2025 Spring Convention DC & CA - LIVE IN-PERSON

Lower Back Pain creates a battlefield for practitioners and a field of agony for the patient, emotionally, financially and physically. This class arms the doctor with evidence-based science and research to be better equipped with proven radiologic and adjusting technique protocols to accurately assess and correct lower extremity causation, as well as leg length morphology contributing to LBP.  Dr. Mally provides the information for precise diagnosis and delivers “live” treatment options afforded the patient.

This course teaches a better understanding of presented lower extremity biomechanics, plus diagnostic and treatment options for major overlooked contributors of LBP. Additionally, Dr. Mally presents case studies discussing pre and/or post-operative arthroplasty of the knee and/or hip and its contribution to chronic LBP. Attendees implementing this powerful information and procedures can make a profound difference for otherwise untold pain and suffering. Utilizing said diagnostic and manipulation procedures can reduce chronicity and erroneous results often requiring additional care including more costly surgery, physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Attendees will learn how to prevent as well as manage after the fact additional joint replacements, revisions and sequelae that are frequented resulting in chronification of outcomes, otherwise confusing to many practitioners and ultimately affecting the patient.

Doctors will benefit from “live” demonstrations of Dr. Mally’s authentic lower extremity manipulation techniques contributing to the treatment of LBP.

Upon completion of this education program the learner will:
1. Understand the various theories and models that underlie dry needling technique.
2. Understand how DN supports and integrates with Chiropractic practice.
3. Understand how to implement DN in daily practice
4. Review of real cases and types of patients that are appropriate for DN

Upon achieving these objectives the learner will be prepared to undergo a full training program to become certified to deliver dry needling services safely and effectively to the public.

Re-exams... Modifiers... Denials... Documentation that matches your coding... Don’t miss this opportunity to ask your questions and learn from seasoned experts on these challenging topics. Bring your team together for this session and help ensure you’re on the same page, confident in your shared knowledge.

We will discuss how both athletes and non-athletes are affected by TBI and concussion with more than just neurological symptoms.  Commonly infection and stress prior to TBI can exacerbate the injury.  The opposite is true as well when we see a concussed patient, infection and symptoms related to stress may present for weeks, months or years following.   After injury, infection or adrenal stress, nutrition can play a crucial role in the healing process and may drastically speed up recovery and prevent future debilitation.  Ways to manage stress and ways to identify triggers will be discussed as well as ways to treat common infections. Nutritional recommendations you can use is practice will be provided.  Case studies will be presented in which success was achieved demonstrating the areas we are covering.

We all hear the legendary tales of how brilliant the Chiropractors from the previous century were.  They provided specific care to the most tragic cases.  Considering Chiropractic was largely unknown, they helped so many patients stripped of hope and grew practices based upon one thing—their mentality.  Mentality is the viewpoint from which clinical observations are made.  The purpose of this discussion is to examine what made these individuals standouts in our history and apply these lessons to see the value of having an expanded mentality.  Only through developing this type of broad-application mentality can you reach this level of expertise and success in your community.  You will leave this session with a certainty that is needed in today’s business environment based upon facts and realities that support our Chiropractic premises.

We all hear the legendary tales of how brilliant the Chiropractors from the previous century were.  They provided specific care to the most tragic cases.  Considering Chiropractic was largely unknown, they helped so many patients stripped of hope and grew practices based upon one thing—their mentality.  Mentality is the viewpoint from which clinical observations are made.  The purpose of this discussion is to examine what made these individuals standouts in our history and apply these lessons to see the value of having an expanded mentality.  Only through developing this type of broad-application mentality can you reach this level of expertise and success in your community.  You will leave this session with a certainty that is needed in today’s business environment based upon facts and realities that support our Chiropractic premises.

 

 Evolution of scoliosis management. Define it better, treat it better to lead to better patient outcomes.

Healthcare is changing - regardless of who is ultimately paying for your care, they want results! This practical and entertaining presentation will review seven commonly overlooked problems that delay recovery. In one way or another, these seven “functional” diagnoses contribute to many, if not all, of the “structural” diagnoses managed by chiropractors. The discussion will cover the current best practice evaluation and successful management of:

● Upper Crossed Syndrome
● Scapular Dyskinesis
● Lower Crossed Syndrome
● Hip Abductor Weakness
● Paradoxical Breathing
● Spinal Instability
● Foot Hyperpronation

Recognizing and managing these seven diagnoses will dramatically and immediately improve your clinical results. Attendees will leave this class with advanced practical, evidence-based assessment and management skills to quickly resolve musculoskeletal complaints related to these disorders.

Healing to Thriving: A Biobehavioral Approach Body-Mind Methods for Pain, Performance and Longevity

DCs who recognize the interdependences of body and brain with mindset and action should promote awareness and control of both. This course presents a bio-behavioral approach to promote biomechanic self-care with awareness of one’s body towards influencing our own biology, attitude and behavior.

Biomechanics is the physical mechanics of how the body manages energy to channel force. Interoception is an organisms internal sense of what is happening inside your body. While proprioception is about sensing motion, interoception is a perception that mammals developed to maintain body temperature as well as the state of other internal functions (ie hunger, thirst and breath). For humans, our sensing of biologic energetic states has evolved so that interoception may be conscious or unconscious, and also play a large role in the regulation of emotional states and feelings as well.

People are fascinated to perceive never explored aspects of how their body physically moves…and can move. DCs as well as our paraprofessionals and other therapists, teachers and trainers promoting self-care along with passive and/or active somatic therapeutics can harness these wins to engage people for more accurate motor control of posture, breath and positive mindfulness. Aligning attentional focus with passive and active therapies has a powerful synergy to strengthen interoceptive awareness – this internal awareness of one’s own body. Step by step progressions shifts somatic awareness and biomechanics of global posture movements. The awareness of greater interoceptively informed neuromotor control drives a sense of accomplishment to motivate shifts in behavior, compliance, and agency.

Studies of cognitive behavior therapy and other biopsychosocial shows strengthening interoceptive awareness and accuracy helps people suffering with chronic pain. Mindfully directing attention on subtleties of motion, movement and motivation with yoga, Pilates, tai-chi or StrongPosture® protocols all promote a newfound awareness of improved somatic control into an individual’s activities of daily living (ADLs).

Bottom line: Linking BodyMind and MindBody strategies together improves results and can shift behavior. Coupled with evidence congruent biomechanic education and experiential rehab helps people stay grounded and live healthier, looking at life with a level head, inside and out, body and mind.

Healthcare is changing - regardless of who is ultimately paying for your care, they want results! This practical and entertaining presentation will review seven commonly overlooked problems that delay recovery. In one way or another, these seven “functional” diagnoses contribute to many, if not all, of the “structural” diagnoses managed by chiropractors. The discussion will cover the current best practice evaluation and successful management of:

● Upper Crossed Syndrome
● Scapular Dyskinesis
● Lower Crossed Syndrome
● Hip Abductor Weakness
● Paradoxical Breathing
● Spinal Instability
● Foot Hyperpronation

Recognizing and managing these seven diagnoses will dramatically and immediately improve your clinical results. Attendees will leave this class with advanced practical, evidence-based assessment and management skills to quickly resolve musculoskeletal complaints related to these disorders.

Healing to Thriving: A Biobehavioral Approach Body-Mind Methods for Pain, Performance and Longevity

DCs who recognize the interdependences of body and brain with mindset and action should promote awareness and control of both. This course presents a bio-behavioral approach to promote biomechanic self-care with awareness of one’s body towards influencing our own biology, attitude and behavior.

Biomechanics is the physical mechanics of how the body manages energy to channel force. Interoception is an organisms internal sense of what is happening inside your body. While proprioception is about sensing motion, interoception is a perception that mammals developed to maintain body temperature as well as the state of other internal functions (ie hunger, thirst and breath). For humans, our sensing of biologic energetic states has evolved so that interoception may be conscious or unconscious, and also play a large role in the regulation of emotional states and feelings as well.

People are fascinated to perceive never explored aspects of how their body physically moves…and can move. DCs as well as our paraprofessionals and other therapists, teachers and trainers promoting self-care along with passive and/or active somatic therapeutics can harness these wins to engage people for more accurate motor control of posture, breath and positive mindfulness. Aligning attentional focus with passive and active therapies has a powerful synergy to strengthen interoceptive awareness – this internal awareness of one’s own body. Step by step progressions shifts somatic awareness and biomechanics of global posture movements. The awareness of greater interoceptively informed neuromotor control drives a sense of accomplishment to motivate shifts in behavior, compliance, and agency.

Studies of cognitive behavior therapy and other biopsychosocial shows strengthening interoceptive awareness and accuracy helps people suffering with chronic pain. Mindfully directing attention on subtleties of motion, movement and motivation with yoga, Pilates, tai-chi or StrongPosture® protocols all promote a newfound awareness of improved somatic control into an individual’s activities of daily living (ADLs).

Bottom line: Linking BodyMind and MindBody strategies together improves results and can shift behavior. Coupled with evidence congruent biomechanic education and experiential rehab helps people stay grounded and live healthier, looking at life with a level head, inside and out, body and mind.