Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of the Factor Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. Welcome, and thanks for listening. If you're a health care provider in the physical medicine space, your body is one of the tools of the trade that you use more than any other in your practice. Whether you're performing joint manipulations, soft tissue treatments, needling, or using any variety of treatment modalities, your physical ability to perform is the most common denominator of the success of your practice, and while there's no shortage of courses that can teach you about various techniques and treatments, there's very little attention given to the biomechanics and ergonomics involved with preserving the physical health of you, the healthcare provider that's administering care, and that, my friends, is the focus of today's episode. In this 2 part series with doctor Ti Pence, titled, The Body Mechanics and Beyond, Crafting a Sustainable Manual Therapy Practice, we will discuss the importance of alignment and conservative force generation techniques when performing joint manipulation. Doctor Ti Pence will highlight the key red flag mistakes that can quickly lead to overuse injuries resulting in those above the belt soreness days and can develop into career ending injuries over time.

So hit the pause button, grab something to take notes with, and be sure to download the PDF visual guide that I've linked for you in the show notes. These 2 episodes are one every manual therapist should listen to more than once. Let's cue the intro music and get started.

Thank you. Thanks everybody for taking time out of your day. I really appreciate it. It's an honor to be talking to you all. This is always the the part where I am not such a fan of is talking about myself. This slide is just to say I've been doing martial arts and chiropractic for a really long time. I've done it chiropractic in just about every venue you can do chiropractic in, And I've been doing martial arts since I was 15, so I do understand the idea of generating force and understanding levers. And I'm gonna try to use that knowledge to help you guys practice longer and have better practices, hopefully.

So what we're talking about today. 1st, I'm gonna discuss mechanics. If you don't have the form right, it's kinda hard to go faster. If you can't relax into the form and the speed, there's no way your palpation's gonna be very good. I know for some of us, we're not talking about what would say grade 5 manipulation or adjusting. We might be using it for some soft tissue techniques. Same principles really apply. It's just force over time.

Now when I type in something like road to mastery, there's this implied idea that somehow I'm telling you from some level of mastery, and that's not it. I've just spent a lot of time trying to understand this stuff, and, hopefully, this brings all of us to a better understanding that we can one day all achieve some level of mastery. But I don't know any sport that the top levels of the sport aren't really focused on improving the basics. So that's kinda what I'm trying to talk about today. Just cautionary because I hear this a lot from a lot of different fields. You'll get these folks who'll say something like, they're a master or a ninja or a Jedi or something like that. Please please be cautious of those. There's no such thing.

We're not. That would imply that somehow we've gotten to the edge of knowledge, and we aren't. We got a long way to go. I'm just trying to help us move forward on that in the little way I can. I know I saw someone from Katy from Toronto. God, Canadians do such good research. So we got how many injuries happen in a year as chiropractors. This is kind of the reason we're having this stock is there's a lot of them.