Dr. Anthony Lombardi
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Acute Open Fracture

My wife just suffered an open fracture due to a workplace accident.

What precautions should I keep in mind during treatment once she’s been helped and released from hospital?

I’ll be going through what I usually do in such cases:

  • restore function to local muscles
  • Evil Bone Water and TDP
  • perfusion
  • soft tissue work

My concern is whether there’s an appropriate timeline for any of these. For example, is pain relief and hemodynamics/fluid dynamics a main focus early while avoiding motor points?

Is there a waiting period before doing any motor points?

Etc.

TIA!

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February 11, 2026

@Exstoreman .I have this patient with chronic neck pain. She is 51 years old. She said a flare up started around xmas 2025. She has stiff neck, sharp pain, and have headaches (all starts occipital RT side and go temporal). She also complained of pain around the masseter.
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Well, i have seen her 8 times. She was coming 2x per week , for 3 weeks, now is coming weekly. She says her headaches are no longer present, and she said her facial pain is gone(I actually had to remind her that she was complaining of face pain and pressure). Well she seemed like she was getting better, and stating that her neck was feeling stiff and weird, but the sharp pain was better.
On feb 3nd she came in and said she had a really bad sharp , shooting pain, over the weekend. She said that the pain would come and go. I treated her and then she came back the same week on Friday, and said...

February 10, 2026
Cross-education clinical application

@Exstoreman: I’ve been reading about cross-education and the role of supraspinal and corticospinal neural drive when working a muscle contralaterally, and it made me start thinking about the clinical implications. For example, could contralateral needling- esp MP’s- be helpful in a post-surgical shoulder patient who isn’t far enough along to treat the involved side yet? Eccentric movement seems to provide the strongest stimulus for cross-education, but since needling also has neural effects, I’m curious whether similar principles might apply clinically.

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