Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Are You Recommending Maintenance Care to Your Patients?

15 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid, in a YouTube video titled "Are You Recommending Maintenance Care to Your Patients?", strongly endorses maintenance care in chiropractic practice as a preventive strategy for managing recurrent or persistent musculoskeletal pain. He argues clinicians who do not recommend maintenance care are doing patients a disservice, citing inevitable factors like gravity and aging, and emphasizes the importance of regular movement assessments (e.g., SFMA, DNS) and periodic check-ins.

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The researchers highlight that chiropractors do use maintenance care secondarily and tertiary as a prevention strategy to, in ideal world, manage recurrent or persistent musculoskeletal pain. And I am I'll plant my flag right here early in this episode. I am a massive fan of maintenance care. I will go so far to say if maintenance care is not recommended to your patients, you are doing them a disservice. Why? Because. Because we know gravity is eternal. The people will be under load. We also know that people will continue to age. And with gravity and aging, there is no question that ensuring people are moving. Whether you're doing movement assessments, sfma, DNS, however, you're assessing people. It is important to have an assessment. And as my colleague and old instructor, Dr. Dave Seaman used to say, it's never a bad idea to get a crunch every once in a while. And I could not agree more.