Nicky Kirk

Nicky Kirk Chiropractor 👨‍⚕️ Sports Medicine ⚽️ Performance 🏋️‍♂️ Recovery

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Jimmy Carr beautifully contextualized George Bernard Shaw’s classic quote. Here’s what it meant to me https://t.co/7KsVODqaZm

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The brain is 2% of your body mass and burns 20% of your daily energy. Creatine has a reasonable mechanistic case for supporting the brain's energy environment in exactly those conditions https://t.co/vcjS36vvdh

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The research itself cannot tell us how much is genes and how much is access. New piece on Substack. Link in bio. https://t.co/GcirpWZF1z

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Most pediatric movement problems get coached at the wrong level. Coaches load the position. Clinicians clean up the kinematics. Parents are told the child will grow out of it. https://t.co/HX9QgffeBM

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THE CRITERIA DON’T WORK https://t.co/abFGw6BoPP

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Fine Margins Is the profession better or worse for having you in it? That is the only standard that matters. Everything else is noisehttps://open.substack.com/pub/nickymkirk/p/fine-margins?r=6g0pdd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Healthcare is changing, and the future belongs to clinicians who can think across systems. https://t.co/LiYUcV04dw

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@dufcway I didn’t know Peter Griffin was such a Jonny Russell fan

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@abrown1974 I assumed this was a Celtic fan posting this yesterday until I realized it was a fellow Arab!

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@dufcway Lots of pressure on the guy who got the free header just like against Dundee l. Another lucky escape for us

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Sit2stand Full article and a free customisable scoring sheet for your clinic: sittostand.netlify.apphttps://open.substack.com/pub/nickymkirk/p/the-test-i-have-used-for-years-and?r=6g0pdd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Stress response predicts injury at r = 0.27.
Psychological intervention effect sizes for injury reduction run as high as -1.21.
Larger than most loading interventions. Most clinics still don’t screen for it. Full breakdown on how we do: https://t.co/pQNMiqhA4n

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Most clinicians have heard of the biopsychosocial model.
Most have a rudimentary grasp of it.
Most do absolutely nothing with it.
We built a five-minute intake triage to fix that. Full breakdown on Substack: https://t.co/pQNMiqhA4n

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A follow up to my TBI and underappreciation in the veteran population. Personality and loss of idenity are huge problems after veterans return home. https://t.co/oertW5e8eB

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@MurrayHillGuy1 Coldplay concert

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Three lessons I wish someone had given me earlier.
Know when to leave. Be honest with vendors. Trust the instinct — especially when you're desperate.
The third one cost me the most.
Full piece in the link below.https://t.co/GnUyrLpCPf

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The story of valor and sacrifice is meant to be shared. This citation is signed to Matteo and Luca so when they ask who signed it, I can tell his story. Sgt. Robert ‘Bob’ Martin Patterson. https://t.co/Vo35lLQcNG #supportourveterans #invictaproject

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The title bought me five minutes.
It didn't buy me anything real. https://t.co/tQGIW7DAjV

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The Gap That is Costing Lives https://t.co/TYkLDZzSxk