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First I want to say GOOD JOB! We had a huge response to my last blog: The Graphing Game. I loved reading your individualized perspectives on this patient’s graph. So many of your responses were right on. Isn’t it awesome how experienced AcuGraph users can look at a graph and learn so much about a patient? Patients are really impressed when you pinpoint certain aspects of their life based on graph analysis. In fact, when... Read more
Remember when you were in school and you had that really cool teacher who played games with you and you actually learned something? I’m going to be that really cool teacher today. We’re going to play a game. “The Graphing Game” It takes time to become excellent at graph analysis, but the rewards are awesome! Expert Graph Analysis skills help you become a better practitioner. Sometimes I play “The Graphing Game” with my patients. I’ll graph them BEFORE they... Read more
Have you encountered a graph that looks like this? Those are some low readings! Perhaps you’ve had a patient or two that read very low. Perhaps you could barely get any readings at all. I’ve encountered a few of those myself. What causes low readings? And what can I do about it? Here are some tips to keep in mind: Remember, you are measuring electrical skin conductance. This means you are evaluating how well the patient’s... Read more
Every now and then, I run across a graph that looks something like this: Everything is high—in fact, so high that there are no findings at all. When everything is this elevated and this close together, it’s impossible to determine excess, deficiency, or splits. So what does it mean? 1. The coolest and most surprising cause of very high readings also happens to be the first one I discovered. Here’s that first high graph: What... Read more
How would you respond to this statement I recently received from an acupuncturist on Facebook in response to a blog post I wrote about AcuGraph? *Make sure you read the statement with sarcasm in your voice… “Wait a minute. …. I wasted thousands of dollars and years of my life to study TCM. I could have just paid a couple of thousand dollars on AcuGraph and had the same results instantly! Damn!” Can you relate to... Read more
In my last article, I discussed the definition of marketing. Here’s a quick review of that information: Marketing is NOT advertising. Advertising is what you do when you have finished the marketing process. It is the HOW of the equation. How do you spread your message? Advertising! Marketing is the WHAT, WHO and WHY of the equation. It is the process of refining your message to be highly targeted, valuable and important to your target... Read more
We have a policy at our office. If you have a question about something, it’s likely someone else probably does too. During our weekly meetings we share our question and the answer we received with everyone else—so the entire group can benefit. Recently, I received an email from an AcuGraph user who had a question about energy stability. Question: How does AcuGraph calculate energy stability? I thought you might enjoy hearing the answer too! ********** Answer:... Read more
Have you been following us on Facebook? If so, you know I’ve been pretty busy lately, traveling to acupuncture shows and conventions! (If not, what are you waiting for? Click here and LIKE our page!) Lately…. Who am I kidding? My schedule is actually packed all the way to the end of the year and beyond—especially when you add the demands of my FAMILY into the mix: 9 kids, 15 grand-babies, an anniversary get-away, and a... Read more
The Value of the Solution This is part 3 of my 6 part series. If you missed part One or Two...just click and catch up! Okay…let’s continue: If customers in ANY business ONLY pay for solutions to problems that matter to them, it’s time to ask yourself what problems you solve. Do you: Get people out of pain? Help couples conceive a child when they are having trouble doing so? Eliminate the misery of allergies? Help... Read more
Hello Friends, I had a customer email me and tell me that he had a couple of patients who would not provide any reading on the ear at all. Even when using Auriculo 360 and the Stimplus Pro to locate the Master Points, there was simply no response. I found this a bit puzzling because I’ve never had a patient’s ear that couldn’t be measured and treated, especially on the master points. So let’s review... Read more
We have a responsibility to care for our elderly with compassion and dignity. This is unbelievable!!! I love elderly patients. Would you be furious if this happened to one your patients or family members? Are you treating elderly in your clinic? I hope so. I work with elderly all the time! And I wrote an article about it on our blog. ~Kimberly Blog: http://bit.ly/HN-DignifiedTreatment The link to the story: http://bit.ly/HotNewsTSA-Florida Please rate this Please Rate This Post: Read more
Another Example of the Failure of Western Medicine to deal with Chronic Pain. The movie presents the heartbreaking story of how chronic pain, loneliness and despair drove this 38 year old woman to suicide. It’s shocking to hear she had 72 appointments with a collection of doctors, physiotherapists and pain clinics…and NONE OF IT HELPED! In terms of her quality of life, she was existing, not living. She couldn’t even tie her shoes or get dressed without... Read more
Regardless of who we are, where we live, and what our life experiences may be—there are two things everyone of us are guaranteed to experience: birth and death. Acupuncture helps with both. If you didn’t read my previous blog, Death… It’s a Hard Subject: Part 1, you may want to catch up. We talked about treating tumorous cancer-related symptoms such as nausea, constipation, edema, pain from a tumor, fear, and anxiety. In today’s blog we are... Read more
In my last Practice Management Blog (click here) I talked about all of the OTHER things you have to manage in your practice! Today’s acupuncturist is running a small business. As a small business, the most important thing you must do in your business is MARKETING. Everything else is driven by this function. Of course, you have to do accounting, legal, regulatory, supplies, scheduling, billing, and so on. But if you don’t have patients, none of... Read more
You’ve been there and so have I… It was in my first diagnosis class in acupuncture school. Our assignment was to feel the patient’s pulse and report what we felt. I was gung-ho (or naïve) enough to volunteer first. There I stood, eyes closed, concentrating on feeling something meaningful in that regular thumping heartbeat. To be honest, I had no idea what I was feeling, but I bravely put forth my best guess. Then, the... Read more