The Informed Chiropractor

01/01/2025

Discover how Taylor Swift's lyrical evolution mirrors the need for chiropractic professionals to adapt to a changing audience. As we navigate a smarter, more informed generation, staying relevant is crucial for success in today's practice.

12/21/2024

In this video, we delve into the profound impact of chronic distress on the nervous system and explore how chiropractic care can help re-patterning these responses to achieve safety and healing. Join us as we share a poignant story of resilience and recovery.

12/10/2024

Discover how engaging in spin class and weight training can enhance your physical and emotional well-being. We explore the benefits of movement, connection, and fun, helping you bounce back from life's challenges with increased resilience.

12/04/2024

What is the MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol? It is Chiropractic adjusting through a polyvagal lens, optimizing the communication pathways between.
Brain - body
Body - environment
Body - other people
Our purpose - our reality

11/29/2024

There is a New Podcast episode on YouTube. Take a listen. Find out what Dr. Ali did four years ago to turn her practice around!

The 90-day Chiropractic Mentorship program. In this episode of The Informed Chiropractor, Dr. Ali talks about how her passion for helping children and famil...

11/18/2024

Tune in as we cover these 5 powerful strategies to build your regulatory reserves:

Good Co-regulators: Surround yourself with people who support your goals and well-being. True co-regulators don’t just push you toward success; they help you stay grounded and regulated.

Mastering Your Finances: Financial stability reduces stress and lets you focus more on your chiropractic practice and life purpose.

Aligned Business Procedures: Develop robust business protocols that reflect your chiropractic philosophy to minimize daily “drama” and stay in a regulated state.

Solid Relationships: Relationships should have clear boundaries and mutual respect. Toxic relationships are one of the quickest ways to become dysregulated.

Connected Movement: Choose exercises that increase body awareness and interoception. Avoid workouts that disconnect you from your body, as this can deplete, rather than build, your regulatory reserves.

Whether looking to become a more effective chiropractor, business owner, or leader, these five methods will help you cultivate resilience, enabling you to perform at a high level without succumbing to burnout or stress.

In this episode of The Informed Chiropractor, Dr. Don MacDonald explains 5 ways to strengthen your regulatory reserves to support peak performance in life an...

10/31/2024

We have a new podcast episode today with Dr. Nicole Lederman. About 15 years ago, she was the first to teach me the Websters technique. We talk about how she has implemented principles from the Polyvagal theory into her pediatric practice. She also shares what she will cover at our upcoming "Informed Chiropractor Superconference" in Toronto on Saturday, December 7th. I hope you enjoy it!

Specialized Chiropractic Adjustments for Pregnant Women and Pediatric Care with Dr. Nicole Leaderman. In this episode of The Informed Chiropractor, Dr. Nico...

10/21/2024

We are almost sold out for our Informed Chiropractor Superconference in Toronto on December 7th. If you want to join us and see Brandi, me, Dr. Peter Kevorkian, and Dr. Nicole Lederman, this is your chance. This is the only North American team event we have done this year.

10/18/2024

I am doing last-minute fine-tuning for our Extremity seminar this weekend in Montreal. It is amazing how much the fascia is tied to the neuroception of the nervous system. I am looking forward to showing off my extremity tricks. We do have one spot left open so there is till time to take advantage of this. We will not be doing another level three in North America for at least a year, Also approved for 7 CC hours for Alberta docs.

10/18/2024

Here is today's podcast episode on Youtube.

How to Evolve Chiropractic Adjusting Beyond Pain Relief. Dr. Don MacDonald shares his transformative MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol, a method to make chi...

10/17/2024

💥Attention Chiropractors New Podcast Episode!💥

Dr. Don MacDonald shares his transformative MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol—a method to make chiropractic adjustments neurologically safer and more effective. Joined by Dr. Donald Francis, they explore how this approach can elevate patient care, focusing on creating a welcoming practice, co-regulating with patients, and understanding the deeper connections between the brain and body.
profoundly improve
They talked about the power of advanced techniques like cranial adjustments. They discussed why the Safety Corridor is essential for every chiropractor who aims to build trust and deliver precision care. Suppose you’re a chiropractor looking to enhance your practice. In that case, this episode is packed with valuable insights, real-world examples, and upcoming seminar opportunities that will guide you toward mastering this innovative protocol.

Dr. Donald dives deep into how targeting the nervous system can profoundly improve patient outcomes and how this method helps chiropractors make a lasting impact on the health and well-being of their communities. Learn how brain-based chiropractic adjusts subluxations and taps into the body’s innate ability to heal, elevate, and thrive. Don’t miss out—your next breakthrough in chiropractic care might be just a listen away!

The seminar we talked about coming up in Windsor, UK, is coming up on Saturday, November 16th,

In this episode of The Informed Chiropractor Dr. Don MacDonald shares his transformative MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol—a method aimed at making chiropractic adjustments safer and more effective. Joined by Dr. Donald Francis, they explore how this approach can elevate patient care, focusing...

10/16/2024

When we work one-on-one with docs, the reason we get them to continue to have results after we are done with our 90 days is priorities. When you align your actions with priorities or the most important things to get the best results, you sky rocket your impact.

09/25/2024

Many high performers we work with don’t know the difference between ✨self regulation ✨self care and self soothing. All necessary for a healthy for healthy human but mixed up in their interpretation and implementation of what they need to do when.

Over the years we have worked with hundreds of docs. And the barrier for success for most isn’t a skill deficit- it’s a discernment deficit. Over here is better than right here- so I seek over here by doing way too much- and staying numb from the feelings that make us stop in our tracks and change the course of our lives.

Mammals bio behave. Period. We do not logically behave- and when we use self care strategies to soothe- or soothing strategies to “regulate” we become mixed up in our neurological wiring and then it becomes a habituated or self fulfilling prophecy. A cycle, in essence, hard to break.

Self care is really sorted by chiropractors- in fact almost to an addictive degree. That’s a story for another day. But it’s not necessarily for regulatory purposes. Self regulation has NOTHING TO DO WITH SELF CARE OR THE DOING OF ANYTHING- or about CALMING(which so many say incorrectly) it’s about widening the tolerance for the difficult parts of life while not tapping out or creating a wall after so we can enjoy life fully. And self soothing allows us moments of fluff and fun that don’t drive us forward or backward but stall us in a moment of time of nothing before time starts all over again.

Discernment isn’t in our thought process-it’s in our Vagal tone. The better the tone- the more body discernment we have the differently we bio behave the healthier we are. Conversely- the opposite happens and the “shock” of “healthy people” becomes unwell- dying suddenly - or creating chronic disease isn’t so much of a shock anymore . The nervous system always makes sense even if your pre frontal cortex can’t. Handle that- and life becomes better and bodies heal differently.

09/23/2024

One of the things we have the honor to hear from people—chiropractors—is their personal struggles. Here’s what we know: post-COVID, regardless of how “good” or “knowledgeable” someone is, they are struggling with challenges with their children, spouses, and parents. Perhaps it’s because of the work we do or our understanding of what happens to the nervous system under distress or isolation beyond “subluxation,” aka moving a bone.

Now, bear with me before you freak out…
The biggest barrier is SHAME. For some reason, they believe they “should” be able to help their child- spouse- parents- etc. OR - they think more chiropractic care may fix them instead of different care or how they themselves need healing first before they can help anyone. The other barrier is WHO they talk to.

When other chiropractors act as support - I am gobsmacked by what they say …. Like “do you adjust them? What do you learn from this? Have you tried this? And the whispering from the sidelines….. keeps people dissociated from really being able to heal and help-
When someone brings their human pain to your doorstep - your job as a human is to witness it.

Because we don’t know how to do this- we contribute to it unknowingly…. Just because someone has high skills and tons of education doesn’t make them less human. And it’s also why so many chiropractors suffer in silence….. if this is you, I promise you it doesn’t have to be this way.

But we need far more dialed-in practitioners for the witnesses in our lives because healing isn’t about doing more - it’s about understanding differently.

The Vitality Shift is a program created by Dr Don and Brandi MacDonald for Chiropractors. We help

09/20/2024

Check out our new podcast page on our website. Here is today's episode on focus and updates on what is going on for the rest of the year!!

09/19/2024

The podcast is back. In this episode, we discuss regaining focus to end the year strong. Over time, we start to lose focus and get off track just from not recreating the focus we need to get the things we want in our practice and life. Listen below!

In this episode of The Informed Chiropractor, Dr. Don MacDonald welcomes Brandi MacDonald, the visionary behind True Concepts Inc. and True Concepts Seminars, f

08/26/2024

🌟 Calling All Chiropractors! 🌟

Join us in Montreal for the transformative Level 3 Adjusting Seminar on October 26th! 🚀 Dive deep into extremities and fascia's role in Neuroception with the MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol.

✨ No prerequisites required – you can jump straight into Level 3 without completing Levels 1 or 2!

🕒 Early Bird Special ends September 1st! Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your practice and join a community of forward-thinking chiropractors.

👉 Secure your spot now: https://www.theinformedchiropractor.com/montreal

Transform your care and take your skills to the next level! See you in Montreal! 🇨🇦

This level 3 workshop in Montreal is on the "Protected Extremities." Dr. Don and Brandi MacDonald have created a system to help chiropractors adjust by optimizing the polyvagal lens. The system developed is called "The MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol."