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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.
Two Conditions ... One Solution?
According to the Sleep Foundation, insomnia is the most common sleep issue in adult depressed patients, affecting an estimated 75 percent.
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.
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.
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?"
Two Cases, Two Herbs
One of my favorite characteristics of both Chinese medicine and acupuncture is their ability to become catalysts for deep, transformational healing.
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.
Spirits of the Points: The Stomach Official
Using points for their spiritual connotations is key to resolving illness at the mental or spirit levels. Each of the acupuncture points has a name, translated from the Chinese characters, which offers insight into the unique spiritual gifts the point offers.
Working With Grief (Pt. 3): Discovering Hidden Grief Through Body Awareness
In the first two parts of this series, I talked about how we can be mindful of the ebb and flow of the grieving process, and help our patients work through the pain of grief and absorb and anchor the love and tenderness that can follow in its wake.
The Elements of Emotion: Metal – Grief and Depression
If you've ever wondered why you cry when you get angry sometimes, or why and how we get depressed, the element cycles have the most elegant way of helping us understand.
Acupuncture for Post-COVID Syndrome
Post-COVID syndrome, often referred to as "long COVID," encompasses a constellation of potential symptoms experienced by patients four weeks or longer following infection with SARS COV-2.
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).
What H.R. 4803 Means to Me: Our Professional Future
As an acupuncturist, a professor, and someone who has benefited from acupuncture and Chinese medicine personally, I am deeply motivated to advance the integration of acupuncture and Chinese medicine and allopathic medicine in the United States.
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.
Case Report: Nonivasive Treatment of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Bob is a 70-year-old man with a five-year history of impaired glucose tolerance and has been taking atorvastatin (Lipitor) for approximately three years to manage blood cholesterol levels.
Cancer Pathogenesis and Treatment: An Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine Analysis & Approach
Cancer stem cells may enter a state of quiescence called the G0 phase in which they temporarily or reversibly stop differentiating.
Protecting Wildlife: TCM Needs to Act
In recent decades, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice has developed rapidly worldwide, and Chinese modalities such as acupuncture and medicinal usage are growing more popular among patients.
Acupuncture for Prediabetes Control
"Should Acupuncture-Related Therapies Be Considered in Prediabetes Control?" That's the title of a new meta-analysis of 31 randomized, controlled trials involving 3,000-plus patients; results of the analysis, published in the July/August issue of Holistic Nursing Practice, offers evidence that acupuncturists can help mitigate the evolving epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
Here's How to Avoid the Three Most Common (and Expensive) HIPAA Failures
The most common and expensive HIPAA violations involve three critical areas: failure to perform a data security risk analysis; failure to sign a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA); and improper disclosures of protected health information (PHI).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Get the Most Out of Your Industry Pitch
Have you been keeping up? In my June article, I dove into introductions (think a 30-second "elevator pitch") and then in August I expanded on that, knowing that you all would have compelling introductions which would get people to ask for more information.
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A New Journal on Peer Review and Research Integrity

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One of the hallmarks of scientific journal publication is the peer review system. An editor cannot be knowledgeable about every possible area of research the journal he or she edits receives for consideration. So the paper is sent for review by people with expertise in the area the paper discusses, and the editor then...
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A New Publication World?

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First, a confession. I spent much of my career as a journal editor, and spend time now as a journal editor (Chiropractic Journal of Australia). I mention this because I want to discuss issues around journal publication. In the evidence-based world, journal articles are still seen as the primary means of obtaining important information...
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A Simple Guide to Critical Appraisal

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When I review a clinical trial, I ask myself a set of questions to help me understand how well I think the paper makes its case. This is something I have come up with on my own, after many years as a joural editor, educator and teacher of evidence-based practice. Of course, there exist...
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The Post-Factual World: Reconciling It With Evidence-Based Practice

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One of the great challenges we face in attempting to live in an evidence-based world and practice in an evidence-based manner is that we now effectively live in a post-fact world. Currently, we see this illuminated in politics, where presidential candidates seem to feel free to simply make up information; fact checking comes too...
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Reporting Guidelines

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A great deal of effort has been expended in developing reporting guidelines for different kinds of scientific papers. The idea is to provide a researcher and/or reader with a checklist of items that will help ensure the rigor of the paper they are writing or reading. Below is a list of some of these...
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The TIDieR Checklist (Template for Intervention Description and Replication)

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I think we can all be justifiably proud of the clinical trial research we have seen conducted by our own research scientists and from those in related fields. That information has been critical in our growth as a profession and has contributed in some measure to our cultural credibility. But I think if I...
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Video Clips about Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

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Herewith are some good clips about the world of evidence-based practice. This is just a start…  General Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCfZB5ZZyso Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Definition and 5 As of Evidence-Based Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu_HHmZ5oPY Introduction to PICO for Evidence-Based Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK9H2P_Cpi0 Evidence-Based Practice: Improving Practice, Improving Outcomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvenUa3Ww8o  Literature Searching EBM- Asking an...
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Random Thoughts about Living in an Evidence-Based World

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  When I first began teaching evidence-based practice, one of the comments I sometimes heard was that all we needed was evidence of subluxation or joint dysfunction. This created a great teaching moment, because if you think about it, identifying the presence of subluxation is actually like diagnosis- that is, you are determining that...
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FDA Hierarchy of Trials

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Sometimes when we look up information we may find some research-related terminology that does not make much sense to us. For example, while we do not prescribe drugs we may, in the course of looking up information, come across research papers that describe the process of drug (or device) development, and we should know...
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Journal Impact Factor

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The Impact Factor (IF) of a journal is a measure of how often that journal is cited in other journals. It is seen as a proxy measure of journal importance and significance; the higher the IF, the more often work from that journal is cited elsewhere. This suggests that the information published in the...
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