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Acupuncture for Natural Relief of Indigestion
Zantac, the brand-name medication widely used for indigestion and heartburn, has been in the news lately, and as we've increasingly come to expect with many medications, not for a good reason.
Are Insurers Limiting the Number of Acupuncture Sets They'll Pay For?
There is no universal insurance rule that mandates a limit for acupuncture. As with any health care intervention for pain management, necessity is determined by efficacy and the ability to reduce pain and increase function.
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.
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.
Treating COVID? Share Your Cases With the World
The National University of Natural Medicine and the Helfgott Research Institute have created the Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and Medicine COVID-19 Support Registry to "capture key cases, treatment/supportive care, and outcome variables related to the use of traditional, complementary, and integrative health products and practices, in response to issues related to COVID-19."
Forging Unity Amid the Chaos
Chaos and unity: perhaps the two most appropriate words to describe the past several months. With all this chaos around us, there is perhaps no better time for the acupuncture profession to truly unite and put the message of hope and health out to the world.
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.
A New Mechanism for Pain? Acupuncture and the Endocannabinoid System
Decades of research have looked into the exact mechanisms of how acupuncture effectively reduces chronic pain. Initial animal research discovered the release of endogenous opioids within the central nervous system following electroacupuncture.
Comfrey Cream: Coupling Age-Old Wisdom With Leading-Edge Science
In your practice, you most likely get your share of patients with sprains, strains and abrasions. Finding a good topical cream for relief might seem like a challenge.
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?"
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.
Scalp Acupuncture (Pt. 1)
There is an urgent need for the development of better pain management methods, as 20 percent of American adults have some kind of pain condition and the cost of pain is between $560 billion and $630 billion.
Clinical Trial: Chinese Herbal Formula Effective for COVID-19
Lianhuaqingwen, an herbal formula widely available and utilized in China due to its class A status, is effective and safe for resolving symptoms in COVID-19 patients according to a new clinical trial.
Pulses and Death
As acupuncturists, our greatest tool in diagnosis is our ability to listen to the messages that the pulses give us about our patient's health and energetics.
From Classroom to Zoom and Much More
Zoom? That's only part of a school's activism during a pandemic when you talk to Mary Faria, PhD, president and CEO of AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas.
Clearing Up the Cortisol Confusion
One of the most common questions I hear in the clinic is the following: "Is cortisol causing all of my health issues?" I get this question at least once a week, with patients connecting cortisol to everything from weight loss and insomnia, to blood-sugar issues, fatigue and depression, to name just a few.
Mastering Your Federal Student Loans
If you have federal student loans, then you know - along with 47 million other borrowers holding nearly $1.7 trillion in debt - that they can be one of the most costly, complicated and time-consuming factors affecting your financial well-being.
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).
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.
Silver Linings: Appreciating the Gifts the Pandemic Has Given Us
We are aware of the heartbreak, trauma and devastation this pandemic has caused. People continue to get sick, some for months with symptoms ranging from migrating pain to vomiting to exhaustion. Others are dying.
Cesarean Delivery & Acupuncture: Evidence-Based Report on Prevention, Recovery, VBACs and Trauma Treatment (Pt. 2)
Like any surgery, a cesarean delivery needs help to heal. C-section recovery may vary from other surgeries because a back-surgery patient likely did not exercise the equivalent of marathon running for many, many hours in the lead-up to the surgery, like some woman do in their labor prior to c-section.
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.
Acupuncture Rebounds as Restrictions Ease
Acupuncturists are opening their practices again in dramatic numbers following months of stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Official COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines From the Association of Korean Medicine (Pt. 1)
We are facing our biggest challenge of the century with the current COVID-19 pandemic. As we in the U.S. have been struggling with changes and challenges that have impacted every aspect of life.
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.
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.
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