Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 10:34AM The Miami Herald reports that the American military in Afghanistan is using acupuncture to treat concussions suffered in by soldiers in battle with results that are, "off the charts", "helping heal soldiers with concussions so they can return more quickly to the front lines."
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:03PM A recent ABC news report/video describes the multiple benefits experienced by patients undergoing cancer therapies who had been experiencing pain due to the cancer and side effects related to the treatments. The report combines descriptions of the firsthand experience from a variety of patients with acupuncture while citing several studies which, "... show [that] acupuncture alone cuts post-chemotherapy fatigue by 31 percent. It also cut hot flashes by 50 percent and slashed overall cancer pain by 36 percent."
Another source on this information, Oncology Nurse Advisor recommends acupuncture to manage symptoms of cancer, including fatigue. This is based on many sources, including a UCLA acupuncture study with cancer patients which found that,
Fatigue was reduced by 66% among the study participants in the treatment group.
Acupuncture, Alternative, Cancer, accupuncture, chemotherapy, natural, pain, radiation in News Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 10:39AM An article reviewing several studies of acupuncture to treat CFS find much encouragement, including a meta-analysis.
"In December 2009, a meta-analysis of 28 published studies about acupuncture used to treat chronic fatiguesyndrome was published by another Chinese research team. According to the published material, it concluded that acupuncture appears to be effective in treating this particular condition..."
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:15PM This article in the Statesman cites multiple ways in which the military is beginning to use the skills of acupuncturists. In my clinic we have been seeing veterans of both Gulf wars for many years now and have seen some truly amazing results in treating PTSD and its associated symptoms as well as physical pain.
"... A combat medic, Bailes returned to Iraq for a second tour in 2005 and came home in 2006 with a different kind of pain: emotional anguish, nightmares and insomnia. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, but antidepressants made him feel worse, he said. Again, he turned to acupuncture — and recovered, he said. Now he's studying the more than 2,000-year-old Chinese practice of using hair-thin needles for healing and planning to make it his life's work..."
"..."The military, in many respects, is kind of a front-runner" in using alternative treatments, said Alexandra York, a research associate in military medical research at the Samueli Institute in Alexandria, Va., which studies alternative therapies. "I think it's because of the complexity of the conditions they see. It almost demands that other options be examined..."
Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 1:49PM From a Canadian newspaper comes an article describing the effective use of acupuncture for knee pain. At Castanet.net. Also, see my blog entry on knee pain at: NHCacupuncture.com/knee pain
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