The Acupuncture Outsider Podcast

Ground Reaction Force (GRF) Hip-To-Shoulder Separation (HTS) The Anterior Oblique Sling The Posterior Oblique Sling Setting the groundwork for Part Two about Baseball Pitching   Online Course: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

The Hip Internal and External Rotators are important for agility to rapidly change direction and have an important role to play in proprioception and to avoid knee injury.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com Courses Never Expire.  

The Abductors and the Adductors of the Hip are essential for sports with lateral movement, cutting and changing direction with Power and Agility.   Optimizing the Lateral Stabilizers will also help to avoid knee and ankle injuries.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Interesting case this week of bilateral foot pain and numbness on an American Football Player.  I walk through my thinking, my way to assess and confirm my assumptions and the results mid-way through and the adjustment I made to get to 100% pain-free.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com SEPT20 all month for 20% off all courses.  

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   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com SEPT20 for 20% all Courses until the end of Sept 2025

Thank you to everyone who made our Barcelona Acupuncture Congress a success! 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.     I'm running a 20% Discount for September  SEPT20 at checkout for all courses. My courses never expire!   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

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.      Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

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.    Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

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.    Learn more about Functional Acupuncture wi...

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.    Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com   The New Peripheral Nerve Entrapment Course is here:  https://richardhazel.podia.com/peripheral-nerve-entrapments    

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.     Th...

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).   I'm currently running a sale on the new Peripheral Nerve Entrapment course on Podia. The Unlock the Mystery of Chronic Pain course that was recorded in Sydne...

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: 1...

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 lo...

I almost never hear discussion about this muscle for midback pain.    My two cents about this muscle and how to assess and treat it.    Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

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.    Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

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.   https://chinesemedicineeducation.com/product/motor-point-acupunct...

I had an interesting case this week of NTOS and he also had tinnitus that improved from the treatment.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com   IG: @richhazel  

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.  https://www.cathrynjakobsonramin.com/   The Value of Magnetic Resonance Imaging...

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)   Online Courses and Mentorship Group on Podia: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Is it frozen shoulder or an impingement? Can we fix a frozen shoulder with acupuncture? Here are my 2 cents.    Thank you, to Feedspot for selecting The Acupuncture Outsider for the Top 15 Acupuncture Podcasts on the Planet.   https://podcast.feedspot.com/acupuncture_podcasts/   Online Courses for Functional Acupuncture:  https://richardhazel.podia.com    

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.     Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com My website: https://www.richhazel.com...

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)   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

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.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

Very interesting case this week. And a second case of crippling pain where all the doctors threw their hands up and said, "there's nothing we can do."     Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com BlackFriday Discount good until Dec 31 BLACKFRIDAY20 for 20% off All Courses and Bundles