The Acupuncture Outsider Podcast
Sometimes doing what‘s best for the patient will go against dogma and tradition. And sometimes leaning more on science than on dogma will ruffle feathers and contradict the gurus and scholars of Traditional Acupuncture. That‘s OK! There‘s room for many styles and there are enough patients for all of us! I graduated at the top of my class with a Master‘s and a Doctorate in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. I know the benefits of Traditional Acupuncture for many many conditions. But if you want fast and excellent results treating chronic pain, sports injury, over-use injury, flexibility and mobility, that is what I‘m passionate about and I‘m not going to apologize for great results or for sharing what I‘ve learned from Western Medicine using Acupuncture. The topics here will not be controversial unless you insist on holding onto dogma instead of being open to something new to you and that is based in science. If you are interested in my online courses, you can find them at: https://richardhazel.podia.com
Episodes
Part One of Three
How we can optimize Sports Performance by working on the Lumbopelvic Hip Complex in all Planes of Movement
Today it's about Triple Extension
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I give a brief recap of what I talked about.
Then a college Volleyball player had an injury of the interosseous muscles of the foot.
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Most thumb pain can be fixed really quickly with electric stimulation acupuncture on the motor points of the thumb muscles. Here's what I do for thumb pain.
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I've been showing this to people in live seminars for years but I'm finally willing to say with certainty that this is repeatable and reliable for relieving the lower leg symptoms from sciatica.
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Until now, sports medicine has been highly influenced by the MDs who treat injury so we often follow suit as acupuncturists.
Functional Acupuncture is always looking at the whole picture. We can treat more than just the injury. We can look up the chain or into the past to find healthy muscles to optimize and improve sports performance and avoid injury.
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I'm working on a tough case of knee pain on a college football player and I'm telling you here how I went about treating and adjusting my treatment as new information became clear.
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I very likely resolved two cases of hand tingling and numbness in 1 or 2 sessions.
NTOS and some other interesting trigger points.
CORRECTION: I was speaking off the cuff when I called the Lower Trapezius an Downward Rotator. It is, of course, an Upward Rotator. So much for the theory of Lower Trapzius increasing compression with the help of Pec Minor and Levator Scap! Sorry about that.
The new Peripheral Nerve Entrapment c...
In this episode I share my own self treatment to prevent low back pain with point location guidance for each point.
This is the same protocol I use for pregnant women with sciatica or SIJ pain (without the electric stimulation of course).
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I think I've been exercise resistant much of the time in spite of working out and eating right.
Dr. Coyle shows us that we need at least 8500 steps a day for an hour workout to have the metabolic fat-burning effects we want it to have.
Coyle EF, Burton HM, Satiroglu R. Inactivity Causes Resistance to Improvements in Metabolism After Exercise. Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2022 Apr 1;50(2):81-88. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000280. Erratu...
It's important to know the progression of muscle fiber dysfunction to better understand how to treat and how long it may take to correct the problem.
The analysis of current research provides substantial evidence supporting the progression of muscle fiber dysfunction as a significant contributor to musculoskeletal pain, aligning with the hypothesized sequence: sustained muscle tone leading to long-term muscle fiber shortening, wh...
I almost never hear discussion about this muscle for midback pain.
My two cents about this muscle and how to assess and treat it.
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I'm walking you through how I assessed and treated a complex case of cluneal, sciatic and possibly pudendal nerve symptoms. As well as managing the patient's anxiety when symptoms flare.
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Have you seen neuropathy and chronic myalgia that patients believe happened after taking Cipro? I've seen it several times.
This might be one of those cases.
Best sleep he's had in 20 years after the first treatment of what looked like Sural Nerve Entrapment.
I'm covering the Sural Nerve Entrapment in Sydney at the end of March.
I had an interesting case this week of NTOS and he also had tinnitus that improved from the treatment.
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The book Crooked by Cathryn Jackobson Ramin is a must-read book for anyone who works with back pain patients or is considering a back surgery for low back pain.
I talk about research the author mentioned and some other research that will blow your mind.
Crooked is available on Audible if you prefer an audio book.
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The Value of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of The Lumbar Spine to Predict Low-...
Anterior shoulder pain on shoulder flexion
Anterior shoulder pain on planting a ski pole
Pseudo Frozen Shoulder
Restricted Shoulder Flexion
All cases I saw this week.
Pec Major and Lats for the win!
(Some dry needling was necessary)
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Is it frozen shoulder or an impingement?
Can we fix a frozen shoulder with acupuncture?
Here are my 2 cents.
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Double Crush Syndrome is mostly seen in the medical field as something rare that happens to people in an earthquake when a building collapses on them.
In the world of successfully treating peripheral neuropathies with Functional Acupuncture it's helpful to take a less restrictive definition of Double Crush.
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Why I'm calling my style of acupuncture Functional Acupuncture.
Janda famously said that there are 2 schools of thought in musculoskeletal medicine. Stuctural and Functional. Most are still using the Structural approach (and our patients are paying the price - literally)
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The functional approach to knee pain will look for movement dysfunction and attempt to correct it.
Others might blame arthritis, the patient's weight, L4-5 issues...
I'm going to look at joint pain as an issue of how the joint moves.
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