Longevity and Nutrition: "Did you know that reducing your calorie intake by just 12% can significantly improve cellular health and slow aging?"

Innovative Patient Education Strategies: "I promise you that creating a digital course for your website, creating a podcast, even a quote unquote secret podcast that's only available to your patients and those that they share it with, can pay big dividends and can really help you connect with your patients in a way that sometimes it's a little bit more difficult to tackle challenging topics, such as nutrition or lifestyle changes 1 on 1."

"Bridging the Divide in Healthcare": "Doctor Teter shared that care should not stop when a patient recovers from an injury or reaches what we call MMI or maximum medical improvement. Instead he feels like we really need to change the conversation, reframe ourselves as health care providers, as those that help patients move beyond rehab into functional training so that we can prevent those future injuries from happening."

Inclusive Athlete Philosophy: "Everyday patients whether they're weekend warriors, active parents, people that are at the sunset of their life where they're really just trying to move well with less pain, can benefit from a performance based approach."

The Growing Demand for Patient-Centered Care: "Patients are a lot more educated, patients are a lot more willing to advocate for themselves and their health care, and if you can position your practice to appeal to athletes and non athletes alike, by using terms in your marketing such as performance, by talking about how you as a healthcare provider, you as a team of providers in your office, are there to act as that guide, to act as that partner in your patients long term health, and helping them achieve their goals, and maybe helping them discover what their goals are, and what they could be."

Topic: Children are Not Mini Adults: "That even though he is my size, physically, he's not just an adult size person, he's not just a mini adult, he actually is still a child, and that children have unique needs, their systems require unique care."

The Future of Health Care: "Personalized care really is the future of health care."

Title: The Future of Patient Care

"If acupuncture isn't already part of your practice, I highly suggest that you explore it as an offering."

Provider Health Matters: "Because you may have heard the phrase before, you can't pour from an empty cup. If you have poor body mechanics during your manual therapy treatments, and if you're doing these things day in and day out improperly, you can of course cause injury to yourself, which will lead to burnout and chronic pain for you as a health care provider."

Invest in Your Skills: "So if you're one of those people who has not gotten CE outside of your state association conference, maybe your college homecoming in decades, my challenge for you in 2025 is to move outside of your comfort zone a bit. Seek out courses, not based upon checking a box that says, yep, I earned my CE for the year, I can renew my license, but seek out courses that actually challenge you and help you grow into a better provider."