I have been treating a lot of neuropathy cases lately.

Here are some of them. Some new and some after a few treatments.

I like to learn from the best and many of the best for orthopedic assessment and human movement science are not acupuncturists.

Why reinvent the wheel? We already have excellent resources that were created by physical therapists, doctors and other movement specialists.

And you will do better to learn from live courses and videos than from books and blogs (and podcasts) :-)

Here are the ones I mentioned:

https://brookbushinstitute.com/

https://www.stopchasingpain.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/athleanx/videos

If a muscle tests strong when you expect it to be weak, do you not treat it?

If you expect a muscle to be tight but the length test is fine, you don't treat it?

What about maintenance for your patients? You only treat what tests weak?

This is an excellent way to stimulate the deep peroneal nerve for someone with drop foot. 

I walk you through the location of the nerve trunk and how best to position the patient for a comfortable stimulation that is often very successful. 

No one can own orthopedic assessment or treatment with motor points and trigger points. And you can't own acupuncture points. But we don't have a generic name for a treatment of motor points with electrical stimulation to treat pain and mobility issues. We see plenty of names that were created to represent a single person's perspective but that others are not supposed to use if they didn't study that method.

We need a term that anyone who is sitting in front of a computer can search for to find an acupuncturist who uses orthopedic assessment and treatment of motor and trigger points to relieve pain and improve mobility. 

And it needs to be free to anyone who wants to learn and use it. 

Neuromodulation is a big word. I wanted to be sure I knew what it was and I realized that we should all be using this word more often to explain what we do, especially when we talk to medical professionals.

Here's the link to the study I mentioned: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/13/4647/pdf

Understanding postural issues, over-use issues, the actions and antagonists and synergists of muscles is essential to treating tough cases and in many cases we simply can't do muscle testing on patients due to age, size, level of pain or other reasons. When we understand how to body responds to pain and over-use we can often put together a solid treatment plan without muscle tests.

The thought experiment today was all the ways I can think of that the TFL can cause low back pain. How many can you think of?

There are things that happen to the body when there's injury or a surgery. One of them can be the fascia lata getting very tight. 

You won't find this from muscle testing. You need to know what you are looking for and how to address it. 

I mentioned IASTM in this episode so here's a good example of IASTM from Brent Brookbush of the Brookbush Institute:

https://youtu.be/DKp4zR0hdJQ

Sometimes people make things too complicated when there's a simple treatment that will get fast pain relief for most patients.

I'll piss some people off with this one. But I want to help the people who are new to orthopedic assessment get fast results for this condition that can take months to resolve without an intervention with acupuncture and electric stimulation.  

I'm a big fan of studying common peripheral nerve entrapments from medical books that are by and for MD's. 

Here are some strategies that I have success with for foot pain and numbness that involves consideration of plantar nerve distribution and entrapments.

Here's my favorite reference:

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B01FH37SI6&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_K2YXS3NA7Q3C76N2XPBG