Why crowdsourcing treatment advice almost never works
It’s exhausting when you don’t have a system to work within. When every patient that comes in is like starting over and not knowing what to do. Every treatment is guesswork and not knowing if something will work, or why it did one time and not another. Or worse yet, why what you’ve used before flared up this new patient.
Too often practitioners work on assumptions or guessing. They base treatment on what worked for a past patient, or because a colleague said it worked on their patient.
And much of these recommendations come from Crowdsourcing for treatment advice on social media. I started a group that has over 7500 members. But I had to get away from it.
The issue is, absent using a working system, crowdsourcing is ineffectual at best, and reckless at worse. It was the same thing over and over. Tons of people hopping in offering random suggestions absent any real case history, and it was all piecemeal. It was unhelpful and only confused the practitioner who posted the original question even more. The practitioner wasn’t taught how to fish. They were just fed temporarily. But even worse, the fish wasn’t even edible. (Ok enough analogies)
Can you imagine if your patient knew you were trying some random technique because another practitioner offered advice on Facebook?! When you think about it that way it’s pretty crazy.
But asking for advice CAN be helpful when it’s done in a certain way. Asking questions on a forum is much more valuable when it’s within a system and we’re speaking the same language. You can build within a system. You can make sense of the patient when you have a base of knowledge to work from. When someone posts a history of the patient, better advice can be offered. This also helps practitioners grow and not just have a crutch. I want practitioners to ask questions and learn more than just “here try this”. It’s much better to know the why and empower them to be more self sufficient…to grow into getting the answers themselves and knowing how to find them. Offering treatment advice is much more profound in this way.
A forum works much better this way and it works extremely well on our Locals community, where EXSTORE is the system that everyone works under. Its just a more responsible - and very effective - way of running a forum.
Size doesn’t matter. Having a smaller more effective community is better. The community continues to grow, but not just for the sake of growth.
Assessment & Treatment of 12 Peripheral Nerve Entrapments Using Electroacupuncture
This question came up at the December EXSTORE seminar. When does Anthony use the Pointer versus the ITO? (Or other longer-use estim device)
In this webinar Anthony goes over assessment and understanding of the major scoliotic curves. This includes how to base rehab prescriptions and how to select acupuncture treatment protocols for major scoliotic curves. We also review scoliotic curves on Xray and review what muscles are affected and the structural implications.
Here is the list of webinars in the library.
This does not include the recorded labs or the other webinars annual members get.
Hi! @Exstoreman I watched and took notes on the 12 Peripheral Nerve entrapments, and I have many questions. I couldn't find clarifications on these upon searching, but let me know if I missed them anywhere.
First, I am confused on how to know if I start with exstore, or work on nerve entrapment? Do I only know if it’s nerve entrapment by western med tests or muscle atrophy below the compression? Is this what the motor tests are for? How do I know if I need to work on peripheral entrapment vs cutaneous entrapment, nerve root compression, or others like thoracic outlet, chemo neuropathy, B6 neuropathy, burning in low back, etc? Is all numbness/tingling one thing, vs muscle atrophy, or other?
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How do we connect the information from these tests that you provided, as they don’t have direct correlation? For instance, you list the individual nerves, and the individual vertebrae level tests, but those don’t have direct correlation and do have overlap. How do we use info gathered from ie nerve innervation...
@Exstoreman @JoshuaSwart
I just wanted to express my thanks today for all that y'all put together and hope y'all keep showing up for this community and an ever growing number of people. Thank you for your mentorship.
Today I go into my 6th year in business and I feel EXSTORE and the techniques learned truly are essential to my practice. There is friction in growing a business but I am thankful to have y'all help grease the wheels to move forward with more ease and grace.
I'd like to attend EXSTORE again this year as well to catch up with old and new faces. Please send link for retake when you can.
Again I cannot express my thanks enough.
