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Filing for the SBA Paycheck Protection Program loan can be daunting. The loan provides funding for 2.5 months of payroll, plus rent / mortgage and utilities, with eight weeks potentially forgivable. The SBA’s assistance can help your practice / business stay financially healthy during a time when many are seeing…

The CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act gives small-business owners a number of important tools, perhaps the most important of which is low-interest, potentially forgivable loans to cover payroll and other practice costs including rent and utilities. Here’s how it will work, according to the U.S. Chamber of…

It’s been said there is opportunity in crisis. This has been proven true for those who look beyond their current circumstance into the heart of the issues at hand. While the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the United States and other countries, there is also news from China that the impact…

As we progress through the winter season, it is extremely common to see patients asking about immune-system remedies for treating / avoiding seasonal issues such as cold and flu. It is not uncommon to have patients arrive at my office with bags overflowing with bottles of vitamin supplements / herbal…

Peripheral neuropathy is a general term for a series of disorders that result from damage to the peripheral nervous system. Peripheral neuropathy can affect multiple nerves (polyneuropathy) or single nerves (mononeuropathy).

We are distressed by the December 2019 Acupuncture Today article, republished in the February 2020 issue,* titled “How Does Your Student-Loan Debt Stack Up?” Although ostensibly about “average student loan debt for graduates of AOM programs” in Oregon, the information does not directly reflect that, and effectively compares apples to…

The direct, word-by-word translation of de qi is: de – get, qi – energy; de qi – get the energy, or the qi / energy has arrived. This term describes a feeling felt after needle insertion. Due to the complexity of this term’s meaning, no better translation can be found,…

When a patient comes through the door of my office, it’s rare that I’ll find them in perfect alignment; everyone is always working on something, even when it seems they are doing pretty well. As a practitioner of this medicine, I feel it’s my job and an essential piece of…

An allergy is an overreaction to a particular foreign antigen, also called an allergen. Allergens including plant pollen, food, dust, dandruff, and some mold spores are non-pathogenic. Although such allergens are not themselves harmful, the immune system’s overreaction to the allergen can result in tissue damage due to histamine, cytokines…

Roughly 70 percent of patients receiving head and neck cancer radiotherapy develop xerostomia (dry mouth), with significant changes in volume, consistency and pH of secreted saliva. This can last from months to years, or permanently depending on the degree of damage.