You owe it to your patients to be great at business.
The more stable your business becomes, the more freedom you have to focus on what matters most:
Helping people.
You can show up fully present, make clearer clinical decisions and serve people with more confidence.
You can focus entirely on what’s best for the patient in front of you.
And that’s when your clinical skills reach a whole new level.
This was one of the most powerful insights from our latest podcast episode.
Want the full conversation? Listen to the full episode through the link in our bio.
If you’re a healthcare provider looking to grow your practice and create more freedom in the way you serve patients, book a strategy call with our team. You’ll find that link in our bio too.
Dr Benjamin Stevens
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If patients keep disappearing after 2 or 3 visits...
It might not be a clinical problem.
It might be a communication problem.
Many clinicians think they nailed the eval because the patient seemed bought in.
But if the patient doesn’t understand why they need the full plan of care, they’re less likely to follow through.
Clinical skill gets attention.
Communication creates commitment.
We break this down in the latest episode of Business School for the Rehab Chiro.
If you want to learn exactly how to communicate with new patients, head to the link in bio.
👉Book a free strategy call with our team.
06/01/2026
This is an important topic and one that a lot of people struggle with, especially early in their career OR when trying to update their approach later.
Let’s learn from one of the best.
Come hang out with myself, and a few surprise guests on Wednesday morning (and afternoon, depending on where you are).
05/28/2026
I made a carousel about how historical evidence-based chiropractors would compliment your spine.
I don’t know what to tell you. This is just what my brain does.
Swipe anyway for the most useful thing you’ll see today.
Signed: Dr. Benjamin Stevens | Chiropractor, educator, apparently a time travel consultant
Is Active Release Technique out?
OK everyone, hold your horses. I stand behind what I said. I think ART is a great tool, you just gotta know what you’re buying at the ART store. They were marketing and business geniuses more than clinical geniuses. It’s a good technique, but it’s just that, a technique. The logic behind it (at least from when I took it) is…”meh” at best.
And I LOVE DNS (Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization). I think it’s so damn good…but I don’t know a damn soul who had a sweet clue what it was about until 3-5 courses in. That’s changing for the better now with some great new instructors, but for the longest time, many people just didn’t “get it” until they had sunk a whole lot of time and money into it. You SHOULD STILL go learn DNS as a lens, just prepare yourself for a multi-year journey before you’ll even come close to mastering it (and it’s worth it).
What else you got? Who’s missing from the list?
When I graduated, the advice I got was ATROCIOUS from the docs in my geographic area. It was all focused around selling an adjustment, not on being doctors. This is why I ultimately decided to open my own practice right out of school. I was fortunate to have phenomenal mentors around the world, but none of them practices where I wanted to live. So I relied on them digitally while doing my own thing in the real world, much to the chagrin of the old boys in my town who thought I should join them on a mission to “adjust everyone with a spine”.
I know that to some folks, this may sound like I am ungrateful for the chiros who came before us. I assure you, I am not. I love this profession. But if I had listened to the advice they all gave me, not seeing the wave of changes our profession was moved by, I’d be practicing in a way that is not keeping up with the times, nor aligned with my own personal ethics. 15 years ago and still to this day, I believe that people deserve more than a hammer looking for nails.
Oh, and by following my own ethics, business training, and mentors’ advice, I was fully booked within a few months of opening. 😎
Let’s go team. ALL of us chiros. I appreciate you old school folks, but it’s time to evolve, or for the next gen to take over.
05/08/2026
Chiros — if you’re still explaining manual therapy with “putting bones back in place,” “breaking up adhesions,” or “flushing toxins”... we need to talk.
The actual neurophysiology of what we do is far more interesting than what most of us were taught. And far more defensible in a room full of MDs, PTs, or skeptical patients.
10 mechanisms. All evidence-backed:
Save this for the next time a patient — or a skeptic — asks what manual therapy actually does:
1. Descending pain inhibition
2. ANS modulation
3. Cortical reorganisation
4. Endogenous opioid release
5. Motor neuron excitability
6. Fascial mechanoreceptor input
7. Peripheral inflammatory mediators
8. Expectation, context & placebo
9. Human touch effects
If you’ve ever felt the quiet gap between what you say in the room and what the evidence actually supports — that gap is the whole game. Closing it is what separates the next decade of your career from the last one.
05/05/2026
Hey Chiropractors: If you’re still telling your running patients to “take a break and rest,” this study is for you.
The ASTEROID trial recently dropped: it’s an RCT in BJSM on running as an intervention for chronic low back pain (PMID: 39375007) — and the results should change how we are approaching this conversation.
Zero dropouts. 70% adherence. Meaningful pain and disability reductions. And the adverse events? Mostly knees and ankles — not the back.
Your running patients aren’t fragile. They need a clinician who can program for them, not one who benches them.
Swipe through for the full breakdown. 👆
Big thanks to for the research review that inspired this one — go give him a follow.
Who knew that LAB COATS would be the most triggered I would get this week.
I feel for you guys. Really, I do. I huddled my ass off to pay off my $240K loans in 9 years, and it SUCKED. But there is success to be had in this industry by delivering excellent care and sticking to your ethics.
If you feel like you’re making “good enough” money and practice is going “pretty OK”…let’s talk. I might have something that will flip your world on its head.
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