CF Ep. 386: PRP For Knee OA & Diagnosing Cervical Arterial Dissection

Today we’re going to talk about PRP For Knee OA & Diagnosing Cervical Arterial Dissection

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #386

Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about Tears In The Shoulder Are Waaayyy Normal & Adolescent Cannabis Use Is Dangerous Long Term Mentally.

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On the Personal End of Things…

Here we are, mid March in 2026. And what do I have going on?

Well, a lot of the same as last week so let’s just hop into some advice based on what I’m currently focusing on in my life and career at 53 years old.

The biggest advice to younger chiropractors is get a plan in advance. Don’t wait until you’re 48 to go, Hey, you know, at some point, I might want to retire.

I had a buddy who was older than me that ended up getting cancer and passing away before he enacted any kind of retirement plan. His wife was left with a business that wasn’t worth anything with him gone, and all she could do was sell it for parts. I don’t know their finances at all. But if he hadn’t laid down some plans for her, that probably didn’t work out very good.

Make plans early.

I have another buddy… who ended up… having a heart attack and dying right there in his practice. He was in his 70s. Some people want to work that long, period. They love it that much.

I love what I do for a living, but I don’t want to do it my whole life.

I have another buddy who was in his 60s, and just a year or two ago, had a stroke, and can’t speak. So all of his patients had to go somewhere else, and he had to close down his shop and sell it off for parts.

This all goes to say, for most of you, when you’re building your practice, build it to sell. Don’t name it after yourself. It’s hard to sell Williams Chiropractic to Joseph Salazar. Don’t make all of the marketing all about you. When it’s person-driven, your clinic is associated so strongly with YOU that it’s hard to remove yourself and turn it over to someone else.

My practice is called Creek Stone Integrated Medical. It was Creek Stone Integrated Care before we added our medical branch.

You can sell that to anybody. I think you get my point there.

Build it to sell, plan early. Roth IRAs, compound interest. Maybe you get some inheritance along the way. And a side gig or two that you enjoy isn’t always the worst idea either.

If you want to work your whole damn life, that’s OK. That’s just not what I want for my one and only trip on this rock.

Alright, that’s it. I don’t have a lot more to share personally than that this week. I’m just getting ready for the QME test. Which will be in mid April. Once I hopefully pass that dude, one of my side gigs will be engaged, so cheers to that. Let’s get into the research.

Item #1

Our first one today is called, “Validation of a Diagnostic Support Tool for the Early Recognition of Cervical Arterial Dissection in Primary Care” by Thomas et al published in December 2024, and it’s a hot potato,

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

Citation: L. Thomas, M. Fowler, L. Marsh, K. Chu, Claire Muller, A. Wong,

Validation of a diagnostic support tool for early recognition of cervical arterial dissection in primary care,

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery,

Volume 247,

2024,

108627,

ISSN 0303-8467,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108627.

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303846724005146)

Why They Did It

Cervical arterial dissection is one of the leading causes...