Can Acupuncture Help Fight Cancer-Related Fatigue?
People commonly feel exhausted during or after cancer treatment is common, but could acupuncture help restore energy?
A large review of clinical studies found that acupuncture can significantly reduce fatigue in cancer patients.
Across ten high-quality trials involving more than 1,300 patients, acupuncture helped improve energy levels compared to usual care or sham treatments.
The benefits were especially strong for breast cancer patients and for those receiving active cancer treatment.
Most treatment plans included short sessions several times a week over a few weeks, and side effects were rare and mild, such as slight bruising.
Overall, this research suggests acupuncture is a safe and effective option to help manage cancer-related fatigue and improve quality of life.
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Could acupuncture or acupressure help manage labor pain and improve satisfaction during childbirth?
Pain management during labor is a major concern for expectant mothers, and interest in non-drug options continues to grow.
Research suggests that acupuncture, when compared to sham acupuncture, may increase satisfaction with pain management and reduce the use of pharmacological pain relief.
Acupressure also shows promise!
Compared to usual care or control groups, it may help lower pain intensity during labor and may even reduce the need for cesarean sections.
Acupuncture appears to have little to no impact on rates of cesarean or assisted vaginal births.
Overall, these findings highlight potential benefits!
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Today I am going to be talking about facial acupuncture, what works, what doesn’t work, and, lots of different things that people incorporate into their practice.
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, my name is Michelle Gellis. I am an acupuncture physician and an author, and I would like to thank the American Acupuncture Council for giving me this opportunity to speak to you today. Today I am going to be talking about facial acupuncture, what works, what doesn’t work, and, lots of different things that people incorporate into their practice.
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Some are based on Chinese medicine. Some are more modern things. And a lot of the information that I’m gonna be talking about today comes from my book and it’s called Treating the Face. It is a 500 page. Full color hardcover book. And throughout the book I talk a lot about different tools and techniques that people use that practitioners can use in order to not just for cosmetic purposes, but also for neuromuscular purposes.
So facial ac. When I say facial acupuncture, I am referring to any treatments that affect the face, whether it’s skin level, muscle level, working with the fascia, working with the nervous system, working with the musculature, and. Knowing how to affect the circulation of the face, the lymphatic system of the face, the skin, the nerves, the muscles will really play into what sort of results you will get when you do your treatments.
So there, there are. Effective ways to layer things into your treatments. I am a big proponent on not just one size fits all treatments. And so if we’re looking at just, we’ll start with cosmetics. So when we’re looking at. Cosmetic concerns with the face. We can be looking at the very superficial dark spots, redness, fine lines, wrinkles sagging, things of that nature.
And some of these are very superficial, so treatments that are more superficial, things like microneedling. Red and blue and yellow light therapy and other hues of LED light therapy can be. Very beneficial. Facial cupping and facial gu sha can help to bring blood and chi out to the face. And so this can be beneficial for the skin as well.
Now, going another layer deeper, if we’re looking at. The circulation of the face and we are looking at the fascia and the musculature of the face, then we would be. Thinking in terms of treatments that go a little deeper, so this is where the facial cupping and the guha come in and techniques that aren’t just let’s say intradermal level, but more working submuscular, working with motor points.
And this can help to lift the face so the face lifts itself. And also looking at our facial expressions. We also wanna think about doing body points, so I didn’t want to neglect to talk about that. So body points can help our emotional body, which will. Ultimately show up on the face. And a lot of our expressions, for better or for worse, are going to, can cause wrinkles in the skin, fossil adhesions and permanent sagging and asymmetry of the face as well.
So. I’m going to also now kind of pivot and talk about neuromuscular facial conditions. So things like Bell’s palsy trigeminal neuralgia, TMJ, stroke ms. There were a lot of neuromuscular facial conditions, and when we’re thinking about treating those, we’re not thinking so much about. Skin level concerns, but more about the nervous system and the musculature of the face.
And this is where submuscular needling facial motor points some scalp acupuncture and in some cases LED therapy, if we’re using a LED light that has near infrared. Settings, which can go down to the muscle level. So how do we kind of layer all of this? When might you use one set of tools versus another?
When I do cosmetic acupuncture on a patient, depending on what their concerns are and how how kind of deep the. Concern is that they’re deep wrinkles. Deep sagging. That will determine what I, how I start to think about what it is I’m going to do. So I’ll give you an example. If someone came to me and they had.
Minor signs of aging on their face, but really deep wrinkles on their forehead. One of the, so I, I’m always going to do my cosmetic acupuncture. And that might involve some mandatory points that I use for lifting the face body points to help, to nourish all of the channels that feed into the face.
And then I always, and every cosmetic acupuncture treatment with facial cupping and facial guha. Now, I might add in some. LED therapy if they have acne or if there were superficial skin concerns. But what I could do either and, and that would happen while the needles are in. But what I could do additionally, either during this treatment or as a standalone treatment, is some microneedling to address.
Just the forehead area, if that is where their concerns are. However, if they don’t want to have microneedling, then I could. Weave into their treatment. Some submuscular needling of the frontals motor points on the frontals. And these will help to bring this will help to balance the muscle function and help to relax the forehead so that it’s, it’s doesn’t, so these lines.
Aren’t embedded in their forehead any longer. And of course the cupping and guha can help with that as well. So that’s one example of cosmetic. Now let’s talk about a potential patient who has Bell’s Palsy. So of course, on Bell’s Palsy, typically it is one side of the face and I would certainly treat any underlying conditions with body points and then locally.
I would incorporate acupuncture points. I would incorporate possibly some submuscular needling of different areas that have been affected. And I could also do some motor points for the muscles that have been affected, and then I would put an LED light over them on the near infrared setting in order to help to nourish the muscles.
To help to bring them back into normal functioning. When all of this was done, I would take the light off, I would take the needles out, and then I would do my cupping and GU shop. So these are more deeper level treatments as opposed to microneedling, which is more of a skin level, superficial level treatment.
So kind of to summarize the submuscular needling is used. Let’s see if I can grab a picture. But Submuscular needling is used when we are. Wanting to deeply nourish and affect particular muscle. And so that might be the frontals, it can be the digastric muscle, it can be the we, we can do some submuscular.
Needling on the corrugator muscle, which brings the eyebrows together. We can also do some submuscular needling around the temporalis. And so these are all, I’m trying to find my my chapter in my book on Submuscular needling. And. Here we go. So let me find a good picture for you guys. So by putting needles underneath the muscle, here we go.
So you can see here in this image here. Down here I’m doing submuscular needling, get that submuscular needling of the frontals. And then below that I’m doing submuscular needling of the Steris, which is right here. So working with the motor points in the face, which affect. Each one of the individual muscles or, and or submuscular needling is going to help not only with neuromuscular things, but also can help with cosmetic concerns.
And all of this has to be framed with you have to be thinking about safety. You have to be thinking about whether or not the patient has had any neurotoxins like Botox or fillers facial fillers, and. So in my classes I teach how to talk to your patient about these and how long they have to wait before you can treat them, and what areas to avoid if they’ve had any facial surgeries.
So, to close I just would like to summarize by saying. When you’re thinking about treating the face, you can layer treatments, but more isn’t always better. Knowing how and when to layer is very important. Using the right tool at the right time and really speaking clearly to your patients about expected outcomes is important as well.
If you’re interested in learning more about treating the face, you can go to my website, facial acupuncture classes.com. I have recorded webinars and live classes that cover all of these topics and, myw, my classes are also listed on my website, all my live classes, and you can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok and LinkedIn under my name, Michelle Gellis.
So thank you again to the American Acupuncture Council, and I hope to see you soon.
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Hi everybody. I am Julie McLaughlin here for Fearless Acupuncturists with the American Acupuncture Council, and today we’re gonna be talking about a HIPAA Risk Score Assessment. So a little quiz that we’re going to do together and we’re gonna make sure that you are HIPAA compliant. So I have a few slides to share with you, so let’s go there now.
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So again, we are from the Fearless Acupuncturist with the American Council of Acupuncture, and I’d like to thank them for allowing us to talk to you today and sponsoring these wonderful programs. It really helps educate all of our fellow providers in the things that we do. They are wonderful, and we wouldn’t be here today without them.
So what’s the risk with him? Is HIPAA really that big of a deal? Is it really something that we all have to do? I hate to tell you, but it’s right. So what we’re gonna do today is we’re gonna find out if you’re actually protected. Or if you’re accidentally a HIPAA hot mess, which nobody wants to be a HIPAA hot mess, let’s face it.
And we’re gonna take this little risk score, and don’t worry, no one’s going to know but you, this is only to see where you are, where your starting point is. You might be a hundred percent good, or you might need some help. So don’t sweat it. It’s going to be easy. And we’re going to take this one step at a time.
So some of you probably have seen my partner, Dr. Perry Barnhill, doing some of these speaking engagements here. But you also may have seen me, um, in some other venues talking about chiropractic even. And I’m an acupuncturist as well, like you and functional medicine practitioner. So I’m doing this today and I’ve kind of switched gears after practicing for 37 years.
Into helping some of my friends because frankly what I started seeing and what scares me more than, you know, seeing things that people come in with, ailments they’re coming in with in our office is that some of my friends, brilliant providers. Are losing everything. They’re having huge issues, not because of bad care, not because of failing in practice, not because of any of that stuff, but because they had compliance gaps that they didn’t even know existed.
And that really fired me up and that’s why I teamed up with Dr. Perry. He is the smartest. Compliance Ninja. I know he is the go-to guy when it comes to this stuff and I’ve actually been working with him for a very long time. Kind of in the background. I kinda do the tech stuff and, but today I wanted to talk to you about the hip risk score because it is so important to me that my friends.
Okay, we wanna go from acupuncture to audit. No, we don’t. We don’t wanna do that. We just wanna do acupuncture. Who wants to do audits? Nobody wants to do audits. You went to school to help people. When you opened your practice, it was like a big surprise. You became a CEO, IT director, a privacy officer, a cybersecurity manager, you know, running the front desk.
And somehow you still have to be a human being, but at the end of the day, you just want to treat your patients. You just wanna get your patients better. But we don’t wanna have audits. We don’t wanna have these things. And I realize that providers need support. They don’t need fear, they don’t need to worry about things.
But when compliance fails, patients suffer and the provider pays for it. And we don’t want that to happen to our friends. So that’s why we made this HIPAA compliance risk score. And the truth is that hipaa. Isn’t about paperwork, it’s about protecting people. I know there’s a ton of paperwork and no one wants to do it and we don’t get paid for it, but if we don’t do it, we could be paying somebody else and we don’t wanna have to be paying fines to the government or, you know, losing everything like we’ve seen so.
Let’s just check where you are now and make sure that you are good. So I want you to send me a thumbs up if you are a hundred percent comp compliant. If you’re a hundred percent confident that you are HIPAA compliant, you are not 99%, but you’re a hundred percent thumbs up. Nah, not very many thumbs up, right?
Because who could say that they’re a hundred percent on this stuff? There’s so many gray areas, I gotta tell you. We research this all the time. This is what we do, is looking at the changes and the laws, you know, and one law comes up and we’re like, okay, now you gotta do this. And then the next thing you know, there’s a lawsuit in the government and then they change it.
Well, nope, we decided you don’t need to do that now you gotta do this. And it. Hard to keep up and it’s not fun to keep up ’cause we wanna keep up with things in our field and acupuncture and what’s going on and what’s the latest treatment. And you know, the case studies, we don’t wanna be doing this stuff and I get it because I’m right there with you.
But at the end of the day, the government doesn’t care. They don’t care if you don’t know. Right, because ignorance isn’t a protection. It’s just like our taxes. Like they don’t care if you say, well, I didn’t know I couldn’t do that. They don’t care because you’re. Responsible for knowing you’re responsible for knowing your risk.
So that’s step number one. So that’s why I want you to do this HIPAA risk score Quiz with me. It’s fast, it’s gonna take you a couple minutes. It’s totally anonymous. Zero judgment. You’re the only one that’s gonna see this score, but it’s going to give you a starting place of where you should be with your hipaa.
So I want you to get your phones out right now and I want you to go on the QR code and take this quiz. If you can’t do it because you’re driving in your car or you’re seeing patients and you’re listening to this in your earbuds or something like that, I want you to write this down. HIPAA risk score.com.
Now don’t HIPAA mistake number one, don’t misspelled HIPAA, H-I-P-A-A risk score.com. Go there, it’s gonna take you a couple minutes and I want you to go through the questions. And just be honest because it’s only for your own feedback to give you where you are. Are you A, B, C, D, F? Right. We all wanna be an A, but you have to have a starting point.
Where are we going to be? Right? So what’s on the quiz? It’s super easy. There’s privacy training. It’s gonna ask you about your cybersecurity and encryption, your business associates compliance, breach readiness policy, and document updates, and the changes that have been made this year in hipaa. That’s a really big deal.
Now, if you are like, oh my gosh, I already know, I don’t know this stuff. Take the quiz because it will teach you a little bit about these things by, by taking the questions and knowing what you know and what you don’t know, so then you know what you need to work on. Right? Super, super easy. So when our patients come in, they don’t know what’s wrong with them.
That’s why they come to us, right? We help them find out, and then we give ’em a solution, a treatment that’s gonna help them. That’s all this is. It’s gonna help you find out where your starting point is, what you need to do, and then from there you’re going to be able to know where to go. What are the steps you need to correct?
Make sure you’re compliant, right? Super easy. So here’s an example question. So. When you hire someone new into your practice, when do they get their privacy rule training? Is it on their first day that they start, they show up and they get their privacy rule training? Or do you say, we teach on the, on the job.
They learn as they go. So think about it, when do give that privacy training to your new hires? Now, if you say, I’m teaching as I go, or we do it once a month with the whole team. You might wanna rethink it because think about this, when do they have access to PHI? When do they see that people’s names who are coming into your office?
When do they see the 18 different types of PHI personal health information that could get breached? And they didn’t even know that they had to keep it confidential. So you wanna do little things like this is make sure that if you have a new hire that you’re. Teaching them that privacy rule right from the get go, they are gonna be HIPAA compliant for you.
’cause at the end of the day. You are the provider. You’re the one responsible. So go HIPAA risk score.com. Remember H-I-P-A-A, right? And take the quiz and your score is going to equal your action. So if you got a 90% to a hundred percent, that’s excellent HIPAA readiness. You’re, you’re awesome. You’re, you’re good to go.
You probably just have to keep up with your monthly HIPAA updates and your, uh, monthly HIPAA training, and you’re good to go. If you’re in the 80 to 89%, you’re good, but you need some improvements. You might need some help. If you’re in the 70 to 79%, it’s fair. You need reinforcement and gonna know you got some really specific weak spots that you need to look at.
If you’re below 70%. You know, you are gonna be high risk and you need some immediate action and, and. You’re gonna need some help. So see where you are. No shame at all because it’s a starting point of what you need to do. Just like your patients, when they come in, that’s their starting point. So, what do I need to do to improve?
So here’s a QR code again, HIPAA risk score.com. You’re gonna find out if you have an A, B, C, D, or F. And I hope you all get an A, but if you don’t, we’re here to help you because when you get your score, if it’s not what you want, I want you to reach out because you are not alone. We are here to help our friends.
You can email us at info@betterhipaablueprint.com and we’re happy to help. We’re happy to make sure that you are going to be HIPAA compliant. So what’s your next step? If you have more questions, you just wanna find out a little bit about this whole HIPAA thing in the process, you can check us out@fearlessacupuncturist.com or you can email us at info@betterhipaablueprint.com.
If you are like, no, I know I need help, I’m good to go. I want you to schedule a demo. Go to go dot fearless provider.com/demo or use a little QR code and check it out and schedule a demo with us and we’ll show you what it’s all about and answer your questions. So be sure to take that risk quiz. And that’s it for today at the Fearless Acupuncturist.
I would like to thank the American Acupuncture Council for having this and inviting us to share this with you. You guys have been great, and be sure to check out our shows in the future, and I hope you have a great day. We’ll see you soon.
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Acupuncture Research: Obesity and Insulin Resistance
Can acupuncture help people with obesity who also have insulin resistance?
A research review looked at five randomized clinical trials, totaling 410 patients, comparing different acupuncture approaches to standard care.
The analysis found several acupuncture methods performed better than control treatments in key measures, including fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin, insulin resistance scores, and body mass index.
Researchers also tracked secondary markers like waist size, cholesterol, and triglycerides; factors tied to metabolic health.
The study concluded these acupuncture methods may be a helpful add-on to conventional care for obesity with insulin resistance.
And 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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