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Custom Shirts done well... Milwaukee

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:39:48 -0500

Custom Shirts done well... Milwaukee

Oh yahoo… Canned bears? Rated by taste?

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:32:50 -0500

Oh yahoo… Canned bears? Rated by taste?

We be grillin

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:33:12 -0500

We be grillin

Ending your day with some acupuncture is always a good idea

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:19:34 -0500

Ending your day with some acupuncture is always a good idea

Tai Chi and postural stability in patients with Parkinson's

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:55:16 -0500

Tai Chi and postural stability in patients with Parkinson's :

It’s great to see this in the New England Journal of Medicine… It’s just the citation… But, the article is worth purchasing if you teach Tai Chi or work with people with Parkinson’s Disease

Preparing for Precision Medicine

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:55:00 -0500

Preparing for Precision Medicine:

The New England Journal of Medicine came out with an article today written by Rea Mirnezami, M.R.C.S., Jeremy Nicolson, Ph.D., and Ara Darzi, M.D. The article is centered around biotech advances that are going to eventually allow us to more accurately diagnose and treat illness by profiling molecular data.

The problem is, they are going to start generating this pathological data as rapidly as treatment of the illness changes. And, don’t forget about the major corporations who want to limit and, or wet their beaks in the mountains of money that can be made for this. The article says it best…

“Ultimately, we must get the balance right: regulatory frameworks must berobust enough to safeguard patients’ interests and well-being, while not stifling progress in critical early phases of the precision-medicine endeavor.

I have always been intrigued by the advancements of modern medicine. Genetic testing and profiling is the future. Being able to predict the onsets of many diseases someone may have lurking beneath the surface would be astonishing to know before it is a problem.”

Imagine being able to know about a ticking time-bomb that may drastically change your quality of life a few years from now. Imagine knowing what you are up against. Imagine that you find out what it will take to arm yourself and defeat your foe years before the pathology gains the upper hand.

Some may say that we shouldn’t play god like that. But…

Ultimately, precision medicine should ensure that patients get the right treatment at the right dose at the right time, with minimum ill consequences and maximum efficacy.

That seems like something worth funding…

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Post-Traumatic Herniated Cervical Disk — NEJM

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:57:00 -0500

Post-Traumatic Herniated Cervical Disk — NEJM:

Ouch!

Super Bowl Recap: Sad Tom Brady is Sad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:27:23 -0500

Super Bowl Recap: Sad Tom Brady is Sad

The original video for the song

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:05:00 -0500

The original video for the song

7 day detox

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:39:42 -0500

7 day detox

Great event at the Domes in Milwaukee… Stop down and...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:44:59 -0500

Great event at the Domes in Milwaukee… Stop down and celebrate chinese new years

Hello winter. Hello patient cancellations.

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:29 -0500

Hello winter. Hello patient cancellations.

Fishing Under Ice

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:31:26 -0500

Fishing under ice from Juuso Mettälä on Vimeo.

By far the best video you will watch all day that will wrinkle your brain

Trying to knock some rust off… Jump fatty… well, I never...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:08:00 -0500

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Trying to knock some rust off… Jump fatty… well, I never had soft feet

"2012… Challenge everyday"

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:34:57 -0500

“2012… Challenge everyday”

Okay… I forgot how to use this… Cartwheels, right?

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:11:35 -0500

Okay… I forgot how to use this… Cartwheels, right?

Happy birthday grandpa… One of my greatest role models

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:57:42 -0500

Happy birthday grandpa… One of my greatest role models

New years eve wrecking crew

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:20:41 -0500

New years eve wrecking crew

You will never get sick of watching this! Jerome Simpson of the...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:38:15 -0500

You will never get sick of watching this! Jerome Simpson of the Bengals front flip’d , on purpose, over a defender for a TD… and… HE STUCK THE LANDING! This has NFL play of the year all over it…

Rat Study Shows Acupuncture Lowers Stress Molecule

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:12:00 -0500

Thanks to the research done at Georgetown University Medical Center, we are getting closer to showing acupuncture’s effectiveness on stress.

Ladan Eshevari, Ph.D., a licensed acupuncturist and assistant professor at the university conducted the study. The study focused on the effect of acupuncture on amount of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in blood levels. This neuro-chemical is involved in the sympathetic “fight or flight” response of stress.

They found “NPY levels in the experimental group came down almost to the level of the control group, while the rats that were stressed and not treated with Zuslanli acupuncture had high levels of the protein.”

Read the whole article here

I, for one, would like to see the needle technique applied to the rats… I wonder the parallels of stimulus the rats received compared to scaling up to human levels. Most importantly, I may need to brush up (or learn completely from scratch) on what nerves innervate at ST-35 (acupuncture point tested) in rats compared to ST-35 in humans.

Otherwise, this is a study that I like to see. Now, it brings up the subject of animal testing… I wonder what some of my fellow acupuncturist practitioners think of this… It is animal testing that is trying to prove acupuncture in the treatment of stress (one the the most common things I treat for). I am for it. Any HEY, we are de-stressing those rats! Maybe in the future, acupuncture will be used in all animal testing to calm down the subjects and improve their quality of life for potentially (human) life saving experiments.