Mic'd Up with ChiroUp: A Chiropractic Podcast

What if your last patient of the day didn’t leave you with another hour of notes? As chiropractors, we know how quickly documentation and duplicate data entry can consume the time we want to spend caring for patients or enjoying life outside the office. After working with more than 3,000 users, we’ve learned that better solutions start with listening to the doctors doing the work. In this episode, we’re sharing five lessons that shaped ChiroUp EHR, with real-world examples of patients helping build their notes before arrival, staff documenting care as it happens, AI organizing patient conversations, and exam findings connecting all the way through to insurance claims. Join us for a practical conversation about chiropractors solving problems for chiropractors—and how those ideas could help you finish your day with more complete notes, less busywork, and more time back.

This episode takes a practical look at dizziness, balance, and practice performance from both the clinical and business sides. We explore the difference between dizziness and poor balance, how the visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems work together, and simple strategies for assessing and improving balance.Then, we shift to the business side, breaking down five key metrics every chiropractor should watch: collections, new patients, retention, revenue per visit, and profitability. Finally, we discuss disability and life insurance and why protecting your ability to earn is an important part of building a sustainable career.

This episode takes a practical look at tendinopathy from both the clinical and business sides of practice. We explore how to distinguish mechanical from neurological pain, when rehabilitation needs to address both tendon capacity and nervous-system sensitivity, and how manipulating load can help clinicians better understand the patient’s pain experience.Then, we bring those concepts into the real world with Dr. Brennan Donahue, discussing Shockwave therapy for proximal hamstring injuries.Finally, we shift to the business side, breaking down how to evaluate the profitability of add-on services like Shockwave by tracking utilization, conversions, costs, provider performance, and contribution margin.

In this episode of Mic’d up with ChiroUp, we explore the three fears holding chiropractors back from greater clinical confidence, practice growth, and profitability. Discover how collaborating with healthcare professionals, improving diagnostic confidence, and focusing on movement-based evaluation can enhance patient outcomes.We’ll also discuss what keeps chiropractors stuck with outdated EHR software, the features modern chiropractic platforms offer to improve efficiency, and a simple financial change that helped recover over $1,200 per month. Tune in for evidence-based clinical insights and practical strategies to build a smarter, more profitable practice.

In this special episode of Mic’d Up with ChiroUp, Dr. Brandon Steele welcomes the podcast’s first-ever guest, Dr. Tom Michaud.Dr. Michaud is a globally recognized expert in biomechanics and foot and ankle function, and the author of Human Locomotion and Injury-Free Running. With more than 40 years of clinical experience, his work has helped reshape how clinicians understand gait, injury patterns, tendon function, and lower extremity mechanics.In this conversation, Dr. Steele and Dr. Michaud discuss how experienced clinicians develop rapid visual pattern recognition in the first moments of an exam, and how that skill guides diagnosis and treatment decisions. The discussion also explores evolving research on the windlass mechanism, the role of intrinsic foot muscles in load sharing and energy return, and why traditional views of orthotics, immobilization, and running mechanics are being re-examined through a modern evidence-based lens.Dr. Michaud also shares practical clinical insights drawn from decades in practice—bridging research, biomechanics, and real-world patient care.Learn more about Dr. Michaud’s work at Human Locomotion.