The leading-edge science about our latest understanding of subluxation, the impact of the adjustment, and our newest projects on the effects of chiropractic care on cognitive function.

OPTION 1 (10 CPD hours):

• Session 1: Live Online Event via Zoom on Tuesday 22nd August from 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Heidi & Alice)
• Session 2: Live Online Event via Zoom on Tuesday 29th August from 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Heidi & Alice)
• Session 3: Live In-Person Event at the Radisson Red Hotel on Saturday 2nd September from 9am - 5pm (Heidi, Alice & Adrian)

OPTION 2 (3 CPD hours):

• Session 1: Live Online Event via Zoom on Tuesday 22nd August from 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Heidi & Alice)
• Session 2: Live Online Event via Zoom on Tuesday 29th August from 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Heidi & Alice)
• Session 3: Recording of the Live In-Person Event at the Radisson Red Hotel (Heidi, Alice & Adrian)

What we have learned from recent scientific studies is that spinal dysfunction (including subluxation) negatively impacts brain function and that adjusting subluxations plays a key role in reversing this.

Major shifts are occurring in neuroscience, including a new understanding of the impacts of stress and emotional trauma on the brain, body and health and a new understanding of the major role of the brain in maintaining chronic musculoskeletal pain (the brain learns to be in pain, and can un-learn pain as well!). This new understanding is consistent with the latest research showing how important the spine is for proper brain function.

We will be sharing the growing evidence that the function of the vertebral column actually impacts the way the brain controls muscle function—in the body and the spine. Over the past few decades, many studies have shown that both spinal function and dysfunction and interventions such as spinal adjustments and manipulations (thrusts on non-subluxated spinal segments) alter the way the brain controls muscles of the spine, arms, legs, head, and pelvis.

A key part of this full-day plus two online evening events will be to cover the contemporary model of the subluxation. In the neuroscience literature, we refer to the subluxation as a central-segmental-motor-control (CSMC) problem that interferes with the brain's ability to accurately perceive itself and the outside world and affects also the brain’s ability to adapt appropriately to internal and external sensory inputs. In practice, we don’t use complicated language at all. The basics of the brain model are that if the brain knows what the body is doing it can adapt and respond better! We will discuss how our latest understanding shows how subluxation can alter neuromuscular function and how spinal adjustments impact motor function and control in a variety of ways—increasing muscle force and preventing fatigue. We will help you integrate this contemporary, biologically plausible understanding of how spinal adjustments enable the production of muscular force so that you can convey this information using easy-to-understand language to patients on Monday morning.

We will also share with you how physical injury, pain, inflammation, and acute or chronic physiological or psychological stress can alter the vertebral column’s central neural motor control, which can lead to a subluxated state for some people, and how over time segmental spinal dysfunction may become a self-perpetuating problem, with accompanying maladaptive plastic changes both at the brain level and also at the level of the spine itself. We will also highlight the many gaps in the literature—all the things we still do not know— and share with you the research we are doing to fill those gaps. And boy do we have some incredibly exciting projects on the go!.

One of these projects we will be sharing is the upcoming studies we have that will help us to understand whether adjusting subluxations impacts function and/or connectivity in the brain! We are currently working on a study that leverages recent advances in fMRI to provide a more detailed evaluation of the effects of chiropractic care on cognitive function—using whole-brain fMRI we will be able to see how spinal adjustments change connectivity in the brain and how this change relates to changes in cognitive function.

Lastly, and probably most importantly, we will cover how to best convey this science to the public, in an evidence-based manner. This is an essential part of these events—to discuss what you can say and what you cannot say both inside your practice, but also externally on websites, and on social media.

REFUND POLICY & TERMS / CONDITIONS: There is a 14-day period after ticket purchase for a full refund. After 14 days from purchase, there are no refunds. You are purchasing a ticket to attend that event’s date and time. All Registrations have a £15 non-refundable administrative fee. If a cancellation is made more than 14 days prior to the event: the seminar fee is transferable to future seminars (minus the £15 admin fee + any price increase between the two seminars). If a cancellation is made 1-14 days prior to the event: the seminar fee is non-transferable to future seminars. However, it can be transferred to another person for the same event you cannot attend. Seminar fee transfer (to another person) - a £15 admin fee is charged if you would like to transfer your seminar fee to another person. Every attempt will be made to ensure a successful event, but seminar schedules may change. Seminars cancelled due to force major, such as weather, illness, or death will be refunded. The UCA will not be responsible for travel & hotel expenses/losses.