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My personal blog where I write personal thoughts on all things tech, chiropractic, fitness, or other rants.
I also have a blog about presentation design and a podcast and blog at ExploringChiropractic.com.
My LinkedIn feed has been filling me with green-eyed envy because so many of my connections attended the International Back and Neck Pain Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The organizers got creative and held multiple parallel sessions of presentations while hiking trails in the Swiss Alps! From what I can tell, there were varied levels of difficulty and distance, and many ended at a restaurant or other scenic site.
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Something about this tweet about decreases in muscle strength for aging women felt off. Surely accelerated muscle decline couldn’t occur that early, could it?
Or could a classic mistake in chart design lead to an error while misinterpreting the data and communicating the results?
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PredicTER is an open source tool that allows you to estimate the time it will take to conduct a systematic review based on various criteria.
I’ve always wondered what it would take to conduct a systematic review, and while watching these videos thought it might be an interesting experiment to conduct a small one on my own, just to learn the process and see what it’s like to use some of the tools.
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Hirschtritt & Kelly (2024) detail four tips to help providers gain their patients’ trust and improve the telemedicine experience.
Read MoreI respect a good footnote because I value referencing the original material.These fancy footnotes on PainScience.com and Wait But Why are helpful because they don’t pull you away from the narrative. So I just had to have similar footnotes on my SquareSpace blog. Despite many setbacks, here’s how I got them working using Bigfoot.js.
Read MoreThis quarter I'm in a pediatrics class. I chose autism spectrum disorder for our written research project. Autism is controversial, especially with respects to the alternative medicine therapies. Many chiropractors, nutritionists, and medical doctors make fantastic claims about what can treat autism. I have been curious to know more about the research behind these claims and was glad to finally have a legitimate excuse to really read the journal articles more deeply. I wrote it pretty quickly (so it isn't as polished as I'd like) and I had to limit it to 4-5 pages even though there are many more topics I wanted to discuss. Here's the final paper in blog form.
Read MoreJust like the book of love, the road to evidence-based medicine is long and boring. The following is an excerpt from an article on the use of black cohosh as a botanical treatment for menopause and dysmenorrhea. It illustrates the tedious process of coming to a reliable conclusion on not only whether a drug works, but exactly how much is necessary.
In clinical studies before 1996, the dose was […] equivalent to 48–140 mg of black cohosh extract per day. A recent clinical trial comparing two different dosages of Remifemin® (40 mg vs. 127 mg daily), for six months, in 116 women with menopausal complaints, found similar safety and efficacy profiles for both doses (Liske et al., 2002). Based upon the results of this trial, a recommended dose equivalent to 40 mg of black cohosh (dried root) daily is currently recommended (Liske, 1998).