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VOLUME 38, NUMBER 12
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How the Human Body Responds to Stress
This new series of articles will suggest a different perspective for you to view clients presenting with stubbornly chronic somatic dysfunctions. It will also propose a novel answer to the question, "How does the human body respond to stress?"
Acupuncture and Fascial Planes: The Power of Non-Local Needling
Recent advances in our understanding of the anatomy of fascia reveal a high degree of correlation between fascial planes and acupuncture meridians.
Your Most Important Patient Conversation This Holiday Season: Mindful Eating
The importance of digestive health is a key conversation to have with your patients during the winter months. During the colder months, we tend to eat heavier, rich, high-protein foods.
Helping Your Clients Turn Back the Clock With Nutrition
The anti-aging market is booming because, well, who doesn't want to look young, healthy and vibrant for as long as possible? And while there are many anti-aging products and systems marketed to the public, few people realize the most effective way to slow down the visible passage of time is to give the body the nutrients it needs to be truly healthy.
Learn to Speak the Language of Personal Injury
For many providers, personal-injury cases and working within the med-legal arena can often be a confusing and frustrating endeavor. After all, for the majority, personal injury is a niche.
Alligator Skin (Part 2): A Second Look at Business Contracts
I joined as the only female partner in an integrated medicine practice, shared with three other disciplines. Having developed a few scales (the first stages of alligator skin) and some good business sense, I started out with a one-year contract.
A Structural Challenge: Successfully Treating a Morton's Neuroma
Runners, triathletes, dancers, hikers, cyclists, almost all athletes, and even couch potatoes have shown up in my office looking for alternatives to surgery for neuromas. A Morton's neuroma occurs when the tissue in the foot (next to a nerve that leads to a toe) thickens and becomes fibrous.
Knee Osteoarthritis: Addressing the Key Connective Tissue With TCM
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder and the major cause of disability in the adult population. The pathophysiology of the disease is characterized by progressive loss of articular cartilage, cartilage calcification, osteophyte formation, subchondral bone remodeling, and mild to moderate inflammation of the synovial lining.
Trust the Trends, Or Trust Your Instincts?
Being a massage therapist is all about balance. There's the balance between your customers' needs and wants, the balance between what's good for clients and what's good for business, and the balance between overseeing current business and forecasting for the future.
2021 Medicare Fee Cuts Looming for Acupuncture, Others
Medicare is scheduled to make a significant reduction in Medicare rates in 2021. CMS has proposed finalized changes to increase the reimbursement for the outpatient / office physician evaluation and management (E/M) CPT codes in CY 2021 (as proposed by the AMA), which will result in an approximately 8 percent cut in payment for outpatient acupuncture, chiropractic, PT and OT services, effective 1/1/2021 (despite receiving over 10,000 comments against the proposal).
The Benefits of Teaching Touch
This month the MTF took a look at a massage research review titled "The Effect of Massage Therapy on Children's Learning Process: A Review," written by Majid Emtiazy and Mahboobeh Abrishamkar. The article was published in the Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences.
A Postoperative Story: The Surgery Explained & Secrets to My Recovery
If working with a joint replacement patient, be sure you know the rehabilitation protocols of the particular appliance. If you don't, with permission, consult with the surgeon to learn them. Otherwise, stay away.
Combating All the "isms" in Asian Medicine, Pt. 2
"I don't know why North Americans are so obsessed with sexual abuse," a global shiatsu school owner told me by phone. "It doesn't happen in Japan." Oh yeah?
CBD Makes Cannabis Sense
In the past decade, we have seen a burgeoning interest in cannabis, particularly as medicine. Many patients consider it to be a helpful intervention for many conditions, especially acute or chronic pain, anxiety and sleeplessness.
NGA Report on Chronic Pain: The Far-Reaching Implications for Acupuncture
The National Governors Association (NGA) recently released a 24-page report, "Expanding Access to Non-Opioid Management of Chronic Pain: Considerations for Governors," recommending an integrative approach to pain, including acupuncture. The implications for our profession are far-reaching.
Optimizing the Immune Response: A Patient Primer on Nutritional, Herbal and Lifestyle Considerations
The immune system is the body's defense mechanism against external invaders: bacteria, viruses, parasites and more.
Treating COVID-19 Trauma With TCM
As many of us transition back into private practice, I have received numerous comments from practitioners regarding the noted mental health impact of the coronavirus on today's patients.
Acupuncture: A Great Choice Prior to Surgery
Medication, including opioids, is commonly prescribed following surgery; and many veterans deal with chronic pain with opioids, independent of surgery.
Are You Correctly Documenting These Two Common Pain Scales?
A variety of methods are available today for assessing pain. Of course, among these methods are the visual analog scale (VAS) and the numeric pain scale (NPS).
Tips for Introducing Acupuncture to Biomedical Providers (Pt. 1)
As acupuncturists and East Asian medicine providers continue to elevate our professional profile, we need to learn how to speak the common language of conventional biomedicine to network with other providers in the allopathic, osteopathic and allied health professions.
NCCAOM Changes Exam Retake Policy, Eliminates Five-Time Rule Restriction
During my first year as the CEO of the NCCAOM, I have had the privilege to hear and learn from so many different members of our profession to include our applicants, candidates, school leaders and of course, our valued NCCAOM national board-certified acupuncturists.
CranioSacral Therapy & The Rare Case of Vertigo
I had heard of folks getting dizzy and nauseous when experiencing vertigo, but I had never heard of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) until my husband Joe was diagnosed with it.
Cancer Survivors Need Acupuncture to Fight Their Next Battle
Musculoskeletal pain is common among cancer survivors and has the tendency to become chronic, particularly because acute pain is ignored or inadequately treated in favor of cancer care.
The Negative Impact of Conflating TCM and Acupuncture – Especially During the Pandemic
Approximately 76 million people nationwide suffer from pain, whether chronic, acute or postsurgical.
Acupuncture: Better Than TENS for Joint Pain?
Expensive drug infusions, physiotherapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) are among the most common treatment strategies for hemophilia-related joint pain.
Multiarticulate Muscles & Injury: Understanding the Mechanical Load
Muscles have a primary role in creating and limiting movement in the body. They are also the major focus of our work in massage therapy, with many injuries caused by improper loads on the muscular system.
What It's Like to Be a Hospital-Based Massage Therapist
It was the early 1990s the first time I ever saw a massage therapist in a health care setting in my home state of Minnesota. I was working at a nursing home at the time, and I learned of a resident who would receive weekly massages (which I thought was great).
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