January 1, 2025 • 62 mins
Dr. Carol and Kim Pittis discuss the importance of flexibility in patient care plans and reflect on the lessons learned over the past year. They cover the use of multiple FSM machines, treatment strategies for herniated disks, and the importance of respecting muscle guarding during treatments.
They dive into the specific applications of microcurrent for conditions like TMJ dysfunction and vestibular injuries. Outlining the equipment and protocols used, including the benefits of magnetic converters and assembling lengthy treatment programs. The year-end podcast session wraps up with news and details about upcoming conferences and research findings.
00:13 Reflecting on a Year of Learning
01:05 The Importance of Flexibility in Patient Care
03:19 Using Multiple Machines in Treatment
08:38 Understanding and Treating Herniated Discs
13:07 The Role of Muscles and Scar Tissue
14:11 Addressing Low Back Pain Holistically
24:40 Vagus Nerve and Tinnitus Treatment
29:49 Patient Diagnosis and Misconceptions
30:53 Common Misdiagnosed Syndromes
33:41 Raynaud's Phenomenon and Treatment
34:53 Long COVID and Endothelial Glycocalyx
43:43 TMJ Dysfunction and Treatment
47:35 Accessing Past Webinars and Resources
55:34 Upcoming Symposium and Events
01:00:27 Year-End Reflections and Farewell
Reflections and Innovations in Frequency Specific Microcurrent
As we wrap up another year, it's essential to reflect on what we've learned and how we've grown. This year has been particularly enlightening in the realm of Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM), showcasing innovations and reinforcing the tried and true practices that continue to benefit our patients. Let’s dive into some of the fascinating medical topics that dominated our discussions this year.
The Power of Flexibility and the Role of Multiple Machines
One of the significant revelations this year has been the necessity of flexibility—not just in treatment plans but also in utilizing multiple FSM machines. As Kim Pittis shared, sometimes deviating from a rigid plan unlocks new possibilities. This adaptability is crucial, especially when dealing with complex cases involving scar tissue or herniated discs. The ability to use multiple machines doesn't just expand the treatment options; it becomes an absolute necessity, sometimes employing as many as nine machines, to address various conditions simultaneously effectively.
Vestibular Injuries: A New Frontier
This year, 40 and 44 emerged as surprising frequency pairs proving effective for vestibular injuries. Who knew a combination focused on inflammation and the inner ear could temporarily ease disequilibrium? By incorporating 40 and 44 at the beginning of treatment, especially during cervical practicums, practitioners noted a significant relaxation in neck muscles—a testament to the interconnectedness of vestibular function and muscular tension.
TMJ Dysfunction and Muscle-Based Causes
The dialogue around TMJ dysfunction continues to evolve, with a focus on understanding the mechanical origins rather than just treating symptoms. Often, issues stem from historical dental procedures or trauma, leading to tightened ligaments and muscles. Understanding this has allowed for more targeted interventions, using FSM to address the underlying tendinopathy in the pterygoids and related structures, delivering long-needed relief to chronic sufferers.
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Like I said, I think for when we are live together next,
I'm going to show you the yellow legal pad of all the
ideas of all the episodes that I put together but as I was
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planning December and I was planning this Kind of year end.
wrap up, round up of all the things
that I've learned, actually, this year.
This year seemed like a big learning year for me.
I don't know about you, and I know we talk about it all
the time, that we're always learning from practitioners
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and we're learning from patients, but it seemed like I
learned a lot more about deviating from my original plan.
And maybe it's now the ability of just being able to see the
bigger picture or to see different possibilities quicker.
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Maybe one, what I, the word I heard
when you said that was flexibility.
Yeah, and you've said something about like
flexibility of mind and I, think about that
because it's, that is very hard for me.
I am a, list making, schedule, I love to have it all planned
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out and, patient care just isn't like that, to be honest.
It's a, you're a GABA girl.
Zero.
Almost no.
And maybe
that's what makes us like a good
Yin and Yang for each other.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I really have to be around GABA
people or my life is complete chaos.
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So, your opening question, this
is what I want to talk about.
That is what gets me.
And then I, me and my serotonin derail the train.
And it's good for me, right?
Because every episode it shows me like it doesn't
have to, we don't have to stick to the script.
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And, however, for the people, for the
folks that are like me, that like to have
a plan in place you can still do right?
Every.
The way I've structured my business, especially in the last
couple of years, is I like to, the night before, look to
see who's coming in the next day, and I, like to jot ideas
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down of what I'd like to try, what's worked, what hasn't.
So I have a plan going into treatment.
I think
that's a good idea.
I agree.
I am just getting better at not
getting so hung up on the plan.
So when the range of motion isn't what I thought
it was, if the patient compliance isn't what I
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thought it was, if for whatever reason we just need
to deviate from the plan, I am better at doing so.
Good.
That is, that means it was a good year.
Any year where you learned something you didn't
think you were going to learn, that's a good year.
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I, I think so.
I have learned that multiple machines
is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Oh yeah, that's, I actually, we
had somebody call the office.
Yeah, yesterday and ask how many machines
we had that we could put on them.
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That's, that was his deciding factor about whether
or not to get on a plane and come from Louisiana to
Vancouver was how many machines that I have I could use.
And it's the, I've used nine on somebody, that's, but
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yesterday I used four on somebody, and she got up off
the table and, L4, 5, S1 and S2 were not numb anymore.
She could feel the floor with her feet.
The abdominal adhesions were gone.
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So she could stand up straight and contract
her abdominal muscles and lift her legs.
And that was 1, 2, 3, 4.
I didn't even run a concussion in Vegas.
And it was done.
So it's not how many machines, it's what you do with them.
Right.
And sometimes, one is enough, and sometimes two is
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enough, and sometimes three and four, and sometimes
more is not necessarily a more effective treatment.
And I think that's what, People need, people
that are listening, non practitioners that are
listening, just because somebody hooks you up to
six machines doesn't mean that treatment was any
better than the practitioner that used two machines.
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It just means on that specific day, you presented
with something that maybe wasn't six conditions
it was, two or six tissues or, I don't know,
I don't know how to explain it properly, but.
It's just, different.
What you do with them.
The lady yesterday, her L5 was numb.
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L4 was better than it was the day before.
S1 was hypersensitive.
S2, actually S1 was numb.
S2 was hypersensitive.
So I went from a low back.
Like a sensory exam.
Following that.
The magic pinwheel.
And so I did 40 and 81, 40 on 396 with one machine and 81
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and 396 from her low back to around her heels and her toes.
And it took an hour.
In 20 minutes, but the sensation was completely normal.
Her feet weren't numb anymore.
She could feel the, she said, Oh, I can feel the floor.
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And then the other two machines were set up on her
abdomen to treat the scar tissue in her ovaries
and the scar tissue in her ureter and kidneys.
Stuff.
And it's funny, I wanna go back to 40 and 81.
So 40 and 3 96 on one machine and 81 and 3 96 on another.
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Somebody went, don't those two just cancel each other out?
And I said, no.
They're almost like, this is how I have a lot of
different, lays in my head that go with the frequencies.
So I see those two, the 40 and 3 96 on one
and 40 and or 81 and 3 96 on the other.
More like dueling pianos.
Okay.
So yes, 40 and 81 are opposites as far as one turn,
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stepping down and one turn something up, but they don't
cancel each other out like a mathematical equation.
It's they're doing, I said there to me
and my brain, it's like dueling pianos.
Like they're,
In this particular case, in, when a nerve gets so
inflamed, because she has dysbulges at L4 5 and 5S1.
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When a nerve gets so inflamed.
That I can't conduct, it gets
hypersensitive and then it gets numb.
So in order to restore sensation,
you have to reduce inflammation.
But then because I was tired of
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reducing inflammation and I wanted to.
increase secretions in the nerve so that it would
feel things and it would have motor function.
I did 81.
So both were necessary in the nerve
to get the nerve to work right.
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And you can do this at the same time with
two machines as opposed to running one
and waiting and then running another one.
If you only had one machine this, is doable.
It just takes a bit longer.
Exactly.
This is
good.
Very organically.
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One of the things I had circled on my notepad
for a couple of days is herniated disks.
And we talk about disks a lot.
Treating discs are easy.
It can be tricky, but I wanted to just highlight
some things because treating a disc isn't just
coming into someone's clinic and lying on a table
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and getting disc frequency for an hour and leaving.
There is homework, that is involved with
Treating non surgical discs, but it is doable.
One of the things I want to highlight from my
perspective is the muscles surrounding a traumatized
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disc are going to have an opinion of their
idea of what stabilizing the spine looks like.
So we never want to put deep manual pressure
over top of a herniated disc and we have to
treat the surrounding musculature with respect.
These muscles are splinting for a reason.
So taking out the guarding, even though you
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know it's it has to be done respectfully.
And I think respectfully is probably
the best word I can think of.
And FSM has been such a, it's almost like the control tower.
When just one thing, it will never smush
things to a dangerous level of instability.
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In my opinion, it's always been there.
been, very responsible as far as, especially
when your palpation, as it gets so much better
with FSM, you can feel when softening is taking
place and it's moving in the right direction.
But the other thing I want to say is if you are worried
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of taking out too much splinting, In my opinion, RockTape
Kinesio Tape has been very helpful of providing some
really good sensory feedback to that muscle so it can
take the hyperness away from the splinting, but still
keep tone in place and give that proprioceptive feedback
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loop that it's not unstable and it's actually very safe.
And the thing to remember is we're not treating the muscle.
We're treating why the muscle is tight.
So we're not running, 40 and 46.
We're not treating the muscle.
We're treating 124 and 40 with the disc part.
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So one of the machines I ran on her
was back to front running disc repair.
For So the reason her nerves were
numb was this disc bulge at L5 S1.
So I ran torn and broken, or basically the protocol
disc repair, which is torn and broken and 40
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with the
Yeah, Repair and Heal.
I really Torn and Broken because that's what's wrong.
Yes.
What is wrong?
It's inflamed.
Yes.
What is, wrong is not it's repaired and healed.
What is wrong is it's torn and broken.
So you can look at it either way.
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But anyway.
I treated the disc and that made the muscles relax
because you're treating why the muscles are tight.
It's just like treating, muscle guarding for any reason.
Like muscles don't get tight from outer space.
They're getting tight to protect it.
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So whether there's like tearing and yes, it's tearing.
It's so 124.
So tearing in a meniscus And so the Went to protect that.
We see that happening in the shoulder all the time.
Yeah.
Thickness tears.
We get a lot of muscle hyperactivity to try to stabilize.
And the more movable, the joint, the more of the muscles
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are going to respond in that manner to try to protect it.
To your point, the muscles in the back
are, you're not treating the muscles.
Yes, the muscles are tight, but your
intent is to not treat an inflamed muscle.
The muscle again, it's what's on a, what's on
B, but the big question is how did we get here?
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Why is this tight?
Why, is this restricted?
Why is this what's wrong?
What's wrong?
Yeah.
And what's wrong is she's got a disc bulge and
that results in numb nerves and tight muscles.
And it's the other thing was she couldn't lift her thigh.
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She couldn't lift her thigh cause
she couldn't contract her psoas.
She couldn't contract her psoas because
she had her colon removed when she was 13.
And so there's all this scar tissue and adhesions
in her abdomen, gluing her ureter to her psoas.
So she hasn't been able to use her psoas properly.
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It's just been spastic.
For I think she's in her forties or fifties, right?
So she hasn't been able to use it and it's been so tight
that basically ground her hip joint, her hip into the joint.
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So the next thing on her to do list is, hip replacement.
So there you go.
I want to back up for a second when we're
talking about low back pain and we'll just
do nondescript low back pain for a second.
I think we're really good at talking about,
okay, what are the back muscles doing?
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What are the glutes doing?
What's happening in the abdomen, right?
We look at these three places and then from a strength
perspective, we're giving corrective exercise for
the core, turn on the glutes, stabilize the back.
Okay.
But one thing that I think is missed is that those groups,
the abdomen, the low back muscles and the glutes need
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to work together in order to have a functional life.
And a lot of times the back will turn on, but not the
glutes and then the abs will turn on and not the low back.
And that's where that problem is.
That's where the wipe and load research came from
was how do we get this swimmer who needs to stay in
a horizontal plane who's all of a sudden had that
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back trauma and now his abs can't fire with his back
and he's like this in the water instead of straight.
So I, I like to use the term
polyamorous codependent relationship.
That sounds wrong.
Wrong, but right.
Sounds
dirty.
Polyamorous.
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The three of them love each other.
Those three groups love each other.
They work together.
Yeah.
But they're all dependent on each other.
And part of when one muscle group is activated
and another muscle group is deactivated goes
right back to the perception of, is this safe?
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It doesn't matter what kind of manual therapy
you do, what kind of great adjustment you do.
If it is not perceived as safe to move,
you're never going to get that patterning.
Fair enough.
And you have to think in terms of muscle couples, right?
In order to be balanced, they have to fire
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in the right amount at the right time.
So if these are really tight, Okay.
Like these can't contract or you have
to find out why they're out of balance.
Let's put it that way.
Yeah, sure.
And it's asking the right questions.
And so to your point, like you were talking
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about that patient who some people might
just write off as, Oh, weak hip flexors.
And that's a term that we're throwing
around all the time right now.
Are these.
stretch weaknesses and these tight weaknesses.
And I do love when people simplify patterns because
it gives us something quickly to look at, but
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when it's oversimplified, it really bothers me.
So yes, people are sitting now more than we ever have.
So yes, our hip flexors are chronically shortened
because we're sitting, but that's not, if you had just
wrote that off in this case, you would miss everything
that patient had about her colon and the scarring.
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Like you, you wouldn't think about treating that or
without FSM, I guess you wouldn't have a tool to do that.
Exactly.
That's part of the challenge that everybody else has.
It's
I've, as far as I can turn it concerned.
Just because we're sitting and the psoas is
short all the time doesn't mean it's weak.
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Every single core, when we do the supine lumbar
practicum, absolutely everybody with a tight psoas or
a pain producing psoas, trigger points in their psoas,
100 percent of them, it's scarring in the ureter.
It's never the psoas muscle.
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It's one of the strongest muscles in the body.
It is, some, one of my GPs told me, it's
the only muscle that shows up on x ray.
You take an x ray of the abdomen,
and there's the psoas muscle.
Okay, may not be the only muscle that shows
up on x ray, but it shows up on x ray.
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It's got Multiple innervations, so
it's, an important postural stabilizer.
It's never weak, it's short, but at times when
it doesn't elongate, when it stays short, every
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single time it's been scarring in the ureter.
There's, never a time when that's not the problem.
I just think it's really, it's really
funny that we think we can treat it, right?
Like it, it attaches onto the spine and
here we are trying to wiggle our way down.
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And maybe when your intent was to release it indirectly
because you are You are applying such deep pressure to
everything that is in the abdominal cavity laying psoas.
And now when you just think about, I always think about
FSM helps us minimize the collateral damage, right?
So whether we're treating a deep muscle or we're
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treating a deep tissue in the viscera, You have to
be, again I'm going back to the word respect, you have
to be respectful of everything that's on top of it.
And maybe before you just think organs,
who cares, because you can't treat it.
And I always joke that I'll have netters open
and I try to explain, I'll say, Oh, I'm just
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showing you what's all on top of your psoas.
It's for me to remember, okay, colon,
ovary, Ureter, what else is on top?
What else could be scarred?
What else could be affected by it?
And that goes back to your patient history, right?
So maybe before you would just skim through
all the surgeries that they have and now
you're thinking, okay, gallbladder, okay, could
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there be scarring where the gallbladder was?
Why did the gallbladder have to come out?
It just really helps.
It helps you when you are respectful of
the tissues and the layers of tissues.
It helps you to ask the question, why?
Yeah, and the other thing is just mileage is in the
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supine lumbar practicum, let's say 15 years ago when
we started doing the supine lumbar practicum, I didn't
have the firm conviction that the only thing that's
ever wrong with the psoas is adhesions in the ureter.
15 years ago, I did not have that.
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belief.
But after doing practicums for 15 years, eight times a year,
it's, the only thing that's ever wrong with the psoas, is
scarring the ureter, and then you go to the top and you
do scarring the kidneys, sclerosis in the fat pad, follow
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it down, do scarring in the bladder, and you're done.
And after doing that eight times ten, let's say, 80 times,
so 800 times a year, let's just pick that as a number,
maybe 600 times a year for small classes for 15 years.
That's let's say 6, 000 times just in
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classes that doesn't count the patients.
So 6, 000 times it's always scarring in the ureter.
That's what's wrong with the psoas until proven otherwise.
It just, it, that's just the way it works.
And then you can work your way around to
the other things that are scarred down.
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The small intestine, scarring in the vagus
nerve for somebody that's had colon surgery.
That's all the bleeding in the abdomen.
So you have scarring in the vagus and it's it, because
we have the tool that lets us address what's wrong.
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in specific tissues, it lets us or makes
us think about it in a different way.
And thank goodness for that.
Amen.
That's, it's true.
True story.
You
know, and I do, sympathize or empathize with the students
that you see them so excited at the beginning of class.
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And then there's a part in the class where they
start to overwhelmed and horrified because of all the
windows in their browser that start opening, right?
Yes.
Yes.
What do you mean?
It's not the muscle.
I just treat muscles.
What do you mean?
It's not the muscle.
If it was a muscle, you would only need four frequencies
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and then you could leave after an hour of class.
Yeah.
And then there's that one slide that says,
even though you're treating scarring in the
ureter or the frequencies for scarring in
the ureter, you're only treating the sawdust.
Yes.
What, do you mean?
It's there's what frequencies you use, and then
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what you can say in your chart notes, in your chart
notes, you can only say that 13 and 60 takes away the
pain and tightness and trigger points in the psoas.
Right.
What's 13 and 64 it's for taking
away trigger points in the psoas.
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Yeah.
But what's 13 and 60 mean?
It means the trigger points in the psoas
and the pain in the psoas goes away.
Okay.
On the one hand, you have to think of the frequencies.
On the other hand, you can't make any claims.
So that's the part where it gets really painful, I think.
And then Kate Adams just said, Because she's the
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one that actually came up with, she's the one
that actually came up with, scarring a narrator.
She's the one that did that.
Oh, Jennifer Washington said, Is the Vegas safe?
There is
a question above that.
So let's just jump to that actually right above.
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So she says, I have a client coming in for tinnitus.
It start or tinnitus.
However, if you're Canadian or American, it
started when she was six months pregnant.
and started throwing up every day until
she gave birth to a nine pound baby.
She also has vasovagal syncope.
I'm waiting for her intake form, but no,
she had a concussion three weeks ago.
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CT scan was good.
Is Vega safe?
Any other suggestions would be great.
It's vasovagal, so number one, six, if you're pregnant and
you're throwing up every day, you can't phosphorylate B6.
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So the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, is
problems with making the active form of B6.
So that's just a little side note.
Vasovagal, so what, you're saying is she's fainting.
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So syncope is she's faint, fainting.
And there are a number of things that can cause fainting.
It doesn't have to be the vagus.
Low blood pressure would do it.
Has she only been fainting sick since her concussion?
Or was she fainting before the concussion?
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So was fainting what caused her concussion
or did the concussion cause fainting?
That's the thing.
And I would say treating the vagus is always safe.
It's it has to be working right.
I, I would.
And that always, I would also
ask, Is she, which caused what?
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Does the concussion because she, fainted?
Or did she start fainting after her concussion?
So there's that, right?
Yeah.
So let me, just read.
So she has tinnitus or tinnitus started
when she was six months pregnant, started
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throwing up every day until she gave birth.
So it's been a few months at
least, and she had the baby, right?
Because.
Sounds, right.
I don't know.
Maybe we can get more information from Jennifer.
So is Vegas safe?
Yeah, I, let's troubleshoot this for a second.
Why wouldn't it be safe?
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I can't imagine.
So the baby's nine months old.
Okay.
Nine months.
So the,
she had a concussion three weeks ago, which hasn't, so
that means, but when did she start?
So did fainting cause the concussion
that it sounds that way, right?
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She also has basal vagal syncope.
Has she fainted more than once?
I would still say that treating the vagus is, A good idea.
I can't think of anything that
treating the vagus doesn't help.
So maybe I'm wrong, but never fainted.
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You don't faint because your vagus isn't working.
Is you don't faint because your vagus is working, right?
Yeah, because your heart rate can go up and in order
so if you're if the vagus is not working your heart
rate can go up and then Your brain decides that
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you need to be horizontal because it can't pump
enough blood To your brain to keep your vertical.
So you have to lay down now.
So it faints,
right?
So the comment was, she said she never fainted.
Then I wonder
what the vasovagal syncope symptoms were then.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Syncope means she fainted,
right?
That's how I understood it.
Maybe she just had fainting like symptoms.
Well, syncope means right.
But.
So I would say, yes, you could treat the vagus, it's
yeah.
And would you do 81 109?
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Sure.
I would, but she said she never fainted.
But then what does vasovagal syncope look like?
And then tinnitus, if somebody has tinnitus that
is persistent, then they need a hearing test
because tinnitus is phantom limb pain for the ears.
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Yes.
I love that phrase.
Yeah.
Isn't that great?
That is Sue Doucette.
She's an audiologist at Good Sam.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the, that's, it's phantom limb pain for your ears.
Yes.
Means you can't hear.
Yes, that is fantastic.
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Okay, so hopefully you have some things
to try when your patient comes in.
Would you add anything else for her to test and or look for?
Check the patient's heart rate is
84, then the vagus isn't working.
So you can use that as an indicator as to,
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you can use her heart rate as an
indicator to see what the vagus is doing.
She just told me she has the condition.
I need to know what to ask.
If she says she never fainted, then you
have to ask her what she means by syncope.
Okay.
And who told her that's what she had if she's never fainted?
What is that?
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Because vasovagal syncope is fainting because
somebody thinks your vagus isn't working.
As far as I know.
That's.
Yeah.
Sounds like somebody's
confused.
Yeah, I and you know what?
Like we, sometimes patients do come in with, conditions
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that somebody labeled them with for no good reason
other than they were also confused and just gave
this person a label and sent them out the door.
And we see this with frozen shoulder.
We see this with hip impingement syndrome.
We see this with piriformis syndrome.
I love
that.
With so many syndromes, right?
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And people become attached to, we even see
that actually with fibromyalgia, right?
I had somebody who just had pain with
one shoulder underneath one shoulder
blade and was like, I have fibromyalgia.
Of the right shoulder.
One spot.
Zero other symptoms.
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No,
what you have is a
lazy
doctor,
maybe
We can, put that in the syndrome because so and I'm not
trying to oversimplify anything or minimize anybody's
diagnosis by any stretch, but I'm just saying that there are
a lot of times where you have to take a previous diagnosis,
but still do your own exam and still connect your own dots.
(32:04):
So there's a question there too, with, like you
said, who told her that, that she had this and.
Why?
And why?
If you've never fainted, then the other thing is there's
so much power that a patient has with just Google.
(32:25):
Yeah.
Just bring up a search engine and you can
bring up syncope and find out what it is.
And you bring up syncope and it'll say it's fainting.
I never fainted.
So what is this thing that I have?
Yes, we were, talking about this when we had Charlie
(32:45):
Weingraff on a while ago, how you, have to take their
old diagnoses, or their previous diagnoses, and, but
you have to also look at imaging that they brought in,
and the relevancy to their symptoms, and put those three
bubbles together with your own exam, and come up with
(33:05):
your own findings, because, just because somebody was
diagnosed with something four years ago, that doesn't
mean A, it's healed, or B, it's gotten worse, or.
Yeah, true that.
We need to answer Leif's question,
because I'm
not seeing some submissions on
(33:29):
either the chat or the question.
So Leif's question, say again.
Maybe nobody's asking questions.
There's, one, Leif has a question.
You referred to warming up the hands last
week, but I can't recall the numbers.
What are they?
Raynaud's was the issue and it was 81 and 62.
(33:54):
That was Dave Burke that did that one and he did it
with with an iCare without even the magnetic pad.
They have the iCare app on their phone and everybody
knows you can't use the iCare in your office.
But Dave had his phone in his pocket and he.
(34:16):
This patient had run out, so his hand was white, and
he put 81 and 62 on the phone with the volume down.
The patient held the phone, and they all just
watched his hands turn pink, instead of white.
And then, he died.
His wife had Raynaud's too, so they put
(34:37):
81 and 62 and her hands turned pink.
That was pretty cool.
So
that's amazing.
I have yet to try it.
There's when we talk about.
Long COVID, when Christy Hughes lectures at the
(34:58):
symposium, she's going to be talking about the
endothelium in the arteries and the capillaries, and
she's actually talking about the endothelial glycocalyx.
And I.
Even after hearing her lecture in Las Vegas, I
still have, I don't know what that is exactly.
Yeah, I was just going to say, can
you, what it, can you, you lost me.
(35:21):
Yeah, so
when
she makes her slides for us, the first part of her
presentation is going to be explaining what the
endothelial glycocalyx is, but Long COVID, one of
the consequences of COVID and actually the vaccine
for COVID is that this lining of the arteries gets
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disrupted and rough and instead of Having a smooth place
for the blood laminar flow of blood, you've got this
rough, uneven surface, but part of the it's Christie
(36:09):
is lecturing Saturday and Jerry Pollock is lecturing
Sunday, I think, and if you think about what he shows.
As that laminar flow, the fourth phase of water, the
laminar flow along the inside of the blood vessel or a tube.
If the laminar flow is disrupted by an uneven
(36:32):
rough surface, then you have a problem, right?
So
it's, that's, that's, what she's going to be talking about.
And 80, 40, 124.
repair or torn or broken and inflammation and
(36:55):
increased secretions because the lining of the blood
vessel arteries and capillaries secretes constantly
secretes this smooth almost Like, seaweed, how it's
(37:15):
filmy,
smooth lining on the inside of the arteries.
And that's the glycocalyx.
It's smooth.
And it is a secretion on the inside of the arteries.
And, probably the veins as well, because we talk
about, we had that case report where the physical
(37:38):
therapist, it was Jesse Tierney, ran for a Deep
vein thrombus in the better part of the lower leg.
She ran torn and broken and vitality.
That was it.
Torn and broken and vitality in the vein.
(38:00):
And this huge blood clot and a D
dimer of five was gone the next day.
And that is impossible, but it also suggests that
the normal function of the vein means that the vein
(38:23):
secretes something that keeps its functioning correctly.
Yeah.
Because if you think about this, femoral, or sciatic artery
vein nerve complex that come down the back of your leg.
You're sitting on it all the time.
(38:46):
Why don't you have blood clots in your legs all the time?
It's because of something that the veins and the
arteries are secreting that keeps them healthy
that and we have apparently have the ability to
Influence that.
(39:07):
Talk to me about the spare . I love, let me get the
bow out of the way that says, that is so cute.
It seems appropriate when we're talking about this
thing that FSM can do that nobody else can do.
Love FSM, so this is, it's, it is in the, if
(39:28):
you go to frequency specific.com, it's in.
Products and
then merch.
Products, so there's a tab on the Frequency
Specific website, frequencyspecific.
com, there'll be a little tab that says products, and
then there's something called merch, which is short
for merchandise, and the bear, Plus t shirts and stuff
(39:54):
like that, but the bear is so I'm going to keep the
bear on my desk and when we talk about doing something
like fixing somebody's sciatica so that their feet
aren't numb, and we're the only ones that can do that.
I'll just, put that up.
(40:16):
And what a gift that little bear is and all the hope.
I want to bring the train that went all over
the place just now back to some questions
for you for our like year end roundup.
Oh wrap up.
Not just, I like summaries.
I like conclusions.
I like, I like reflecting on,
(40:38):
like I said, what I've learned.
Has there been a frequency that has been new to
you or that has stolen the spotlight a little bit?
Have you been, is there, do you know,
like every year we have one, right?
Like a couple of years ago, it was
like torn and broken is time dependent.
There's, there always seems to be something that.
(41:00):
We chat about do you have one that you can think of
This year, the surprise for me, because I, how long have
I said, there's nothing we can do for vestibular injuries.
Yeah, just kidding.
40 and 44.
Is the one that's like.
Really?
It works?
(41:20):
Seriously?
40 is inflammation or quiet the
activity of, and 44 is the ear.
Inner ear.
The inner ear.
The vestibular system.
As far as I can tell it doesn't do
anything for tinnitus, but it makes the
disequilibrium go away at least temporarily.
(41:45):
So if somebody has a vestibular injury and
you're treating their neck and their neck doesn't
go smush, their next muscles stay hard and
they still have this sense of disequilibrium.
You put 40 and 44 at the beat.
(42:08):
beginning of the supine cervical practicum and Or you set
up one machine that only does 40 and 44 for the whole time
they're treating their neck, the neck muscles just go mush
because one of the reasons that the neck muscles are tight
(42:30):
is that the brain needs to know where it is in space.
So it tightens the neck muscles.
And they stay tight right and do everything you want
to the neck and it works but when you add 40 and 44,
(42:51):
it makes you realize that vestibular injuries create.
Yeah.
Okay, because the right neck compresses the joints
and the discs, and then you find somebody that has had
one minor fender bender and terrible looking x rays
(43:11):
and multiple disc bulges that don't make any sense.
They're mild, they're everywhere, and it's like you're on 40
and 44, the neck muscles relax and that makes it make sense.
Because if everything is under compression,
then the joints are going to degenerate and
the discs are going to get little teeny non
(43:36):
active bulges, and there hasn't been any trauma.
It's it just
Don't you also notice a correlation between
vestibular, cervical, and then TMJ dysfunction?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is soon to follow and that's secondary, right?
(43:57):
I want to say, what was the statistic?
Like 94%, 93 percent of all TMJ
dysfunction is muscle based, right?
The joint just doesn't deteriorate.
The disc just doesn't deteriorate.
It's not like an extremity.
So if it's coming from the superior
slip of the lateral pterygoid.
(44:18):
That is a mechanical problem from mechanics
happening in the neck and the mechanics in the
neck are happening from the vestibular injury.
Unless the dysfunction in the
muscles is coming from, An infection.
(44:39):
Demands.
A ligament strain.
Yeah.
Or they had braces.
So I've had TMJ ever since I was 19.
What happened when you were 19?
I got my braces taken off.
And so there are those wires and head gear
pulling on the jaw, on the teeth ligaments.
(45:00):
And it creates damage to the ligaments you treat torn
and broken in the ligaments and all the muscles relax.
It's like when partial thickness tendon
tears cause the muscles to be tight.
If there's no reason.
(45:22):
If the, for example, when did you have TMJ?
When I was 22, what happened when you were 22?
They took my wisdom teeth out.
Okay.
You look at the mechanics of getting wisdom teeth removed.
They block your jaw open for up to an hour creating a
(45:47):
tendinopathy in the pterygoid and then the pterygoid
muscle becomes tight because the tendon is injured and
that creates the popping in the disc and that creates
the joint dysfunction and that creates the tightness.
In the temporalis and the masseter, but it all caught
(46:09):
started because they jammed the jaw open for an hour,
right?
That's torn and broken, right?
So whether it's from a prolonged dental procedure.
or just the changes that happen with the ligaments
as teeth are moving and the jaw is adjusting, whether
(46:30):
it's from trauma, slip and fall, a punch, motor vehicle
accident, it all of it starts, has to start with 124.
It's torn and broken.
And, I do want to say my Deep dive into that TMJ
webinar over COVID when I were looking at the
cadavers and what is behind the disc, that retro
(46:54):
discal tissue, which is adipose, but it bleeds easy.
And as I, as they're lecturing about this retro
discal tissues, Highly innervated and it bleeds easy.
I'm just seeing 18 and scoring in the
adipose and like places that you would
never think about treating in, the jaw.
(47:15):
But because of that pterygoid pulling on it everything
just continues to tear and nothing will respond.
It will respond, but it won't stay.
Nothing will hold until you treat the driver.
What we always say, the cause.
. Yeah,
exactly.
(47:35):
Couple questions that came up about accessing past webinars.
So again, that's on the website.
You can look at us on YouTube.
You could watch old podcasts on YouTube or listen to
us on Spotify or, anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
Just type in frequency specific microcurrent
(47:57):
podcast and we will pop up on different platforms,
but the webinars are only on the website.
So frequency specific com forward slash webinar and you can
hear the great the Vegas webinar I listen to all the time.
I always take home something new.
And the Ehlers Danlos webinar is fantastic.
(48:19):
So even if you have patients I'll play little clips
from, your talk on that, because it just, it puts
so much together for people who, need to hear their
symptoms and their world buttoned up in a package.
In a context
too.
Absolutely.
My favorite ones are the Vegas Erlers Danlos and Mold.
(48:42):
And then, before I did topic webinars, I did,
five years worth of practitioner webinars.
So there's one that's called, Put It Together.
And there's three different cases, and there's one that I
(49:05):
can't remember all the names of them, but they were, all of
them I think are like three case reports that are unusual
cases that taught me how to think about things, right?
So the, yeah, that's, those are
pretty fun, but you're right.
The biggest.
(49:26):
The Euler's Danloss and the mold are, I'd say the biggies.
Yeah, that We We know these things, but hearing it again
and again, it's like going to the core multiple times.
We're not slow learners, but you
just hear things differently.
(49:47):
And you're, I guess you're just ready to hear more
information when you're ready to hear more information.
It's why I read Roger Billika's Neurotransmitters.
What did he call it?
Molecules of Behavior.
Yeah.
I watch that probably four times a year.
It's just, it's, and once you
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see it, you can't ever unsee it.
It's the truth with all of them.
I suppose we should do one on vestibular injuries.
That's on my list.
Yeah.
And then, Kevin has a list of things that
he wants us to do webinars on some quiet
Wednesday when we're not doing a podcast.
(50:28):
So that's a possibility and we will start
early or stay late on a podcast day.
If you're working on the endothelial glycocalyx.
What frequencies do you think would work?
Torn and broken, 40, 81, and 49.
(50:49):
Increase secr Reduce inflammation, because
inflammation is how it got broken in the first place.
I guess you could, if it was after COVID, I guess you
could run this, six COVID frequencies, then reduce
inflammation, increase secretions and vitality.
(51:11):
That kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
It does.
When you, yeah.
It's a great place to start anyways.
Seems like you're covering all your bases with.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I, do have a couple things also that I want to get
out before the next nine minutes evaporates on us.
(51:32):
The end of the year sale.
I've mentioned it briefly at the end of the
podcast last week, but it is a great sale.
It is a great time to, as you mentioned get
some extra write offs for your accountant.
But I want to all the, I get questions all the
time about the magnetic converter and you, I
(51:56):
believe, Or maybe it wasn't you, but it was once,
said that it's not great at treating nerve pain.
However, you successfully treat your own nerve pain with it,
correct?
Yeah, it's, I say that it's not that great at treating
the cord of the nerve, but if I wake up in the
middle of the night, my hand is, numb and painful.
(52:17):
I'll put one puck up by my neck and one puck in
my hand and I've got 40 and 396 on my custom care,
but it's alternating because the magnetic converter
can't do polarized, it has to do alternating.
And I punch a button, put the puck in my hand, in
five minutes the pain is gone, I go back to sleep.
(52:39):
And 40 and 396 runs for about 60 minutes.
So it, Yeah, it works.
I have to confess that I have a converter
in the office, but I don't use it.
I use.
Now, I was in clips because it's, I think it's,
(52:59):
there's just a limit to the weirdness factor.
It's it's weird enough to use frequencies.
You can't hear and current.
You can't feel without using something
with blinky lights in the office.
So there's only a certain amount of Lulu.
I'm willing to expose my patients to, I need
(53:21):
them to think that something real is happening.
And you're right.
I think a lot of patients are so used
to having very invasive treatments.
So the deep moist heat from the towels is like the
least I can do to give them some sort of sensory.
Until they know what to expect
(53:43):
and that results take place and.
For, the practitioners, the best reason to buy a
magnetic converter is to treat yourself at home.
That's, the most important is I won't, I can't take the time
(54:04):
in the daytime to treat myself, but I get in bed at night
and I have a nighttime program that starts with concussion
and vagus goes to insulin resistance, goes to vascular
health, goes to heart health, and the thing runs for hours.
I'm not going to treat myself for four hours in the daytime.
(54:25):
With magnetic converter, I just set it up,
punch a button, roll over and go to sleep.
You're
lying there
anyways.
Exactly.
And then there's this really cool feature in the new
software where you can click a button and copy a protocol.
And, then, Paste it on another protocol and
(54:49):
then copy another one and paste it on that.
And so that's how you end up with
one protocol that's Hours long,
right?
As opposed to having to get up in an hour
and change it, like who wants to do that?
Because then you're not sleeping and you're going to feel
like garbage the next day because you're not sleeping.
And then you're going to blame it on FSM.
(55:12):
When all you needed was a good night's sleep.
So yes you can batch those programs together to make
a super sleep protocol is what I like to call them.
And all those devices, everything
I believe is on sale right now.
Like the magnetic converter, the
custom care, the precision care.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin,
but I believe it's all on sale.
(55:34):
And the early bird special for the advanced and symposium
ends on December 31st and I'm excited about this year.
We have, it's the first time ever that the whole afternoon
and part of the morning on at the symposium, I had to take
(55:55):
our 90 minute plenary speakers and ask them to shorten
to 60 minutes so we could fit in all the case reports.
So that's exciting.
The
case reports are so exciting because the lectures are
exciting with the topics as well, but the case reports
help put everything together for you, because every
(56:15):
case report, you have a client or a patient that is very
similar or similar enough that it sparks those ideas.
Or it'll give you the confidence of, hey, I
have somebody similar and that's what I do.
And it's just so great to see.
That's our, those are our research models, to
see that live and their thought process, I think,
(56:37):
true learning really happens in those examples.
When we find
out things we didn't know we could treat, and you find out
it's reproducible, and to tell you, we have a, practitioner
coming from India that spent a month and a half.
(56:59):
Trying to get a visa to come here.
We have a practitioner presenting a
case report from Poland, from Rome.
it's, it's just mind boggling.
The kind of people and the skillsets and the different
degrees, nature paths, osteopaths, physical therapists.
(57:19):
Amazing that so many different.
Professions can come together, unite in one room,
brainstorm, share ideas, get inspired, and then get
on a plane and go home and do it all over again.
And besides the food's great and the
food's great and Arizona in March is great.
(57:40):
It's all just, it's great.
Is Jay Shaw coming?
Oh, and Jay Shaw's coming.
He is, he loves us.
So he literally asked me, can I come?
It's can I come this year?
And you're never going to say no to Jay Shaw.
And I, and he is one 90 minute slot.
(58:02):
It's tough.
Cramming Jason into 90 minutes, but he said, I can do that.
So there we go.
So we have Jason and Jerry Pollock and Julianna
Mortenson and, Christie Hughes and Eduardo and, oh,
and we have the Feinstein data on the Vegas nerve.
(58:27):
We that it's been patented.
Yeah, so we can actually talk about it.
I don't have to keep quiet.
Yeah.
For the last two years.
That's how long it took them to get this data.
So amazing.
Yeah.
Jennifer Ernst is coming.
(58:47):
She's the CEO of the company that's creating the device.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
So many great things.
So between.
It's going to be live stream so if you
absolutely can't come, it will be filmed
and live stream thanks to David Eaks.
Yes, the unfortunate part of live stream is that you
can't meet up with your friends in the hallway and geek
(59:09):
out over numbers and all the tables that we have for
the different like themes and, Those are always great.
So you could sit down with your fellow geeks.
I was going to say a different word,
but geeks is what I wanted to say also.
And just be proud of it and just be a
nerd and geek out and talk in numbers.
(59:29):
And,
Candace Elliott called them special interest tables.
Yes.
Yes.
That's perfect.
That is exactly what it is.
Yay.
So you miss out on that, but live stream is a
great option if, you absolutely can't travel.
So get your registration in, buy your devices
now, and then you're all set for the new year.
(59:51):
And don't forget to make hotel reservations.
Yes, because you don't want to leave.
You want to stay in that complex
because everything is there.
You do such a great job of feeding
everybody, but there's great restaurants
and things to walk around and little shops.
So you don't even need a car when
you go there, which is what I love.
Yeah.
And there's a our overflow hotel is, there's
(01:00:11):
one across the street and one down the block.
If our block is full, then you
still have some place to stay?
Yes.
Okay.
That, that is it.
Your timer just went off, I can tell.
It did it, just beeped.
This went by really fast, but I'm
grateful for our little roundup.
(01:00:32):
Yeah, it's been quite a year, hasn't it?
They're always amazing years, but there's, I think
there's just always so much to reflect on, look back
on, and what did you learn and how did you grow?
And, then you could get to move forward with the next
year with all those things and a teddy bear to hug.
Are we doing a podcast on New Year's Day?
(01:00:54):
Oh, we can.
I don't think so.
Do you want to come to work?
It's going to be a couple of weeks before we are on.
Okay.
Do you want to come to work on New Year's Day?
I'll just check and I'll do whatever.
So this is what we do.
We'll sign off now for a fabulous
2024 and even greater 2025.
(01:01:17):
And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and do good things.
And just, enjoy stuff.
So thank you to everybody for coming
and letting us do this week by week.
All right.
Bye.
We'll see you next year.
See you next year.
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Like I said, I think for when we are live together next,
I'm going to show you the yellow legal pad of all the
ideas of all the episodes that I put together but as I was
(00:23):
planning December and I was planning this Kind of year end.
wrap up, round up of all the things
that I've learned, actually, this year.
This year seemed like a big learning year for me.
I don't know about you, and I know we talk about it all
the time, that we're always learning from practitioners
(00:45):
and we're learning from patients, but it seemed like I
learned a lot more about deviating from my original plan.
And maybe it's now the ability of just being able to see the
bigger picture or to see different possibilities quicker.
(01:05):
Maybe one, what I, the word I heard
when you said that was flexibility.
Yeah, and you've said something about like
flexibility of mind and I, think about that
because it's, that is very hard for me.
I am a, list making, schedule, I love to have it all planned
(01:29):
out and, patient care just isn't like that, to be honest.
It's a, you're a GABA girl.
Zero.
Almost no.
And maybe
that's what makes us like a good
Yin and Yang for each other.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I really have to be around GABA
people or my life is complete chaos.
(01:52):
So, your opening question, this
is what I want to talk about.
That is what gets me.
And then I, me and my serotonin derail the train.
And it's good for me, right?
Because every episode it shows me like it doesn't
have to, we don't have to stick to the script.
(02:15):
And, however, for the people, for the
folks that are like me, that like to have
a plan in place you can still do right?
Every.
The way I've structured my business, especially in the last
couple of years, is I like to, the night before, look to
see who's coming in the next day, and I, like to jot ideas
(02:36):
down of what I'd like to try, what's worked, what hasn't.
So I have a plan going into treatment.
I think
that's a good idea.
I agree.
I am just getting better at not
getting so hung up on the plan.
So when the range of motion isn't what I thought
it was, if the patient compliance isn't what I
(02:56):
thought it was, if for whatever reason we just need
to deviate from the plan, I am better at doing so.
Good.
That is, that means it was a good year.
Any year where you learned something you didn't
think you were going to learn, that's a good year.
(03:17):
I, I think so.
I have learned that multiple machines
is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Oh yeah, that's, I actually, we
had somebody call the office.
Yeah, yesterday and ask how many machines
we had that we could put on them.
(03:37):
That's, that was his deciding factor about whether
or not to get on a plane and come from Louisiana to
Vancouver was how many machines that I have I could use.
And it's the, I've used nine on somebody, that's, but
(04:00):
yesterday I used four on somebody, and she got up off
the table and, L4, 5, S1 and S2 were not numb anymore.
She could feel the floor with her feet.
The abdominal adhesions were gone.
(04:22):
So she could stand up straight and contract
her abdominal muscles and lift her legs.
And that was 1, 2, 3, 4.
I didn't even run a concussion in Vegas.
And it was done.
So it's not how many machines, it's what you do with them.
Right.
And sometimes, one is enough, and sometimes two is
(04:46):
enough, and sometimes three and four, and sometimes
more is not necessarily a more effective treatment.
And I think that's what, People need, people
that are listening, non practitioners that are
listening, just because somebody hooks you up to
six machines doesn't mean that treatment was any
better than the practitioner that used two machines.
(05:07):
It just means on that specific day, you presented
with something that maybe wasn't six conditions
it was, two or six tissues or, I don't know,
I don't know how to explain it properly, but.
It's just, different.
What you do with them.
The lady yesterday, her L5 was numb.
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L4 was better than it was the day before.
S1 was hypersensitive.
S2, actually S1 was numb.
S2 was hypersensitive.
So I went from a low back.
Like a sensory exam.
Following that.
The magic pinwheel.
And so I did 40 and 81, 40 on 396 with one machine and 81
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and 396 from her low back to around her heels and her toes.
And it took an hour.
In 20 minutes, but the sensation was completely normal.
Her feet weren't numb anymore.
She could feel the, she said, Oh, I can feel the floor.
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And then the other two machines were set up on her
abdomen to treat the scar tissue in her ovaries
and the scar tissue in her ureter and kidneys.
Stuff.
And it's funny, I wanna go back to 40 and 81.
So 40 and 3 96 on one machine and 81 and 3 96 on another.
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Somebody went, don't those two just cancel each other out?
And I said, no.
They're almost like, this is how I have a lot of
different, lays in my head that go with the frequencies.
So I see those two, the 40 and 3 96 on one
and 40 and or 81 and 3 96 on the other.
More like dueling pianos.
Okay.
So yes, 40 and 81 are opposites as far as one turn,
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stepping down and one turn something up, but they don't
cancel each other out like a mathematical equation.
It's they're doing, I said there to me
and my brain, it's like dueling pianos.
Like they're,
In this particular case, in, when a nerve gets so
inflamed, because she has dysbulges at L4 5 and 5S1.
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When a nerve gets so inflamed.
That I can't conduct, it gets
hypersensitive and then it gets numb.
So in order to restore sensation,
you have to reduce inflammation.
But then because I was tired of
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reducing inflammation and I wanted to.
increase secretions in the nerve so that it would
feel things and it would have motor function.
I did 81.
So both were necessary in the nerve
to get the nerve to work right.
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And you can do this at the same time with
two machines as opposed to running one
and waiting and then running another one.
If you only had one machine this, is doable.
It just takes a bit longer.
Exactly.
This is
good.
Very organically.
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One of the things I had circled on my notepad
for a couple of days is herniated disks.
And we talk about disks a lot.
Treating discs are easy.
It can be tricky, but I wanted to just highlight
some things because treating a disc isn't just
coming into someone's clinic and lying on a table
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and getting disc frequency for an hour and leaving.
There is homework, that is involved with
Treating non surgical discs, but it is doable.
One of the things I want to highlight from my
perspective is the muscles surrounding a traumatized
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disc are going to have an opinion of their
idea of what stabilizing the spine looks like.
So we never want to put deep manual pressure
over top of a herniated disc and we have to
treat the surrounding musculature with respect.
These muscles are splinting for a reason.
So taking out the guarding, even though you
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know it's it has to be done respectfully.
And I think respectfully is probably
the best word I can think of.
And FSM has been such a, it's almost like the control tower.
When just one thing, it will never smush
things to a dangerous level of instability.
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In my opinion, it's always been there.
been, very responsible as far as, especially
when your palpation, as it gets so much better
with FSM, you can feel when softening is taking
place and it's moving in the right direction.
But the other thing I want to say is if you are worried
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of taking out too much splinting, In my opinion, RockTape
Kinesio Tape has been very helpful of providing some
really good sensory feedback to that muscle so it can
take the hyperness away from the splinting, but still
keep tone in place and give that proprioceptive feedback
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loop that it's not unstable and it's actually very safe.
And the thing to remember is we're not treating the muscle.
We're treating why the muscle is tight.
So we're not running, 40 and 46.
We're not treating the muscle.
We're treating 124 and 40 with the disc part.
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So one of the machines I ran on her
was back to front running disc repair.
For So the reason her nerves were
numb was this disc bulge at L5 S1.
So I ran torn and broken, or basically the protocol
disc repair, which is torn and broken and 40
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with the
Yeah, Repair and Heal.
I really Torn and Broken because that's what's wrong.
Yes.
What is wrong?
It's inflamed.
Yes.
What is, wrong is not it's repaired and healed.
What is wrong is it's torn and broken.
So you can look at it either way.
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But anyway.
I treated the disc and that made the muscles relax
because you're treating why the muscles are tight.
It's just like treating, muscle guarding for any reason.
Like muscles don't get tight from outer space.
They're getting tight to protect it.
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So whether there's like tearing and yes, it's tearing.
It's so 124.
So tearing in a meniscus And so the Went to protect that.
We see that happening in the shoulder all the time.
Yeah.
Thickness tears.
We get a lot of muscle hyperactivity to try to stabilize.
And the more movable, the joint, the more of the muscles
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are going to respond in that manner to try to protect it.
To your point, the muscles in the back
are, you're not treating the muscles.
Yes, the muscles are tight, but your
intent is to not treat an inflamed muscle.
The muscle again, it's what's on a, what's on
B, but the big question is how did we get here?
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Why is this tight?
Why, is this restricted?
Why is this what's wrong?
What's wrong?
Yeah.
And what's wrong is she's got a disc bulge and
that results in numb nerves and tight muscles.
And it's the other thing was she couldn't lift her thigh.
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She couldn't lift her thigh cause
she couldn't contract her psoas.
She couldn't contract her psoas because
she had her colon removed when she was 13.
And so there's all this scar tissue and adhesions
in her abdomen, gluing her ureter to her psoas.
So she hasn't been able to use her psoas properly.
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It's just been spastic.
For I think she's in her forties or fifties, right?
So she hasn't been able to use it and it's been so tight
that basically ground her hip joint, her hip into the joint.
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So the next thing on her to do list is, hip replacement.
So there you go.
I want to back up for a second when we're
talking about low back pain and we'll just
do nondescript low back pain for a second.
I think we're really good at talking about,
okay, what are the back muscles doing?
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What are the glutes doing?
What's happening in the abdomen, right?
We look at these three places and then from a strength
perspective, we're giving corrective exercise for
the core, turn on the glutes, stabilize the back.
Okay.
But one thing that I think is missed is that those groups,
the abdomen, the low back muscles and the glutes need
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to work together in order to have a functional life.
And a lot of times the back will turn on, but not the
glutes and then the abs will turn on and not the low back.
And that's where that problem is.
That's where the wipe and load research came from
was how do we get this swimmer who needs to stay in
a horizontal plane who's all of a sudden had that
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back trauma and now his abs can't fire with his back
and he's like this in the water instead of straight.
So I, I like to use the term
polyamorous codependent relationship.
That sounds wrong.
Wrong, but right.
Sounds
dirty.
Polyamorous.
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The three of them love each other.
Those three groups love each other.
They work together.
Yeah.
But they're all dependent on each other.
And part of when one muscle group is activated
and another muscle group is deactivated goes
right back to the perception of, is this safe?
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It doesn't matter what kind of manual therapy
you do, what kind of great adjustment you do.
If it is not perceived as safe to move,
you're never going to get that patterning.
Fair enough.
And you have to think in terms of muscle couples, right?
In order to be balanced, they have to fire
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in the right amount at the right time.
So if these are really tight, Okay.
Like these can't contract or you have
to find out why they're out of balance.
Let's put it that way.
Yeah, sure.
And it's asking the right questions.
And so to your point, like you were talking
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about that patient who some people might
just write off as, Oh, weak hip flexors.
And that's a term that we're throwing
around all the time right now.
Are these.
stretch weaknesses and these tight weaknesses.
And I do love when people simplify patterns because
it gives us something quickly to look at, but
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when it's oversimplified, it really bothers me.
So yes, people are sitting now more than we ever have.
So yes, our hip flexors are chronically shortened
because we're sitting, but that's not, if you had just
wrote that off in this case, you would miss everything
that patient had about her colon and the scarring.
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Like you, you wouldn't think about treating that or
without FSM, I guess you wouldn't have a tool to do that.
Exactly.
That's part of the challenge that everybody else has.
It's
I've, as far as I can turn it concerned.
Just because we're sitting and the psoas is
short all the time doesn't mean it's weak.
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Every single core, when we do the supine lumbar
practicum, absolutely everybody with a tight psoas or
a pain producing psoas, trigger points in their psoas,
100 percent of them, it's scarring in the ureter.
It's never the psoas muscle.
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It's one of the strongest muscles in the body.
It is, some, one of my GPs told me, it's
the only muscle that shows up on x ray.
You take an x ray of the abdomen,
and there's the psoas muscle.
Okay, may not be the only muscle that shows
up on x ray, but it shows up on x ray.
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It's got Multiple innervations, so
it's, an important postural stabilizer.
It's never weak, it's short, but at times when
it doesn't elongate, when it stays short, every
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single time it's been scarring in the ureter.
There's, never a time when that's not the problem.
I just think it's really, it's really
funny that we think we can treat it, right?
Like it, it attaches onto the spine and
here we are trying to wiggle our way down.
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And maybe when your intent was to release it indirectly
because you are You are applying such deep pressure to
everything that is in the abdominal cavity laying psoas.
And now when you just think about, I always think about
FSM helps us minimize the collateral damage, right?
So whether we're treating a deep muscle or we're
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treating a deep tissue in the viscera, You have to
be, again I'm going back to the word respect, you have
to be respectful of everything that's on top of it.
And maybe before you just think organs,
who cares, because you can't treat it.
And I always joke that I'll have netters open
and I try to explain, I'll say, Oh, I'm just
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showing you what's all on top of your psoas.
It's for me to remember, okay, colon,
ovary, Ureter, what else is on top?
What else could be scarred?
What else could be affected by it?
And that goes back to your patient history, right?
So maybe before you would just skim through
all the surgeries that they have and now
you're thinking, okay, gallbladder, okay, could
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there be scarring where the gallbladder was?
Why did the gallbladder have to come out?
It just really helps.
It helps you when you are respectful of
the tissues and the layers of tissues.
It helps you to ask the question, why?
Yeah, and the other thing is just mileage is in the
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supine lumbar practicum, let's say 15 years ago when
we started doing the supine lumbar practicum, I didn't
have the firm conviction that the only thing that's
ever wrong with the psoas is adhesions in the ureter.
15 years ago, I did not have that.
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belief.
But after doing practicums for 15 years, eight times a year,
it's, the only thing that's ever wrong with the psoas, is
scarring the ureter, and then you go to the top and you
do scarring the kidneys, sclerosis in the fat pad, follow
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it down, do scarring in the bladder, and you're done.
And after doing that eight times ten, let's say, 80 times,
so 800 times a year, let's just pick that as a number,
maybe 600 times a year for small classes for 15 years.
That's let's say 6, 000 times just in
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classes that doesn't count the patients.
So 6, 000 times it's always scarring in the ureter.
That's what's wrong with the psoas until proven otherwise.
It just, it, that's just the way it works.
And then you can work your way around to
the other things that are scarred down.
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The small intestine, scarring in the vagus
nerve for somebody that's had colon surgery.
That's all the bleeding in the abdomen.
So you have scarring in the vagus and it's it, because
we have the tool that lets us address what's wrong.
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in specific tissues, it lets us or makes
us think about it in a different way.
And thank goodness for that.
Amen.
That's, it's true.
True story.
You
know, and I do, sympathize or empathize with the students
that you see them so excited at the beginning of class.
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And then there's a part in the class where they
start to overwhelmed and horrified because of all the
windows in their browser that start opening, right?
Yes.
Yes.
What do you mean?
It's not the muscle.
I just treat muscles.
What do you mean?
It's not the muscle.
If it was a muscle, you would only need four frequencies
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and then you could leave after an hour of class.
Yeah.
And then there's that one slide that says,
even though you're treating scarring in the
ureter or the frequencies for scarring in
the ureter, you're only treating the sawdust.
Yes.
What, do you mean?
It's there's what frequencies you use, and then
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what you can say in your chart notes, in your chart
notes, you can only say that 13 and 60 takes away the
pain and tightness and trigger points in the psoas.
Right.
What's 13 and 64 it's for taking
away trigger points in the psoas.
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Yeah.
But what's 13 and 60 mean?
It means the trigger points in the psoas
and the pain in the psoas goes away.
Okay.
On the one hand, you have to think of the frequencies.
On the other hand, you can't make any claims.
So that's the part where it gets really painful, I think.
And then Kate Adams just said, Because she's the
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one that actually came up with, she's the one
that actually came up with, scarring a narrator.
She's the one that did that.
Oh, Jennifer Washington said, Is the Vegas safe?
There is
a question above that.
So let's just jump to that actually right above.
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So she says, I have a client coming in for tinnitus.
It start or tinnitus.
However, if you're Canadian or American, it
started when she was six months pregnant.
and started throwing up every day until
she gave birth to a nine pound baby.
She also has vasovagal syncope.
I'm waiting for her intake form, but no,
she had a concussion three weeks ago.
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CT scan was good.
Is Vega safe?
Any other suggestions would be great.
It's vasovagal, so number one, six, if you're pregnant and
you're throwing up every day, you can't phosphorylate B6.
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So the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, is
problems with making the active form of B6.
So that's just a little side note.
Vasovagal, so what, you're saying is she's fainting.
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So syncope is she's faint, fainting.
And there are a number of things that can cause fainting.
It doesn't have to be the vagus.
Low blood pressure would do it.
Has she only been fainting sick since her concussion?
Or was she fainting before the concussion?
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So was fainting what caused her concussion
or did the concussion cause fainting?
That's the thing.
And I would say treating the vagus is always safe.
It's it has to be working right.
I, I would.
And that always, I would also
ask, Is she, which caused what?
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Does the concussion because she, fainted?
Or did she start fainting after her concussion?
So there's that, right?
Yeah.
So let me, just read.
So she has tinnitus or tinnitus started
when she was six months pregnant, started
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throwing up every day until she gave birth.
So it's been a few months at
least, and she had the baby, right?
Because.
Sounds, right.
I don't know.
Maybe we can get more information from Jennifer.
So is Vegas safe?
Yeah, I, let's troubleshoot this for a second.
Why wouldn't it be safe?
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I can't imagine.
So the baby's nine months old.
Okay.
Nine months.
So the,
she had a concussion three weeks ago, which hasn't, so
that means, but when did she start?
So did fainting cause the concussion
that it sounds that way, right?
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She also has basal vagal syncope.
Has she fainted more than once?
I would still say that treating the vagus is, A good idea.
I can't think of anything that
treating the vagus doesn't help.
So maybe I'm wrong, but never fainted.
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You don't faint because your vagus isn't working.
Is you don't faint because your vagus is working, right?
Yeah, because your heart rate can go up and in order
so if you're if the vagus is not working your heart
rate can go up and then Your brain decides that
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you need to be horizontal because it can't pump
enough blood To your brain to keep your vertical.
So you have to lay down now.
So it faints,
right?
So the comment was, she said she never fainted.
Then I wonder
what the vasovagal syncope symptoms were then.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Syncope means she fainted,
right?
That's how I understood it.
Maybe she just had fainting like symptoms.
Well, syncope means right.
But.
So I would say, yes, you could treat the vagus, it's
yeah.
And would you do 81 109?
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Sure.
I would, but she said she never fainted.
But then what does vasovagal syncope look like?
And then tinnitus, if somebody has tinnitus that
is persistent, then they need a hearing test
because tinnitus is phantom limb pain for the ears.
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Yes.
I love that phrase.
Yeah.
Isn't that great?
That is Sue Doucette.
She's an audiologist at Good Sam.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the, that's, it's phantom limb pain for your ears.
Yes.
Means you can't hear.
Yes, that is fantastic.
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Okay, so hopefully you have some things
to try when your patient comes in.
Would you add anything else for her to test and or look for?
Check the patient's heart rate is
84, then the vagus isn't working.
So you can use that as an indicator as to,
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you can use her heart rate as an
indicator to see what the vagus is doing.
She just told me she has the condition.
I need to know what to ask.
If she says she never fainted, then you
have to ask her what she means by syncope.
Okay.
And who told her that's what she had if she's never fainted?
What is that?
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Because vasovagal syncope is fainting because
somebody thinks your vagus isn't working.
As far as I know.
That's.
Yeah.
Sounds like somebody's
confused.
Yeah, I and you know what?
Like we, sometimes patients do come in with, conditions
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that somebody labeled them with for no good reason
other than they were also confused and just gave
this person a label and sent them out the door.
And we see this with frozen shoulder.
We see this with hip impingement syndrome.
We see this with piriformis syndrome.
I love
that.
With so many syndromes, right?
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And people become attached to, we even see
that actually with fibromyalgia, right?
I had somebody who just had pain with
one shoulder underneath one shoulder
blade and was like, I have fibromyalgia.
Of the right shoulder.
One spot.
Zero other symptoms.
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No,
what you have is a
lazy
doctor,
maybe
We can, put that in the syndrome because so and I'm not
trying to oversimplify anything or minimize anybody's
diagnosis by any stretch, but I'm just saying that there are
a lot of times where you have to take a previous diagnosis,
but still do your own exam and still connect your own dots.
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So there's a question there too, with, like you
said, who told her that, that she had this and.
Why?
And why?
If you've never fainted, then the other thing is there's
so much power that a patient has with just Google.
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Yeah.
Just bring up a search engine and you can
bring up syncope and find out what it is.
And you bring up syncope and it'll say it's fainting.
I never fainted.
So what is this thing that I have?
Yes, we were, talking about this when we had Charlie
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Weingraff on a while ago, how you, have to take their
old diagnoses, or their previous diagnoses, and, but
you have to also look at imaging that they brought in,
and the relevancy to their symptoms, and put those three
bubbles together with your own exam, and come up with
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your own findings, because, just because somebody was
diagnosed with something four years ago, that doesn't
mean A, it's healed, or B, it's gotten worse, or.
Yeah, true that.
We need to answer Leif's question,
because I'm
not seeing some submissions on
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either the chat or the question.
So Leif's question, say again.
Maybe nobody's asking questions.
There's, one, Leif has a question.
You referred to warming up the hands last
week, but I can't recall the numbers.
What are they?
Raynaud's was the issue and it was 81 and 62.
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That was Dave Burke that did that one and he did it
with with an iCare without even the magnetic pad.
They have the iCare app on their phone and everybody
knows you can't use the iCare in your office.
But Dave had his phone in his pocket and he.
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This patient had run out, so his hand was white, and
he put 81 and 62 on the phone with the volume down.
The patient held the phone, and they all just
watched his hands turn pink, instead of white.
And then, he died.
His wife had Raynaud's too, so they put
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81 and 62 and her hands turned pink.
That was pretty cool.
So
that's amazing.
I have yet to try it.
There's when we talk about.
Long COVID, when Christy Hughes lectures at the
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symposium, she's going to be talking about the
endothelium in the arteries and the capillaries, and
she's actually talking about the endothelial glycocalyx.
And I.
Even after hearing her lecture in Las Vegas, I
still have, I don't know what that is exactly.
Yeah, I was just going to say, can
you, what it, can you, you lost me.
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Yeah, so
when
she makes her slides for us, the first part of her
presentation is going to be explaining what the
endothelial glycocalyx is, but Long COVID, one of
the consequences of COVID and actually the vaccine
for COVID is that this lining of the arteries gets
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disrupted and rough and instead of Having a smooth place
for the blood laminar flow of blood, you've got this
rough, uneven surface, but part of the it's Christie
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is lecturing Saturday and Jerry Pollock is lecturing
Sunday, I think, and if you think about what he shows.
As that laminar flow, the fourth phase of water, the
laminar flow along the inside of the blood vessel or a tube.
If the laminar flow is disrupted by an uneven
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rough surface, then you have a problem, right?
So
it's, that's, that's, what she's going to be talking about.
And 80, 40, 124.
repair or torn or broken and inflammation and
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increased secretions because the lining of the blood
vessel arteries and capillaries secretes constantly
secretes this smooth almost Like, seaweed, how it's
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filmy,
smooth lining on the inside of the arteries.
And that's the glycocalyx.
It's smooth.
And it is a secretion on the inside of the arteries.
And, probably the veins as well, because we talk
about, we had that case report where the physical
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therapist, it was Jesse Tierney, ran for a Deep
vein thrombus in the better part of the lower leg.
She ran torn and broken and vitality.
That was it.
Torn and broken and vitality in the vein.
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And this huge blood clot and a D
dimer of five was gone the next day.
And that is impossible, but it also suggests that
the normal function of the vein means that the vein
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secretes something that keeps its functioning correctly.
Yeah.
Because if you think about this, femoral, or sciatic artery
vein nerve complex that come down the back of your leg.
You're sitting on it all the time.
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Why don't you have blood clots in your legs all the time?
It's because of something that the veins and the
arteries are secreting that keeps them healthy
that and we have apparently have the ability to
Influence that.
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Talk to me about the spare . I love, let me get the
bow out of the way that says, that is so cute.
It seems appropriate when we're talking about this
thing that FSM can do that nobody else can do.
Love FSM, so this is, it's, it is in the, if
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you go to frequency specific.com, it's in.
Products and
then merch.
Products, so there's a tab on the Frequency
Specific website, frequencyspecific.
com, there'll be a little tab that says products, and
then there's something called merch, which is short
for merchandise, and the bear, Plus t shirts and stuff
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like that, but the bear is so I'm going to keep the
bear on my desk and when we talk about doing something
like fixing somebody's sciatica so that their feet
aren't numb, and we're the only ones that can do that.
I'll just, put that up.
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And what a gift that little bear is and all the hope.
I want to bring the train that went all over
the place just now back to some questions
for you for our like year end roundup.
Oh wrap up.
Not just, I like summaries.
I like conclusions.
I like, I like reflecting on,
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like I said, what I've learned.
Has there been a frequency that has been new to
you or that has stolen the spotlight a little bit?
Have you been, is there, do you know,
like every year we have one, right?
Like a couple of years ago, it was
like torn and broken is time dependent.
There's, there always seems to be something that.
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We chat about do you have one that you can think of
This year, the surprise for me, because I, how long have
I said, there's nothing we can do for vestibular injuries.
Yeah, just kidding.
40 and 44.
Is the one that's like.
Really?
It works?
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Seriously?
40 is inflammation or quiet the
activity of, and 44 is the ear.
Inner ear.
The inner ear.
The vestibular system.
As far as I can tell it doesn't do
anything for tinnitus, but it makes the
disequilibrium go away at least temporarily.
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So if somebody has a vestibular injury and
you're treating their neck and their neck doesn't
go smush, their next muscles stay hard and
they still have this sense of disequilibrium.
You put 40 and 44 at the beat.
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beginning of the supine cervical practicum and Or you set
up one machine that only does 40 and 44 for the whole time
they're treating their neck, the neck muscles just go mush
because one of the reasons that the neck muscles are tight
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is that the brain needs to know where it is in space.
So it tightens the neck muscles.
And they stay tight right and do everything you want
to the neck and it works but when you add 40 and 44,
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it makes you realize that vestibular injuries create.
Yeah.
Okay, because the right neck compresses the joints
and the discs, and then you find somebody that has had
one minor fender bender and terrible looking x rays
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and multiple disc bulges that don't make any sense.
They're mild, they're everywhere, and it's like you're on 40
and 44, the neck muscles relax and that makes it make sense.
Because if everything is under compression,
then the joints are going to degenerate and
the discs are going to get little teeny non
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active bulges, and there hasn't been any trauma.
It's it just
Don't you also notice a correlation between
vestibular, cervical, and then TMJ dysfunction?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is soon to follow and that's secondary, right?
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I want to say, what was the statistic?
Like 94%, 93 percent of all TMJ
dysfunction is muscle based, right?
The joint just doesn't deteriorate.
The disc just doesn't deteriorate.
It's not like an extremity.
So if it's coming from the superior
slip of the lateral pterygoid.
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That is a mechanical problem from mechanics
happening in the neck and the mechanics in the
neck are happening from the vestibular injury.
Unless the dysfunction in the
muscles is coming from, An infection.
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Demands.
A ligament strain.
Yeah.
Or they had braces.
So I've had TMJ ever since I was 19.
What happened when you were 19?
I got my braces taken off.
And so there are those wires and head gear
pulling on the jaw, on the teeth ligaments.
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And it creates damage to the ligaments you treat torn
and broken in the ligaments and all the muscles relax.
It's like when partial thickness tendon
tears cause the muscles to be tight.
If there's no reason.
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If the, for example, when did you have TMJ?
When I was 22, what happened when you were 22?
They took my wisdom teeth out.
Okay.
You look at the mechanics of getting wisdom teeth removed.
They block your jaw open for up to an hour creating a
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tendinopathy in the pterygoid and then the pterygoid
muscle becomes tight because the tendon is injured and
that creates the popping in the disc and that creates
the joint dysfunction and that creates the tightness.
In the temporalis and the masseter, but it all caught
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started because they jammed the jaw open for an hour,
right?
That's torn and broken, right?
So whether it's from a prolonged dental procedure.
or just the changes that happen with the ligaments
as teeth are moving and the jaw is adjusting, whether
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it's from trauma, slip and fall, a punch, motor vehicle
accident, it all of it starts, has to start with 124.
It's torn and broken.
And, I do want to say my Deep dive into that TMJ
webinar over COVID when I were looking at the
cadavers and what is behind the disc, that retro
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discal tissue, which is adipose, but it bleeds easy.
And as I, as they're lecturing about this retro
discal tissues, Highly innervated and it bleeds easy.
I'm just seeing 18 and scoring in the
adipose and like places that you would
never think about treating in, the jaw.
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But because of that pterygoid pulling on it everything
just continues to tear and nothing will respond.
It will respond, but it won't stay.
Nothing will hold until you treat the driver.
What we always say, the cause.
. Yeah,
exactly.
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Couple questions that came up about accessing past webinars.
So again, that's on the website.
You can look at us on YouTube.
You could watch old podcasts on YouTube or listen to
us on Spotify or, anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
Just type in frequency specific microcurrent
(47:57):
podcast and we will pop up on different platforms,
but the webinars are only on the website.
So frequency specific com forward slash webinar and you can
hear the great the Vegas webinar I listen to all the time.
I always take home something new.
And the Ehlers Danlos webinar is fantastic.
(48:19):
So even if you have patients I'll play little clips
from, your talk on that, because it just, it puts
so much together for people who, need to hear their
symptoms and their world buttoned up in a package.
In a context
too.
Absolutely.
My favorite ones are the Vegas Erlers Danlos and Mold.
(48:42):
And then, before I did topic webinars, I did,
five years worth of practitioner webinars.
So there's one that's called, Put It Together.
And there's three different cases, and there's one that I
(49:05):
can't remember all the names of them, but they were, all of
them I think are like three case reports that are unusual
cases that taught me how to think about things, right?
So the, yeah, that's, those are
pretty fun, but you're right.
The biggest.
(49:26):
The Euler's Danloss and the mold are, I'd say the biggies.
Yeah, that We We know these things, but hearing it again
and again, it's like going to the core multiple times.
We're not slow learners, but you
just hear things differently.
(49:47):
And you're, I guess you're just ready to hear more
information when you're ready to hear more information.
It's why I read Roger Billika's Neurotransmitters.
What did he call it?
Molecules of Behavior.
Yeah.
I watch that probably four times a year.
It's just, it's, and once you
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see it, you can't ever unsee it.
It's the truth with all of them.
I suppose we should do one on vestibular injuries.
That's on my list.
Yeah.
And then, Kevin has a list of things that
he wants us to do webinars on some quiet
Wednesday when we're not doing a podcast.
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So that's a possibility and we will start
early or stay late on a podcast day.
If you're working on the endothelial glycocalyx.
What frequencies do you think would work?
Torn and broken, 40, 81, and 49.
(50:49):
Increase secr Reduce inflammation, because
inflammation is how it got broken in the first place.
I guess you could, if it was after COVID, I guess you
could run this, six COVID frequencies, then reduce
inflammation, increase secretions and vitality.
(51:11):
That kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
It does.
When you, yeah.
It's a great place to start anyways.
Seems like you're covering all your bases with.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I, do have a couple things also that I want to get
out before the next nine minutes evaporates on us.
(51:32):
The end of the year sale.
I've mentioned it briefly at the end of the
podcast last week, but it is a great sale.
It is a great time to, as you mentioned get
some extra write offs for your accountant.
But I want to all the, I get questions all the
time about the magnetic converter and you, I
(51:56):
believe, Or maybe it wasn't you, but it was once,
said that it's not great at treating nerve pain.
However, you successfully treat your own nerve pain with it,
correct?
Yeah, it's, I say that it's not that great at treating
the cord of the nerve, but if I wake up in the
middle of the night, my hand is, numb and painful.
(52:17):
I'll put one puck up by my neck and one puck in
my hand and I've got 40 and 396 on my custom care,
but it's alternating because the magnetic converter
can't do polarized, it has to do alternating.
And I punch a button, put the puck in my hand, in
five minutes the pain is gone, I go back to sleep.
(52:39):
And 40 and 396 runs for about 60 minutes.
So it, Yeah, it works.
I have to confess that I have a converter
in the office, but I don't use it.
I use.
Now, I was in clips because it's, I think it's,
(52:59):
there's just a limit to the weirdness factor.
It's it's weird enough to use frequencies.
You can't hear and current.
You can't feel without using something
with blinky lights in the office.
So there's only a certain amount of Lulu.
I'm willing to expose my patients to, I need
(53:21):
them to think that something real is happening.
And you're right.
I think a lot of patients are so used
to having very invasive treatments.
So the deep moist heat from the towels is like the
least I can do to give them some sort of sensory.
Until they know what to expect
(53:43):
and that results take place and.
For, the practitioners, the best reason to buy a
magnetic converter is to treat yourself at home.
That's, the most important is I won't, I can't take the time
(54:04):
in the daytime to treat myself, but I get in bed at night
and I have a nighttime program that starts with concussion
and vagus goes to insulin resistance, goes to vascular
health, goes to heart health, and the thing runs for hours.
I'm not going to treat myself for four hours in the daytime.
(54:25):
With magnetic converter, I just set it up,
punch a button, roll over and go to sleep.
You're
lying there
anyways.
Exactly.
And then there's this really cool feature in the new
software where you can click a button and copy a protocol.
And, then, Paste it on another protocol and
(54:49):
then copy another one and paste it on that.
And so that's how you end up with
one protocol that's Hours long,
right?
As opposed to having to get up in an hour
and change it, like who wants to do that?
Because then you're not sleeping and you're going to feel
like garbage the next day because you're not sleeping.
And then you're going to blame it on FSM.
(55:12):
When all you needed was a good night's sleep.
So yes you can batch those programs together to make
a super sleep protocol is what I like to call them.
And all those devices, everything
I believe is on sale right now.
Like the magnetic converter, the
custom care, the precision care.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin,
but I believe it's all on sale.
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And the early bird special for the advanced and symposium
ends on December 31st and I'm excited about this year.
We have, it's the first time ever that the whole afternoon
and part of the morning on at the symposium, I had to take
(55:55):
our 90 minute plenary speakers and ask them to shorten
to 60 minutes so we could fit in all the case reports.
So that's exciting.
The
case reports are so exciting because the lectures are
exciting with the topics as well, but the case reports
help put everything together for you, because every
(56:15):
case report, you have a client or a patient that is very
similar or similar enough that it sparks those ideas.
Or it'll give you the confidence of, hey, I
have somebody similar and that's what I do.
And it's just so great to see.
That's our, those are our research models, to
see that live and their thought process, I think,
(56:37):
true learning really happens in those examples.
When we find
out things we didn't know we could treat, and you find out
it's reproducible, and to tell you, we have a, practitioner
coming from India that spent a month and a half.
(56:59):
Trying to get a visa to come here.
We have a practitioner presenting a
case report from Poland, from Rome.
it's, it's just mind boggling.
The kind of people and the skillsets and the different
degrees, nature paths, osteopaths, physical therapists.
(57:19):
Amazing that so many different.
Professions can come together, unite in one room,
brainstorm, share ideas, get inspired, and then get
on a plane and go home and do it all over again.
And besides the food's great and the
food's great and Arizona in March is great.
(57:40):
It's all just, it's great.
Is Jay Shaw coming?
Oh, and Jay Shaw's coming.
He is, he loves us.
So he literally asked me, can I come?
It's can I come this year?
And you're never going to say no to Jay Shaw.
And I, and he is one 90 minute slot.
(58:02):
It's tough.
Cramming Jason into 90 minutes, but he said, I can do that.
So there we go.
So we have Jason and Jerry Pollock and Julianna
Mortenson and, Christie Hughes and Eduardo and, oh,
and we have the Feinstein data on the Vegas nerve.
(58:27):
We that it's been patented.
Yeah, so we can actually talk about it.
I don't have to keep quiet.
Yeah.
For the last two years.
That's how long it took them to get this data.
So amazing.
Yeah.
Jennifer Ernst is coming.
(58:47):
She's the CEO of the company that's creating the device.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
So many great things.
So between.
It's going to be live stream so if you
absolutely can't come, it will be filmed
and live stream thanks to David Eaks.
Yes, the unfortunate part of live stream is that you
can't meet up with your friends in the hallway and geek
(59:09):
out over numbers and all the tables that we have for
the different like themes and, Those are always great.
So you could sit down with your fellow geeks.
I was going to say a different word,
but geeks is what I wanted to say also.
And just be proud of it and just be a
nerd and geek out and talk in numbers.
(59:29):
And,
Candace Elliott called them special interest tables.
Yes.
Yes.
That's perfect.
That is exactly what it is.
Yay.
So you miss out on that, but live stream is a
great option if, you absolutely can't travel.
So get your registration in, buy your devices
now, and then you're all set for the new year.
(59:51):
And don't forget to make hotel reservations.
Yes, because you don't want to leave.
You want to stay in that complex
because everything is there.
You do such a great job of feeding
everybody, but there's great restaurants
and things to walk around and little shops.
So you don't even need a car when
you go there, which is what I love.
Yeah.
And there's a our overflow hotel is, there's
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one across the street and one down the block.
If our block is full, then you
still have some place to stay?
Yes.
Okay.
That, that is it.
Your timer just went off, I can tell.
It did it, just beeped.
This went by really fast, but I'm
grateful for our little roundup.
(01:00:32):
Yeah, it's been quite a year, hasn't it?
They're always amazing years, but there's, I think
there's just always so much to reflect on, look back
on, and what did you learn and how did you grow?
And, then you could get to move forward with the next
year with all those things and a teddy bear to hug.
Are we doing a podcast on New Year's Day?
(01:00:54):
Oh, we can.
I don't think so.
Do you want to come to work?
It's going to be a couple of weeks before we are on.
Okay.
Do you want to come to work on New Year's Day?
I'll just check and I'll do whatever.
So this is what we do.
We'll sign off now for a fabulous
2024 and even greater 2025.
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And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and do good things.
And just, enjoy stuff.
So thank you to everybody for coming
and letting us do this week by week.
All right.
Bye.
We'll see you next year.
See you next year.
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Bye.
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