The Science Behind Acupuncture: "We get analgesia by stimulating the small nerves, which sends impulses to the spinal cord, then up to the midbrain, primarily to the periaqua, doctor Gray, the ventral tegmental area, and the rosterentromedial medulla here in the lower brain, as well as up into the somatosensory cortex and the thalamus."

The Science of Needling and Pain Management: "And when you needle, it affects the spinal cord, blocking pain there as well as going the anterior lateral tract to the midbrain and the pituitary hypothalamus complex, blocking and suppressing the pain pathway as it's coming up."

Understanding Analgesia: "It's been found to diminish dental pain perception."

Advanced Techniques in Pain Management: "It gets them very comfortable with needling in a much more profound manner rather than just doing myofascial trigger points."

Expanding Acupuncture Knowledge: "And we also do a program on acupuncture. We have a basic 100 hour it's actually a hybrid program of 80 hours live, 20 hours online, where we go into intro to acupuncture, TCM theory, the meridians, musculoskeletal acupuncture, internal disorders, microsystems like ear and scalp, accessory techniques like gua sha and moxa and that kind of stuff, and then TCM diagnosis, primarily pulse and tongue, as well as pattern diagnosis, and then we go into research."

Trending in Alternative Medicine: "If you just type in neurophysiological effects or neural effects of acupuncture analgesia in PubMed, you'll get tons and tons of articles from both the dry needling and an acupuncture perspective."

The Power of Needling in Pain Management: "I can't tell you the number of times patients have come up to me and point to the chart and say, that's exactly what I'm feeling. And they're pointing to the referred pain from the trigger point, which is an easy segue of, you know what? Let's see if it's a trigger point problem because I can release that through needling."

"Combining Acupuncture and Dry Needling for Effective Treatment": "I do dry needling, and I add acupuncture points in, but I don't teach them in dry needling as acupuncture points. I teach them his neuromuscular reflex points because that's what they are from a Western perspective, and they have that profound effect like the point we talked about in the hand."

Breaking New Ground in Mental Health: "I'm I'm doing some research on scalp acupuncture in the treatment of mental health disorders. That's pretty groundbreaking stuff that just came out in 9 2021, and I'm all of a sudden starting to find more and more articles in PubMed related to it."

The Benefits of Combining Dry Needling and Acupuncture: "To me, I think both is is the best way to go because you understand needling from different perspectives. And and I'm learning things. I got certified in 2007 in acupuncture, and I am still learning stuff and going, oh, yeah. Now I get it 15, 17 years later."