The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

The Outsiders - Clinicians divorced from their profession with Eliud Sierra

Oct 20, 2022

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The need for more clinical rotations and a residency program in chiropractic education to improve critical thinking skills and clinical exposure.

Concerns about performing spinal manipulation on infants due to a lack of evidence and potential harm, emphasizing the importance of evidence-based discussions with patients.

The frustrations of being an evidence-based chiropractor, including the lack of standardization within the profession and the challenges of sustaining an evidence-based practice within a privatized healthcare system.

Deep dives

Chiropractic student experience and frustrations

The episode features a conversation with Elliot Sierra, an evidence-based chiropractor who discusses his journey and experiences within the chiropractic profession. He shares his frustrations as a student, feeling that the curriculum lacked robust clinical exposure and critical thinking skills. Sierra emphasizes the need for more clinical rotations and a residency program in chiropractic education.

What Was It That Michael Saw in You About Chiropractic?

01:47

What Is Standardization in Chiropractic Education?

03:23

Chiropractic

02:02

Introduction

2min

The Outsider Podcast - Elliot's Era

4min

What Was It That Michael Saw in You About Chiropractic?

2min

What Are Your Perceptions of Chiropractic?

2min

Chiropractic

3min

Is There a Blockade Put in Between You and the Professors?

2min

Are You a Skeptic or a Critic?

2min

Gonshed Chiropractic

2min

Do You Know What You're Doing?

3min

10.

How Did You Feel About Switching to Physical Therapy?

2min

11.

Chiropractic School

2min

12.

What Is Standardization in Chiropractic Education?

3min

13.

Chiropractic

2min

14.

Chiropractic - What's the Importance of Chiropractic?

4min

15.

What Comes With Passion?

2min

16.

How Did You Get Booted Off the Chiropractic Face?

4min

17.

Is Gentle Manual Therapy Safe?

3min

18.

Is There a Mechanism to Adjusting Babies?

3min

19.

Chiropractic - I'm Not a Chiropractor, but I Am a Clinician

3min

20.

Chiropractic - If You Could Change Three Things, What Would You Change?

5min

21.

Are You a Chiropractor?

2min

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.

Apologies for the slight delay in the episode, work and life events continue to get in the way of my passion for producing these conversations.

So it’s time for another Outsider episode (see prior Outsider episodes here, here, here and here), where I talk with clinicians that feel divorced from their profession and don’t identify with their professional label and the professionally assumed meaning of that label.

And on this episode I’m speaking with Eliud Sierra. Eliud is an evidence-based chiropractor who specialises in physical rehabilitation and chronic pain management through strength and conditioning focused treatments. Many of you may be familiar with him via Instagram, with his handle The_Rehab_Chiro – which amongst sharing evidence informed messaging also provides his critical and often humorous thoughts on chiropractic.

Eliud works in the U.S. within in a private clinic located in the city of Chicago . As an undergraduate student, Eliud attended the University of Iowa where we worked in the physical therapy department of the medical college, aiding in research regarding spinal cord injury patients.

After the University of Iowa, Eliud went on to attend Palmer College of Chiropractic where he got his doctor of chiropractic degree and founded the school’s first evidence-based club. In his professional career, Eliud has worked with a wide array of individuals ranging from elite athletes to post-surgical patients.

So it was great to speak with Eliud, as you will hear we share a common experience of leaving via choice or through force a Facebook group of our respective professions and it fun to exchange the reasons and context around that.

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