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Pelvic Floor and Postpartum – Krystal Couture

 

 

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Hello everyone, and welcome. I’m Dr. Krystal Lynn Couture. The pelvic acu. And before we get started, I wanna say a special thank you to the American Acupuncture Council for hosting this vlog. If you haven’t been to the American Acupuncture Council website, you absolutely should go there because there are amazing vlogs like this one that are filled with little nuggets of gold for acupuncturists and.

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They do a really nice job of sharing those teachings in little bite-size bits. So let’s get started with today’s workshop. We are going to be talking about postpartum and the pelvic floor. I. So what’s inside our workshop today? We’re going to be talking a little bit about sitting the moon or sitting the month.

We’re gonna talk a bit about miscarriage and abortion. We’re also going to have a chat about some postpartum challenges that moms could encounter. We’ll talk about the healing process that one goes through. Through the postpartum process. We’ll talk a bit about the hormones, we’ll talk about the perineum, and we’ll talk about uterine involution.

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So here we go. Alright. Sitting the moon or sitting the month, lots of cultural traditions, including Chinese tradition around the globe, suggests that the mom and the baby really spend the month or the moon. Being protected, being nurtured, being nourished, bonding, and recovering with each other. That means there’s very little demand.

On the mom and on the baby, except for healing and coming together in harmony with each other and the outside environment, right? Western tradition suggests that recovery period postpartum after childbirth, there’s an acute period of 24 hours, a subacute period of 24 hours to six weeks, and then a delayed recovery period, which is six weeks to six.

Months. And so there’s a difference in how Western terminology and how Eastern terminology looks at the postpartum recovery period, and what is encompassed within that. So let’s get into sitting the moon. The traditional recommendations are lots and lots of rest for the mom, and this is really bed rest including 10 hours or more of sleep per night.

The body has just been through an immense transformation and a major outsourcing of. Energy or expression of energy, right? So rest and sleep are really important. During that first month, it brings in the support of family members, friends and nurses to maintain the cooking, the cleaning, and other household tasks.

It’s really not part of traditional culture that these things are done by the mom while she has the new baby at home. Another part of sitting the moon that is done in traditional cultures is abdominal binding, and that’s really to help reduce the laxity in the abdomen and restore the proper pressure.

Within the abdominal cavity. And we’ve talked a little bit about pressure within some of our workshops here, right? So the abdominal pressure directly impacts the pelvic floor pressure. Now you can imagine after the birth process that the pressure change is going to be pretty significant.

Abdominal binding helps to bring that pet pressure. Back to a normalized state, and it’s also going to help with the pelvic floor healing as well. And of course, eating and nourishment are going to be such a big part of this sitting the moon period. And also of course, for milk production, right?

We wanna make sure that moms are getting the right nutrition into their body. That’s going to be satisfying, that’s going to be nourishing, that’s going to fill the coffers with what might have been depleted. During the pregnancy and then during the birth. But of course, it’s also important to remember that balance, right?

So not eating too excess is another important facet to the postpartum dietary kind of idea. Okay. And then of course, maintaining warmth in the body, right? As Chinese medicine practitioners, it’s very rare that we recommend cold. We tend to go toward warmth. Warmth is particularly important for new moms postpartum.

It continues to help to support the movement and the consolidation. Of the qi, right? So again, it’s that harmonization. What is too much, what is not enough? Let’s balance that out and the right types of warmth are going to be supportive in that way. Okay, let’s talk about some of the traditional restrictions that are going to be part of sitting the moon in Chinese culture.

And these would include washing one’s hair. We know that is a restriction as well during menstruation. It continues, of course, into postpartum. Bathing avoiding a draft is gonna be really important. Lifting, especially lifting the baby. And in traditional cultures, actually even, so I’m Italian and looking back into Italian culture, this is also a, a philosophy there as well. So it goes across the sort of folklore and the tradition of medicines around the globe. So lifting the baby, all that weight can help and support the mom’s poor posture, right? So we have this laxity in. The body after the birth, right? So the abdominal muscles are stretched and they’re weak, and generally there’s this forward tilt of the pelvis, which means the back muscles are tightened and those glute muscles are stretched.

So there’s this imbalance, and until that balance is restored within the body, whenever the mom is doing lifting, she’s facilitating. More of that poor posture. So lifting whenever possible is something that should be done by the nurse, by the family members, by community. And I think that’s the biggest key when we’re talking about sitting the moon and cultural tradition, is that community is such a big part of these traditions.

Where in Western society it’s almost mom’s gotta do so much. By herself and if she’s lucky, dad gets, a period of postpartum time as well. So dad can help a little bit, but it’s really leaning into community is so helpful. So as acupuncturist, if we can provide our clients with resources for accessing community for our postpartum moms, that’s such an amazing asset.

Okay. Another thing, climbing stairs, again that contributes to poor posture and also too much load on the body and change in the abdominal pressure. Nursing in sideline position is so important. Any watching TV reading or. Now we say scrolling as well. This is all going to be things that take the mom’s energy or put in energy that is going to impact what she is sharing with the baby, right?

And also shedding tears. And of course, we all know the Chinese proverb that says one teardrop from a postpartum women is worth 500 kilograms of gold. So just keep that in the back of your mind and share that with your clients. Let’s talk about miscarriage for a moment. Miscarriage is considered to be more serious than childbirth, according to Giovanni Macha.

And this is also true in a lot of the traditions, right? So women who’ve had a miscarriage or in abortion for that matter, the postpartum cycle could actually be extended. And the reason for this is because the natural cycle of pregnancy. Is interrupted, it is changed. The body has an expectation to complete a cycle when it is not going to complete that cycle.

That is a huge interruption in the cycle, in the energy of the cycle, and of course within the hormones. So not having completed the cycle can create quite a struggle within the body, mind, and spirit. Let’s look at some statistics here. Postpartum complications from a 2024 study actually showed that 35% of women experience pain with sex.

32% experience, low back pain, 31% experience urinary incontinence, 34% anxiety. 19% experience rectal incontinence, 15% experience pain I’m sorry, fear of childbirth. 11% peroneal pain, specifically 11% secondary infertility. Prolapse is 1.4 to 13.7%. So those numbers were a little bit varied depending on where the study was looking.

And then that’s with a vaginal delivery with a c-section. The prolapse is were 2.4 to 21.2%. So there’s a lot of variation there and that’s something I think that needs a little bit more research. But as you can see, there are pretty big. Statistical indications that show that there are a lot of postpartum complications.

And as acupuncturists, guess what? There are a lot of ways that we can support our clients, especially if we specialize in pelvic care, postpartum depression as a complication. I gave this its own slide, so in 2009. 2010, there was 9.4% of women reporting postpartum depression. In 2021, that number jumped by 104% to 19.3% of women.

Now, of course, during this time, there was the covid, so that was part of it. Also, women are talking more about what’s happening in their bodies, right? Women are starting to be more and more aware of what’s happening. This increase was noted across all races and ethnicities. There was also a substantial correlation between postpartum depression and obesity.

So these are all important things for us to be aware of with our clients. Okay, so I’ve included this chart for you to have a look at. You can go ahead and pause here if you like, to look at this interplay between the intrinsic and extr extrinsic predispositions to pregnancy, labor and childbirth, and medium term and long term maternal complications.

And you can see that these go out long after childbirth that we can still be seeing. Complications, which include prolapses and that sort of thing. So what does it take postpartum to heal, particularly to heal the pelvic floor? I shared a little bit of this slide in our pregnancy workshop, but we’re gonna go into more detail here.

First off is organ alignment and function. If you watch my pregnancy presentation, you know there are major changes within the organ systems in the body during pregnancy, which means that the body kingdom. Is out of order. There was a renovation that happened within the Body Kingdom, and that’s okay.

That’s not a bad thing, but balance needs to be restored. We need to help moms to find proper alignment and of course, utilizing the meridians. Is going to help those organs to come back into balance within the whole of the body kingdom. Now, the uterus size and position, we’re gonna talk about this more.

There are major changes that occur with the uterus size and position. It needs to expand, it needs to move up in the abdomen during the pregnancy, and now. We want the uterus to go back to size. I talked a little bit about ab abdominal binding as a strategy. That’s one way for sure, but there are also other ways that the body can naturally support itself in the uterus responding.

To its natural size and position. Then there’s the perineum that requires healing. There’s the ligamentous and joint recoil and positioning. All those ligaments in the sacrum and the hips and the back have stretched out. Why? They needed to support a baby and then they needed to push a baby through, right?

So we needed space for that. So that recoil. Needs to happen. The fascia, the diaphragms, and the postural alignment, there is going to be a whole new systematic alignment of the body that’s going to occur postpartum. I. Now if moms are not in a state where they’re able to take care of themselves, it’s really hard for that ligamentous recoil and those fascia and diaphragms to align and the posture to be appropriate for our clients through the postpartum phase.

And then, as it’s harder and harder to get it back as time goes on, right? What we have to put in is a lot more. The muscles of the abdominal the abdominal wall, the back, and of course the hips and the pelvic floor, they all went through changes as well. They were all stretched or tightened, so they need to return to some sort of harmony.

Okay. Blood and fluid leveling. We know about bloods and fluids in Chinese medicine. This is a big part of what we do. There’s a lot more fluid in the body when one is pregnant and then there’s a change in that fluid, so that’s going to be a pressure equalization once again, that occurs and it needs to be right.

For where the body is and what the body is going through. For example, a mom that’s nursing is still going to have an increase in fluids, different fluids, different energy, but they’re still going to have that increase. So we’re looking for the harmonization of where they’re at that moment. And then we’re looking at the energetic flow and the meridian flow, and then we’re looking at emotional harmony, right?

So there are a lot of things going on with postpartum moms. We talked about hormones in just about every one of our workshops here. We’re gonna talk about ’em one more time so we can see that at birth we have an increase in progesterone, estradiol, and cortisol. Those and those are all going and placental tigen.

So those are all going to increase. They’re gonna spike at the gradually increase and then peak at. Birth, and then they drop right off. That is a major change. Then we see oxytocin and prolactin come in and they have these peaks and valleys. These peaks and valleys are going to be impacting what is happening in the mom’s body and how her healing process is going to occur.

So when do hormones return to normal after childbirth? Okay. The common response is that, you’ll hear from your western doc is within six months, hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels. Period. Done. Okay, great. In theory except there is very little evidence-based research on postpartum hormones.

In a timeline form, there is research on postpartum depression being linked to decreased progesterone and decreased estrogen. There are studies beginning to emerge that show women who give birth at an older age may have different hormone responses. So basically what we’re saying here is there’s a lot of questions.

Each body is different, and I think when we’re able to transparently answer that question with our clients so that we’re not setting them up for an expectation that may not be reality, I think that’s when we’re going to be able to come in. With our compassion, with our knowledge, with our awareness, and really support them through the process and say, each experience is individual.

Your experience is your own experience, and here’s what we’re gonna do to help you in your process based on what in your clinic. Okay, so estrogen muscles. Let’s talk about the healing process. What we know is estrogen preserves muscle mass. It supports muscle repair. It helps muscles to generate force.

It increases collagen content. It plays a role in muscle metabolism, and it presents muscles against apoptosis. Okay, what we see, remember that gradual increase of estrogen and then that estrogen drops off after the birth right? So we are going to be in a diminished state of estrogen while the body is trying to recover those muscles.

The sudden decrease in estrogen can create decreases in muscle suppleness, strength, power, recruitment, and function. Of those pelvic floor muscles, and of course the abdominal muscles, the back muscles, all the muscles of the body are going to be impacted. But the pelvic floor in particular, because that is where the baby had to find its way through, now talking about progesterone, what we know about progesterone, it supports muscle relaxation. It supports protein synthesis within the muscles, and it maintains connective tissue elasticity. And what happened to progesterone? Same thing. We had that gradually increase and then a drop off. The sudden.

Decrease in progesterone can contribute to muscle weakness, proprioceptive confusion, and stiffness within the tissues, right? So we’re really at a disadvantage. The body is at a disadvantage to naturally recover on its own with zero intervention. Zero thought about the pelvic floor, zero thought about the abdomen.

The perineum tears occur in 80 to 90% of first time moms. A first degree tear is just the skin being impacted. Second degree impacts the skin and the muscle. Third degree is going to be a tear that includes the skin, the muscle, and it’s a partial tear of the external anal sphincter. Fourth degree includes the skin, the muscle, and is a complete tear of that external anal sphincter.

Now an episiotomy is when they do a surgical cut to try to control the the tear or to expedite the birth sometimes they’re done in emergency situations, sometimes they’re done to prevent serious tearing. The research on whether or not an episiotomy actually can prevent. Serious tearing is questionable at this point.

There is not good evidence to show that. That’s a topic for your client to have conversation with their midwife or their OB about. The stretching and expansion of the perineum is a natural process. The perineum will start to expand at the end of the pregnancy. That’s a good thing.

We want the perineum to expand. That’s going to help the process. Two to eight weeks after the birth, depending on the stretch and the tear. Intensity. The perineum generally starts to return to its pre-pregnancy state, to its unstretched state, and of course that varies significantly based on whether or not there is tearing.

There is some evidence that’s coming out, that perineal massage, that breath work, that relaxation can all really help with reducing the risk of perineal tearing. Now of course if the perineum does tear, that’s another implication, right? For what we have to do to address the pelvic floor. Okay, let’s talk about uterus, involution really quickly.

Okay, so this is the womb. Returning to its pre-pregnancy shape and size, involution begins as soon as the placenta is delivered. So basically the body just doesn’t get a rest. It does not get a rest. It goes through this pregnancy phase, which is a lot. It goes through the birth, which is an extreme amount of energy, and then the placenta is delivered, and then the body is oh, okay.

Now we start. Now we start again. So it’s the next part of the process. It’s that return as the uterus contracts to deliver the placenta and subsequently continues contracting, right? It starts to decrease in size. That contraction with nothing there to hold the shape kind of makes it start to shrinking.

Process. Involution, they say, takes about six weeks total. With more oxytocin in the body from breastfeeding, they say that the involution actually takes a little bit less time. Signs of involution include the Lok qia discharge, and of course postpartum cramping and contraction. Now pelvic floor muscle recovery postpartum.

A 2022 study found that at 12 months postpartum falling of vaginal delivery. The pelvic floor muscles are not yet fully recovered compared with their mid pregnancy values. Okay, so that’s not even talking about their pre-pregnancy values, that’s talking about mid-pregnancy values. This number should be concerning to you as a healthcare provider.

Some contributing factors that we see here are going to be a vaginal delivery, of course, versus a c-section tearing or episiotomy the size of the baby, difficulty of the delivery. What we know about the pelvic floor muscles is that it takes six to 12 weeks to build muscle. Muscles do not build themselves, so that means that it takes effort working with the pelvic floor to restore harmony.

And to restore balance. So where do we come in as acupuncturists? As acupuncturists, we have some amazing tools within our toolkit that can really support clients. And these tools are of course going to include using TCM. To help rebalance the patterns in the body and restore and nourish the system.

We, of course, have herbs that will do the same or whatever else is needed. We have moa, which really helps to consolidate and warm and activate blood flow within the muscle tissues. We have our gua, we have cupping, which, you know, cupping a little bit. Perhaps questionable considering there might be depletion, but it could be helpful in an isolated spot if there is particular tightness and over contraction.

For instance, if we have that imbalance that I talked about earlier with that serious anterior pelvic tilt and those back muscles are just. Squeeze down. The qls are just really tight. Those paraspinals are really tight and the abdomen is really stretched and the glutes are really stretched.

Cupping on that specific area could help to reduce the excess that’s in that area, distribute that throughout the body so that we can achieve a little bit more of a neutral tilt. We also have things in our tradition that are from the deep traditions of Chinese medicine, like pelvic steaming, like pelvic smoking.

Like abdominal binding, right? There are a lot of complimentary techniques that we can use to support our clients. Beyond that, if we get to know the pelvic floor in a deep way, then we’re gonna have the opportunity to support the pelvic floor, to evaluate the pelvic floor to. See where there are weaknesses to see where there are excesses, to see where we’ve got, stretch and tightening, right?

Because the left side and the right side might be different. Maybe the person who was having her baby had a leg length discrepancy, so everything on the right side, including the pelvic floor, is really tight. And then maybe there was a little tear going toward the left, and the left side is super duper weak.

So helping us to expand our practice by understand the pelvic floor really helps us to support these postpartum clients. So if you are with me today you probably know that this is my fifth workshop In my series we did a pelvic floor intro. We did a pelvic floor and menstruation, pelvic floor in fertility, pelvic floor in pregnancy.

This is pelvic floor and postpartum. We’ve also got a pelvic floor and menopause workshop coming up for you. Here are some references. I just wanna say, once again, thank you so much for being here. I really hope you enjoyed this workshop as much as I enjoyed sharing this material with you. Once again, I’m Dr.

Krystal Couture, the Pelvic acu, and this workshop has been sponsored by the American Acupuncture Council.

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Microneedling Neck and Hands – MIchelle Gellis

 

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Hi, my name’s Michelle Gellis. I am an acupuncture physician, and today I am going to be presenting on microneedling for Aging Hands, neck and Chest. So a little bit about me. I have recently published a hardcover 500 page book on treating the face. So you might wanna check that out. And currently I’m on the doctoral faculty at Yoan University, former faculty member and clinic supervisor.

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At the Maryland University of Integrative Health for about 18 years. I’ve been published several times in the Journal of Chinese Medicine, regular columnist at acupuncture today, and I’ve been teaching facial acupuncture classes internationally for about 20 years. So today I’m talking about a couple of specific topics within the general heading of microneedling.

So I’m gonna be talking about microneedling for the neck, chest, and hands. So I’m gonna go over the benefits of microneedling, how it works, contraindications, some special considerations when you’re microneedling the hands, neck and chest. And then some technique techniques. So why would we do microneedling?

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Microneedling is a great alternative to injectables, things like Botox and fillers and surgery to address things like fine lines, acne scars, loose skin, large pores, crow’s feet, lip wrinkles. Skin discoloration, like dark spots, stretch marks, and even hair restoration. So what does it do exactly?

How does it work? Microneedling stimulates your body’s own collagen production, the micro. Stimulate your body to produce collagen, and it also increases the absorption of any product that you will put on your skin by up to a thousand percent. And in my book, I have pages and pages of references to studies and white papers that have been done on microneedling and how it affects the skin.

I. So the benefits are, there’s very little downtime. It’s very low risk, highly effective, and the collagen that’s produced is your own collagen. So it’s very natural. It’s. Relatively comfortable. There’s very little pain and the results can last up to five years from a series of treatments. There are some indication contraindications.

You don’t want to do microneedling on people that are on blood thinners. People that are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation, people that have really any kind of moderate to severe conditions that are open or oozing that might require medical care, psoriasis, eczema, active acne, that’s pu warts, other things like that.

If you’re not sure, look it up. Speak to your patient’s doctor. Have them speak to their doctor before you start microneedling over any skin condition if your patient has keloids or if they are pregnant. These are all contraindications. So real quick education of the skin. This right here is the stratum corneum.

And so this hole piece right here is the dermal layer and the epidermis. And right at the base of the epidermis is this layer called the stratum basal, and this is where the stem cells. That produce new keratinocytes are formed. So you really don’t even need to get down into this dermal layer, which is where the blood vessels are.

So just by staying in the epidermis, you can stimulate the growth of. New fibroblasts and collagen. So the way the fibroblast stimulation works is these needles puncture. This would be like the head of a microneedle pad, puncture little holes into the skin. They heal very quickly, but they damage the epidermis, and the epidermis heals itself with new healthy skin.

So when we’re doing microneedling, we are going to use different depths for different parts of the face and the neck. And the neck and the chest are very sensitive. The skin on the neck in particular is very thin on the chest. It’s a little thicker. But you really wanna dial it down when you’re working on the neck itself.

So when you’re microneedling, you want to take into consideration the depth of the. Skin, the thickness of the skin that you’re needling and how deep you want those needles to go. Because on a microneedle pen, the needles go up and down and they’re going to penetrate into the skin, and there is a dial on microneedle pens showing you how deep the needles are going to go.

As I mentioned, skin on the neck and the chest can be very sensitive and thin. It can be crepey on the chest. There can be a lot of dark spots on the chest. On the neck, you can get loose and wrinkled skin. So here is an example of an aging neck, and you can see how thin and delicate the skin is here, and then when you’re working on the chest, you get these deeper wrinkles and folds and a lot of sun damage because the sun, when we’re out, the sun is going to hit our chest.

A lot of times we put sunscreen on our face, we put on our hat, but our chest is exposed. So this is an example of what a patient might look like before microneedling and then after, just so you can get an idea, they’re going to be red, but they, there shouldn’t be any bleeding when we’re talking about the hands.

The hands as people’s. Hands get older, they can get very bony veiny, and the veins can be right up at the surface. Their hands can be very sensitive. The skin can be very thin, and because the hands and the feet are so far away from the heart. The healing capacity, there’s the blood flow to the hands and the feet isn’t as good as the rest of the body.

So you can have some reduced healing capacity. So you wanna be very careful not to go too deep. So for a patient like this, when you’re working, you wanna make certain to avoid any prominent veins and to pay attention to any dark spots. I. This was a patient of mine came to me for three or four microneedling treatments, and this is what they looked like before and this is what they looked like after their third treatment.

I had just. Treated them. And I had dabbed at this spot right here, but you can see this spot here is almost completely gone. And just overall the skin on the hand looks much healthier. Little bit about the protocol. You wanna make sure if you’re working on their hands, that the patient washes their hands.

And if you’re working on the chest, you can use a neck. You can use a makeup remover wipe with some rubbing alcohol on it to get that clean. You wanna make sure you put gloves on. And if they would like numbing cream, you can put numbing cream on. I usually recommend like a 5% lidocaine cream, and then you’re going to let that sit for about 20 minutes.

You remove that either with a cotton pad or a makeup remover, white and. Then whatever area you’re working on, you wanna make sure to spray it or wipe it with alcohol, and then you’re going to apply your serum. I recommend hyaluronic acid serum. The product that I use is made by. A company called AccuLift.

It has vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and collagen. And then you’re going to adjust the depth of the pen and the needle lengths and the speed of the pen according to how deep you’re going to go, depending on the thickness of. The patient’s skin. You’re going to use an up and down technique, and if you’re working on the hands, you’re going to go up and down.

So you’ll be going like this, you are not gonna go across the hand this way. And then if they have any spots, you would use a stamping technique and again, avoiding any prominent veins. For the neck, you’ll be working up and down and on the chest you can go up and down and left to right and use a stamping technique.

When you’re setting up expectations for your patients the results can take. Up to two weeks to see any sort of improvement. And I recommend four to six weekly sessions and the appointments are one month apart. So I’m sorry, not weekly sessions, four to six monthly sessions, and if they wanted to come in for some nano needling, which is a much more superficial.

Needling. It’s more of an exfoliation. They can do that after their skin is healed. So usually within a week. And they do need to know if they’re using any prescription products that they will absorb more quickly. When you’re setting up expectations for your patients, you wanna take into account their skin type, their age, lifestyle, diet.

How much sleep they’re getting. Water, they’re consuming what their skincare routine is, their genetics. Talk to them about their family and how they aged. Of course, your TCM diagnosis, I always include, I. And acupuncture treatment with my microneedling. And any blood, she yin deficiencies, excesses, stagnations, things of that nature.

Some of the possible side effects could be some pinpoint bleeding, redness, itching, burning, a little skin irritation or some pigmentation that should say changes. You also wanna send your patient home with some take home instructions. Let them know they could be red Peel flake for about 24 out 12 to 24 hours and schedule their next appointment for a month out. Soothe their skin with either aloe and Orica blend again. AccuLift has a calm spray. It has green tea.

And aloe and tica and CBD and some other things that are very calming to the skin. They shouldn’t put any makeup on the day of, stay out of the sun. No exercise because sweat can irritate the area, use very mild soap. And after the treatment they should start on a skincare routine. So this is what a microneedle pen looks like.

You have needle cartridges wall charger, batteries, extra batteries, and that way you can plug it in. It should come with instructions and a nice long cord. I recommend a minimum of 18,000 RPMs on the speed for the needles to go up and down for it to be effective and that you should purchase a medical grade pen.

The less expensive pens that are sold online usually are for home use for single person use. Professional pens have anti backflow technology and they are meant the pen is meant to be used for long-term use on many patients. And then the needle cartridges go in the sharps container afterwards.

So this little snippet I just showed you was a little piece of a much bigger class. I teach a four hour microneedle in class and a bunch of other classes live and recorded. You can check them out@facialacupunctureclasses.com. And any of the products I’ve talked about today, you can find@uluskincare.com.

Thank you so much, and thank you to the American Acupuncture Council for this opportunity

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Acupuncture Research for Headaches and Migraine

Acupuncture Research for Headaches and Migraine

Is acupuncture helpful for relieving headaches and migraines?

In the United States, each year, approximately 45 million people suffer from headaches, and 39 million are affected by migraine.

A review of 9 studies comparing acupuncture with drugs for preventing migraine found acupuncture was more effective.

The study participants receiving acupuncture were also less likely to drop out of studies because of side effects compared to those receiving drugs.

Healthcare continues evolving to less-invasive, natural, and drug-free methods, with acupuncture now 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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Acupuncture for Plantar Fasciitis

Acupuncture for Plantar Fasciitis

How effective is acupuncture in the treatment of plantar fasciitis?

Plantar fasciitis is a common cause of heel pain, estimated to affect 10% of people throughout their lives.

Plantar fasciitis is most common in runners, overweight people, those in occupations requiring prolonged standing or walking, and those with foot alignment issues or who have one leg longer than the other.

Studies on acupuncture for plantar fasciitis have shown overall high levels of effectiveness and few to no adverse effects.

Healthcare continues evolving to less-invasive, natural, and drug-free methods, with acupuncture now 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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Acupuncture and Mental Health Issues

Acupuncture and Mental Health Issues

Acupuncture and Mental Health Issues

Does acupuncture help patients suffering from mental health issues?

Research is currently looking at mental health issues like depression and anxiety, especially in terms of how these issues affect overall health.

Since chronic pain has often been linked to depressive symptoms, research is looking at the impact of acupuncture for addressing both a person’s pain and their depression.

A 2020 study published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology found that migraine sufferers who had acupuncture treatments had a lower risk of depression and anxiety.

Healthcare continues evolving to less-invasive, natural, and drug-free methods, with acupuncture now being 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.

Not an American Acupuncture Council member? Get a Quick Quote and find out how much you will save! Click here!