We’re excited to introduce you to “The Patient Physician”, a podcast providing a space for doctors to explore their physical, mental, and financial wellness.
Welcome to The Patient Physician, a space for doctors to explore their physical, mental, and financial wellness. Your peers and industry leaders will destigmatize institutional perceptions while redefining success, money, and personal care. Get ready to pull back the curtain – because here you are both patient and physician.
What happens when chiropractic care becomes part of a truly collaborative, patient-centered approach to health? Dr. Christian Nelson of Advocate Wellness joins The Patient Physician podcast to explore chiropractic care, nervous system wellness, preventive healthcare, and the power of a stronger doctor–patient relationship.
Dr. Nelson shares how severe neck and low-back pain as a teenager led to a transformative chiropractic experience—and ultimately inspired his career. He discusses building his practice during COVID and why longer visits, fewer patients, and “present time consciousness” can improve outcomes while reducing clinician burnout.
The conversation also examines how chiropractors can collaborate with PTs, dentists, OBGYNs, mental health clinicians, neuro-optometrists, and other medical specialists—and why communication between clinicians can still be a major barrier to coordinated care.
Dr. Nelson explains chiropractic’s approach to nervous system optimization, the health effects of chronic fight-or-flight activation, his treatment philosophy, the case for earlier pediatric and preventive care, and his perspective on sauna and cold-plunge practices.
A conversation about moving beyond old stigmas, strengthening clinical collaboration, and rethinking what it means to care for the whole patient.
MEET OUR GUEST: Dr. Christian Nelson’s life was changed at the age of 15 by a chiropractic adjustment after living in excruciating low back and neck pain for 6 years. After his second adjustment he decided to become a chiropractor and has dedicated his life to becoming an exceptional clinician. His clinical passions revolve around neuroscience, restoring the ideal brain-body connection, and helping to empower his patients in as many areas of life as he can. He and his wife, Mary Katherine, have three handsome boys and live right on the Fort Worth/Keller border. Dr. Nelson pursues jiujitsu (he holds his blue belt under Roberto Kaelin and Carlos Machado) and enjoys carpentry projects in his spare time.
Learn more and connect with Dr. Nelson: https://keller-chiro.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/advocatewellnesstx/
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:42 Meet Dr Nelson
01:42 Launching Advocate Wellness During Covid
03:34 Dr. Nelson’s Chiropractic Origin Story
04:45 Pain Relief Breakthrough
08:27 Present Time Consciousness
12:26 Longer Visits Better Care
17:40 Reclaiming Doctor-Patient Bond
20:19 Collaborating With Specialists
24:21 How Referrals Actually Work
29:16 Where The Stigma Came From
33:37 Three Levels of Care
34:24 Stress and Nervous System
36:51 Fight or Flight Signs
38:19 Blood Flow Under Stress
42:20 Treatment Approach Explained
45:21 Chiropractic in Care Teams
49:59 Future and Pediatric Focus
57:36 Cold Plunge and Sauna
01:01:46 Patient Physician Meaning
01:03:28 Closing Thanks
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This podcast is a few years in the making; Paul Smith and Chris Fullbright are excited to kick off season one with dynamic conversations with guests like Dr. Thomas Blackwell, the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Professor of General Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and Glenda Mutinda, PhD, who serves as the Director of Interprofessional Well-Being at JPS Health Network.
Each episode is designed to challenge institutional perceptions while redefining success, money, and personal care. We hope you’ll listen and subscribe to The Patient Physician.
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