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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 7
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Stretching & Clearing the Common Bile Duct
Summarizing the first article, 32 years of clinical experience has evidenced that when a client presents with chronic somatic dysfunction, therapeutic attention needs be given to stretching and clearing the common bile duct.
Official NCCAOM Practice Tests
The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) is excited to announce the launch of the new NCCAOM Exam Preparation Center.
Creating a Safe Working Space: Ending Sexual Harassment & Abuse in Massage

The process of cleaning up the professional image of massage has started. Unfortunately, it didn’t start from within the profession, but rather by law enforcement. Sexual abuse and inappropriate sexual behavior in massage establishments have made the headlines. Charges have been brought against specific massage therapists and corporations that run massage establishments.


A Meaningful Change: From Basalt Stone to Himalayan Salt Stone

Can a small change in your massage practice make a big difference? Yes. Take a look around at the tools and products you are using in your practice. From your massage oil to your massage table, your practice is made up of a number of different elements that create your interaction with your client.


The Acupuncturist and the Opioid Crisis: Conquering Pain & Addiction in the U.S.
The current opioid epidemic dominates the discussion among national health leaders, recovery advocates and families nationwide. Opioids include heroin as well as prescription pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl, and others.
Prevention: Stop Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
The recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of those nuisance conditions that can play havoc with quality of life, and this particular infection is much more common than most people realize.
TCM Codes for the World
I just received an email concerning the ICD-TM11 codes. The World Health Organization (WHO) will be presenting the new ICD-11 codes to World Health Assembly very soon.
Thai Massage is for More Than a Good Stretch
Thai massage is the most well-known branch of traditional Thai medicine. What we currently practice as Thai massage has been highly influenced by Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, along with existing indigenous Thai healing practices. Like the Thais, wellness practitioners in the U.S. have also blended healing practices from around the globe.
Bastyr University: On the Front Lines of the Pain Epidemic
At University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center, the Seattle region's only Level I Trauma and Burn Center, the demands for in-patient care are dramatically different from a private clinic environment.
Prompting Memory: How to Stimulate Cognition
Recently I gave a talk titled, The Art of Memoir – Tapping the Past to Sharpen the Present at a senior lunch event in Austin, Texas.
Talking About Massage: The 4 Keys to Instill Confidence in Your Listeners
Recently I was at a tinnitus support group at a local hearing center. Being a proponent of touch therapy, naturally I was delighted when the audiologist announced: “Next month you’ll hear from a CranioSacral Therapist who’s gotten great results.”
Take Me Out to the Ballgame Contest
Are you headed to the 2018 AMTA national convention in Washington D.C.? You can enjoy a night of fun and networking with convention attendees, exhibitors, and guests while watching the Washington Nationals play the Atlanta Braves on August 8th, the eve of AMTA’s annual conference.
Prevention: Stop Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
The recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of those nuisance conditions that can play havoc with quality of life, and this particular infection is much more common than most people realize. In fact, one of every two women develop a urinary tract infection during their lifetime, and 20-30 percent suffer recurrent urinary tract infections.
Cyber Threat Checklist: Defend Your Business With These 10 Steps
Living in an internet connected society brings many conveniences and benefits. The power of the internet to connect us with customers, store data, and find information has opened the door for many small business owners to grow and flourish.
Spring Allergies & The Spleen: Looking at Pattern Differentiation
As the season of Spring fades away and we shift into the warm summer months, many patients suffer from chronic allergies. This is by far one of the most common issues I see in the clinic as well as often mistreated and misdiagnosed.
Reducing Allostatic Load & Stress Through Heightened Awareness
Your contemporary mental health and psychotherapy colleagues may often approach the treatment of allostatic load as a mental health condition and use prescription psycho-pharmaceutical medicine to affect general and specific central nervous system (CNS) pathways and brain neuro-chemistry medicine to alleviate the associated symptoms.
Cancer Pain, Function & Massage: Findings of Meta-Analysis
The pain and impaired function patients with cancer experience is well documented. Palliative efforts have long been promoted as a means of coping with these adverse effects, so commonly associated with cancer and its treatment. There is an abundance of published work on the palliative treatment of cancer pain with the use of massage.
Cyber Threat Checklist: Defend Your Business With These 10 Steps
Living in an internet connected society brings many conveniences and benefits. The power of the internet to connect us with customers, store data, and find information has opened the door for many small business owners to grow and flourish. But along with the benefits of this connectivity comes a responsibility to secure our businesses and our customers' data.
Diagnosing & Treating Aggressive Energy
Recently, there has been an article, and subsequent discussion, about the subject of Aggressive Energy (AKA "AE"), including ways to detect its presence and an alternative method of treating it.
The 4-Faced Troublemaker: Treating the Quadriceps Femoris
The famous quadriceps femoris group, which I refer to as the four-faced troublemaker, will be the topic of my next couple of articles—with step-by-step examples of my treatment protocols. Clients from my case studies encountered unique injuries with a different overload or deceleration, thus creating familiar trigger point (TrP) referral patterns.
Acupuncture's Standard of Care
Both a concern and critique of acupuncture, frequently espoused by the bio-medical community is, "there is no standard of care in acupuncture." The following is why I believe this statement is disingenuous at best.
We Get Letters: Get to Know Hemp Oil
I am a LMT in Portland, Oregon and I have been using topical cannabis - in all forms on my clients for the past several years. I have been careful to do so within my scope of practice working with the Massage Therapy board in our State as well as my professional liability insurance carrier to make sure I was covering my tracks.

Adverse Neural Tension: Treating Painful Nerve Disorders
A great deal of emphasis is placed on maintaining flexibility in the soft tissues, such as muscle, in order to maintain optimum function and reduce injury. However, other structures or systems must also have flexibility or pliability during movement. The nervous system, which is more commonly perceived as a network of communication lines, actually needs this flexibility and pliability too.
Multi-Dimensional Acupuncture: 3D, 4D & 5D
Maggie is an intuitive healer and workshop leader who I met on a recent hike. While we were talking she told me how she had to take it easy because of her knees. She said that her doctor told her that she has the early signs of arthritis.
Paving the Way to Integrative Health & Wellness
Jared Polis (D-Colorado) and Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) launched the integrative health and wellness (IHW) caucus in October, 2018.
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