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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
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Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Reciprocal Inhibition is an interesting thing and I think I think a lot about treating antagonists muscles but maybe I don't always consider reciprocal inhibition for every case. I'm going to be thinking more about reciprocal inhibition for some cases in case it can help me improve my results for muscle activation once someone is pain-free.
Here's the article I mentioned:
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10.1152/jn.00424.2017
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Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
I was just thinking about how the infraspinatus can help shoulder flexion. The fiber orientation is a clue. It's an external rotator, so how does it get involved in shoulder flexion?
How does the Pectoralis Major flex the shoulder? Look at the fiber orientation.
How does Gluteus Minimus (abducts and internally rotates the hip) which doesn't flex the hip, cause an anterior pelvic tilt? Fiber orientation.
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Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sometimes patients have not done well even after trying Physical Therapy for their pain.
Once we have gotten them out of pain and restored their mobility, do they really need Physical Therapy? Are we a replacement for Physical Therapy?
Also, I mentioned in the podcast that I would be interested in doing some podcasts in German and/or French if there's an audience that you think doesn't listen in English.
If you think it would help me reach more people, please let me know. rich@richhazel.com
Thanks!
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Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
There's more to the SI Joint than just nutation and the pain some people get there.
Many issues like back pain, hip pain, hamstring pain, even shoulder pain can be due to dysfunction at the SIJ.
Movement, Stability & Lumbopelvic Pain: Integration of research and therapy https://a.co/d/cuyLspO
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Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire
Here's an imperfect protocol that gets great results a high percentage of the time.
If you're new to Contemporary Acupuncture or just feeling overwhelmed by all the possibilities, try this protocol.
It covers a lot of the basics and I get great results with it most of the time.
I know I'll get perfectionists complaining but the goal is to help more people help more people. Too many outliers to knee pain can make people doubt themselves.
Try this protocol and when the patient feels better you have time to think about the underlying segmental, postural, ankle or hip or core issues that led to the pain.
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Saturday May 06, 2023
Saturday May 06, 2023
Gracilis is the only hip adductor that can flex the knee.
It often gets short after a knee replacement surgery.
Quads glutes TFL and glute minimis are usually my go-to for knee pain but gracilis is usually part of the solution as well.
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Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Skeletal Muscle is Elastic, Excitable and Contractile. Does Electric Stimulation Acupuncture at the Motor Points of the muscle restore those qualities after injury has made the muscle short, weak and inhibited?
The German word for "numb" is "taub". I think muscle inhibition may be due to the muscle being deaf, not listening to the nerve signals. What if it's not the nerve, but the muscle that is causing muscle inhibition?
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Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
You and I have probably already seen it daily in the clinic. Gluteus medius and minimus get very tight and they restrict the hip and cause pain.
We have always heard that the glutes get inhibited. But when it comes to the glute medius and minimus, while they might be inhibited they are also short and tight like other postural muscles.
Research backs up that the glute med and minimus are primarily Type 1 slow twitch fibers like other postural muscles.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/anatomy/issue/68435/1152716
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Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
These little muscles can cause a lot of big pain and dizziness (and other things that I talk about here).
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Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
This is a very effective technique I use for muscles that feel restricted and that don't release with just motor point acupuncture or IASTM.
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