Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 9/26 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
End of the month is coming! Make sure you get a selfie with the QR code in our window for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Visit their page for more details!
Friday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 9/25 from 9AM to 4PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
End of the month is coming! Make sure you get a selfie with the QR code in our window for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Visit their page for more details!
Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 9/18 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
While you're here, grab a selfie with our Missouri Business Podcast QR code for your chance to win a vacation getaway. Visit their page for more information!
Friday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 9/18 from 9AM to 4PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
While you're here, get your selfie with the Missouri Business Podcast QR code in our window. Visit their page to see this month's prizes!
Acupuncture reduces costs in migraine patients.
Orthospineacupuncture
10 September at 07:25 ·
PubMed: According to our real-world data, acupuncture can reduce the medical expenditure in migraine patients within 1 year after diagnosis. For the health policy maker, it is cost effective to encourage combining acupuncture and western medicine to treat migraine patients. For the doctors in routine clinical practice, who may consider to consult acupuncture doctors to deal with the migraine patients together.According to our real-world data, acupuncture can reduce the medical expenditure in migraine patients within 1 year after diagnosis. For the health policy maker, it is cost effective to encourage combining acupuncture and western medicine to treat migraine patients. For the doctors in routine clinical practice, who may consider to consult acupuncture doctors to deal with the migraine patients together.
#acupuncture #electroacupuncture #migraine #headache
Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 9/12 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
Starting a new month for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Stop by and grab your selfie with our QR code and visit their page to see this month's prizes!
As promised earlier, details of the special give-away courtesy of Missouri Business Podcast. This Saturday, October 17th, I'll be giving away a voucher good for 4 nights in Athens, Greece.
You read that correctly, Athens, Greece.
Here's how it works: you be the 3rd patient through the door for a walk-in acupuncture session on Saturday, October 17th starting at 9AM. Enjoy a relaxing 15 minutes of acupuncture for $20, get a selfie with the Missouri Business Podcast QR code in our window and the certificate is yours.
All you provide is airfare and walking around/food money.
Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 10/17 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
I've got a special gift from the Missouri Business Podcast for the 3rd walk-in patient on Saturday. I'll be putting another post out this evening with details. Grab your selfie with our QR code and visit their page for more info.
Friday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 10/16 from 9AM to 4PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
It's a new month for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Grab your selfie with our QR code and visit their page for details.
Small study investigating the use of acupuncture in frozen shoulder. Patients received either 10 sessions of acupuncture plus 10 sessions of PT, or only 10 sessions of PT. At 3 months the acupuncture + PT group reported less pain and greater shoulder mobility than the PT only group.
I know that finances are often a concern, but there's a growing body of evidence that shows acupuncture + some other treatment often yields superior results relative to either acupuncture alone or some other treatment modality alone.
Study link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034968/?fbclid=IwAR1Znpok1PwR_Q2BfnCQtg3sq0OKVZxoMDHwj7cNNNvwmODENTaek1M4lf4#:~:text=Acupuncture%20in%20the%20treatment%20of%20frozen%20shoulder%20with%20the%20results,group%20had%20a%20greater%20improvement
Looks like today is a day for studies. This one is from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and showed that acupuncture prior to surgery resulted in less pain and less opioid use in a veteran population.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/asoa-abs092720.php?fbclid=IwAR24Az1l6lIIZen_v-12PuZrZMWmdkwY443LnPnRgSQSuwHx8qA66mMC6C8
EUREKALERT.ORG
Acupuncture before surgery means less pain, significantly fewer opioids for Veterans
Acupuncture in mild to moderate hypertension. Study is from UC Irvine.
Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 11/7 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
We're starting a new month for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Get a selfie with our QR code and visit their page for details.
Friday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 11/6 from 9AM to 4PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
It's a new month for the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Get your selfie with our QR code and visit their page for details.
Here's a link to one of my go-to sites for acupuncture evidence. Here's a nice quote from the piece I'm linking:
"It is no longer possible to say that the effectiveness of acupuncture can be attributed to the placebo effect or that it is useful only for musculoskeletal pain." - Stephen Janz (2017)
This is followed by a list of conditions where we have good to moderate evidence of acupuncture's effectiveness. With the exception of a few of these conditions - I've worked with just about everything on this list...plus a few...
https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/acupuncture-scientific-evidence/?fbclid=IwAR0Esv3k-eHXlW2663Lx_ospyg7Bkck0BJ5R-sDJRBRhQQfMz7wLtsen9Bo
EVIDENCEBASEDACUPUNCTURE.ORG
Acupuncture: An Overview of Scientific Evidence
Saturday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 10/31 from 9AM to 2PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
Last day of October and you still have time to complete the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. Visit their page for details and have a happy Halloween!
Friday acupuncture walk-in clinic at Reveal Wellness and Medical Spa 10/30 from 9AM to 4PM. Great for pain, stress, anxiety, or if you've been wanting to try acupuncture.
Call ahead at 816-396-9600 if you're more comfortable reserving a time.
It's the end of October, but you still have time to grab a selfie with our QR code and participate in the Missouri Business Podcast scavenger hunt. See their page for details and prizes.
Continuing the osteocalcin discussion - some of you are probably wondering what that post has to do with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Here's the scoop:
https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/1875-acupuncture-improves-bone-density-for-osteoporosis-patients
This is a study looking at acupuncture in the treatment of osteoporosis. There are a couple of things to note specific to osteocalcin:
1. Osteocalcin is cleared by the kidney and therefore may be elevated in those with kidney disease/disfunction.
2. Acupuncture was shown to increase serum osteocalcin levels in those with osteoprosis.
Even though this study is looking at acupuncture in osteoporosis (for which it's effective, by the way), the fact that acupuncture can affect osteocalcin levels combined with new research showing osteocalcin is utilized by other tissues in the body for other reasons than bone formation, gives us yet another biochemical explanatory mechanism for some of acupuncture's effects.
HEALTHCMI.COM
Acupuncture Improves Bone Density For Osteoporosis Patients
Update on the electricity situation - Evergy restored power to the other half of my clinic yesterday (12/31). I'm back to having internet, heat, and all my treatment rooms.
There was some kind of issue with the meter on the building. No one knew my space had 2 meters attached to it. For some reason, one of the meters was set up residential and was billing to an address other than 3929 Oakland. When I set up service, that meter didn't get switched over which resulted in the problem.
I appreciate everyone's patience and I apologize to the folks who canceled or rescheduled due to space and heat constraints. I'm open on Saturday (1/2) from 9AM to 6PM. Right now the morning looks pretty full, but there are plenty of open spots in the afternoon for folks to get in if they want or need to.
Happy New Year to everyone and I'm looking forward to working with you in 2021!
Evergy saw fit to turn off power to half my office. Right now I have no internet, no heat, and only two treatment rooms with power. They're telling me the soonest they can get power turned back on is tomorrow (12/31) some time.
I'm pursuing some other remedies, but if anyone wants to reschedule their appointment today or if you have an early morning appointment tomorrow and you'd like to move it later, I totally understand.
You can DM me here on FaceBook, call/text to 913-204-1228 or shoot me an email at jeff.rippey@gmail.com to schedule/reschedule.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Holiday hours for New Year's:
Open Wednesday 12/30 from 9-6
Open Thursday 12/31 from 9-6
Closed Friday 1/1
Open Saturday 1/2 from 9-6
Hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year!
Don't forget, patients can walk in on any day the office is open. Still $20/15 minute walk-in treatment.
Since we're closing in on Christmas, I thought I'd post my hours for that week.
I'll be in the office on Wednesday 12/23 and Thursday 12/24.
The office will be closed Friday 12/25.
I'll be in the office Saturday 12/26.
Also, quick reminder for everyone: I'm taking walk-in patients any day that I'm open (Wed-Sat). Still $20 for 15 minutes.
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!
I was just closing out some stuff from last week, the first week in my new office, and it turns out I treated 51 people! Thank you all very much for coming by. Everyone was very positive about the new space, and I really appreciate it.
Parking was a recurring comment - there are 2 spaces in front of my office, 2 spaces across the lot in front of the Edward Jones financial office (they don't have much traffic during the week and aren't there at all on Saturday which opens up another 2 spaces for a total of 6), and a larger parking lot off Oakridge (in front of Advantage Title). If you use the larger lot, you will enter the door that has 1801 over the top and you'll need to come down 2 flights of stairs to my office. I have a video posted to this page showing how to get in from the upstairs lot.
Signage is coming, the company making and installing my signs got hit by COVID and they're a little behind.
So far I've got a pretty good track record restoring smell/taste post COVID. I'm only using a few of these points and, for most patients, it's taking 3-4 treatments.
One of the interesting things about this paper is that acupuncture worked where prescription meds did not.
HEALTHCMI.COM
Acupuncture For COVID-19 Loss Of Smell And Taste
