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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 Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
3 orientations of muscle fibers, 2 origins, 2 innervations
Trigger points can cause pelvic pain
a couple cases of adductor magnus injury
give your athletes more explosive power on hip extension, especially for hockey, football, cycling, and weight lifting.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
We should be able to help most chronic pain patients without seeing them for 20 or 30 visits.
Ideally it should take under 10 visits and often 3-7 visits.
I follow Janda's guidance on treating pain. I'm not treating the pain; I'm treating the dysfunctional movement and limited range of motion. When normal movement, stability and ROM are restored, the pain will be gone (or greatly reduced).
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
My opinions about needle gauges and lengths for motor and trigger points.
Ischemic muscle, tight over-facilitated muscle, postural muscles. They all require a thicker gauge needle for easy insertion and treatment.
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sheering forces pull the spine forward or backward and our body needs to protect the spine by protectively tightening the erectors, QL, multifidi and psoas as part of the core's intrinsic stabilization function.
(Sorry for the dog noises. My dogs only play this much when I'm trying to record. 🤦♂️)
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
What is Deep Gluteal Syndrome?
Are you assessing for short gemelli and obturator internus?
Got patients with gluteal pain on sitting?
Do you treat piriformis for sciatica but ignore the other deep rotators?
I hope this will encourage you to start treating them on most of your hip and sciatica patients.
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
I've been using the pain referral charts from Travell & Simons to successfully treat low back pain for years.
If you can't do an assessment with manual muscle testing because your patient is in too much pain or because your patient is somewhere else where you can't palpate or test, this should give you some guidance on how to assess so you know what they need to work on for relief.
I mentioned my ebook in this episode. If you're interested, here's the link:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/453750
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Some of my thoughts about what is successful in treating migraines and why.
Myofascial trigger point pain referral or occipital nerves. A connection between C1-3 and the trigeminal nerve via the brainstem. Nerve entrapments by muscles and the trapezius aponeurosis. Some other things to consider.
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
A little about me and why I wanted to do a podcast.
I'd like to make the outlier the mainstream in acupuncture and maybe challenge some of the dogma in orthopedic acupuncture.