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This is the OMAD simplification of “intermittent fasting”: fast for 23 hours; eat a meal of super-delicious food; and stop eating when the abdomen is comfortable. During those fasting hours, a person will have the opportunity of addressing concerns and needs covered over with food, but never solved. Eventually, he/she…

If you are not actively growing the personal-injury segment of your acupuncture practice, you are likely leaving money on the table. This might sound shocking, but personal injury (PI) can be among the best-paying segments for at least three reasons.

Recovery of GI function following bowel surgery can be complicated. Postoperative ileus – disruption in normal bowel motility – is a common and frustrating occurrence, affecting up to one in three patients after surgery.

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With 2022 coming to a close, let’s take a short walk through the past year – a year featuring tremendous achievements that position the acupuncture profession – and every acupuncture practitioner – for continued success in the new year and for years to come.

Laser therapy, also known as photobiomodulation (PBM), is a non-invasive modality that delivers red and infrared laser light to biological tissue with the goals of stimulating cellular processes and enhancing the activation of biochemical mechanisms. Let’s examine the contraindications for laser therapy.

Patient gets irritable when hungry? Dubbed “hangry,” this should alert the practitioner to the presence of adrenal fatigue. This, and the associated anxiety and irritability, can then be driven by high-sugar diets; an especially significant problem around stressful, albeit also joyful, holidays.

The patient was seen two times per week for two weeks, followed by once-a-week treatment for two weeks. At that point, the patient decided to postpone his radiofrequency ablation (RFA) appointment and continue maintenance acupuncture treatments. Over 16 weeks, he received 11 total treatments and cancelled his appointment.

Herpes zoster (shingles) directly corresponds with the pathologic terms “girdling fire cinnabar” and “girdling snake cinnabar,” as described in Chinese medicine external medicine texts. This pathocondition may present on any part of the body innervated by the affected nerve ganglion(s). The disease cause can be identified as patterns that involve…

Some of you contacted me after my May column, “On the Road with Asian Bodywork Therapy,” referenced simple diode therapy. I decided there was enough general interest from close colleagues and AT readers to warrant a close-up!

There are countless ways protected health information (PHI) could be exposed during a financial transaction. All health care providers should be mindful that the most valuable consumer data being stolen, shared or sold is found in patients’ health care records.

In the contemporary clinical setting, encountering patients who chronically use cannabis is increasingly common. In my 25 years of clinical practice, this is one of the most common presentations I see. In fact, in my past 15 years of clinical practice, I have seen more patients smoking cannabis than tobacco.

How are you currently using informed consent in your practice? As a quick sign-off on your EHR before the patient comes in? As part of your new-patient packet in your office? Maybe it’s something you know you “have to” have people sign, but you’re secretly hoping they will sign it…

Have you ever had a patient meander in all sorts of directions when discussing their health concerns? Have you ever gotten lost in the miasma of information? Have you ever gone over time in that first appointment? With a proper initial intake, we ask the right questions that allow the…

While it remains unclear whether opioid guidelines recommending conservative care have moved the needle toward nondrug options, a new study suggests that since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in 2016, one result has been an increase in non-opioid pain…

I am trained as a professional meridian yoga teacher and have also studied energy medicine with Donna Eden. I have been a longtime acupuncture and chiropractic patient for many decades.