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Using TDR Massage When Treating Sciatic Nerve Pain
A new client called, asking to be seen as soon as possible. She was experiencing severe right-sided low back pain. Her chiropractor had sent her to a joint and spine specialist.
Know What You Are Dealing With: Radiation Therapy and Massage
Radiation therapy, often abbreviated as XRT for "X-Ray Therapy," is sometimes brushed aside as having fewer side effects than other cancer treatments.
Facial Rejuvenation: The Key to Exceptional Results
Acupuncturists make the best detectives. I know this first hand because I'm an acupuncturist and a private investigator and in both professions, there is a need to dig deep to solve the mystery.
Partnerships Leverage Power for Our Profession
While there are many recognized benefits and advantages to developing partnerships between organizations, the main reason why partnerships are established is relatively simple: There is added value in working together for a common cause or purpose.
Electric Qigong: An Ancient Therapy Evolves
Recently in a small, dimly lit treatment room in downtown Taipei, Wesley Chen instructed his patient to lie down. A frayed wire, which he wrapped around a small piece of metal, is now plugged in.
Gaining and Retaining Clients: Eliciting Emotional Responses
Humans are emotional creatures. This is neither good nor bad. It simply is. We are wired to respond to situations, stimulation, sensory input and vocalizations in an emotional and sometimes even subliminal manner.

New Board Chair for NCBTMB
The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) announced the addition of new Board Chair, Dr. Leena Guptha, D.O., after the recent resignation of Susan Toscano.
Studies: Acupuncture Effective For Depression

Many people suffering from depression can find a natural and effective way to treat their symptoms with acupuncture, according to the latest study.


Continuing Education Showdown: Online Learning vs. In-Person Seminars
Many state TCM and acupuncture regulatory bodies and associations are interfering with the success of their members by limiting the number of continuing education credit hours they can earn online.
PCOM Symposium Celebrates 25 Years
Acupuncture and Oriental medicine practitioners and students, as well as providers representing various other health care disciplines, flocked to San Diego's Catamaran Resort Hotel to attend the PCOM Annual Symposium on Oct. 24-27.
Acupuncture In Haiti: Aid that Works
I recently returned from Haiti. So many people ask whether Haiti has recovered since the earthquake of January, 2010. Once you've been to Haiti, you would never ask that question. It doesn't make any sense.
Breathing Techniques To Resolve Patient Issues
When a patient of mine who has practiced yoga for nearly 30 years, told me that she was experiencing panic attacks, I was surprised. "After so many years of training, can't you turn them off?" I asked. "I do turn them off, but only temporarily," she replied.
Why Do Clients Keep Coming Back for Massage?
In this month's Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) research review, we are reporting on a focus group study that explored the reasons clients continue to use massage therapy.
Managing a High Protein Diet
One of the most common clinical presentations in today's clinic is patients following a high protein diet. It seems that every year a new version of a high protein diet appears promising weight loss and physical transformation.
2013 Heroes of the Profession
For more than a year now, attorneys Luke Lirot and Adam Levine, massage therapist Vivian Madison-Mahoney and CEO of Advanced Diagnostic Group, Kevin Johnson, have been waging a legal battle against the state of Florida on behalf of the massage profession.
Acupuncture: The Key and Future of High Sports Performance
Acupuncture is commonly utilized in the intervention of pain and has also been gaining popularity in sports medicine. Athletes are treated with acupuncture for the relief of soft tissue injuries such as sprains, muscle strains, and tendonitis.
Industry Leaders Share Their Five Keys to Business Success
The numbers vary depending on the study you read, but generally, the survival rate for a new small business after five years is less than 50 percent. Businesses fail for many reasons however, in this article, we'll focus on some of the key things you can do to help your business succeed.
Tremors in the Massage Industry
Change, challenges and consolidation have created recent tremors in the industry and I have been asked to comment on some current trends in massage education. I will address school sustainability, massage training and accreditation issues here.
Ancient Cupping Tools Brought into the Modern Therapeutic World
In today's society, health care is widely diversified. From Western to Eastern medicines to alternative health care, there is much to choose from.
Promoting Acupuncture with Acupressure Demonstrations
Dan and his wife Marla were admiring the beautiful bouquet of flowers at our booth at the Business Expo when our receptionist asked him if he knew anyone who had tried acupuncture.
Acupuncture Today Continues To See Unprecedented Growth
For the past decade, the profession has seen steady growth in stature with legislators and the general public. The growing presence of the profession has been directly reflected in the growth of our publication.
Adding Vision, Momentum and Growth: Working Beyond the Day-to-Day Business
As a spa director, I try to do my very best to not only manage my business day-to-day, but also steer it with some vision.

German Auricular Acupuncture: Effective For Your Patients
Auricular medicine as developed by Western medical doctors in Europe is a complete modality of diagnosis and treatment. Unlike body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture is treating the central nervous system rather than meridians.
Timing is Everything: Shoulder Instability and Labral Tears
The greatest thing about being a massage therapist is you never know who you will help next. One minute, you could be holding the hand of a hospice patient and the next, a strained quadriceps muscle of a 6-year-old.
Gathering the Right Information: Knowing How to Receive Feedback
Receiving feedback can be a stressful experience for all of us. There's always a chance that we'll be told something that hurts or surprises us or that we don't want to hear.
Acupuncture & Substance Abuse Rehabilitation
One of the most rapidly changing areas of healthcare is that of addiction medicine. Advances in brain imaging technology have allowed doctors and scientists to understand addiction, and recovery from addictive disorders, at the level of the individual neuron in the brain.
Peer Points: In The Business of Herbs
When it comes to herbs, acupuncturist Cathy Margolin wants her patients and customers to know she is the expert they need. In order to do this, Margolin has studied the marketplace and incorporated key business lessons to build an herbal company that sells and markets herbs to the masses who may be skeptics.
Highlights from the Aromatic World: News from the AIA Conference
I was invited to attend the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA) conference, "Expanding Aromatherapy," held in St. Petersburg, Fla., by my long-time friend and author/educator Sylla Sheppard Hanger.

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By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), Publisher

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The Quiet Chiropractic Majority
Who Are You and What Do You Want
     August 23, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 18)
No More Waiting for Proof
     August 9, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 17)
Excellence and Success
     July 26, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 16)
What They See
     July 12, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 15)
How Low Must We Go?
     June 28, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 14)
Who is Charles DuVall,Jr., Anyway?
     June 14, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 13)
It's Time to Take Our "Clothes" Off
Not Nearly as Revealing as You Might Think
     May 31, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 12)
How Successful Are You?
Take a New Kind of Test
     May 17, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 11)
Is the HCFA Lawsuit Important?
Let's Do Some Math
     May 3, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 10)
Meet You on the Internet Highway
     April 19, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 09)
Tensing up during an "Adjustment"
     April 5, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 08)
The Difference
     March 22, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 07)
The First Adjustment
     March 8, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 06)
Fast Food Chiropractic?
To Improve Chiropractic Care, We Had to Adjust Our Thinking
     February 22, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 05)
All the Potential in the World
     February 8, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 04)
Why Should I Do All the Talking?
     January 26, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 03)
Getting Old Is a Pain
     January 12, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 02)
A New Day Requires a New Way
     January 1, 1999 (Vol. 17, Issue 01)
In the Spotlight
Taking Center Stage Can Be Uncomfortable at Times
     December 14, 1998 (Vol. 16, Issue 26)
An Open Letter from the DC Editor to the First DC Editor, My Father -- Donald M. Petersen, DC
     November 16, 1998 (Vol. 16, Issue 24)
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