Results - not time - are how to measure how effective your treatments are. Never base your rates in time.
I would take any mention of time OFF your website. If you want to include wording to the effect that an initial visit may be up to a certain amount of time, that’s one thing. But you aren’t an insurance company and your treatments should not be attached to a pre determined amount of time. That’s setting an expectation that you don’t want the patient to have
I had more happy patients when I spent less time with them but used skills that were much more effective.
Believe me, patients don’t want to be in your clinic for an hour or more. Unless you serve alcohol and food.
Caveat - you don’t need to spend 10 years learning how to be effective and deliver exceptional results. We have the training to get you there much faster.
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.
EXSTORE gives practitioners a complete, ...
@Exstoreman Should I be doing motor points along the forearm? I'd like to treat the scar at some point but it seems like a tricky area for e-stim. Currently using distal points which are helping a bit.
65 yo female had severe laceration to wrist while attempting to catch a falling cup that broke. Injury involved partial transection of median nerve, requiring surgical repair on 10/2/26.
Initially the wrist was stitched and glued, then during surgery they cut through same suture line and the result is a lot of hard adhesions at suture line, especially around HT-7.
Continues to experience numbness in distal half of L ring finger and intense pain at suture.
I have a patient with CRPS of the lower leg. She had a brutal broken leg and was out of the country in an area without modern medical care for 11 days. The leg becomes extremely cold and has burning pain from the knee downward. 1 session of local acupuncture by another practitioner caused a flare that lasted for a long time.
Wondering if perfusion treatment could be a good candidate for her lower leg? Currently using distal acupuncture and auricular but have only seen the patient once.
Thank you for any ideas!
