Should We Treat the Psoas Motor Point or Only Use Distal Points?

"Most (musculoskeletal) issues start at the Pelvis" - Vladimir Janda         Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com OCTOBER10 for 10% off Everything Until the End of October.

The unfortunate gap in understanding pain is the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system's response to overuse, pain and injury.     Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com OCTOBER10 discount code for 10% off everything on the site until the end of October    

Some tough pain cases are getting better (fast)!   Here is the link to Podia. My new course just went live.   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

I saw a new patient this week with posterior knee pain and his leg would internally rotate when he had been playing golf for a while.       Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

It's not easy to treat a pain that the patient only feels at times when they are not in the clinic with you. You have to go on their memory of where it hurts and what they are doing at that time. On palpation there was no pain to reproduce. Length testing and muscle testing showed nothing.  I had to rely on Dr. Travell to figure it out.       Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

Just a review of how I usually treat a leg length discrepancy and some of my tough cases. Foot neuropathies, Cauda Equina Syndrome, Migraines     Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

If you're sticking needles into the site of pain you're waving the flag of surrender. If you know the cause of the pain, you should be getting good/great results in your first treatment and have it resolved or greatly improved very quickly soon after, in most cases. If you are sticking needles into things where they hurt, you're likely missing the real cause of the problem.  Yes, I'm going to piss people off. But Janda and Lewit were right. "He who treats the site of pain is often lost"!     Online courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

I recently saw a discussion about treating the psoas with acupuncture techniques like fascial pecking on the abdomen, treating the segment, addressing other issues like the abdominals and core, distal points.   What should we do and why?    All of the above are good, but there are times when the motor point is essential. Here's my take. Hint: it's a matter of muscle tone vs muscle shortening.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

More gold from Dr. Trescot's book.  There are many ways to entrap the radial nerve. The ones we can address with acupuncture can respond very quickly.    Here's Dr. Trescot's Book on Amazon. (The Springer site has it for about $100 more than Amazon) https://a.co/d/2QN64U4   My online courses are here: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Something I was teaching in Amsterdam recently. Easy to miss, but easy to treat.   As I mentioned, you can learn more about Dr. Jenny Nieters' Courses here: https://alamedaacupuncture.com/learn-sports-acupuncture-with-jenny-nieters/   My courses are here: https://richardhazel.podia.com