CF 354: Chiropractic Treatment Of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury & New Cancer Treatment Approach Today we’re going to talk about Chiropractic Treatment Of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury & New Cancer Treatment Approach But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music  

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #354 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Head And Neck Cancer & Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class. 

On the personal end of things…..

Nothing crazy this week. Just in the grind. I think we’re looking at a great week numbers-wise. We’re looking at about 165 or so this week. Maybe more. Hopefully more.  Still doing the whack-a-mole thing with our billing and collections company. I don’t know exactly what’s going on with them but we just aren’t collecting much in the last month or so.  It’s stressing me. After some time in business, you’ll start to feel a bit like a hamster on a wheel that never ever ends and it’s frustrating and stressful and somewhat maddening. If you describe yourself as a weak-minded person, start working for someone else.

Just listen to your ol Uncle Jeffro on this folks. It ain’t for the faint of heart sometimes.  It’s whack-a-mole but with potentially serious implications. Maybe I need to learn some meditation or something like that.

Because you know what I’ve found? At the end of the day, it’s all going to be fine. It all works out.  Hell, I lost $750k over a three year period because I had a girl who wasn’t doing her job but was convincing when asked if she was doing her job. Sometimes stats don’t tell the whole story when you’re doing PI work and reducing balances and all that.  Anyway, if I can get over a loss like that, you can get over most things in life wouldn’t you agree? 

Remember, keep smacking each and every mole as they pop up, take a long weekend trip somewhere at least once per quarter, smile even when you’re sick, tired, don’t feel good, or are just in a bad mood, treat your staff and your family right, give you patients the best evidence-based, patient-centered care, make sure you are always marketing and keeping your eyes out for new treatment techniques and modalities and you should be good to go.  Some big news on the VoiceOver side of my life. I recently made two really big moves. 

1. I signed with DPN Talent which is a group out of Beverly Hills and is one of the big five national talent agencies in the US. It’s the major leagues and it’s huge. 
2. This week, I signed with ACM which is a big national management group. So we have agents and management. DPN agent, ACM is management. 

When you hear someone’s voice on a Super Bowl commercial or some big campaign or movie trailer or something of that size and stature, you’re probably hearing someone that is with a large national agent or with a large management group like these two I’ve signed with.  The point is: things just got really real on the VoiceOver front and Ol Jeffro needs to figure out how to be more available from day to day if needed. 

Which bring up one more thing I’ve was talking with our intern, Austin, about recently. Don’t wait until you’re my age to start considering an associate. I could have hired one years ago but my wife was resistant and, honestly……it’s kind of scary. We looked at what it would cost us instead of what it would give us.  Having the right associate would give us security should something happen to me and it would give us clinical growth. 

I’ve said it before but, for better or worse, I have a big machine that I’ve built with about 11 or 12 employees currently. That’s a lot of mouths to feed every day. I’ve had COVID four and maybe five times and I only missed one day of work. Yes, blast me for going to work sick if you like. I wore my mask and kept my hands washed and all that good stuff but yeah……I know. 

Anyway, the point is that that is not fair to me, it’s not fair to patients, it’s not fair to my family, and it’s not fair to my staff for me to not have better systems in place for a machine this size.  The entire thing still depends on my presence and suffers a great deal should I have to be gone traveling, sick, or injured.

That’s not good planning on my part and it’s not fair. Not to mention that 155-175 patients every week is exacting a toll on my 52-year-old, former college football-playing body.  So, for that reason, I’ve been looking for a good associate that wants to be great. My problem is that nobody wants to move to Amarillo. Which I get but I don’t get. It’s dry. No humidity. Yes it can get hot. It can get up to 105 or so on some days in the Summer but no humidity is real. It makes a difference. Then it can get cold as hell.

The average Winter temp is probably 35-45 degrees. Some warmer some colder. Yes we get 2-3 snows per year. Some major, some not.  No there are not a ton of trees and lakes in Amarillo but, we are only 3.5 hours from the ski resorts in New Mexico and only about 5 hours from Colorado Springs, 4 hours to Albuquerque 4 hours to OKC, 5.5 hours to Dallas.  And we have a nice little airport to get us where we’re going and there’s about 270k people or more in our immediate region. 

So, if you want to give Amarillo some consideration, I hope you will. Email me at creekstonecare@gmail.com and let’s get to know each other. The long-term plan is to hire an associate and get them profitable asap. Then hire another associate and repeat. Once that is in place, you’ll both see less and less of me day to day. Voiceover work is calling and I can’t do it at the level it will require if I’m busy doing the hands-on work of patient treatment all day every day. It’s impossible.  So come on y’all. Help a brother out here! Just an offer from your ol Uncle Jeffro. 

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Our first one today is called, “Study raises hopes of treating aggressive cancers by zapping roque DNA” by The Guardian statt and published in November 2024 cheese and rice that’s hot! 

Remember, the citations can be found at chiropracticforward.com under this episode.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/06/zapping-rogue-dna-key-treating-aggressive-cancers-study

Bailey, C., Pich, O., Thol, K. et al. Origins and impact of extrachromosomal DNA. Nature 635, 193–200 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08107-3

Tang, J., Weiser, N.E., Wang, G. et al. Enhancing transcription–replication conflict targets ecDNA-positive cancers. Nature 635, 210–218 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07802-5

Hung, K.L., Jones, M.G., Wong, I.TL. et al. Coordinated inheritance of extrachromosomal DNAs in cancer cells. Nature 635, 201–209 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07861-8

This is an article so we’re just hitting the highlights.  Scientists have made a promising discovery about treating aggressive cancers by focusing on a unique type of DNA called extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). Here are the key points: 1. What is ecDNA?

• Small, circular DNA fragments that break off from chromosomes
• Previously thought to be rare and unimportant in cancer development
• Now recognized as a critical factor in tumor growth and treatment resistance

2. Research Findings:

• Study analyzed nearly 15,000 UK patients across 39 tumor types
• 17.1% of tumors contained ecDNA
• More common in breast, brain, and lung cancers

3. Why ecDNA is Proble