Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Beyond Adjustments: Dr. Langmaid on the Chiropractic Advantage

10 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Jeff Langmaid (speaker) argues that lifestyle factors—prolonged sitting, chronic stress, poor nutrition, negative thoughts, trauma, and toxins—drive long-term health decline and that chiropractors offer a unique perspective on human performance because they address nutrition, mindset, and movement beyond spinal adjustments. He contrasts chiropractic focus with physical therapy’s technical emphasis and highlights mental and movement components in patient care.

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If you're sitting hours per day, if you're stressed out, if you're nutritionally deficient, whatever it might be, I'm gonna go there tracing it back to 1895. If you have thoughts, traumas and toxins, if you are eating like crap, if you have negative thoughts all day and you're not moving, well, you're gonna have an uphill battle. One person might be able to get away with it for a whole lifetime. They're living their best life and live to 120pain free. But quite often that's gonna catch up to you. And in my opinion, us as chiropractors, we do get that experience to understand nutrition. We do have a unique slant. My wife's physical therapist, talking about it all weekend. She's like, there's no physical therapy conferences that I go to that talk about human performance. And I mean that from a business and a mindset stance. She's like, everything we do is technical technician specific. There's a person in there, right? And there's a mental component to that. And of course, then how are they moving?