CF Episode 389: PNF Stretching For Knee OA & A 50-Year Review Of Chiropractic Research

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Episode 389

You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #389.

Now if you missed our last episode, we talked about Shockwave Therapy for Hamstring Injuries and Vitamin D for Respiratory Infections. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the Personal End of Things…

Sorry, it’s been a week or two since the last podcast episode. I have been traveling a little bit. I just got back from Tampa, Florida, and my mastermind meeting with Dr. Kevin Christie.

We had a great time out there. I just can’t explain to you how proud I am of that group that I’m a part of. It really does have some of the best minds and most talented individuals in the entire profession. I count myself as very fortunate for being asked to be a part of it.

One of my colleagues is Vanessa Wilczak from Jacksonville, Florida. She and I have really buried ourselves in AI, and we have made a pretty effective team with regard to coming up with some pretty cool stuff that AI can do to help us in business.

Vanessa recently took that a step further and has really created something very, very interesting. She figured out a way to make Claude work with a permanent storage or brain, if you will, so that when you are talking to Claude, it can reference and remember exactly what you’ve trained on it at all times.

So, if you consider that you can train it on all of your office stats, all of your provider contracts and pay scales. All your fee schedules. Every statter, every report that you can think of that you can run through your EHR. And everything else that you have on your computer that’s relevant, then you sort of have a chief operating officer or chief financial officer or a CEO or whatever you want to call it. that has all of the financials and all of the information it could ever possibly need to help you make decisions going forward.

That includes KPIs, or seeing gaps and opportunities that you wouldn’t normally see.

For example, I was able to have a conversation with our new provider today that included very precise facts and figures that I wouldn’t have had… access to… Just two days ago. I was also able to give her very realistic and conservative. Ideas about patient numbers and potential income in the next year, and in the next two years. Then I was able to have… an effective conversation with our front desk about… some of our stats and how we can easily improve them.

The potential is absolutely and 100% limitless when AI remembers what you have trained it on and can reference it at any point in any conversation you’re having. I’m training it on the medical side of things, too, for peptides, and IV therapy, and PRP on the research, and all of that good stuff.

So it’s basically going to be one big, huge brain. for my clinic. And I could not be more excited. Vanessa really knocked it out of the park on this. So that’s why I’ve been busy, but I felt like it had been long enough since I had put out an episode.

So we’re gonna throw this one together fairly quickly. I hope you don’t mind, but there’s a really great paper in this episode that you’ve just got to hear about. So don’t go anywhere.

Let’s hop into the research.

Item #1

Alright, let’s jump into our first paper this week and it’s a good one for those of you treating knee pain — which I’m guessing is about 100% of you listening. This one is titled…

“Effect of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation on Pain and Joint Mobility in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”

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

Hu Z, Dong J, Zeng Y, He Z, Wang Q, Luo Q. Effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation on pain and joint mobility in knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PeerJ. 2026 Jan 16;20581. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.20581. PMID: 41561818.