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There are no comments or discussions on this episode. It is just my father and his final public appearance at an ICA conference. It is a long podcast at over an hour, but it is my father at his best! I hope you enjoy it and we will be back to our regular programing next week.
Tag: Chiropractic Principles
Maintenance, what does that mean to you? What does it mean to your patient? While being an active patient is of the utmost importance in getting your patients spine back to its optimal point of structural integrating, keeping it there is probably even more important and most of the times one of the most difficult milestones to accomplish in patient care and management. In the following video Dr. James Sigafoose goes over in simple terms why it is so important for your patient to continue on their chiropractic journey towards health.
What if every time your patient started talking about Symptoms or lack of symptoms, you could just set them down so they could watch a quick informative video explaining to them what is going on. This would remove them from the waiting room when they are talking about a reaction to the adjustment and allow you to have it explained to them over and over and to reduplicate what is going on exactly the same, each time, until the patients understands what is happening.
The Symptoms video is an incredibly useful tool in your office for one of the most common reasons patients leave, that being their symptoms are gone, or that their symptoms have not gone yet. Explaining that we do not base their care on Symptoms, but on correction of the spinal misalignments. This video is incredibly amazing in its use and simplicity.
This is probably the most AMAZING DVD, Dr. Sigafoose has ever made. Not only is it an excellent Chiropractic Report that you can use to educate your patients on a one to one bases, but it is a great learning tool for you, the doctor, to use and LEARN how to perform an office GROUP doctors talk. The Flip Chart that Dr. Sigafoose is using is also available, but we have updated it and it is now a PowerPoint presentation. This Report goes through everything, from the safety pin cycle to the definition of STRESS, how the brain works, the difference in muscle strength from side to side, balance, energy, subluxation, lack of motion, dysfunction and disease, rheostat effect, definition of Health and Above, Down, Inside, out (A.D.I.O.) and ends the DVD with an explanation of who needs chiropractic and why we refuse no one for care even if the patient has financial difficulties. You can see and hear how amazing this Video is and would make a great addition to you patient education regiment.
On this episode, we are going to talk about why keeping it SIMPLE so the patient understands clearly what it’s going to take to get and stay well. The video explains why we took x-rays, how much nerve tissue is involved and how long the body will take to recover. The video also explains what is happening when the bones of the spine are out of place and how because of these bones being out of alignment that the tissue cells can become dis-eased.
Dr. Sigafoose then talks about why, the outside-in method has failed them and why the x-rays will allow us to find out what is going on inside of them. The end of the video goes into the importance of time and allowing us as chiropractors to have enough of it so that the body can recreate itself with healthy cells.
Are you educating your patients before, during and throughout their care? Are you taking the time to not only let your patients know why they are at your office, but also how long they will be with you and more importantly what chiropractic really is?
Over the next few weeks, we will be covering all of Dr. James Sigafoose’s patient education series. Did you know that he has made a series of videos that not only educate your patients on what chiropractic is, but also covers everything from whiplash to symptoms and why maintenance care is so important.
Today’s video is entitled, Pre-Consultation and is four minutes long, but it prepares your patient to meet you for the very first time. This first visit is the most important visit your patient will have and it sets the groundwork for what will hopefully be a lifetime of care at your practice.
If you could go back in time and be personally coached by Dr. James Sigafoose with some of the most successful people in chiropractic, would you do it?
If given the chance to have access to some of the best chiropractic philosophy whenever you want to, would you take the time to listen?
If you could have a conversation with 1000’s of philosophically sound chiropractors forming a worldwide network dedicated to being the BEST, Most Successful, and Philosophy Based Chiropractors in the world, would you join?
If you could be the best Chiropractor that you could be, would you do it?
What is it that you FEAR? What is it that is holding you back from not only having the practice that you want, but also from being the person, wife, husband or friend that you know you can be. This two audio series, by Dr. James Sigafoose, will help you get there. Dr. Sigafoose walks you through the meditation and visualization steps. Each one of the Audios are meant to be used on a daily basis. They are no longer then 30 minuets each and when used properly will help you get past the fears that are holding you back. This two audio series is not for the faint of heart. It will bring up many old hurts and traumas that are holding you back. Many of our fears come from many different places, they come from our experience over a lifetime and our educated mind puts these in a lose mentality so that you don’t feel hurt, embarrassment or pain again. We need to bring these things to the surface and we need to overcome them. This process keeps us held up, it keeps us from taking chances and from being creative and from moving forward.
Well here we are again. Before we go any further, I would like to say that everything I am about to say is what I am getting from this talk. I know I have said that before, but I really feel the importance of letting you know this. We all get what we need to hear at the moment we need to hear it. I chose this consultation call because of the way it began, that being talking about God, Universal Intelligence and Innate. Those of you, who knew my father, knew that he used the term God in all of his talks when it came to Universal Intelligence and Innate. I on the other hand struggled with this all my life. So my understanding of this clip is very different from what you might get out of it. I am not a religious man at all, but my father was. I respect him for that; I respect his opinion on the matter, but what about those of us that struggle to understand chiropractic without the use of God as a way of understanding Innate and Universal Intelligence.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.
When we speak of growth many words come to mind, like development as in, it hasn’t yet reached its full growth. Now that could be a plant you are talking about or even a skill. Or how you work in your office as in going from a simpler to a more complex stage, in any manner it is all still talking about growth.
Dr. Sigafoose say that life is growth and growth is change. Everything is supposed to grow in life and without growth then we do not learn or change as humans. But in order to grow we must be willing to control our thoughts. Because to control our thoughts is to control circumstances, conditions, environment and our destiny.
