The Acupuncture Outsider Podcast

Sometimes that low leg pain and numbness is an entrapment of the superficial peroneal nerve. It's not always an L5-S1 radiculopathy.  Pain on plantar flexion and inversion can be a sign of superficial peroneal nerve entrapment. https://linktr.ee/richhazel   Everything on Podia is 20% off until the end of March. Use the discount code MARCH20 as many times as you want until March 31. 

Everyone who uses motor points and trigger points in their acupuncture treatments owes their thanks to these MDs.   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Why should we care about the Upper and Lower Crossed Patterns? How does it help to know the difference between a tonic and a phasic muscle?         https://richardhazel.podia.com https://www.richhazel.com  

Some people say that posture has no connection to pain. I disagree.    Happy New Year!!      https://richardhazel.podia.com

Dr. Vladimir Janda and Karel Lewit were pioneers of musculoskeletal medicine who have given us a roadmap to understand assessment and treatment of pain.   Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Imbalance: The Janda Approach https://a.co/d/0JCe9vt     https://richardhazel.podia.com    

I'm really happy to see a daily migraine patient cancelling appointments because they have gone a month without a migraine! I've updated how I treat migraines. It's always a work in progress. I have to learn from clinical experience and doctors like Dr. Andrea Trescott so I'm sharing what I have learned so far in hopes it will help others.   https://RichardHazel.podia.com  

I see patients in their 70s 80s and 90s that I don't run through a range of manual muscle testing for their pain. This is how I prefer to assess and treat. And it works very well.     https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Two interesting cases this week to share.   Here's my website link for the Seminar in Italy: https://richhazel.com/live-seminars/   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

There are some key considerations that have helped me with foot numbness, tingling, hot/cold sensations.   Online Courses and Mentorship Community https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Isn't it likely that osteoarthritis is due to unaddressed muscle imbalances? It seems to be the case clinically. This is a case from this past week of an 87 year old woman with constant knee pain that has her now in a wheelchair.    

I think that learning a subject from the source material, research, science has been the key to getting excellent results for me. I think when you learn a "system" from someone, you are limited by their system, especially if they don't share their source material so that you can keep learning.     https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Gua Sha is soft tissue manipulation but all not all soft tissue manipulation is Gua Sha.   There is a difference and here's what it is.   https://richardhazel.podia.com  

A patient with a diagnosis of Plantar Fasciitis will have different symptoms from the last one you saw with the same diagnosis and different from the next as well.   We need to think about foot biomechanics, nerves, the plantar aponeurosis and we need to know specifically where the patient is having pain.   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Entrapment of the superior cluneal nerve can be a source of chronic low back pain, especially after lumbar disc surgery.  It can be a source of psuedo-sciatica as well.   https://kangfu.eu/european-orthopaedic-and-sports-acupuncture-congress/   https://richardhazel.podia.com      

I'll be in Amsterdam teaching at the 1st European Orthopedic and Sports Acupuncture Conference. NCCAOM CEUs available. You should come!   I'll be covering Sciatica, Meralgia Paresthetica, Ilioinguinal Nerve Entrapment, Obturator Tunnel Syndrome, 2 Peudo-Sciaticas: Superior Cluneal Nerve Entrapment and Superior Gluteal Nerve Entrapment And also Migraines and their nerve entrapments   https://kangfu...

Ever resolve sciatica (or what you thought was sciatica) by treating the gluteus medius or by releasing trigger points in the gluteus medius?   Now I know what was likely happening.    https://richardhazel.podia.com   Join The Acupuncture Outsiders Mentorship Membership for Group Zoom Meetings each month to discuss tough cases and other things of interest.

Double Crush Syndrome: It might be controversial but I believe. And Thank You to all who have sent me messages of support!     https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Can we improve our results for migraines by addressing the Upper and Lower Crossed patterns for patients?   Let's walk through it.   Correction : I said the Millennial Tower is tilting 24 degrees. I meant inches. And when I looked it up it's actually tilting 29 inches. 😮   https://richardhazel.podia.com   New Mentorship Program on Podia. Look for the Acupuncture Outsider Community.     

Future Courses, Mentorship Subscription on Podia and 2 Cases that I'm struggling with but learning from.   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

I don't always trust muscle testing, especially if the symptoms don't match with a strong test where I think there's some over-use injury.   I want to put my fingers or thumb on a muscle to feel for hypertonicity before I rule it out as a part of the problem.    It's easy to miss a hypertonic muscle if the manual muscle tests seem normal and you don't palpate to confirm.    https://richardhazel.po...

Reciprocal Inhibition is an interesting thing and I think I think a lot about treating antagonists muscles but maybe I don't always consider reciprocal inhibition for every case. I'm going to be thinking more about reciprocal inhibition for some cases in case it can help me improve my results for muscle activation once someone is pain-free.    Here's the article I mentioned: https://journals.physi...

I was just thinking about how the infraspinatus can help shoulder flexion. The fiber orientation is a clue. It's an external rotator, so how does it get involved in shoulder flexion? How does the Pectoralis Major flex the shoulder? Look at the fiber orientation.   How does Gluteus Minimus (abducts and internally rotates the hip) which doesn't flex the hip, cause an anterior pelvic tilt? Fiber orie...

Sometimes patients have not done well even after trying Physical Therapy for their pain.   Once we have gotten them out of pain and restored their mobility, do they really need Physical Therapy? Are we a replacement for Physical Therapy?   Also, I mentioned in the podcast that I would be interested in doing some podcasts in German and/or French if there's an audience that you think doesn't listen...

There's more to the SI Joint than just nutation and the pain some people get there. Many issues like back pain, hip pain, hamstring pain, even shoulder pain can be due to dysfunction at the SIJ.  Movement, Stability & Lumbopelvic Pain: Integration of research and therapy https://a.co/d/cuyLspO     https://richardhazel.podia.com  

"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire   Here's an imperfect protocol that gets great results a high percentage of the time.   If you're new to Contemporary Acupuncture or just feeling overwhelmed by all the possibilities, try this protocol.   It covers a lot of the basics and I get great results with it most of the time.    I know I'll get perfectionists complaining but the goal is to...