Episode 1613 - Deck chairs on the Titanic #PTonICE Daily Show

Dr. Zac Morgan // #ClinicalTuesday // www.ptonice.com 


In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Spine Division leader Zac Morgan discusses recent research supporting the effectiveness of conservative care compared to invasive care, but in particular, the efficacy of chiropractic care compared to physical therapy care. Zac postulates that being hung up on the concept of spinal manipulation is often to blame for reduced PT outcomes when it comes to spine pain. He challenges listeners that the majority of patients are going to seek out & receive spinal manipulation for their pain, so the best course of action is to learn spinal manipulation, practice daily, and understand how to explain treatment to patients in a manner that does not facilitate dependence.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
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ZAC MORGAN
All right, good morning PT on Ice Daily Show. I'm Zach Morgan. I'm lead faculty here with the cervical and lumbar spine management courses and lead that spine division as well. Wanted to bring forward some content this morning. So the title of this episode is the deck chair on the Titanic or deck chairs on the Titanic. But before we jump into the actual content and kind of unpack what we're, what I'm talking about with that metaphor, I wanted to start out by kind of pointing you all in the direction of the next courses that you can jump into from the spine management side. So we're wrapped up for the year, but if you're looking for next year, two options in the middle of the country for cervical spine on the weekend of February 3rd and 4th, we've got Wichita, Kansas, as well as Hazlet, Texas. So if you're in the middle of the country looking for cervical spine, those will be good options. At the end of that month, we'll be in Simi Valley, California on February 24th and 25th. If Lumbar is the one that you're looking for, there's one in January. So Rome, Georgia, 27th and 28th of January. And then March 9th and 10th, Cincinnati, Ohio. And then March 23rd and 24th over in Brookfield, Wisconsin or right outside of Milwaukee. So several offerings there to start the new year for cervical and lumbar. If you haven't looked into the ice ortho cert, do so. So we've, we've revamped our website and you can go on there and kind of look at what all is included. Um, but that cert is kicking off. We're testing people out on the weekends already and it's been a really good kind of, uh, initial rollout here. So if you're looking for an orthopedic cert, um, check out the new ice cert and let us know if you have any questions.

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