AcuSprout: Acupuncture Podcast

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By: Stacey Whitcomb Dipl OM

An Acupuncture Podcast designed to help new Acupuncturists feel supported, informed and confident during the transition from school to practice. We help you streamline systems, make decisions from an empowered place, cultivate an efficient practice, attract your dream patient, explore all career possibilities, adopt a confident and empowered mindset, heal more people and make great money in your first couple years of practice. Hosted by Stacey Whitcomb, Acupuncturist, Board Certified Herbalist, Podcaster and Creator of Magical Networks. This podcast delivers marketing, money and mindset motivation, inspirational interviews with other new practitioners, exposure to career paths you may not have considered...

ACU-057 Business Basics: Ask A Biller: What A New Practitioner Should Consider, With Cortney Nedeau
#57
08/29/2023

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Are you considering taking insurance to jump start your acupuncture practice? Here are some things to consider that I bet you didn’t learn in school.

Are you a new practitioner and getting ready to launch your clinical practice? Maybe you are not so new, worked for someone else and are now ready to experience the entrepreneurial life. Taking insurance might help you get to financial stability much more quickly…. depending on where you live.

I interview Cortney Nedeau in this epis...


ACU-056 Proper Medical Documentation For Your Acupuncture Practice with Stacey Whitcomb LAc. and Megan Lindsey DACM
#56
08/08/2023

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Charting

In this episode Megan and I discuss the ins and outs of charting. 

Give examples of the languaging of charting.

Start with Evaluatin and the most important items the need to be in the eval and follow ups.

What should NOT be in the eval.

What SOAP means.


What the heck is OPQRST and how can it help you streamline your interview?


H...


ACU-055 Business Basics: How To Run Multiple Treatment Rooms with Megan Lindsey DACM
#55
07/18/2023

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Are you ready to level up? Not sure how to transition from 1 room to 2 or 3? This is such a common question I often get from my coaching clients.

How do you treat 2 patients an hour? As a business coach to new practitioners, I get this question SO often! So… I called in my friend Megan who purchased a very busy clinic as a relatively new practitioner and basically started her career treating multiple patients an hour.

We all definitely have our comfort zone as practitioners, but I th...


ACU-054 Case Study: Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease With Sa'am Acupuncture, with Toby Daly PhD., LAc.
#54
04/26/2023

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in this episode

ACU-054 Welcome to this episode of the AcuSprout podcast where we explore case studies with expert acupuncturists to learn more about the application of acupuncture in clinical practice. In this episode, we have Toby Daly, a licensed acupuncturist and expert in Saam acupuncture, to discuss his approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease using this modality.

today’s guest

DR. TOBY DALY, PHD., LAC.

Toby recieved his undergraduate degree in Food Science fr...


ACU-053 How To Buy An Acupuncture Practice, with Megan Lindsey DACM
#53
04/12/2023

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can a new practitioner really purchase a busy clinic and succeed? Yes! And Megan is going to tell you how.

I LOVE when people want to contribute hard earned knowledge to the AcuSprout community! My guest today contacted me because she wanted to share her experience with YOU of purchasing a practice as a BRAND NEW ACUPUNCTURIST. Yes. She. Did.

today’s guest

MEGAN LINDSEY, DACM, OWNER OF SILVER SAGE AC...


ACU-052 Case Study: Treating Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome With Electro-Acupuncture, with Anthony Von Der Muhll DAOM.
#52
03/30/2023

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If you are an Acupuncturist you NEED to know about Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome. The pain level and duration of CRPS is so debilitating that people often take their own lives but this is something we are well equipped to help manage. There are also some pretty important contraindications that we need to take into consideration.

In this episode Anthony Von Der Muhll DAOM, who teaches Orthopedic Acupuncture and Sports Medicine at the Doctoral Program at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences (ACCHS) introduces us to CRPS...


ACU-051 3 Strategies To Retain Patients And Increase Revenue with Stacey Whitcomb LAc.
#51
03/16/2023

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ACU-051  Today I’m going to talk about the biggest mistakes I see newbies making with regards to patient retention that keeps you from gaining any traction. No matter what type of marketing you do, how much you spend on advertising, If you cannot keep your patients committed to a treatment plan long enough to get well, then you are spinning your wheels. 

Now before I go any further I feel like it’s super important to define patient retention. Patient retention is a practice’s ability to tu...


ACU-050 Case Study Part 2: Upper Back Pain Treated With Tung Style Acupuncture, with Henry McCann DAOM
#50
03/03/2023

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ACU-050  This is the part two of a case review I did with Henry McCann. We discuss how Henry treats neck and arm pain with Tung Style Acupuncture. If you missed the first part, be sure to check out Episode 49 where we had a brief chat about the importance and differences between the DAOM programs and the DACM programs. We learned about Henry’s path and teachings in Chinese medicine which include teaching extensively in the US as well as abroad. We learn about the history of Master Dung and this sys...


ACU-049 Case Study Part 1: Upper Back Pain Treated With Tung Style Acupuncture with Henry McCann DAOM
#49
02/14/2023

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In this episode….

ACU-O49 Today I'm talking with Henry McCann, and we originally recorded this episode to share a case study with you, but what has been happening with my case studies is that they get really, really long, so I'm breaking this one up into two parts.

Be sure to tune in and subscribe so you don’t miss the juicy case presentation in Episode 50. But for now, here is wht you’ll learn:

Well, first we get to know Henry and his background.Next we tal...


ACU-048 Overcome Perfectionism, Get Unstuck And Start Your Acupuncture Practice, with Stacey Whitcomb LAc.
#48
01/18/2023

Hey friends. Are you stuck? 

Afraid to open your practice, get a job, go to a networking meeting, learn to play pickle ball, create an instagram reel?

Are you afraid of what your classmates, relatives, future patients, former teachers and your neighbor Bob think of you?

Think about it. If everyone were perfect:

What would comedians talk about?

Would you actually have a job or career?

And here is a tragedy I am not sure I could have gotten thru medical school without. 

The TV sh...