Guided Qigong for Immune Support
Try this 20-minute, guided Qigong exercise, guided by Dr. Jake Fratkin. It's great for immune support, stress relief, and overall vitality. A perfect addition to your stay-home routine! Read more
Category: Tips/Techniques
Coronavirus — Acupuncture Can Make a Difference
This is a wonderful opportunity to better serve our patients and let our medicine shine by serving humanity. Whether you use one of these ideas or try one of your own, this is not the time for Acupuncture to step back! Let’s all step up, combat fear, help one another, and do good in the world! The good Karma will certainly manifest in future ways for each of us, and for our profession. Read more
This Quick Patient Education Tip could Save you Time AND Make you Money!
I'm about to teach you something smart, simple, and SOOOO incredibly effective for attracting new acupuncture patients. With a few easy steps, you'll be bringing in new, excited patients without spending hours socializing. This tip SAVED my schedule and did wonders for my practice growth! Read more
Proving that Acupuncture Works—One Graph at a Time
The truth is, your patients don’t understand how acupuncture works, or how it can help them. The beauty of the AcuGraph Digital Meridian Imaging System is that it takes the confusion and mystery out of acupuncture, helps your patients “see the chi”, and creates raving fans who value acupuncture and refer you to friends and family. In a world where patients have been conditioned to trust x-rays, scans and tests, AcuGraph is the key to convert patients to your care, and skyrocket your practice success. Read more
20 Creative AcuGraph Cover Pages: We’ve got you ‘COVERED’ for the New Year!
With AcuGraph, you can create personalized reports for your patients based upon their treatment journey. Uploading custom cover pages for these reports provides a personal message from you and your clinic. You can use templates for first-time patients, return visitors and wellness patients. Read more
5 Things AcuGraph Can Do—Beyond Just Graphing
The truth is, AcuGraph is a transformative, multifaceted system that delivers countless high- value benefits to practitioners. It can literally change your practice. We know because it has done so for hundreds of our practitioners. Here are 5 of our favorite benefits of AcuGraph-beyond just taking a reading. Read more
2 Different Graphs, 1 Simple Solution
I had such an occasion recently when I performed an AcuGraph exam on a regular patient. I’m pretty experienced with this patient, and I thought I knew the sort of thing to expect. So when I encountered a bunch of anomalous readings, I began to wonder, “What changed?” After the process of elimination, I figured it out - and the answer was a bit of a shock! Read more
Webinar: Light Therapy for Pain Relief – What Works, and WHY
In this free, live webinar, I will teach everything you need to know about incorporating light therapy into your treatments, and why it's one of the BEST modalities to add to your toolbox. Read more
Webinar: That Marvelous Light – Lasers and Acupuncture
Editor’s Note: This webinar on lasers and acupuncture was presented live in 2019. The educational content remains relevant to current practice. What’s the scariest purchase you’ve ever made? I still remember mine. I was still in school, and I maxed out my credit card buying 20 lasers. Seems a strange... Read more
Autism Spectrum Disorders & Acupuncture
Though no cure exists, acupuncture can improve many outcomes for people with autism. With the right skills and understanding, you can touch many lives for the better. Read more
Beating Fibromyalgia with “Active” Acupuncture Techniques
Dr Kimberly Thompson opens up her playbook to teach you exactly what she does, in a systematic treatment series, to help patients regain control of their lives and find relief of chronic pain. Read more
Webinar: Why an Evidence-Based Practice will be Crucial for Success in 2019
We are on the CUSP of a whole new generation of acupuncturists who are going to change how our profession interacts with the outside medical world. Read more
Case Study: The Kidney Return Protocol
In this post, I will share an interesting case study involving the Kidney Return Protocol. First, I'll walk you through my thought process when analyzing the graph over the course of two visits. Read more
WEBINAR- Power in the Protocol: AcuGraph and the Kidney Return
Editor’s Note: This webinar on the Kidney Return Protocol was presented live in 2018. The educational content remains relevant to current practice. We’ve all encountered patients who, for whatever reason, seem to have very little qi available with which to work. Such patients can be challenging, and may not respond... Read more
Acupuncture for Pain Relief: Qi and Blood Stagnation Tips
Pain is the number one chief complaint in any acupuncture clinic. Why is that? There is a traditional Chinese saying which states: “If there is free flow, there is no pain. If there is pain, there is no free flow.” Free flow relates to movement of qi and blood, which... Read more