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Sometimes doing what‘s best for the patient will go against dogma and tradition. And sometimes leaning more on science than on dogma will ruffle feathers and contradict the gurus and scholars of Traditional Acupuncture. That‘s OK! There‘s room for many styles and there are enough patients for all of us! I graduated at the top of my class with a Master‘s and a Doctorate in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. I know the benefits of Traditional Acupuncture for many many conditions. But if you want fast and excellent results treating chronic pain, sports injury, over-use injury, flexibility and mobility, that is what I‘m passionate about and I‘m not going to apologize for great results or for sharing what I‘ve learned from Western Medicine using Acupuncture. The topics here will not be controversial unless you insist on holding onto dogma instead of being open to something new to you and that is based in science. If you are interested in my online courses, you can find them at: https://richardhazel.podia.com
Episodes
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
If you find that you rarely see a need to treat the hip adductors and you are only doing a manual muscle test of them as a group, you are likely missing some things.
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
It's important to look for a problem with anconeus on anyone with lateral epicondyle pain.
It's easy to miss and important to treat when it's tight and injured.
Here's the link for the October seminar I mentioned:
https://kangfu.eu/motor-point-acupuncture-head-neck-upper-extremity-assessment-treatment-strategy-nfl-protocols/
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
If you aren't treating trigger points when it's necessary, you can't get the best results.
Knowing when trigger points are the problem is essential.
Here's my advice and method for knowing when to look for trigger points to release.
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
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.
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
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?
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
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:
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
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.
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
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.
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
If I treated according to the MRI only I would have missed the real cause of their pain.
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
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.
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/