The Acupuncture Outsider Podcast

Most Low Back Pain Starts at the Pelvis

"Most (musculoskeletal) issues start at the Pelvis" - Vladimir Janda

 

 

 

 

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What Your Doctor (Probably) Doesn't Know About Pain

The unfortunate gap in understanding pain is the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system's response to overuse, pain and injury.

 

 

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My Latest Updates on Tough Pain Cases: Back Pain and Sciatica

Some tough pain cases are getting better (fast)!

 

Here is the link to Podia. My new course just went live.

 

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Posterior Knee Pain and Hip Compensation

I saw a new patient this week with posterior knee pain and his leg would internally rotate when he had been playing golf for a while.

 

 

 

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Mysterious Upper Mid-back Pain

It's not easy to treat a pain that the patient only feels at times when they are not in the clinic with you.

You have to go on their memory of where it hurts and what they are doing at that time.

On palpation there was no pain to reproduce. Length testing and muscle testing showed nothing. 

I had to rely on Dr. Travell to figure it out.

 

 

 

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Functional Leg Length Discrepancy and Other Cases

Just a review of how I usually treat a leg length discrepancy and some of my tough cases. Foot neuropathies, Cauda Equina Syndrome, Migraines

 

 

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He (or She) Who Treats the Site of Pain is Often Lost!

If you're sticking needles into the site of pain you're waving the flag of surrender.

If you know the cause of the pain, you should be getting good/great results in your first treatment and have it resolved or greatly improved very quickly soon after, in most cases.

If you are sticking needles into things where they hurt, you're likely missing the real cause of the problem. 

Yes, I'm going to piss people off. But Janda and Lewit were right. "He who treats the site of pain is often lost"!

 

 

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Should We Treat the Psoas Motor Point or Only Use Distal Points?

I recently saw a discussion about treating the psoas with acupuncture techniques like fascial pecking on the abdomen, treating the segment, addressing other issues like the abdominals and core, distal points.

 

What should we do and why? 

 

All of the above are good, but there are times when the motor point is essential. Here's my take.

Hint: it's a matter of muscle tone vs muscle shortening.

 

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Deep Branch and Superficial Radial Nerve Entrapments

More gold from Dr. Trescot's book. 

There are many ways to entrap the radial nerve. The ones we can address with acupuncture can respond very quickly. 

 

Here's Dr. Trescot's Book on Amazon. (The Springer site has it for about $100 more than Amazon)

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This Nerve Entrapment Can Cause Numbness on the Bottom of the Foot and Big Toe

Something I was teaching in Amsterdam recently.

Easy to miss, but easy to treat.

 

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