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Meet Olivia. She’s 5 and LOVES acupuncture! Are you treating kids in your clinic? I don’t run a full-on pediatric clinic, but I do treat kids fairly often. If you are treating mom’s in your clinic, I suggest you prepare yourself to treat kids too. Kid’s will eventually show up. Are you ready for them? If not, I’ve got a great solution for you. Back by popular demand: My friend Robin Green, L.Ac–Acupuncture Pediatric... Read more
Hey look… Robin Green is doing it AGAIN! As you may remember, last year I had the opportunity to take Robin Green’s Pediatric Essentials class. I learned so much! Apparently, I’m not the only one. The class was so popular that practitioners have begged her to do it again! This class is a MUST have for anyone who wants to treat kids–whether full time or occasionally. You will love Robin’s approach to treatment. She incorporates... Read more
Welcome to “Lunch and Learn!” Lunch and Learns are a great way to conveniently learn a little something new during your lunch break. Typically they last about 45-60 minutes and are presented via webinar, live discussion, recording or video. Today’s lunch and learn will be presented via a prerecorded video I did with my friend Robin Green, L.Ac. from Acupuncture Pediatrics. Robin and I had a great time chatting about acupuncture, kids and life. I... Read more
In today’s video Kimberly talks about changes that have occurred over the past 5 years. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive all of the research and news that Kimberly mentioned in her video. Just enter your information in the boxes to the right! You can also follow her posts on Facebook! Please rate this Please Rate This Post: Read more
How do you build a successful practice? A major goal of our 2014 Seminar was to give you the answer to that question. It all starts with a framework. Imagine building a house without proper framing…it simply wouldn’t work! Day 3 of the seminar is designed to give you the tools you need to effectively build and market your practice. There are 5 key elements you’ll learn Creating your identity: The foundation of a practice... Read more
A highlight of every seminar is the opportunity to learn from my colleagues. Our 2014 seminar was full of NEW information. Kimberly was at the top of her game and shared tons of great clinical wisdom. Now, if I’m Kimberly’s boss, owner of the company, and the guy who originally taught her about meridian graphing, you’d think she couldn’t teach me anything new, right? Wrong! Kimberly taught me all sorts of incredible things I didn’t... Read more
As many of you know, I was a massage therapist for about a dozen years before I became an acupuncturist. While I was in college to learn TCM, I was blessed with the opportunity to transform my massage clients into road maps of discovery. The walls of my treatment room were always covered with handmade pictures and notes of whatever I was studying at the time. As my hands explored the acupuncture channels, my fingers... Read more
Sometimes I need to see the bigger picture. I’m reminded of the story of the logger who is so busy working in the forest, harvesting and hauling trees, that he never takes time to stop and consider the forest itself. So from time to time, I like to take a step back from my day-to-day work and consider the acupuncture profession in general. I’ve worked in and around the profession for the last 14 years, which doesn’t... Read more
Caffeine addiction can be powerful and all too common! After months of researching Auriculotherapy and finishing up the final stages of our Auriculo 360 program, a business associate and husband of a patient of mine, approached me with a question. He wanted to know if acupuncture could help him overcome his caffeine addiction. Can it??? I knew the answer right away…. You bet it can, absolutely! In this video case study you will hear first-hand... Read more
Hello Friends, If you didn’t get to attend the 8th International Symposium Of Auriculotherapy in Baltimore last month, you really missed out. There were top-name international speakers, outstanding presentations, and the latest products and tools for auriculotherapy. Congratulations to everyone who put so much work into organizing this event! I was particularly pleased to see the most up-and-coming trend in auriculotherapy technology. You’ll never guess what it was! OK, if you know me or you’re... Read more
Do you know stuff? I’m sure you do! As practitioners, we all need a ready store of knowledge for quick retrieval and use when treating patients. And no doubt, you’ve got an awful lot of that kind of stuff in your head. Probably so much, in fact, that some has leaked out. That’s what happens to me from time to time. Auriculotherapy, especially, can tax the memory of the best of us–with hundreds of points... Read more
I don’t know why, but I’ve always had a special bond with older people. When I was a little girl, my family used to call me a “little old lady” because I wore glasses and could often be found sitting next to my grandma with a crochet hook or knitting “needles” in hand. My fondness toward the elderly has continued to grow over the years. I love to learn from older people and for some... Read more
In the first part of this series, we discussed the power of belief as it relates to healthcare outcomes. In part two, we discussed the placebo effect in acupuncture, and the tendency for medical studies to attribute acupuncture’s effects to placebo only. Now that we’ve laid that groundwork, it’s time to talk about why acupuncture is more than mere placebo–and how you can combine patient belief with proper treatment to achieve superior outcomes. First, let’s... Read more
In my last blog, I touched on the topic of the Placebo Effect in acupuncture (click here if you missed it). To briefly review, one of the most powerful influences on patient healing is the patient’s belief about the treatment received. If the patient believes s/he is getting effective treatment, healing is much more likely. Controlled studies of the placebo effect have shown it to improve chest pain, warts, asthma, arthritis, cancer, and many other medical conditions.... Read more
John Matzke was told he had only 18 months to live. His oncologist insisted he immediately begin aggressive treatment for the melanoma that had metastasized to his lung. But John instead took a month off to strengthen his body before the grueling treatment began. He hiked, meditated, exercised and ate organic food. A month later, his lung tumor had completely disappeared on its own. Though melanoma is one of the deadliest cancers, John never started... Read more