Dr. Brian Melrose // #TechniqueThursday // www.ptonice.com  In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Spine Division lead faculty member Brian Melrose discusses the details surrounding maintaining your secondary levers on set up for more success with cervical spine manipulation techniques. Take a listen or check out our full show notes on our blog at www.ptonice.com/blog. If you're looking to learn more about our Lumbar Spine Management course, our Cervical Spine Management course, or our online physical therapy courses, check our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab. EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION INTRODUCTIONHey everyone, Alan here, Chief Operating Officer here at ICE. Before we get into today's episode, I'd like to introduce our sponsor, Jane, a clinic management software and EMR with a human touch. Whether you're switching your software or going paperless for the first time ever, the Jane team knows that the onboarding process can feel a little overwhelming. That's why with Jane, you don't just get software, you get a whole team. Including in every Jane subscription is their new award-winning customer support available by phone, email, or chat whenever you need it, even on Saturdays. You can also book a free account setup consultation to review your account and ensure that you feel confident about going live with your switch. And if you'd like some extra advice along the way, you can tap into a lovely community of practitioners, clinic owners, and front desk staff through Jane's community Facebook group. If you're interested in making the switch to Jane, head on over to jane.app.switch to book a one-on-one demo with a member of Jane's support team. Don't forget to mention code IcePT1MO at the time of sign up for a one month free grace period on your new Jane account. BRIAN MELROSE I'm one of the lead faculty in the spine division, teaching both cervical and lumbar courses. And I'm here and stoked to be here on a Thursday, a clinical Thursday to talk about the number one thing that I think could dramatically improve your success utilizing cervical manipulation in the clinic. And really what that boils down to is going to be maintaining your secondary levers. And so we'll get into all the details of what I mean with the verbiage there, as well as talking about a particular technique that I think this will help with. But I got to zoom out first and kind of allude to where this comes from. And to be honest, man, it's just from being out on the road for the last couple of years, teaching about 15 to 20 courses a year and getting the opportunity to work with a lot of different physical therapists, from around the country. And those folks, you know, they have a lot of different backgrounds. They have different opinions about manipulation. Some folks have been trying cervical spine manipulation for years, whereas other folks are relatively novice with things. And so I think if you can understand how to maintain your secondary levers, it's going to help everybody. If you are more of a novice practitioner or novice with utilizing cervical manipulation in the clinic, this is the one time where I'm going to plug our courses and say, if you want everything, like if you want to know how to keep things safe, if you're wondering about if the pot matters, How hard do I thrust? The answers to all of those questions will always live in our weekend course. And I truly believe that it takes a full two days of kind of immersing yourself in that space to really understand stuff. You're not going to learn cervical spine manipulation techniques well by just cruising YouTube or Instagram. If you're a novice, make it out to one of our courses sometime this year for one of those details. But if you can absorb