That face you make when an Acu posts about someone calling them looking for dry needling, so they lectured the patient on how dry needling is not acupuncture, and then for some reason the patient never scheduled an appointment...hmmm
You can be "right" or you can have a patient.
Besides, dry needling is acupuncture. All acupuncture is. That's why acupuncturists should own it. Get the patient in and then use what you know to help them. Who cares, just get the patient into your clinic!
This clip from 2017 sums up one of the biggest issues we see when treating MSK and pain conditions with needles — and also the solution.
The problem is not the lack of different techniques.
The problem is knowing when to use them, why to use them, and when not to use them.
Motor points, trigger points, electroacupuncture, peripheral treatments, central nervous system approaches — all of these can be valuable.
But they are not interchangeable.
The real skill is understanding how to apply those techniques through the lens of neurology, assessment, and clinical reasoning.
That means identifying what type of problem is actually in front of you, determining the most appropriate treatment strategy, and then reassessing to see whether you actually changed what you intended to change.
That is the difference between simply performing a technique and treating with precision.
And that is exactly what the EXSTORE™ Orthopedic System is built to teach.
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Just wondering if there is any contraindications with electro acupuncture and insulin pumps? Hadn’t come up before and realized I don’t know. Thank you!
This is from a new patient I saw yesterday. One screenshot is from her intake form, and the other is the Google review I woke up to this morning.
All I did was upper perfusion and a few distal points.
This isn’t a testament to me as a practitioner, but rather to the medicine we practice. What we learn here, and what we are able to do with that knowledge, is incredibly powerful.
