When adjusting kids, it is helpful to figure out where they are on the Polyvagal Ladder and then adjust accordingly.
Brain lateralization is so important to understand, especially when dealing with kids with any neurodevelopmental issues like ADHD and Autism.
Prediction is an extremely important way that our brains are using everyday in almost every situation. But what if our predictive abilities did not work as well. Listen on...
Insurance vs cash vs memberships? How to find the best place to associate? How do you build a brand new practice? These are just some of the great questions you'll hear answers to!
The Science of Scaling by Dr Benjamin Hardy is a great new book...it's kind of like Think and Grow Rich for the 21st Century. Check it out! And check out our website at https://www.theadjustment.com/ for more information
With a chapter in the Pediatric Chiropractic textbook about using Activator with kids, Dr Rubin now brings that information to you in a podcast format.
Want to learn more about retained primitive reflexes? Dr Rubin discusses the top 6 reflexes, how to assess them and then how to do remediation exercises for each one.
A balanced mind is one in which its traits lie more in a bell curve, whereas the unbalanced mind has traits that may look more like a cliff-edge. This imbalance creates potential issues in how the brain functions and may cause a maturational dysregulation (as Dr Melillo talks about), and that is where brain-based pediatric chiropractic fits in. To help the brain and body become more regulated. Here is the article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201903/the-puzzle-the-unbalanced-mind
Neuroemotional technique or NET is a chiropractic technique that helps get rid of stuck emotions in your spine and along your nerve system, and has become an important part of my family-based, pediatric practice!
A boy was born with only 2% of his brain but by age 13, his brain had grown by 50%! This shows that with neuroplasticity, anything is possible. The true power of the nerve system and its healing potential is not really known yet... Here is the article: https://philarchive.org/archive/PERTBW
I am fortunate to have had great mentors in the ICPA (International Chiropractic Pediatric Association), especially its founder, Dr Larry Webster, and the amazing Dr Jeanne Ohm. They among many others helped carve the path to a pediatric practice for 36+ years!
Fascinating new research classifies Autism into 4 main subtypes, and Dr Rubin explains how your approach to care with each subtype should be different.
Why is the brain asymmetric? What advantage does being dominant on 1 side or the other give the brain? Part 1 goes into the facts...part 2 (coming soon) will discuss how to use this info in your practices.
After almost 130 years, chiropractic is the leading alternative health care discipline in the US. What's our next move? The old saying, 'leave the place better than you found it" holds very true right now for those of us who have been around for 30+ years. Can we leave chiropractic better than we found it? Recorded live at the GCC event in 2017
This Inner Power Speaks, from BJ Palmer, can be used to explain chiropractic. It is just as effective today as it was when first published in 1949.
Retained primitive reflexes are critical to examine, especially in kiddos with neurodevelopmental challenges. Dr Rubin explains an efficient way to check for them.
Being trauma informed is so important in today's practice, since the amount of children who have experienced some sort of trauma is way more than is even being reported.
Every quarter we ask students who are about to graduate to write down their top questions that they want to ask someone who has been in practice for 36 years...and here are the answers!
A recent article stated that ADHD really isn't on the rise...it is because of increased awareness and better diagnosis. Really? Have they been in a pediatric chiiropractic office like mine recently?
Who am I? I asked myself that a lot as a recent graduate from 1989 - 1993. Who am I to be successful, to run a business, to be a chiropractor? My parents had barely graduated high school...how could I do all this? Then I heard Dr. Sid and everything changed...