I’m doing all the right things. I’m working out, I’m getting up at 5am, I stopped caffeine or stopped drinking alcohol…
I see this a lot within the profession as a whole. The idea is you want to be a better, healthier person. You want to be a good example for your patients, you want to feel great, have more energy. If you do this, you’ll be a better practitioner. If you do these things, your practice will follow and also be healthier.
But then your practice doesn’t grow.
Having healthy routines, while good for you, means absolutely nothing for your practice.
The only thing that helps your practice is actually working in, and on, your practice. Your practice doesn’t care if you met a PR in CrossFit. It doesn’t care if you can do splits, hand-stands, back flips, or if you eat clean.
In fact, oftentimes these things are another distraction and a way to avoid working on your actual practice.
There are many broke “healthy” people.
Health and wealth is an overall measurement of your life. Not a single stat.
So you quit alcohol? Got off caffeine? Started doing enemas? Meditate for 2 hours?
Great! Your practice doesn’t care.
OF COURSE you want of be healthy and feel great. But my point is…is your practice?
And are you doing more for your health as a distraction or because you’re avoiding something else?
It’s all about balance. And not making a mountain out of a mole hill. Simply do that food drive in your clinic. Reach out to local media. Do that talk. Have that in-house event. Call your local rotary. Find the health fairs. Hand your patients business cards and tell them to refer people. Follow up with patients that fell off your schedule. Be a part of your community, not just another business within it.
There aren’t secrets. It’s just hustle.
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!
