#188: Sports Acupuncture for Runners
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Sarah welcomes AMR columnist Adrienne Martini as guest co-host for a conversation about sports acupuncture; Erik Isaacman, the Portland-based acupuncturist who treated Sarah for her multi-fractured ankle earlier this year, joins the conversation in studio. Erik explains the origin of the hippie vibe surrounding the Eastern medicine, then dispels the patchouli-and-chimes misconceptions about acupuncture. Not just needles: Find out what all can be involved in an acupuncture session, and why Adrienne blurts out, “I love cupping!” Learn what running ailments and injuries sports acupuncture can treat best, how long a course of treatment might be, and how to find a practitioner in your area.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah in Portland. And this is Adrian and Onianta. Nice. |
| 0:16.7 | Onianta, New York, that is. Yeah, to New York. Yes, it's not a standalone city, you know, by AP standards, right? You know, so it's not a standalone city you know by AP standards right you know so it's not |
| 0:24.8 | I guess by that by that standard then I guess I should say this is |
| 0:29.2 | Sarah in Portland Oregon so Adrian is Adrian Martini, who is a columnist on our site. If you, I hope everyone listening |
| 0:39.9 | is familiar with your witty writings and your honesty about training for your |
| 0:44.4 | first half marathon which was last year and now you've moved on and done several |
| 0:48.9 | of them and and so you are joining us today instead of a dimity and we'll get into why that is in a couple minutes. |
| 0:56.2 | But how was your holiday, Adrian? |
| 0:58.8 | Oh, the holiday was great. We're still working out from under all of the leftovers because I'm not very good at |
| 1:06.5 | figuring out exactly how much food people can eat but the holiday is about bounty so you know if it means we eat sweet potato casserole for a week and a half then so be it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So how was yours? It was it was very good. I went to the home of my my best friend from eighth grade lives here in Portland, Oregon |
| 1:27.2 | about 14 blocks from us and our older my older daughter and her only daughter are best friends and so they have yeah |
| 1:36.0 | worked out really nicely so that they live here and that our girls are such great |
| 1:40.1 | friends and so we went over there and they had two turkeys. They had, I don't know, let's see, there's, let's see, four, five, two, and four. I don't know, what does that number equal? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. does that number equal. |
| 1:53.0 | Oh, I don't know. |
| 1:54.0 | There was a stop listening. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm sorry, I heard four, five, two, and then I wondered all. |
| 1:58.0 | So they had two turkeys. |
| 2:00.0 | They deep fried one of them, well away from the house and you practice safe |
| 2:07.0 | Oh my gosh I when I found that I'm like how far away is the is the oil |
| 2:12.2 | drum from the house? Oh my gosh. So yeah because a fire truck actually went by their house during dinner and I was like oh thank goodness that's not us. |
| 2:21.0 | So but yeah, so I asked the husband was the one Scott that I asked him how you know like what steps did you take and he said that he had |
| 2:28.4 | used a blow dryer on the turkey because I guess that's part of the problem is when there's any moisture on it. |
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