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Dr. Rubin not only focuses on chiropractic, but also helping others strive to live a healthy and positive lifestyle.

Dr. Drew Rubin


    • May 27, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • weekly NEW EPISODES
    • 16m AVG DURATION
    • 616 EPISODES

    4.8 from 67 ratings Listeners of Chirocast that love the show mention: chiropractic care, pediatric, greats, philosophy, practice, meant, pain, mic, students, peace, passion, listen to this podcast, starting, school, books, fire, kids, health, inspirational, family.


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    The Chirocast podcast hosted by Dr. Rubin is a must-listen for anyone interested in chiropractic care, especially when it comes to pediatrics and neurodevelopment. As a student at Life University, I have had the privilege of being taught by Dr. Rubin, and his passion for helping kids and his expertise in the field are evident in every episode. It is clear that he truly cares about his patients and wants to make a positive impact on the profession as a whole.

    One of the best aspects of this podcast is the wealth of knowledge and insight that Dr. Rubin shares with his listeners. His years of experience and dedication to continuing education shine through in his discussions, making each episode educational and informative. Whether you are a student or a new doctor preparing to start your own practice, Dr. Rubin's teachings will not only enhance your understanding of pediatric chiropractic but also motivate you and help you cultivate a mindset of success.

    Another great aspect of The Chirocast is its ability to ground your mind and energize you for the day ahead. Many listeners find it beneficial to listen to this podcast on their way to work, as it helps them start their day with a focused mindset and elevated energy levels. Dr. Rubin's passion is contagious, and his messages are not only informative but also inspiring.

    While there are many positive aspects to The Chirocast, one potential downside is the audio quality at times. Some listeners have expressed a desire for Dr. Rubin to use a portable microphone so that they can hear everything clearly, especially when he moves away from the main microphone during episodes.

    In conclusion, The Chirocast podcast is an incredible resource for chiropractors, students, and anyone interested in learning more about pediatric chiropractic care. Dr. Rubin's passion, knowledge, and dedication make each episode enjoyable to listen to while also providing valuable insights into the profession. Whether you are looking for motivation or seeking to deepen your understanding of chiropractic, this podcast is a must-listen.



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    Episode 615: What is your intent?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 22:40


    What is your intent when you adjust your kiddos, parents, athletes? Your intention while you adjust is almost as important as the adjustment itself!

    Episode 614: Be careful about what you post

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 13:02


    Please be careful about what you post on FB, Instagram etc. Make sure the pictures and videos that you post are not only going to serve your practice well but serve the profession too!

    Episode 613: 1 in 2 Kids in Australia have a chronic or developmental issue!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 10:58


    1 in 2 kids in Australia either have a chronic health condition or have a neuro-developmental issue. That means we pediatric chiropractors have a lot of work to do!

    Episode 612: Milestones are not meant to be changed

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 14:57


    Back in 2022, the CDC released the changed developmental milestones with the rationale that the new milestones would be easier to understand and help in early intervention. It had the opposite affect...now they are less clear with more ambiguity and kids now have longer to reach milestones which delays early intervention!

    Episode 611: Chirocast around the world: Iceland!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 18:11


    Chirocast around the world begins today! Once a month (or so), we will post an interview with a former intern or an ICPA colleague from all across the globe, asking about the current status of chiropractic and especially pediatric/family based chiropractic. We have over 100 former interns and 10% of them are from outside the US, so am excited to share a global chiropractic perspective with you!

    Episode 610: Autism rates rise again!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 10:54


    The CDC just released the latest prevalence rates for Autism, which was 1 in 36. It is now 1 in 31. Does that mean there are better ways to diagnose? Yes. Does that mean there are more people being diagnosed who before the DSM V came out would have been considered another diagnosis? Yes. But those 2 factors do not explain the total increase in prevalence.

    Episode 609: Autism Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 13:58


    To know one child with Autism is to know one child with Autism. Each person with Autism has their own unique 'language' and it is critical to learn their language quickly when you first meet them during your examination in order to create the best rapport with them possible.

    Episode 608: Chiropractic as described in 1906

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 9:21


    History is so important, whether it is chiropractic history or any other genre. Why? Because there are valuable lessons to be learned from the trailblazers of the past. Modernized Chiropractic, the first textbook in chiropractic, gives us some amazing gems as we glimpse into the early days of the profession

    Episode 607: Retained Primitive Reflexes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 39:02


    Retained primitive reflexes (RPR's) are critical to test for in every child no matter what age or what condition they present with. RPR's indicate a nerve system that is not functioning optimally and remediation exercises can be very beneficial for kids.

    Asking Great Questions

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 20:01


    Every quarter we get great questions regarding practice management submitted to us. It is so fun to answer looking back at a 36 year history and able to help chiropractors start their business or associateship right!

    Episode 605: "The adjustment with that extra something"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 13:58


    "The adjustment with that extra something" is a saying from BJ Palmer regarding how chiropractors either adjust their practice members as if its a job to do or they adjust them thinking about how far reaching a healthy spine & nerve system will take them!

    Episode 604: Going the extra mile for your practice members

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 9:00


    What do you do to separate yourself from other docs and health providers in your area? BJ Palmer called it, "the adjustment with the extra something." Make yourself stand out!

    Episode 603: The amazing things we see

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 9:54


    Chiropractors are so fortunate to hear amazing stories every day! Listen to two typical examples of why being a pediatric, brain-based chiropractor is so rewarding!

    Episode 602: "The Myth of Normal"

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 10:10


    "The Myth of Normal" is an incredible new book by Dr Gabor Mate, talking about what chiropractors have said for years...the US healthcare system is normalizing pathology!

    Episode 601: The two most powerful forces

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 12:59


    Two of the most powerful forces on the planet, (not gravity, etc), are the power of fungi and the power of water. Fungi can take down a tree, water can carve the Grand Canyon...and they do this with incredible patience. They don't rush and expect immediate results like we do when waiting for a text back.

    Episode 600: Modernized Chiropractic, Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 11:56


    Modernized Chiropractic may have been the first chiropractic textbook (published in 1906), but it had some very forward thinking ideas. My 2 favorites are the importance of the chiropractic adjusting thrust coupled with the concept of spontaneity. In this case, spontaneity doesn't mean impulsive or without stimulus; rather it is a way to describe how the body can change course towards health!

    Episode 599: Polyvagal Is Everywhere!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 33:53


    Everywhere I look, the term Polyvagal is there! It is amazing how many people are talking about it, whether on social media, in journals, news articles...it's all over! And I'm so glad since it is one of the key elements in a successful pediatric practice.

    Episode 598: Autism, Prediction Errors & Letterboarding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 14:49


    Reading an interesting book called, Autism and the Predictive Brain. The author fascinatingly discusses how the brain really creates responses through prediction rather than only through sensory information that is incoming. Dr Rubin then discusses how the predictive brain theory interplays with letterboarding in children with Autism.

    Episode 597: Intent: The why behind what we do

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 19:11


    Why do we do what we do? What is the philosophy and intent behind every adjustment? That is what our practice members truly sense and feel and connect with during each adjustment.

    Episode 596: Becoming Trauma Informed

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 18:21


    Becoming trauma informed is not just a buzzword or a fad. So many children and adults have had some sort of trauma in their life. During the taking of the practice member's case history, and then during your examination and subsequent adjustment procedures, being trauma informed is an essential tool.

    Episode 595: "Functionating"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 25:06


    "Functionating" and "Neuroskeleton" are 2 of my favorite words from DD Palmer's 1914 posthumously published book called The Chiropractor. They talk about the essence of what it means to be a neuro based, brain based chiropractor over 110 years ago! Let's get back to the basics!

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    Episode 594: "Sid-isms": The sayings of Dr Sid

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 17:15


    Dr Sid had these amazing sayings that he would drop on you at every DE meeting or assembly at Life University. Here are a few of my favorites...

    Episode 593: "De-evolution"

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 55:22


    Evolution...is that what humanity is doing? Or are we de-evolving? Using research and journal articles as background, Dr Rubin talks about what some are calling De-evolution. Originally presented at the ICPA 2018 Conference.

    Episode 592: Quarterly Questions: Why, How & What?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 23:00


    'Why', 'how', & 'what' are usually the start to the questions soon-to-be graduating students ask regarding their impending futures. The key concept: there are no mistakes. Every choice you make in business (that is legal and honest) is the right one...you can always move, change from being a sports chiropractor to being a pediatric chiropractor, switch practices you are associating in. There are no mistakes, just lessons to be learned from.

    Episode 591: Social Media Isn't Social At All!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 9:12


    Social media isn't social at all. A better name would be, "Antisocial Media" since the anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have skyrocketed since the supposed social media started with MySpace in 2003 and Facebook in 2004. Listen to the stats and you'll have no choice but to agree...social media is hurting our kids, especially our tweens and teens

    Episode 590: Sense of Urgency

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 34:35


    Pediatric Chiropractic is a disruptive force in health care. Watching the US health care system since 2020 literally prove to world how unprepared it is to really improve the health of our country, it is time to do something different...and chiropractic IS that something different. Recorded in 2022 at a SABCA meeting.

    Episode 589: Chiropractors are "Neuro-Plasticians"

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 42:22


    One of my favorite books is "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Dr. Norman Doidge. It taught me about the importance of neuroplasticity, how the brain really does have an ability to change itself WITH THE RIGHT INPUT! Chiropractic and functional neurology are great input for the nerve system. Originally posted in 2017.

    Episode 588: The Science of Chiropractic, Volume II: The nerve system is like a tree

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024 11:15


    The nerve system is like a tree; the roots are the brain of the tree, the trunk like the spinal cord, and the branches and leaves like the peripheral nerve system. BJ Palmer was the original brain-based chiropractor, since he was writing this style of thought (or as he would have written, thot), way back in 1910.

    Episode 587: The Science of Chiropractic, Volume I

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 11:33


    Even from 1906, BJ Palmer defined chiropractic as brain and nerve system based, with expectations of working with "all...of the three hundred articulations of the human skeletal frame." Chiropractic and chiropractors are not limited to the spine but use the spine as home base while we 'tune' the nerve system. Listen to this interpretation of BJ Palmer's Science of Chiropractic Volume I

    Episode 586: Getting back to our roots

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 9:05


    Chiropractic is based on the combination of philosophy, science and art. DD and BJ Palmer's textbooks, commonly known as Green books, are chiropractic's foundation. Each of the 39+ books reflect one or more of the concepts, so Chirocast will spend the next year or so reading brief passages from each book to give you a flavor of chiropractic's relationship with its roots: The Green Books

    Episode 585: The Importance of Developmental Milestones

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 14:06


    In 2022, the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the developmental milestone list, effectively removing crawling and changing many milestone timelines such as increasing time allowed for walking and talking.

    Episode 584: Why so much talk about Polyvagal?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 25:15


    The Polyvagal Theory really took the world 'by storm' over the last few years. I first heard it mentioned at an ICPA seminar in 2010 or so, and published the first ever chiropractic and polyvagal paper a few years later (http://bit.ly/2yxfNxN). Now it is everywhere and most parents of kiddos with Autism have heard of it. Originally released in 2023, recorded live at The Wave at Life West.

    Episode 583: Hypermobility & Proprioception with Emotional Dysregulation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 10:48


    Fascinating article that came out a few months ago regarding how emotional regulation and proprioception are related bidirectionally...in other words, your emotions and your body awareness are linked in both directions. Here is the article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0247

    Episode 582: "Our Deepest Fear"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 10:35


    There's that famous Marianne Williamson quote that starts off by stating: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." Wow...I first heard that back in the 1990's and it still resonates with me today. Posted originally in 2015

    Episode 581: What's Your Why?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 12:05


    What's your why? Why are you doing what you are doing? What is the big picture behind your going to work everyday? My why is the kids. How can we help more and more kids...because if we help kids then we change the future...and we change the present since we are helping the parents and the rest of the family too! This podcast was originally posted in 2015.

    Episode 580: Top questions about starting a practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 29:19


    Every quarter a question is posed: what is the single most important question you have regarding starting a practice? Whether you are starting you own, buying an existing practice, or jumping into an associate job, these are the questions being asked.

    Episode 579: Tethered Oral Tissues

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 15:46


    Tongue tie practically dropped on the scene around 2005 or so and has been a bundle of confusion since. Here is a more chiro-centric approach to this issue

    Episode 578: Ten Year Podcast Anniversary Replay of Episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 27:44


    In 2014, a Life University student approached me after class and said "You should post some of your talks on a podcast!" I looked at them puzzled and asked, "What's a podcast?" 10 years and almost 600 episodes in, I thought it fitting to repost the first Chirocast podcast. Enjoy!

    Episode 577: "The Law of Supply & Demand"

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 10:28


    There is a different speed of the delivery of health. The nerve system delivers its messages almost instantly, whereas the circulatory system takes longer. This creates potential delays in the way health can be expressed. Chiropractic helps provide detours for these delays.

    Episode 576: Coordination- Green book series continues

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 10:36


    Coordination is what chiropractic adjustments improve upon, especially when applied consistently and in conjunction with neurological exercises. A healthier, stronger body is more coordinated...all its pieces are working in harmony. Newton's law of motion vs inertia is also applicable with improved coordination.

    Episode 575: Momentum---Green book series continues

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 9:07


    The word momentum is not just for physics...it can also apply to your health. What is the trajectory of the momentum of your health look like? Are you moving towards health or towards sickness and what BJ Palmer and Ralph Stephenson called dis-ease?

    Episode 574: Five Lessons

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 11:48


    Five lessons learned early on in practice still teach me to this day, especially the concept of being 'wowed' every time something amazing happens, which it does so regularly that you can become a little less 'wowed'. This is a replay from 2018, a Life U graduation speech. Here's another wow...this was the 200th episode posted, today's is 574! WOW!

    Episode 573: Alzheimer's responds to lifestyle changes

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2024 6:57


    Two recent articles talked about how Alzheimer's responds to lifestyle changes. That is an amazing breakthrough on the one hand, but on the other hand, doesn't it make sense that someone with any neurologic issue, from Autism to Alzheimer's, would improve if they ate better, exercised more, and did stress-reduction protocols? Wouldn't we all be healthier with those lifestyle improvements? Here are the 2 articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11157928/ https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-024-01482-z

    Episode 572: Autism, Chiropractic, & ABA Therapy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 23:40


    How do chiropractors work with kids on the Spectrum? How does ABA Therapy works with kiddos with Autism? Can the 2 professions work together to get better results? Listen in to the conversation...

    Episode 571: "Evolution or Revolution"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 11:50


    According to BJ Palmer, the son of the founder of chiropractic, DD Palmer, took health "out of the realms of the accidental field and put the doing into an intentional field." Did DD Palmer realize how big the thing was that he was doing? Probably not at that moment...but now chiropractic is international!

    Episode 570: 'Big History'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 21:49


    There is a great website called the Big History Project (https://bhp-public.oerproject.com/) that puts billions of years of history of the universe into bite sized chunks (including an 18 minute TED talk). During this presentation, Dr Rubin discusses Big History as it relates to chiropractic (originally posted in 2014).

    Episode 569: What Chiropractors Can Learn from Modern Dentistry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 15:09


    Ever wonder how modern dentistry has become one of the most prestigious in the health care industry after its very humble beginnings? In the 1950's, dentists were pulling teeth in dingy offices. Then they organized and created a plan, and worked that plan, and now look at them! What is chiropractic's plan? Good question... This podcast was originally aired in 2015.

    Episode 568: The Philosophy Science & Art of Chiropractic...Green book series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 21:35


    Chiropractic is a philosophy, science and art. All 3 are critical in becoming the best chiropractor for whatever practice members you see. Its philosophy, science and art are like a 3 legged stool...if you take one leg off, the stool cannot support your weight.

    Episode 567: Dr. Sid Williams Altered the Direction of My Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 14:00


    Back in July of 1993, I went to Dynamic Essentials (or DE) as a chiropractor and left as a chiropractic warrior with a major purpose. Here how 1 simple sentence that Dr Sid said during his Thursday opening altered the direction of my life

    Episode 566: Constructive Survival Value-Green book series continues

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 8:26


    The concept of accumulative constructive and destructive survival value can be likened to making deposits or withdrawals with a bank account. Put deposits in, and you build accumulative constructive survival value. The more deposits you put into your health bank account, the greater your resilience when a withdrawal comes your way.

    Episode 565: Things school didn't prepare you for

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 31:20


    School does a good job at preparing you to pass National Exams and get licensed, but can't prepare you for every possibility. Here Dr Rubin answers questions about starting a peds-focused practice and about what to look for if deciding on an associate job.

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