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BC 12: Dr Peter McGlynn – Integrating Public Health Measures into Private Practice

Dr Peter McGlynn Biography  – a chiropractor of 30 years clinical experience with post-graduate qualifications in functional neurology and a Masters in Public Health. Peter is currently a PhD candidate (Public Health) at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) looking at nutrition and maternal and child health in Papua New Guinea.  He is interested in the integration of research, public health and clinical practice in both developed and developing settings.
What is Public Health?
What public health initiatives are relevant to private practitioners like chiropractors, as well as other health professionals?
What skills can health practitioners bring to public health?
Patient empowerment and public health. How does this relate to maintenance or wellness care?
What are the areas of controversy within public health?
What are some of the ingredients of successful public health campaigns?
What gets the message across – using pain or pleasure methods?
Tackling the obesity issue in a developed country.
Practice Development –  Choose the specialty and then work on collaborations for the rest!
Three take home messages to learn from this podcast.
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BC 11 : The Wrap – Paul and Anthony discuss the pivotal moments of the 2015 BACKchat podcast series

In this podcast , Paul and Anthony discuss key moments from each of first fifteen BACKchat podcasts in 2015.
BACKchat PODCAST 1,2015 : DR Paul Noone (Chiropractor)  – Inaugural podcast : Understanding Neurology on 4th March,2015
BACKchat PODCAST 2,2015 : Dr Scott Wustenberg (Chiropractor) – Eating and Autism.
BACKchat PODCAST 3,2015 : Dr Margaret Beavis (GP)- Exercise and Living Longer.*Paul mistakenly references exercise at 30 minutes ,five times per day. This should have been per week.
BACKchat Podcast 4,2015 : Dr Tania Ash (Integrative GP) – Is your home making you sick?
BACKchat Podcast 5,2015 : Lisa Cox – Recovery from severe brain trauma.
BACKchat Podcast 6,2015 : Dr Genevieve Keating (Chiropractor) – Positive Neurodevelopment from a baby to a child
BACKchat Podcast 7,2015 : Professor Ted Carrick (Functional Neurologist) – Past state of Functional Neurology
BACKchat Podcast 8,2015: Professor Ted Carrick (Functional Neurologist) – Present state of Functional Neurology
BACKchat Podcast 9,2015: Professor Ted Carrick (Functional Neurologist)  – Future and Research of Functional Neurology
BACKchat Podcast 10,2015: Dr Marc Pick (Chiropractor) :Live at the 7th Annual AAFN annual conference, Sydney
BACKchat Podcast 11,2015: Mandy Mecuri on the Recovery from Chronic Pain
BACKchat Podcast 12,2015: Dr Stephen McKenzie (Psychologist) On Mindfulness
BACKchat Podcast 13,2015: Chris Ennis on Ceres Fair Food Organic Food
BACKchat Podcast 14,2015: Tony Massarotti (Sports Podiatrist) The Why, What and What’s done for Heel Pain.
BACKchat Podcast 15,2015: Dr Matthew Antonucci (Functional Neurologist) on Neurological Performance
Thank you for listening to Backchat, in 2015.
If you liked this show, please leave a 5 star rating on iTunes.
We leave you with one thought: “Be the best at what you do, and you will grow and inspire others around you.”
We look forward to catching up with you on our next BACKchat podcast.
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BC 10: Dr Matthew Antonucci – Neurological Performance in Athletes

Dr. Antonucci is a board certified chiropractic neurologist currently seeing patients at his Plasticity Brain Center in Orlando Florida. He completed a 2-year residency under Professor Carrick, training in the rehabilitation of complex neurological conditions. Dr. Antonucci continued to engage in the advancement of his knowledge through completing 1-year fellowships in each of the following: childhood developmental disorder, vestibular rehabilitation, neurochemistry and nutrition, as well as a 2-year fellowship in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.
How do you define performance and the performance continuum, everywhere from a patient with Parkinson’s to an athlete?
How does performance differ to wellness?
Explain the under usage of Balance in health care but its importance as a neurological biomarker.
Balance, as the sixth sense and the BESS Test.
How Dr Antonucci uses Balance in practice?
The 5 components that are critical in performance as defined by Dr Antonucci.
How Dr Antonucci schedules his patients looking for neuroplastic change via the 3×5 rule?
What is the future of Neuro Rehabilitation?
The importance of the other C word…not just Chiropractic. but Collaboration
The phone call that changed Dr Antonucci’s career
Three take home messages to optimize one’s performance.

Check www.PlasticityBrainCenters.com for the Plasticity Brain Centers newly opened  $2 million facility, focused on clinical applications of neuroscience in rehabilitation and performance opitimization.
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BC 09: Tony Massarotti (Sports Podiatrist) – The why,what and what’s done for Heel Pain

Tony Massarotti is a sports podiatrist who holds a Bachelor of Podiatry and Masters of Health Science (Podiatry). He is a member of the Australasian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine and an associate member of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine.  Tony is Founder and director of Eastern Foot Care which has seven podiatrists and two sites in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
 
What is the Podiatrist Qualification in Australia?
What is plantar fasciitis and what are the most common causes?
What is the stereotypical presentation of plantar fasciitis?
What is the chronic ramifications of untreated, neglected heel pain?
What bed side Vs  gait analysis VS special tests do you use for diagnosis of heel pain?
What are the pros and cons of minimalist type footwear vs structured footwear?
What is a heel spur seen on a foot x-ray?
How does one differentiate between non –podiatric causes of foot pain? Where does the scope of practice of podiatry and chiropractic intersect?
What are the treatment strategies for plantar fasciitis including shockwave therapy, blood injections/prp and soft Vs hard orthoses?
What are three take home messages to alleviate heel pain?
For any further questions, you can contact Tony via www.easternfootcare.com.au
If you liked this show, please leave a 5 star rating on iTunes.
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BC 08: Chris Ennis on CERES FAIR FOOD Organic Food

1.    What is the Ceres Fair Food business?
2.    Ceres supporting Victorian organic farmers where the food ends up in one thousand households using Food Hosts.
3.    Why Coles and Woolworths cant compete with the local CoOp?
4.    What is Organic food?
5.    What steps do farmers need to take to ensure they are certified organic? 
6.    What is Fair Foods carbon credit offsets in Cambodia?
7.    Why should people eat organic food?
8.    How does Fair Food benefit asylum seekers coming into Australia?
9.    Three take home messages from this podcast
10. For more information, check – http://www.ceresfairfood.org.au
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BC 07: Dr Stephen McKenzie On Mindfulness

Welcome to our health expert – Dr Stephen McKenzie PhD Psychologist and Mindfulness expert,
Author of two books: 1) “Mindfulness for Life” (with Dr Craig Hassed) and 2) “Mindfulness at Work”
What is Mindfulness?
The importance of being of being aware and accepting of our awareness
Heartfulness = Mindfulness
Meditation is formalized mindfulness
Vipassana meditation – “To see things as they really are”
Our culture forces us to be so busy doing ‘Stress’ …we need time to be ‘Present’
Mindfulness is not something you learn, it’s something you remember
Health advantages of mindfulness
Body Scan Meditation – a live example of mindfulness but DO NOT PERFORM THIS WHILE DRIVING
Top 3 mindfulness take home tips
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BC 06: Mandy Mecuri on Recovery from Chronic Pain

Natural management of chronic pain including food, mindfulness, exercise and most importantly self management.
Dealing, twice, in adolescence with surgery and scoliosis.
The power of one sentence that can change your life.
The multi disciplinary management needed for the best results in a chronic pain management
Stop catastrophising. Move to mindfulness and pacing.
The concept of minimal pain movement capabilities.
The dangers of fear avoidance and withdrawal behavior
You can have pain without suffering
Respond to pain, don’t react to it.
Mandy’s day to day routine to manage her chronic pain.1
1.The health investment required to overcome chronic pain.
12.Success with chronic pain is with small steps, not one big movement.
13.Take Home Pearls
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BC 05 : Dr Marc Pick Live at 7th Annual AAFN Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia,2015

1. Paul Bergamo and Anthony Coxon welcome Dr Marc Pick to the 7th Annual AAFN Symposium, in Sydney, Australia
2. Dr Pick explains his life before chiropractic
3. Non-pharmaceutical approaches to depression.
4. Tonic eye movements and the sedentary posture
5. The relationship of the spinal adjustment and the cerebellum
6. Efferent copy and feed forward mechanisms with the cerebellum
7. The environment and genetics
8. Semi-circular canals and scoliosis
9. The Chiropractic ‘water-bed’ adjusting table
10. Where is chiropractic today and what does chiropractic have to do now to ensure longevity in the future?
11. Spinal subluxation
12. One of the secrets to Dr Picks career success
13. A different way to Practice Build
14. The Pearl to enhance your Balance
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BC 04: Lisa Cox – Recovery from Severe Brain Trauma

What defines a first world problem?
Lisa – “I do not use my disability as an excuse”
Lisa – “Do what you can with what you have”
Recovery Goals- relearning to eat, stand and walk after being in intensive care
Value of your family when your life is on the line
Lisa is a Synapse Ambassador. Synapse strives to reconnect the lives of those most at risk within our community, affected by a Brain Disorder.
What is Acquired Brain Injury? What is the invisible disability?
Are you ready for BANGONABEANIE 2015?
BANGONABEANIE is the National campaign for Brain Injury Awareness Week (17 – 23 August 2015) and buying just one beanie will show the 1 in 12 Australians with a Brain Injury they are not alone
Lisa is an author of two books on body image with Wombat Publishers: “Media Muscle” and “Does this bum look big in this ad?”
Real gratitude – what it means?
Lisa – “True Inspiration is self inspiration – drawing on your own resources”
Visualisation in Rehabilitation
Three take home gems –
Celebrate the small stuff
Focus on what you have, not want you don’t
You control your destiny
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BC 03: Dr Tania Ash (Integrative GP) – Is your home making you sick?

Health Expert Biography:
Dr Tania Ash is the founder and medical director of Vitality Hub clinics in Prahran and Malvern. A Melbourne University medicine graduate, she has 21 years of clinical experience, including 11 years as an Integrative Medical Specialist, and a Fellow of A5M (Australasian Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine). One of her passions is evaluating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and she now specializes in treating patients acutely unwell from mould and Lyme disease.
Key Covering points of this Podcast:
What are Biotoxins?
How does Mould lead to disease?
What is Lyme Disease?
Why is Fibromyalgia a red flag for biotoxin illness?
The problem of water damaged building
What is an Integrative Medical Doctor?
Mould assessment by a Microbiologist and Building Biologists
Adrenal Fatigue
What makes Dr Tania Ash Tic(k)?
Three key Practical Take Home Tips
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BC 02: Dr Margaret Beavis (GP) – Exercise and Living Longer

In this podcast, BACKchat interviews Dr Margaret Beavis. Margaret is a Melbourne General Practitioner of 25 years experience, a senior examiner with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and teaches in the Medical Faculty at Melbourne University. She has recently completed a Masters in Public Health at Deakin University and published late last year, her research on the Health and Economic Benefits of Physical Activity in Melbourne Commuters, in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
Margaret’s research shows how one simple lifestyle changes can:
Help overcome mild to moderate hypertension and depression, which in some cases, can be used instead of an anti hypertensive or anti depressant.
Help reduce heart attacks, depression and breast cancer by 20%.
Help reduce diabetes, stroke and bowel cancer by 30%.
Help can save up to 272 lives per year.
Help can save up to $365 million per year.
Listen to Dr Margaret Beavis as she explains how this simple exercise prescription can help achieve all of the above.
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BC 01: Dr Paul Noone (Chiro) Understanding Neurology

During our first podcast, we interviewed one of Australia’s leading authorities in Functional Neurology – Dr Paul Noone.Here Paul discusses one of the five pillars of health – YOUR NEUROLOGY – and how to be your best.The 1990’s was designated the “Decade of the Brain” to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research.The nervous system is fundamental to our health and  performance as it regulates and controls every voluntary and involuntary action of the body.Dr Noone discusses with us , in our inaugural BACKchat podcast, the emerging field of brain health and how we can optimize our neurology.He provides a picture for us of how currently Functional Neurology is in Australia , and what the future may hold.Dr Noone walks us through the term neuroplasticity and what a functional neurology consultation will look like in twenty years time.This revolutionary and visionary view of neurology is both fascinating and inspiring to those of us striving to be the best we can be!
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