"The Benefits of Adding New Modalities to Your Practice": "I can tell you that in 43 years of practice, both dry needling and acupuncture to my practice is probably the best thing I've ever done for my patients, not just from a a perspective of I'm adding an additional service into my clinic, but it gave me the ability to start treating things I never would have considered treating with just chiropractic manipulative services and rehabilitation and modalities and things like that."

Understanding Dry Needling: "Dry needling, which you often see abbreviated as DN, involves the needling of a myofascial trigger point, and it uses skilled and varied traditional needle techniques. The effect of which are we can explain anatomically and physiologically."

The Benefits of Needling: "The benefits that we derive from needling is we're going to improve blood flow. We're gonna get healthy blood flow back into the area where the trigger point or the injury is. We're gonna improve oxygen circulation in that local area. We're gonna ease joint and muscle pain."

Revolutionizing Pain Treatment: "We can use dry needling to treat somebody who's got phantom limb pain."

The Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: "In 1949, Mao Zedong integrated Chinese medicine with western medicine, and this modern form of Chinese medicine became known as TCM or traditional Chinese medicine."

Viral Topic: The Harmony of the Autonomic Nervous System: "So in the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic and parasympathetic work in a harmony and a balance. And when they're out of balance is when we get both skeletal as well as visceral changes in the body."

The Modern Adaptation of Ancient Practices: "Western medical acupuncture is a therapeutic modality, also involves the insertion of needles. The western medical acupuncture, it's an adaptation of Chinese acupuncture where we use current knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, and the principles of evidence based medicine."

"Blending Wisdom: Eastern Meets Western Medicine": "So through the approaches, even though they're different, the actual practice of acupuncture is pretty similar. And even though most acupuncturists around the world still use traditional Chinese acupuncture, we're now understanding the effects from well known scientific physiological mechanisms, which is one of the things that's leading to the explosion of acupuncture right now."

Blending Best Practices in Medicine: "It kinda takes the best of western medicine and eastern medicine and melds them together into a process that seems to work very well clinically."

"Acupuncture's Body-Wide Pain Relief": "And in the extra segmental effect, acupuncture reduces pain throughout the body. And one of the ways that it does it is our brain is an opioid center in the hypothalamus."