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.

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This does not include the recorded labs or the other webinars annual members get.

Patient: F 38 y.o
CC: Inability to evacuate bladder.

Hx:

• life-long hx of UTIs
• 2021 L side sciatica w/ drop foot ( L4/L5 disc bulge)
• Oct 2024: Laminectomy: partial disc is still in tact; cut out portion of bulging disc & grinded down some bone

Testing has shown she still has 1/3 of urine in bladder even when she feels she has emptied. Worse since sciatica and the surgery. She still has numbness in her L lower leg since the sciatica episode that I tried to treat but it wasn’t successful as I didn’t see her enough and/or its been too long/4 years since the initial episode so too late for nerve healing maybe. Last week, she has been told she needs a catheter to empty her bladder and she is wondering if I can help her prevent this. She says her body feels like she is done emptying, but testing shows she still has urine present. She is quite active, rides a motorbike/ goes to the gym. Has a history of trauma and has been historically quite sensitive to the needles.

Thoughts!? @Exstoreman

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...