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Tight Hip Flexors and Painful Arthritis: The Surprising Connection
You would think the connection between hip arthritis and pain would be pretty straightforward: People with the greatest degree of arthritis as measured on X-rays should have the greatest amount of pain.
Multiarticulate Muscles & Injury: Understanding the Mechanical Load
Muscles have a primary role in creating and limiting movement in the body. They are also the major focus of our work in massage therapy, with many injuries caused by improper loads on the muscular system.
Acupuncturists: An Essential Part of the Pregnancy Team?
A new analysis published in the open-access research journal BMJ Open suggests acupuncture is an effective method for reducing pregnancy-related back and pelvic pain and other variables.
Alligator Skin (Part 2): A Second Look at Business Contracts
I joined as the only female partner in an integrated medicine practice, shared with three other disciplines. Having developed a few scales (the first stages of alligator skin) and some good business sense, I started out with a one-year contract.
Joint Pain: Think Outside the Box
A longtime patient recently contacted me with an interesting question: "Does Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan help with joint pain? I know we started this formula for hot flashes, but every time I stop taking it, my joint pain slowly creeps back. When I take it, my joint pain goes away."
A Simple Tool That Can Change the Way You Treat Muscular Pain
A very basic explanation of the nature of pain is a lack of circulation to the nerves. In treating our patients' pain, we are always more successful when they understand the way they treat their body is the key to them feeling good.
Trust the Trends, Or Trust Your Instincts?
Being a massage therapist is all about balance. There's the balance between your customers' needs and wants, the balance between what's good for clients and what's good for business, and the balance between overseeing current business and forecasting for the future.
Zinc & Selenium: Big Benefits – But Are Your Patients Getting Enough?
Zinc and selenium are essential, have great name recognition, and are absolutely crucial for a strong immune response and defense against tumors.
A Postoperative Story: The Surgery Explained & Secrets to My Recovery
If working with a joint replacement patient, be sure you know the rehabilitation protocols of the particular appliance. If you don't, with permission, consult with the surgeon to learn them. Otherwise, stay away.
How the Human Body Responds to Stress
This new series of articles will suggest a different perspective for you to view clients presenting with stubbornly chronic somatic dysfunctions. It will also propose a novel answer to the question, "How does the human body respond to stress?"
Long COVID and Altered Mitochondrial Function
Unfortunately, "long COVID" or "long haulers" are already or may soon become part of your practice, but understanding how to support patients on a mitochondrial level will go a long way toward improving outcomes for this stubborn condition.
A Structural Challenge: Successfully Treating a Morton's Neuroma
Runners, triathletes, dancers, hikers, cyclists, almost all athletes, and even couch potatoes have shown up in my office looking for alternatives to surgery for neuromas. A Morton's neuroma occurs when the tissue in the foot (next to a nerve that leads to a toe) thickens and becomes fibrous.
Simultaneous Stimulation of Dual Acupoints
Simultaneous stimulation of dual acupoints (SSDA) is a combination of a variety of needling methods per my personal clinical preference. The key point is "simultaneous." Stimulations can be with or without needles.
The Benefits of Teaching Touch
This month the MTF took a look at a massage research review titled "The Effect of Massage Therapy on Children's Learning Process: A Review," written by Majid Emtiazy and Mahboobeh Abrishamkar. The article was published in the Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences.
Tuina and Yijinjing Exercise for Chronic Neck Pain

A 2023 Action Plan for Your Practice: 4 Things to Do Now
Greetings and welcome to 2023. I've given a great deal of consideration as to how we can increase public relations and the reputation of traditional medicine here in the United States this year. I've decided to focus on what you can relate to most: enhancing the success of your clinic.
When Insurance Companies Try to Get Your Money Back
Question: Can an insurer recoup payments from previously paid claims? I have heard a lot of conflicting information and also wonder about any statute of limitations.

3 More Reasons to Expand the PI Segment of Your Practice
Personal-injury cases often take months, if not years, to resolve, meaning you will wait months or years for payment on PI cases taken on lien.
CranioSacral Therapy & The Rare Case of Vertigo
I had heard of folks getting dizzy and nauseous when experiencing vertigo, but I had never heard of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) until my husband Joe was diagnosed with it.
Get Creative Building Your Practice
Last time, we discussed critical elements of an informed-consent form, and how that form not only protects you in your practice, but also is actually a patient retention tool in disguise.
Helping Your Clients Turn Back the Clock With Nutrition
The anti-aging market is booming because, well, who doesn't want to look young, healthy and vibrant for as long as possible? And while there are many anti-aging products and systems marketed to the public, few people realize the most effective way to slow down the visible passage of time is to give the body the nutrients it needs to be truly healthy.
Learn to Speak the Language of Personal Injury
For many providers, personal-injury cases and working within the med-legal arena can often be a confusing and frustrating endeavor. After all, for the majority, personal injury is a niche.
The Great Chong Mai and Torus Energy Flow
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.) was an originator of basic Oriental medical theory. In his book, Tao Te Ching, chapter 42, he said: "The Tao begot one, One begot two, Two begot three. Three begot ten thousand things.
What It's Like to Be a Hospital-Based Massage Therapist
It was the early 1990s the first time I ever saw a massage therapist in a health care setting in my home state of Minnesota. I was working at a nursing home at the time, and I learned of a resident who would receive weekly massages (which I thought was great).
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Chiropractic Profession in Europe Asks DCs to "Say No to Dr. Koren"

The following are Open Letters that were released to the chiropractic profession by various European chiropractic associations:

Profession Responds to Koren Articles

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