Is acupuncture an effective treatment for patients suffering from traumatic brain injury?
Traumatic brain injury causes cognitive dysfunction and long-term impairments.
About 1.7 million people suffer from traumatic brain injury, and at least 2.4 million emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths are related to traumatic brain injuries each year.
In a study of 2,163 traumatic brain injury patients, 237 received acupuncture in the treatment period and had an over 2 times higher chance of achieving a significant improvement.
This study’s findings suggested that acupuncture treatment is effective for the recovery of consciousness, and that conventional treatment combined with acupuncture tends to reach better outcomes compared to conventional treatment alone.
Remember, the American Acupuncture Council (AAC) offers an unparalleled track record in acupuncture risk management.
There is a reason acupuncturists have trusted AAC with their business for 50 years.
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Is acupuncture beneficial for people suffering with Inflammatory Bowel disease (IBD)?
There is now growing research supporting the potential benefits of acupuncture for IBD.
Some studies reported that acupuncture improved GI symptoms, including: abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, gas, bloating, nausea, and alleviating inflammation.
Some clinical trials also found that following acupuncture the intestinal microbial composition changed closer to normal and the levels of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules were significantly reduced.
Further studies are needed to better define the benefit of acupuncture in IBD patients.
Healthcare continues to evolve toward less-invasive, natural, and drug-free methods, with acupuncture now becoming a first-line complementary healthcare choice.
Remember, the American Acupuncture Council (AAC) offers an unparalleled track record in acupuncture risk management.
There is a reason acupuncturists have trusted AAC with their business for 50 years.
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Hi, my name is Michelle Gellis. I am an acupuncture physician and an author, and I want to thank the American Acupuncture Council for giving me this opportunity to speak to you about safety concerns when purchasing a microneedling device. So there are a lot of microneedling devices out. On the market now, and I’m not here to try to sell you one, but the American Acupuncture Council is an insurance agency, and so safety is very important to them, and it should be very important to us as practitioners, both the safety of our patients and Our peace of mind when we are taking on a practice, whether it’s acupuncture, needling, or in this case, if we are doing microneedling.
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So the first thing you want to look at when you are considering purchasing a device and you’re looking at safety features is the weight. Of the pen itself and the reason why this is important, if you are doing a lot of microneedling, then if your pen is too heavy, your hand will get tired, and you may not have the consistency across the face, neck, chest, hands, wherever you’re going to be microneedling that you would have with a lighter device.
Now that said, you don’t want to buy a product that is merely made out of aluminum, which is very lightweight, but it’s not going to be durable, and then you can run it into other problems with the product. Breaking or just not lasting very long. Something that is aluminum and stainless steel will give you the durability and also the lightness that you are looking for.
The next important thing when you’re looking at safety in a device is how easy is it for it to use and to adjust? So there should be two adjustments on any microneedle pen. And the first one, which is also a safety feature, is the speed. So in this particular pen, the. Speed, which is indicated by these different numbers is easily visible.
And so you know exactly what speed the pen is operating at. What does speed mean? The speed is how quickly the needles go up and down. So if they’re going too slowly. So we refer to this as RPMs. If it’s going too slowly, it can actually tear at the skin, and so you don’t want a pen that isn’t at least 16,000 RPMs with 18,000 being the kind of gold standard for professional microneedle devices.
The next feature. Setting is, if you look at the pen here, there’s numbers on the. Pen and these numbers indicate how deep the needles will penetrate into the skin. Professional micro noodle devices typically will adjust from zero. To 2.5 millimeters and usually when you are using a microneedle pen, you’re going to start out around 0.25 and you really, when you’re working on the phase, really don’t wanna go over 1.0 millimeters.
The next important safety feature that we’re looking at. So these numbers should be easy to read even if you have a protective sleeve over the pen, and it should be easy to adjust without any confusion about. What number you’re at. Next is the actual cartridges themselves and the cartridges you purchased should be pre sterilized.
And this is usually done through a gas process and. The package itself should be sealed. It should be dated, and it should be easy to open. So heal them open and. The cartridge itself should not be a screw type, and the reason is screw type cartridges can pop off the pen. You want something that has a bayonet.
Tight, and you’ll see this is a three prong bayonet. You want a bayonet type, which when you put it into the pen, it will click on nice and tight, and you don’t have to worry about the cartridge popping off. So another. Important feature of buying a professional pen should be some sort of anti backflow technology.
So let’s break this down. What does that mean, anti backflow technology? The prongs when they go into the pen should. Fit into sorry, my camera’s reversed, so you can actually see right inside there. There are three little holes inside the pen and there are three. Places where the pen connects and then there are three hall.
Let me do it this way. Let’s see, trying to get the right light. You can see, almost see there’s three holes here on the cartridge itself. So these three prongs go into the hu inside the pen, and they fit like this, and then you push it on. And once it’s connected, it stays connected. Also, the needles should be protected with a tip so that when you open the package up, if you put the cartridge down, the needles aren’t exposed.
But don’t forget to take the tip off before you do your microneedling. Then as you adjust the pen, you can see the needles will come out over the top, just like that. You see that? So that’s adjusted. Right now I am all the way up at 2.5, but you would never, so that’s how deep those needles would be going into the skin.
Perhaps you could use that on acne scar on the back or the chest, or stretch marks on a leg, but you would never have the needles out that far for working on the face. So we’ve talked about some of the actual safety fit features of a pen. So lightweight, easy to read display, easy to read, and easily adjustable numbers, the cartridge, pre sterilized, and individual packets.
And good connection, no backflow, so that when you’re microneedling any serums that are on the face you really shouldn’t have any body fluids coming out. But any serums that are on the face do not go back into the pen itself. And lastly your device should have, should come with a couple of rechargeable batteries.
And that way if you are in the middle of microneedling and your battery dies, you have a backup. And just as an extra backup, should you have a really busy day and you. Forget to charge your batteries or you just completely use up the batteries, both of them having a cord that you can plug in. Sorry, mine is in a case.
Having a nice long cord that you can plug in. To the same sort of instead of a battery, this would be something that shows you the speed and controls the pen just like the battery does, except this plugs into the wall. Having a nice long cord so that if your treatment table is not anywhere near a, an outlet, you have plenty room to work with.
So last but not least, having good instruction manual, something that is also easy to read, very important having. Nice pretty pictures and what each one of the parts does and all the contraindications and precautions. And this will ensure that you don’t that you actually know what you’re doing or what each one of the parts or four.
So I just wanted to give you that. Quick overview on safety and kind of what to look for when you’re purchasing a microneedle device. There are a lot of knockoff products and multifunctional devices that maybe or not. Designed just to do microneedling, and I would caution you that these devices probably are not very good.
If you try to do too much in one tool, you’re not really going to be very good at any one thing. So if your pen has red light or if your pen does microcurrent. It’s not going to be as good as a dedicated red light device or a dedicated microcurrent device, or as a dedicated microneedle pen. Wanna thank you again and.
I look forward to speaking to you next time. We will be. I also will be talking a little bit about marketing and so stay tuned for that. Thank you so much.
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Can acupuncture improve symptoms from long-COVID syndrome?
According to the CDC, millions of U.S. adults and children have been affected by long-COVID syndrome.
Long-COVID syndrome is a serious illness that can result in chronic conditions requiring comprehensive care and may cause disability.
A case study of a 46-year-old male who received acupuncture showed reduced symptoms and signs of long-COVID syndrome.
This study concluded that acupuncture appears to have been helpful for a patient with long-COVID syndrome.
Healthcare continues to evolve toward less-invasive, natural, and drug-free methods, with acupuncture now becoming a first-line complementary healthcare choice.
Remember, the American Acupuncture Council (AAC) offers an unparalleled track record in acupuncture risk management.
There is a reason acupuncturists have trusted AAC with their business for 50 years.
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Disclaimer: The following is an actual transcript. We do our best to make sure the transcript is as accurate as possible, however, it may contain spelling or grammatical errors.Due to the unique language of acupuncture, there will be errors, so we suggest you watch the video while reading the transcript.
Hi, everybody. Good morning. Good afternoon. This is Perry Barnhill with the Fearless Acupuncturist. Today I want to give a big thanks to the American Acupuncture Council for bringing this to you. Today we are going to talk about HIPAA and as it applies to reproductive healthcare. Many of you acupuncturists deal with reproductive healthcare, even for those of you that don’t in your files, in your patient’s histories, in the forms that the very patients fill out.
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There will be things regarding reproductive healthcare, like contraception, pregnancy management, fertility, sterilization, and also sexual health. Just as a reminder of what reproductive healthcare means in the context of hipaa, slideshow, please. Okay, so how fast things change. Literally at the beginning of the year, we had some new laws regarding reproductive healthcare, and now, like just within the last few weeks on June 18th, it’s changed.
Some of those things have changed for most of the states out there, but not all of them. And this is what we’re gonna talk about. And again, things change very quickly. Sometimes you really need to stay on top of all the HIPAA laws, new, old, and the changing ones as they’re coming down the pipe.
Strengthening reproductive healthcare privacy under the new HIPAA privacy rule. Now, again, like I talked about a little bit before, there was the new requirements that we talked about in December and also in January, but now there’s some new requirements regarding attestations, or shall I say, some things you may not need to do, and we’re gonna talk about the action steps and specifically how it applies to you and how it applies to compliance and relationship to hipaa.
Here’s what happened on June 18th, so just a few weeks ago, a US district court judge for the Northern District of Texas, federal judge has invalidated the 2024 HIPAA reproductive health modifications to the privacy rule decision is immediate and it applies nationwide. This is how we’re saying there can be a law, and then several months later that law no longer exists, or you no longer have to do certain or specific things within that particular law.
The Texas judge, this is what the Texas judge said. He said that HHS had overstepped its bounds, and he cited three main legal issues, which we’ll just talk about briefly. One, the rule unlawfully restricted public health laws. Two, it redefined terms like person and public health in ways that exceeded the federal authority.
And three, it addressed politically charged issues like abortion without clear congressional approval. A violation of a major questions doctrine. And again, let me just remind you what the reproductive healthcare law that I was talking about just a little bit before, things like contraception, pregnancy management fertility, sterilization, sexual health.
So those was what specifically they stated was fell under that umbrella of reproductive healthcare law. However, some of the things we had to do, like I said earlier, like attestation statements. Most of us will not need to do any longer. Okay, so let’s just keep going here. HIPAA related entities, covered entities like you and your business associates.
Remember, business associates are folks that you do business with or basically people that have access to your patient’s information or basically anything that you have that you share with somebody else in relationship to a business associate for protective health information have to follow state laws.
Regarding that particular reproductive health. All right, so now let me say this. It does get a little confusing. It gets confusing for everybody. Federal law. There’s federal law as we know, and then there’s state law. When it comes to hipaa, actually state laws will supersede or become in addition to.
Federal law. So you can have a federal law, but your particular state may have it more strict, it may be more detailed, or you may have to do additional things regarding that particular law. So we always say stay on top of your state laws as well. So in the absence of hipaa, reproductive health rule, some states, not only many states are increasing.
HIPAA privacy protections for the residents. So here’s some of the states that you need to pay attention to that will likely, or I wouldn’t, going to suggest to you to keep doing what you’re supposed to be doing in regards to reproductive healthcare and providing attestation statements, which we’ll get into just a second.
So anyways, New York, California. Washington, Nevada, and Connecticut, and there may be some more to come. We’ll see. How does this impact you? Here’s the thing. Covered entities, at least most of them in those state or in most states, are no longer required to seek attestations from requesters regarding protected healthcare or rather protective health information related to reproductive healthcare.
So what does that mean? Basically because of this new law. The states that I didn’t mention, you follow the federal law, okay? You do not have to provide an attestation statement if someone asked for those certain things regarding reproductive healthcare. All right? What that means is if you did what you were supposed to at the beginning of the year with all the new updates that came down the pipe and you change your privacy notices, now you would actually take that out.
’cause now it no longer applies to you. But if you’re in those states that are going to continue to follow this. You need to keep it in there. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, make sure you reach out to me so we can make, tell you the things that you need to know regarding this and many other things that changed at the beginning of the year.
So double check your state now, navigation or navigate the prohibition on disclosing protected health information for the purpose of investigating or imposing liability unlawful reproductive healthcare imposed by your state. Let me put that in some different words here for you. If you have patient files, which we have patient files that do in fact many times contain the very things that I detailed regarding the big umbrella of reproductive healthcare, and if somebody like from law enforcement or a judicial BA branch, we listed these things before, requested that information, we were supposed to by law actually send them this model attestation form, which basically said, Hey, listen, we’re sending you some information here.
You have to fill this out. Actually, let me reverse here. We’re not gonna send you this information, this protective healthcare information until you fill this form out and basically promise to us that you’re not going to punish anybody for whatever was in those particular files regarding reproductive healthcare.
So now, because that federal state judge said what he said. Most states no longer have to do this. All righty? So make sure you pay attention to your state. This is why we always talk about hipaa. It’s not like you can just do HIPAA and you can just fill out this manual and you’re good to go and you just sit back and you forget about.
It’s constantly evolving and it’s constantly changing as you can see and what happened in Texas is just a real simple reminder that a single court ruling can unravel. A lot of the new guidelines that were literally just presented and required six months ago. It’s evolving from reproductive privacy rules and think about this, cybersecurity, look at ai, artificial intelligence, and all the new things that are coming down with computer systems and privacy and cybersecurity threats and phishing.
It gets really scary at times. This is why. Monthly training isn’t optional. It’s your, it’s literally your lifeline such that you have to stay on top of these things. And I’ll be very clear, it’s not like the government says, Hey, by law, you have to absolutely do one monthly HIPAA training a month.
That’s not what they say. What they say is you need to do continuous training throughout the year for yourself and to all of your employees and even to your business associates, believe it or not. What I’ve also heard other people say that teach the things that we teach is that even the government suggests that you do HIPAA training.
To about two times a month. Now, is that a law? It’s not a law, but it’s what we’ve heard for suggestions. We step back and say, Hey, you should be doing things at least once a month. All right, so staying informed protects your license. It’s your patience and your peace of mind. And believe me, if you don’t have these things dialed in like you’re supposed to and someone comes knocking on the door for an audit, it’s something that you don’t want to go through because I talk to doctors all the time.
I talk to acupuncturists all the time. That get scared because they don’t have the things that they should have. So it’s really easy to get the things that you need to have, and I’ll talk to you about that here in just a second. HIPAA compliance, again, you can’t just check a box and be like, okay, cool, I’m HIPAA compliant, or fill out a particular form.
It can get a little bit involved. It’s about staying ready for whatever comes next. Keep learning. Keep updating the things. Stay fearless. We want you to be fearless so you can focus on your patients. That’s why you became an acupuncturist, is to focus on your patients. We can help you with the HIPAA side of things, so what are some of the next steps that you can do?
Couple things here. HIPAA checklist, if you’re wondering like, ah, I wonder if I’m HIPAA compliant, or I wonder if I’m even close to being HIPAA compliant, you can scan the QR code and get this checklist, or you can just look at it here and go through these questions. You can’t answer these questions, or if you’re not doing these things on these questions, you’re not HIPAA compliant.
It’s not worth the risk. So if you want to, you can set up a demo with us, where we can talk to you, we can show you the HIPAA compliance program that we have and how easy it is to navigate through this. Just go to go dot fearless provider.com/demo. You can scan the QR code here as well.
Sometimes acupuncture, you just wanna get started. So you can go to ww dot fearless acupuncturist.com to get started. Or. A lot of times people just wanna reach out and ask me questions, and I am more than happy to answer any questions that you may have, and you can contact me there at that email, Dr.
perry@betterhipaablueprint.com. If you have any questions, like I said, reach out to us. We are absolutely more than happy to sit down and talk to you and spend some time with you and clear up any questions or confusion that HIPAA presents with many of the times. In the meantime, everybody have an amazing day and we will talk to you soon.
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