from Sydney Australia. (Tom was training in Sydney in the lead up to the marathon)

How was this achieved? Tom outlines how he tamed his nervous system feedback during training and racing. Not the direction I anticipated the conversation to go but really interesting to see how he tackled the daunting task. He outlines his 16 week lead up to the race and how he hit all the sessions on point set by his coach. 

He discusses how he uses a chiropractor for injury prevention and as a sounding board to have the confidence to push through some mega hard training sessions. Big shout out to Doc Bryan Thirsk in Putney Chiropractic Tom's usual chiro while in London. 

What an episode, especially if you are into running be it as a beginner or a marathon runner. But even if you are not into running, this is a story of perseverance and commitment setting out a plan to achieve a goal when others would have given up and started their golf careers. 

We cover the shoe wars and Tom has an opinion about how much difference shoe technology makes to  running times at present. 

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Episode 78: Financial health episode. The aim was to provide some really useful information to chiropractors, anyone who is self employed or business owners about a topic that may be perceived as a bit dull.  If you make it through this episode you will walk away with valuable tools to make your financial life much easier and provide a clear path to building wealth and saving tax. 

We start by defining what is wealth? We tackle the concept of why 'profit' is often a dirty word in healthcare. 

Then we cover the below topics....

Financial services
Accountants and IFAs - differences and how do you find a good one?
How much do you need to earn to warrant using an IFA?
Given the slice they take from the investments why should we use them over just winging the investments ourselves?

Wealth planning and cash flow forecasting.

Self employment.
Being a sole trader vs starting a company (we run through the tax brackets)
Tax planning
ISA’s, Pensions and other efficient ways to save tax as a high earner

Property
Mortgages and buying property (more complicated when self employed)
Renting vs Owning a property

You can find Tom here
Tom.Grunsell@westminster-wealth.com
https://www.westminster-wealth.com/tom-grunsell

These details will be important if you make it towards the end of our chat for a chance to win free beer....

Thanks Tom and Westminster for sponsoring this episode of the pod, hope you find the content useful. 

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Listen in to episode 77 where myself, Craig Mclean and Doc Conor Ward ‘the health elevator’ discuss heart rate variability (HRV), what is it and why do we measure it?

What effects does chiropractic have on HRV, your nervous system and your overall health.

Lastly what is whoop / other wearable health tech devices that measure HRV, our overall strain/stress and recovery scores and how can they add to the body of scientific evidence to support how healthy lifestyle choices including a visit to the chiropractor can positively impact your overall health and wellbeing. 

Early research on chiro and HRV in the link below, we need more but let's keep chatting about it and inspiring a larger body of evidence on the topic.

https://www.cjaonline.com.au/index.php/cja/article/view/178

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Welcome to Katelyn McGregor who is a chiropractor, mother of two, married to Andy McGregor a great Chiro a mate of mine, business owner and part of a private midwifery offering. 

We discuss loads about being pregnant as a chiropractor, following your own advice, preparing your body, how long should you practice for before maternity leave, giving yourself time for the best possible experience, preparing yourself financially for the inevitable time out as either a self employed chiro or practice owner.  

Then Katelyn shares some professional experience both as a chiro and as a member of a private midwifery team. How best to help your clients or patients. 

I don't believe we chatted for 90 mins, it's a long one and quite a niche topic but I hope you enjoy and find some insight from our ramblings.  

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Meet Doc Edwina Waddell from Evolve Chiropractic in Currumbin, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia. Edwina is back, our first return guest to the pod and a great review of life as a practice owner on her 4th anniversary of opening her clinic on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 

Edwina was a chiropractor with us for 9 years in Putney and moved back to Aus a few years back. 

We cover 

• as a practice owner it costs more than you think 
• as a one doc one ca practice its easy to make decisions and change your mind on protocol - with 3 CAs and 1 associate you now need to consider way more in terms of each individuals need for creativity 
• social media tips and ideas 
• team training and associate mentorship 
• russel brand 
• some learning post pandemic around how the practice flow and CA roles 
• career associates 

https://evolvechiropracticgc.com.au/

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Episode 74: we meet Simon Billings a chiropractor with a special dedication to nutrition. I’ve wanted to get Simon on for ages so we can discuss simple ways to decrease systemic pro inflammatory states. The sort of thing that does no favours to anyone who is in pain, esp that reactive random joint inflammatory stuff that chiropractors see regularly. But more than that inflammation is a natural and good thing your immune system does to heal and fight off attacks in the body. However when not balanced it can create havoc - auto immune, IBS, eczema, etc..

We break it down to ways you can balance your inflammatory response using 

1. Lifestyle factors 

2. Nutrition (food)

3. Key supplements 

Hope you enjoy - some great content in here chiropractors can use immediately in practice or everyone can use to help improve your health and well-being.

Find Simon here 

https://inhealthsupplements.co.uk/

https://www.academyofchiropracticnutrition.com/

http://www.integrativecare.co.uk/

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Hosted by Craig Mclean it was time to upgrade the pod, so we headed to Brewdog Brewery in London Waterloo and recorded this episode in their Podcast Project, a professional studio for podcasters with Docs Georgie and Sydney on their 2nd anniversary of working with us at Chiro London. You'll find Georgie in our Fulham office and Sydney in Tooting. 

We cover loads that will be of interest to Chiropractors, patients and new graduate chiros. It's especially useful for those about to embark on their own journey as chiros. You hear about their reasons for become chiropractors, insight into covid life as a chiro student during a pandemic, things they learned in their first two years as a chiropractor with us at chiro london, some successes and some mistakes they made along the way. 

Hope you like the new sound from the pro set up at Brewdog. Sound quality was mega and I had loads of buttons to press that I had no idea exactly what they did. 

Obviously a beer and burger was needed to help us recover from this episode. 

Enjoy....

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October 2015 was when Jamie Murray first made an appointment at Putney Chiropractic, after googling chiropractors who work with athletes. Seven years later he still is on the Putney Chiro table whenever he's not travelling the world on the pro tennis circuit to help him prevent injury and promote optimal performance. 

Craig McLean had a chat to him at his most recent visit as he spared us 15 minutes of his time. He's a massive advocate of chiro work and chooses chiropractic to maintain a healthy body as it undergoes massive stress each time he's on court. Dr Bryan Thirsk is his main chiro and they've forged a great relationship over the years. 

Whenever he can Jamie is suggesting others should try chiro, be it on the world tennis circuit or closer to home. 

We hope you enjoy this short episode. 

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Travis is a super principled chiropractor who started his career studying philosophy and engineering. He tells his story of how he found chiropractic and how he evolved his path from one struggling clinic in Holland to now over 10 thriving practices. We deep dive into some chiropractic philosophy and he shares how he keeps his clinics principled while keeping the ethos a free and enjoyable place to work. But it's not about making money, it's about ensuring chiropractic is preserved for the next generation.

We round up the chat talking about the seminar he puts on each summer in Holland. Get your tickets here...

CHIRO TUG 2023 Den Hague Tickets, Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/chiro-tug-2023-den-hague-tickets-554853189827

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Thank you Melissa and the UCA crew for pushing me out of my comfort zone and encouraging me to give a 30 minute presentation at the October 2022 Chiropractic Essentials conference held in Birmingham. This is a recording of my 30 min slot with some pre and post comments about the talk. 

My presentation covered 5 areas 

Time: turning 50 and gaining perspective on time passing

Healing: My lumbar disc herniation recovery story 

Immune system: My comments on the frustration I feel about how the globe losing faith in our immune systems. It was a perfect opportunity to do all we can to live a healthy lifestyle to boost our natural immunity, but instead we have just put all our faith in the covid vaccine and have been encouraged to carry on with poor health practices. 

Professional relations: What can we as chiropractors do to work better together

Legacy: What is your legacy you are leaving behind?

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In this episode Craig Mclean hosts Dr Elle Cafra, our fab chiropractor in Marylebone, who joined us on the pod just before Christmas 2022. Elle is from Melbourne, Australia but she worked for 4 years in Craig's home town as a chiropractor so they have a bit to catch up on. 

• Differences in health care between the UK and Aus
• Chiro life in a rural Australian town vs central London 
• They do the Ballarat quiz!
• How do you pass the GCC test of competence
• Differences in chiro practice as a male vs female
• A section on chiro philosophy and pregnancy 

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