ACU-044 New Acupuncturist Megan Neal On Starting A Family And A Medical Practice At The Same Time
AcuSprout: Acupuncture Podcast
11/22/22
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Are you a new parent AND graduate? Trying to pass your boards in your last trimester and start a practice with a newborn? In this episode I talk with Megan Neal as she navigates these GIANT life transitions and how she is SO ready to practice medicine!
As I see it, there is rarely a perfect time for anything. When is the perfect time to go to medical school? What about starting a family? When should you start working on your Doctoral degree? Or maybe it’s time to start taking better care of yourself.
What I have learned is that life just keeps getting fuller and fuller as you age. If there is a space in my closet I will fill it. If there is free time in my schedule, I will find ways of putting “more doing” in there.
What ever happened to slowly and gently building something of value? Of mindfully constructing the life we were born worthy of? Of gently inviting the blissful whispers of our dreams to slowly unfurl in our waking life.
Our fears of not having enough, not being enough and not doing enough cause us to race into jobs, relationships and life in ways that only cause congestion in our otherwise smooth and clear life path.
Our medicine is what I like to call slow medicine. It works best when we slow our lives down and focus only on the patient in front of us. It works best when the patient relaxes their grip on the speeding train of life for one hour of slow breathing, genuine care gently shifting the scales of life force back in their favor.
I want to invite you to consider practicing slow medicine. For yourself and your patients.
Today’s Guest
MEGAN NEAL LAC.
Megan Neal dedicated her life to the study of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine after transformational experiences with it in her late twenties. At the same time in her life, she encountered yoga, Ashtanga yoga and then Integral Yoga, and has been walking the path ever since. Today Megan is an Arizona state licensed Acupuncturist, board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, NCCAOM, expected November 2022. She is also Arizona state certified by the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, CCAOM, in Clean Needle Technique. Upon graduating from her three year masters program, her and her husband had a beautiful baby boy. She was fortunate to use what she had learned to care for herself in the journey to motherhood. She was thus inspired to specialize in women’s health- fertility, pregnancy, perinatal and postpartum care. She has no spare time but if she did, she imagines she would again enjoy writing morning pages, finding hidden pools on Mt. Lemmon, playing the harmonium, five rhythms dance, and continuing to nerd out with her collection of Chinese Medicine books.
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You’ll learn:
- How Megan managed to take boards in her last trimester and then with a newborn.
- We talk about introverted marketing often, but Megan is an extrovert and her attitude about networking at a health fair is inspiring.
- Find out how she chose a niche and why.
- We have differing opinions about strategically taking board exams. Listen in to figure out what is right for you.
Resources
- Trying to pass board exams? Here are the resources mentioned in the episode
- TCMTests (my personal recommendation)
- HB Kim
- TCMReview
- Acupuncture Review Classes - Linda Morse PhD., LAc.
- Jane Electronic Medical Records. Use this link to get your first month free!
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ACU-041 In this episode I meet with Phil Settels the Dean and creator of the DAOM program at ACCHS, the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences. We decided to bring the long held tradition of teaching thru case studies to the AcuSprout airwaves.
Listen in and puzzle through with me as Phil presents a case and shows me a new way to reason through the formula prescription based on his teachings with Dr. Huang Huang, Arnaud Versluys, and Dr. Suzanne Robidoux.
Enjoy the journey and get a flavor for the teachings of the DAOM program at ACCHS.
today’s guest
PHIL SETTELS, DAOM, Dean of Academics at ACCHSPhil Settels graduated from ACCHS in 2011. Early on in his engagement with Chinese Medicine, Phil had the opportunity to study with several amazing Shanghan Lun teachers, including Dr. Arnaud Verluys, Dr. Huang Huang and Dr. Suzanne Robidoux. Phil uses Classical Formulas almost exclusively in his own practice and in his teaching.
Phil was brought in to design the curriculum of the ACCHS DAOM program which started in 2017, and he is currently the Dean of Academics. This program was guided by the ideal of what would best serve clinicians while honoring both the roots of the medicine and its development over time, and empowering graduates to be stewards of Chinese Medicine. The program has a dual focus on Classical Chinese Herbalism as well as Orthopedics and Pain Management, with the goal that graduates have increased skill and confidence to treat any patient who walks through their door, whether their condition reflects an internal or a musculoskeletal dysfunction.
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Case Study: Orthopedic Acupuncture Instead of A Total Shoulder Replacement with Anthony Von der Muhll, DAOM
Is it possible to avoid or postpone orthopedic surgery with acupuncture? Can you help patients with extensive soft tissue damage regain full range of motion and strength? Yes. Yes you can! Listen in as Anthony walks me through a case where he helps his patient avoid a total shoulder replacement.
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ACU-045 I remember treating a case during my internship where after a couple orthopedic tests I suspected that my patient had torn his meniscus. It was a great opportunity to practice my new set of advanced orthopedic skills and my patient responded well, but after a couple of weeks he had pain again. Unfortunately, I did not get to see the treatments through because the semester ended, but I have wondered how it might have concluded many many times. Can you really treat a patient with substantial soft tissue damage that would otherwise require surgery? Can you treat in a way that facilitates the body’s healing mechanisms so much that the patient achieves pain free normal range of motion? Does the structure damage change or is someone just miraculously free of pain?
In this episode Dr.Anthony Von der Muhll, DAOM walks me through a pretty unbelievable case of exactly that.
You don’t want to miss this episode!
this episode is a little long, so here are some rough time jumps for you
- 3:45 I introduce Anthony and we talk about his path to becoming an East Asian Medical Practitioner.
- 10:45 Anthony talks about what distinguishes him from other practitioners like Matt Callison, Poney Chang, Clayton Shui and Whitfield Reeves.
- 14:00 Why treating unstable joints is paramount to healing.
- 43:52 The Case Study Starts HERE!
Today’s Guest
ANTHONY VON DER MUHLL, DAOMAnthony Von der Muhll graduated from the Five Branches University of TCM in 2002, and founded the Santa Cruz Acupuncture Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic in 2003. In 2022, Anthony relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he now practices at the Sports Acupuncture Clinic/Berkeley Bamboo Clinic with his wife, Tamara Brown, L.Ac., DACM.
Anthony Von der Muhll is the founder of AOM Professional, and has taught Certification in Acupuncture Orthopedics since 2015, and served as a clinical supervisor at the Masters and Doctorate levels for over 17 years. He has also taught acupuncture orthopedics and pain management in the DAOM and DACM programs of the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences (Oakland CA), the American College of TCM (San Francisco, CA), the Five Branches University of TCM (Santa Cruz, CA), and the Virginia University of Integrative Medicine (Fairfax, VA). He has been a featured instructor in acupuncture orthopedics at conferences of the Sports Acupuncture Alliance, the California State Oriental Medical Association, California Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine Associates, and the Acupuncture Society of Virginia.
Resources
- Want to learn more about the DAOM at ACCHS? Contact Phil Settels here, and be sure to put DAOM/AcuSprout in the header.
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