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Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, & Chiropractic Care
Credit Available - See Credits tab below.
Total Credits: 3.5 Type 1 CEUs
- Speaker:
- Dr Heidi Haavik DC
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 21 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Access till 07/29/2025 after purchase.
Description
Title: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, & Chiropractic Care
Description: This class delves into the science behind how stress and traumatic experiences can negatively affect brain function and overall health, often leading to common chronic diseases. It explores research demonstrating how spinal dysfunction impairs brain function and how chiropractic adjustments can counteract this. Discover the profound implications of chiropractic care on the prefrontal cortex—an area critical for intelligence, movement control, pain processing, mental health, immune response, and inflammation management (key factors in most chronic diseases). Dr. Haavik will present this cutting-edge research in an accessible way, offering insights into the neurophysiological connection between spinal health and brain function, and discussing the transformative potential this holds for the chiropractic profession.
Credits
Total Possible Credit is 3.5 Type 1 CEUs
Handouts
| PrefrontalCortexTalk-Handout.pdf (77.1 MB) | Available after Registration | ||
Speaker
Dr Heidi Haavik DC
Haavik Research
Dr Heidi Haavik is the Vice President Research and Dean of Research at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic. She is a chiropractor and has a PhD in human neurophysiology from the University of Auckland and is one of the most popular chiropractic speakers in the world today. She is the author of the book ‘The Reality Check: A quest to Understand Chiropractic from the inside out. This book describes in easy-to-understand language what happens in the brain when a chiropractor adjusts dysfunctional segments in the spine. Dr Haavik is the director of Haavik Research Ltd, a company that enlightens the world about the science of chiropractic and she runs an online learning academy. Dr Haavik was a member of the World Federation of Chiropractic’s Research Council for ten years. Dr Haavik has received numerous research awards and has published a number of papers in chiropractic and neurophysiology journals. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and Journal of Chiropractic Education and is a Review Editor in Movement Science and Sport Psychology for Frontiers in Psychology and Sports Science. She was named Chiropractor of the year in 2007 by both the New Zealand Chiropractic Association and the New Zealand College of Chiropractic Alumni Association.