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Acupressure Treats Dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea, which can be quite common in women, is characterized by lower abdominal pain and cramping, sometimes accompanied by heavy bleeding, that begins at the start of the menstrual cycle.
Postpartum Depression: Nutritional Considerations
A few days after giving birth, 50-85 percent of women (depending on your source) suffer from various degrees of postpartum depression (PPD). The symptoms include one or more of the following: crying, impatience, insomnia, impatience, irritability, loneliness, mood swings, restlessness and sadness.
Palpatory Musculoskeletal Findings as Early Indicators of Visceral Disease
Throughout the history of manipulative therapy, three major professions, osteopathy, chiropractic and physiotherapy, have incorporated their own significant variations of spinal manipulative therapy into practice.
Army To Include AOM for Pain Treatment
The statistics are sobering, to say the least. According to leading pain specialists  in the Veterans Administration, nine in 10 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return home with some form of pain, and 60 percent have significant pain.

The Snackwell Effect, Part 2
The Snackwell Effect, Part 1  talked about how we lost our ability to regulate blood sugar by overwhelming our bodies with cereal, bread and Ho-Ho's. This article is going to be about how to reverse this whole process.
Working With Local Employers: 10 Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
When your practice is about meeting needs, the market is wide open to you. But to meet human needs, you have to reach people where they are. Why not market where people spend 47.5 hours of their week, on average?
Proving East Asian Medicine
East Asian medical research focuses on quantitative means of proof. This affects the information obtained, thus what become considered best practices. I maintain that the world of East Asian medicine might also be understood through qualitative means.
An Argument for Preventive Care
Employee benefit costs continue rising and health-related expenses affect bottom line more than ever. Innovative ideas have stemmed from the need to address employee concerns within cost constraints.
Is Advice Alone Adequate for the Management of Neck Pain?
Over the course of the past dozen years or so, we've seen a continuing push toward greater self-reliance on the part of the patient in medical care. That translates into health care dollar savings for consumers and enhanced profits for insurers.
Adrenal Support Important for Coping With Prolonged Stress
When the famous physiologist Hans Selye  was conducting his original research on the stress response in the 1930s, he observed that prolonged and sustained stress eventually attacked the adrenal glands themselves.
Make Patient Financing a Part of Your Financial Policy
Many patients today are facing higher out-of-pocket costs, including increased deductibles and self-pay portions, that can make moving forward with chiropractic care a challenge.

Corporate Clutter
Eighteen boxes, seven piles, and 167 assorted objects found their way from our home to the curbside last weekend. In addition, books from three four-foot shelves were removed and taken to the University Book Give-Away Center.
Functional Exercise and Joint Movement
Fundamentally, exercise is about movement, and lots of it. The base foundation of functional movement is proper joint mobility and stability. Without adequate mobility and stability of joints in the kinetic chain, you end up with dysfunctional movement.
The Pulse of Aging
What would the pulse of aging look like? I use the term "look like" rather than "feel like" because I look at the pulses as the flow of qi through the organ systems rather than as a single or multiple of textures.
How to Chase a New Patient Away in 60 Minutes or Less, Part 2
For the rest of the "normal" chiropractors who don't have a super-sized, magnetic, Web 92.0, set-it-and-forget-it, make-money-while-you-sleep solution that fulfills your every new-patient dream, what are you to do to prevent yourself from chasing new patients away? Here are a few things to consider.
Microcurrent Treatment of Headaches
You will frequently have good success in relieving localized bodily pain with microcurrents by simply "circling the dragon"; that is, stimulating where it hurts. This is usually not the case, however, in the treatment of headaches.
Centering the Umbilical Pulse and Akabani Testing
This article will address two very specific and important treatment protocols: the Umbilical Pulse and the Akabani Test, both of which can be incorporated with any style of practice.
Plotting Your Course

It's not enough to want to make a living to do what you do. Nor is it enough to be extraordinarily talented - the world is full of passionate, talented failures. If you want to earn money with your passion, you'll be running a business, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to plot your course.


Posture Evaluations, Part 3: The Shoulder and Scapula
Let's discuss normal shoulder resting posture so we can determine if there is a link between a postural deviation and pain. Static postural analysis is performed before range-of-motion examinations, orthopedic testing, movement pattern assessments and palpation analysis.
Dealing with Dangerous Clients
Recently, a colleague in another city called to inform me that a patient had been vandalizing acupuncturists' offices around town and, they believed, slashing tires of acupuncturists' cars. He wanted to know if I knew anything about this person, and to warn me.
Cultural Competency in the Mormon Community
The federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) define cultural competency as "a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations.
Have You Ever Wondered How Chemotherapy Drugs Work? Part 2
A standard way to classify chemotherapy agents is to put them into one of two categories: cell cycle (phase-specific) and non-cell cycle (non-phase-specific). The cell-cycle drugs, have their greatest killing effect when a cell is dividing whereby certain drugs target specific cell phases.
Combating Joint Degeneration With Orthotics
Degenerative joint disease (osteoarthrosis) increases in frequency as we age. As society gets older, therefore, chiropractors will encounter more patients afflicted with painful joint conditions.
No Shortage of Happy Chiropractic Patients
The past 12 months have been good - very good - for the chiropractic profession in terms of data supporting the efficacy of chiropractic care. For starters, consider the Wellmark pilot study that suggests chiropractic reduces both costs and need for surgery.
News in Brief
News in Brief: ACC-RAC 2011: Call for Papers; National Adds Two Members to Its "Hall of Honor"; Latest Diplomate Acupuncture Exam Scheduled for October.
Taking a Stand Against Childhood Obesity
According to a 2005 report published by the Institute of Medicine, "Over the past three decades, [the rate of childhood obesity] has more than doubled for preschool children aged 2 to 5 years and adolescents aged 12 to 19 years, and it has more than tripled for children aged 6 to 11 years.
TCM and Weight Management
According to the World Health Organization there are 1 billion people globally that are overweight and 300 million that are clinically obese. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey from 1999 to 2002, 65 percent of the U.S. population is obese or overweight and 30 percent are considered clinically obese.
Joint Motion and Motion Therapy
The use of joint motion for diagnostics and treatment is common in many professions. In fact, at the clinics I oversee, we have 12 orthopedic surgeons and one neurosurgeon, and all agree that they are seeing better outcomes with patients who have some form of motion retention after surgery.
A Chiropractic Skeptic No More
Anyone intimately involved in trying to make chiropractic more available to and accepted by the masses will be quick to tell you that changing perception is key. The following letter to the editor was submitted recently by a chiropractic patient who calls herself a former "Queen of Chiropractic Skeptics."
A Rose By Any Other Name
In his July column, Will Morris asks "What's In A Name?" Rather more than Shakespeare's Juliet would imagine; indeed, more things than are dreamt of in her philosophy, to invoke Hamlet.
Revving Up the Positive Press
Donate to the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (FCP) today and you could drive away in a 2011 Ford Mustang! The FCP has unveiled a new-car giveaway. Here's how you could win: Every 2010 contributor will be given a chance to win.
Research in Review: Manual Physical Therapy Techniques for LBP
Those who stay current with literature will be familiar with the low back pain clinical prediction rule (CPR) that has been in development for low back pain patients for the past few years. This important and unique work has been authored mainly by Cleland, Fritz, Childs, et al.
A Snapshot Of the Profession
Given the current debates taking place over the role complementary medicine (and acupuncture and Oriental medicine in particular) should play in the changing health care environment, it is important to understand where the profession is currently at.
As Time Goes By
I celebrated my 40-year anniversary in the field this summer. It was astounding to contemplate how my entire life has been built around learning, practicing, promoting, fighting for, and teaching this medicine all over the world. I have reminisced about the decades of struggle, passion, commitment and reward.

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Massage Today
November 18, 2009

2010 World Massage Festival Registration Open

The 2010 World Massage Festival "A Massage Reunion" is a major continuing education event including registration for up to 24 NCBTMB-approved CE hours of workshops, four nights lodging and four full days of meals for an all-inclusive price of  $492.

Visit the World Massage Festival Web site (www.worldmassagefestival.com) for discounts and payment options, which include paying 50 percent of the cost when you register and the second 50 percent one month later.

The festival will be held June 17-21 at the campus of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky (just 40 minutes south of Lexington on I-75).

What to Expect from the Festival:

  • Exciting events and CE classes. View the complete schedule of events and classes by clicking on the days of the calendar on the front page at http://www.worldmassagefestival.com.
  • Workshop registration for up to 24 NCBTMB-approved CE hours. Choose from 42 instructors, teaching 56 different classes!  Class lengths range from one-hour classes to 16-hour classes, so set the schedule that is just right for you!  A list of instructors with links to their class descriptions is at www.worldmassagefestival.com/2010/classes.html.
  • A weekend chock full of education, fun, networking and shopping, beginning with a Jam Fest on Thursday evening in Old Town Berea and ending with Jenny Ray (2009 Hall of Fame Member) and Janelle Lakman graciously sharing a special Closing Ceremony with us on Sunday night. (Details at: www.worldmassagefestival.com/2010/sunday.html.)
  • New this year. A new medical aquatics class by Paul St. John, James Waslaski offers a new orthopedic class and 24 full hours of Easlen Massage training are offered.
  • Short classes have been added to Friday's schedule to allow you a "taste" of a modality, technique or instructor that may be new to you while still earning credits and receiving certificates for attending the classes. (Details at: www.worldmassagefestival.com/2010/friday.html.)
  • More ways to earn points to win prizes have been added at www.worldmassagefestival.com/2010/points.html.
  • Keynote Speaker, Paul St. John. (Sponsored by massage promotions!)
  • Musician Steven Halpern will be playing his massage music as part of the Hall of Fame Ceremonies on Saturday night.
  • Entertainment on the stage in the Vendor Hall, thanks, in part, to the sponsorship of Anita Shannon of ACE Massage Cupping!
  • Each registrant gets a free door prize ticket. In 2009, we gave away over $32,000 worth of door prizes, with everything from jewelry to a business starter package that included a table and massage chair and accessories!
  • Less than 50 residence hall rooms available. Register soon if you want to stay on campus!

Register at: www.regonline.com/63367_694182J.

Source: World Massage Festival

 

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