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Strategies for Health, Longevity, Wellness, and Function (Murphy, June 6-7, 2026 Nebraska Campus)
Overview
In this 12-hour continuing education course, Dr. Dan Murphy teaches the biochemical, physiological, and neurological mechanisms that influence inflammation, pain, tissue degeneration, and musculoskeletal health. The course emphasizes cellular energy production, oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, nutrition, and systemic inflammation, while integrating pain management theory and chiropractic relevance throughout. Participants gain an evidence-informed understanding of how lifestyle, nutritional, and physiological factors interact with chiropractic care to support neuromusculoskeletal function, wellness, and healthy aging.
12 CE hours
Schedule
Saturday, June 6, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CST.
Sunday, June 7, 2026 8:00am - 12:00pm CST.
Bring your own lunch and snacks.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain how cellular energy production, oxidative stress, and inflammation contribute to pain, fibrosis, and musculoskeletal dysfunction.
- Describe key biochemical and neurological mechanisms involved in pain perception and non-pharmacologic pain modulation relevant to chiropractic care.
- Identify nutritional, metabolic, and lifestyle factors that influence systemic inflammation, tissue health, and neuromusculoskeletal function.
- Discuss the role of chiropractic care within broader physiological and wellness-based approaches to pain management and healthy aging.
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Category – Basic Science
- Review the steps in energy production:
- Cytoplasm, Krebs Cycle, Electron Transport Chain
- Learn the relationship between energy production and oxidative stress
- Learn the relationship between oxidative stress and inflammation
- Integrate the relationship between energy production, oxidative stress, inflammation, fibrosis, the chiropractic subluxation, and the chiropractic adjustment
Category – Basic Science
- Learn the common denominators between glyphosate and glutathione
- Understand the concept of analogue substitution in protein synthesis
- Understand the relationship between analogue substitution of amino acids, glutathione, oxidative stress, inflammation, fibrosis, and chiropractic
- Understand the relationship between analogue substitution of amino acids, collagen degradation and musculoskeletal problems
Category – Pain Management Theory
- Discuss inflammation from the perspective of evolutionary biology and evolutionary anthropology
- Relate these concepts to tissue fibrosis
- Relate fibrotic tissue changes to chiropractic interventions: adjusting, exercise, tissue work, etc.
- Investigate prominent causes of systemic inflammation that complicate the status of local musculoskeletal inflammatory problems
Category – Pain Management Theory
- Inflammation: Understand the “Theory of Everything” related to innate health, what it is, what are its causes how to measure it, and how to manage it:
- Understand the biochemical basis of pain
- Understand innate adjuncts to pain management
- Understand the Gate Theory of pain and its chiropractic application
- Understand the recent suprasegmental pain inhibitory controls, its relationship to opiate drugs, and the science of chiropractic spinal adjusting as an effective, non-addicting alternative to the opiate crisis.
Category – Basic Science
- Learn about biochemistry of essential fatty acids
- Review essential fatty acid imbalances and musculoskeletal pain
- Integrate both diet and supplements in fatty acid balancing
Category – Pain Management Theory
- Learn about excitotoxins and how they influence the perception of pain
- Integrate the relationship between glutamate, aspartate, aspartame, calcium, magnesium and manganese
- Learn about the physiology of magnesium as protective against neurodegenerative diseases and chronic pain
Category – Basic Science
- Glycosylation: learn what it is and what it does to the aging process.
- Integrate intervertebral disc glycosylation, disc degeneration, discogenic nociceptive chemistry, and chiropractic care
- Learn the key causes and factors in causing and preventing glycosylation
Category – Wellness
- Reviewing the musculoskeletal and immunological importance of vitamin D
- Review the biochemistry of vitamin D, integrating sun exposure, supplements latitudes, skin pigmentation, liver health, and kidney health
- Integrate vitamin D and its synergy with vitamin K and magnesium.
8:00 am – 9:00 am:
Category – Basic Science
- Learn about the importance of mitochondria as the cellular powerhouse, the epicenter of aging, and the primary producer of reactive oxygen species
- Learn about the mitochondria and sports/physical stamina performance
- Learn about enhancing mitochondria with exercise and fasting
- Learn factors that impair mitochondrial function
- Learn about the nutrients that promote mitochondrial efficiency rejuvenation
Category – Public Health
- Learn about leaky gut and systemic inflammation
- Integrate the relationship between leaky gut and the microbiome, lectins, glyphosate, antibiotics, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Review the connection between the microbiome and the chiropractic adjustment
Category – Basic Science
- Learn about melatonin and cell physiology
- Review the biochemistry of pineal gland melatonin production
- Review the biochemistry mitochondria melatonin production
- Review the relationship between diet, B vitamins, serotonin, pain suppression, dopamine, and melatonin
- Integrate chiropractic adjustment, blood flow, cellular fermentation, cellular respiration, melatonin, and the cytokine storm
Category – Wellness
- Introduce the concept of survival v. longevity proteins, vitamins and minerals as related to micronutrient competition.
- Learn what nutrients are related and most deficient in modern America.
- Learn the nutrients that are sufficient in youth but not as we age, and therefore should be supplemented.
Contact Info (531) 600-5900 Ext. 1202
Travel
Directions to Life Chiropractic College West
We will be in classroom 4154 for the Saturday/Sunday event. Attendees can park in Lot D and follow the path along the pond to the lower level of the Educational Services Building.
 | DAN MURPHY, DC, DABCO Dr. Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, and has more than 36 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dr. Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders. |
Life Chiropractic College West has received programmatic accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education and institutional/regional accreditation through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).
See below for a list of credits that may be available for this seminar.
*The following State and Province boards do not require an application when a program is sponsored by a college accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE): CO, CT, DE, DC, ID, IL, IA, MD, MA, MI, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, UT, VT, VA, WA, WY, BC, NB, ON, QC. Life Chiropractic College West cannot guarantee that these licensing board(s) will accept any session of this offering. Life West urges licensees to familiarize themselves with the laws governing continuing education in the jurisdictions where they hold licensure.
Available Credit Hours
- 12.00 AK Chiropractic BoardAlaska Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 CO Chiropractic BoardColorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 CT Chiropractic BoardConnecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiner
- 12.00 DC Chiropractic BoardDistrict of Columbia Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 DE Chiropractic BoardDelaware Board of Chiropractic
- 0.00 FL Chiropractic BoardFlorida Board of Chiropractic Medicine
- 12.00 GA Chiropractic BoardGeorgia Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 IA Chiropractic BoardIowa Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 ID Chiropractic BoardIdaho Board of Chiropractic Physicians
- 12.00 IN Chiropractic BoardIndiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 KS Chiropractic AssocKansas Chiropractic Association
- 12.00 MA Chiropractic BoardMassachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors
- 12.00 MD Chiropractic BoardMaryland Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ME Chiropractic BoardMaine Board of Chiropractic Licensure
- 12.00 MI Chiropractic BoardMichigan Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 MN Chiropractic BoardMinnesota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MO Chiropractic BoardMissouri Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MS Chiropractic BoardMississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MT Chiropractic BoardMontana Board of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NC Chiropractic BoardNorth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ND Chiropractic BoardNorth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NE Chiropractic BoardNebraska Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 NH Chiropractic BoardNew Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NJ Chiropractic BoardNew Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NS Chiropractic CollegeNova Scotia College of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NV Chiropractic BoardNevada Chiropractic Physicians' Board
- 12.00 NY Chiropractic BoardNew York State Board for Chiropractic
- 12.00 OH Chiropractic BoardOhio Chiropractic Board
- 12.00 OR Chiropractic BoardOregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 PACEFCLB Providers of Approved Continuing Education
- 12.00 PR Chiropractic BoardPuerto Rico Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 RI Chiropractic BoardRhode Island Board of Examiners in Chiropractic
- 12.00 SC Chiropractic BoardSouth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 SD Chiropractic BoardSouth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 UT Chiropractic BoardUtah Chiropractic Physicians Licensing Board
- 12.00 VA Board of MedicineVirginia Board of Medicine
- 12.00 VI Chiropractic BoardU.S. Virgin Islands Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 VT Chiropractic BoardVermont Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 WA Chiropractic CommWashington Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission
- 12.00 WI Chiropractic BoardWisconsin Chiropractic Examining Board
- 12.00 WY Chiropractic BoardWyoming Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Price
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