CF Ep. 388 – Shockwave Therapy for Hamstring Injuries and Vitamin D for Respiratory Infections

Today we’re going to talk about Shockwave Therapy for Hamstring Injuries and Vitamin D for Respiratory Infections.

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode #388.

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Personal Happenings

I would have to say that 2026 is really shaping up for us. I know that I’m still not back to pre-Covid numbers. However, it’s pretty standard for me to see 145 to 165 each week now.

If you’ve been a long time listener, then you may recall the days when I was seeing 180 and even sometimes 200 in a week. So we are far from those numbers currently. And I’m kind ok with that. I did not like being that rushed and that busy. It made my life fairly miserable to be honest.

However, with our new chiropractor, Dr. Easter, on board I bet we’ll see those sorts of numbers combined soon. I am impressed every single day with her and have zero doubt that her schedule will be busting at the seams before you know it.

A friend of mine is Dr. Mark King, president of motion palpation Institute, and he happens to be in my mastermind group you always hear me talk about. I believe he has somewhere between five and seven associates so I guess he’s got it figured out.

But what he said at the last mastermind meeting was that you need to be trying to give your associate somewhere around 15 new patients a month that you would personally have taken. You have to feed them to get them where they are really kicking butt and taking names and putting some money in their pockets right along with bringing patients and revenue to the clinic as well.

With credentialing and all the things involved in that, I’m not able to shift that many her way just yet. However, that is definitely the plan when we were able and strictly on sending her cash new patients and her being able to start to cultivate her own patience here and there, we already have her up to about 25 a week or so sometimes more sometimes less.

When you consider, she’s only had her license for a little over a month maybe two months, I think we’re in a good spot.

Outside of that I have been studying for the California QME exam coming up next week and hopefully we knock that sucker straight out of the park into the windshields of the cars parked in the parking lot.

And we can get well on our way performing QME‘s and building that revenue stream. QME is my path out of day today hands-on patient treatment. I’ll be 54 in August and if I can get down to just a day or 2 x 56. I’m gonna be a happy dude.

OK, that’s it. Let’s get on with the research.

Item #1 – Radial Shockwave Therapy + Rehab for Acute Hamstring Injuries

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

Citation:

Crupnik J, Silveti S, Wajnstein N, Rolon A, Wuerfel T, Stiller P, Morral A, Furia JP, Maffulli N, Schmitz C. Radial ESWT combined with a specific rehabilitation program (rESWT+RP) is more effective than sham rESWT+RP for acute hamstring muscle complex injury type 3b: a randomized, controlled trial. British Medical Bulletin. 2025 Sep 2;155(1):ldaf009. DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldaf009.

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