Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

You're Boxing Yourself Into 'The Spine Profession'

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this introductory monologue, Jeff Langmaid proposes that the greatest growth opportunity for chiropractic over the next decade lies in shifting its identity from a niche "spine profession" to a central component of the broader rehabilitation workforce. He expands the conventional notion of rehab—beyond bands, balance boards, and foam rollers—to a comprehensive approach that restores functional ability, mitigates the life‑impact of patients' conditions, and enables individuals to move, recover, return to work or sport, avoid unnecessary escalations of care, and stay active throughout their lives. This framing sets the stage for a study that will explore how chiropractic can integrate into multidisciplinary rehab teams and deliver these outcomes.

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What if one of the biggest opportunities for chiropractic over the next decade was not being seen as the quote unquote spine profession, but potentially being recognized as a core and integral part of the rehab workforce? That's kind of the big idea behind this study. And sometimes you hear the word rehab and you think of like bands, balance boards, foam rollers, etc. But we're going to talk about rehab in a bigger sense regarding this article. We're talking about helping people restore functional ability, helping them overcome the life effect and life impact of what's driving them into your practice. So they can participate really in life to the fullest again, and ultimately helping people move better, recover better, return to work, return to sport, avoid unnecessary escalations of care, and really stay active throughout every season of their life.