3 orientations of muscle fibers, 2 origins, 2 innervations

Trigger points can cause pelvic pain

a couple cases of adductor magnus injury 

give your athletes more explosive power on hip extension, especially for hockey, football, cycling, and weight lifting.

We should be able to help most chronic pain patients without seeing them for 20 or 30 visits.

Ideally it should take under 10 visits and often 3-7 visits.

I follow Janda's guidance on treating pain. I'm not treating the pain; I'm treating the dysfunctional movement and limited range of motion. When normal movement, stability and ROM are restored, the pain will be gone (or greatly reduced).

My opinions about needle gauges and lengths for motor and trigger points.

Ischemic muscle, tight over-facilitated muscle, postural muscles. They all require a thicker gauge needle for easy insertion and treatment. 

Sheering forces pull the spine forward or backward and our body needs to protect the spine by protectively tightening the erectors, QL, multifidi and psoas as part of the core's intrinsic stabilization function.

(Sorry for the dog noises. My dogs only play this much when I'm trying to record. 🤦‍♂️)

What is Deep Gluteal Syndrome?

Got patients with gluteal pain on sitting?

Do you treat piriformis for sciatica but ignore the other deep rotators?

I hope this will encourage you to start treating them on most of your hip and sciatica patients.

I've been using the pain referral charts from Travell & Simons to successfully treat low back pain for years.

If you can't do an assessment with manual muscle testing because your patient is in too much pain or because your patient is somewhere else where you can't palpate or test, this should give you some guidance on how to assess so you know what they need to work on for relief.

I mentioned my ebook in this episode. If you're interested, here's the link:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/453750

Some of my thoughts about what is successful in treating migraines and why.

Myofascial trigger point pain referral or occipital nerves. A connection between C1-3 and the trigeminal nerve via the brainstem. Nerve entrapments by muscles and the trapezius aponeurosis. Some other things to consider.

A little about me and why I wanted to do a podcast. 

I'd like to make the outlier the mainstream in acupuncture and maybe challenge some of the dogma in orthopedic acupuncture.