When I treat, I want to be sure I'm getting the best results I can get and that requires having the patient move around to see how they feel and then they get back on the table so I can do more treatment. 

Strengthening of weak rhomboids and lower traps is always a good idea, but is it as relevant to posture as we think?

Are we trying to make phasic muscles act like postural/tonic muscles?

Infraspinatus trigger points can look just like a C5-6 radiculopathy with neck and arm pain and numbness and tingling in the thumb and index finger.

If you find this one, you may save someone from a surgery for their disc issue. 

Here's the case I mentioned:

http://www.ijarp.org/published-research-papers/feb2019/The-Confusion-Between-Infraspinatus-Radiating-Pain-And-C5-c6-Radiculopathy-A-Case-Report.pdf

Why use an internal medicine pattern diagnosis to treat a structural issue that can be resolved much quicker and with long-lasting results by acknowledging what we know from modern science?

Here are my opinions about what traditional acupuncture is best at and what modern orthopedic acupuncture is best at.

Treating seniors can be challenging. My opinions about how to get the best outcomes with the least amount of patient complaints about post-treatment soreness. 

If I treated according to the MRI only I would have missed the real cause of their pain.

Breathing is done subconsciously so an adapted breathing pattern that is dysfunctional could be the underlying issue that is keeping some of your chronic pain patients from getting better and staying better.

Here's a link to Dana Santas' YouTube video about how to correct poor breathing mechanics.

https://youtu.be/f7blmN8G2Fk

Thank you to Feedspot for listing the Acupuncture Outsider as #7 of their Top 20 Acupuncture podcasts for 2022!

https://blog.feedspot.com/acupuncture_podcasts/

People who are not familiar with neurofunctional acupuncture may be hesitant to use electrical stimulation acupuncture on neuropathy, but we have decades of clinical evidence from the McMaster program out of Canada that has shown how well electric stimulation of nerve trunks and motor points can act as a nerve block with long-lasting results for neuropathy.

Shhhh. Don't tell. But I don't do a lot of orthopedic testing for many patients.

When you know how the body fails and why, do you really need to test over and over knowing that you will find the same muscles weak and the same muscles are tight on most people?

I get excellent results in very few treatments and I mostly do testing on a first visit if I want to show the patient what is going on with them.

Most of the time, I know from their symptoms what is over-working and what is inhibited. Thanks, Dr. Janda!

Improving shoulder mobility takes more than treating rotator cuff and deltoids.

In this episode I give some really simple approaches you can try for improving shoulder mobility.