Category: Acupuncture News

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Renaud, 44, has been a licensed New York state acupuncturist since 2000. His office is at 485 Western Ave. inside the Acupuncture Balancing building, previously called Albany Classical Acupuncture. Nearby landmarks include the Mobil station and Citizen’s Bank.

Over the past several decades, people like Andrew have turned more and more to complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) such as acupuncture. Acupuncture is a popular way of managing symptoms. Physicians are recognizing the value of acupuncture as a helpful and valid treatment option.

Mounting evidence suggests that acupuncture is an effective treatment for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disorder that may to lead to blindness. A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion concludes that acupuncture treatment protects the optic nerve from damage caused by intraocular pressure by alleviating stresses on retinal and optic nerve axonal ultrastructures.

Dr. Roberts uses the same type of needles used for acupuncture on people and places them in different pressure points or meridians on the animal. She says the hope with the procedure is to use the needles to stimulate the flow of blood and chi or energy to bring the body back to normal order and functioning.

“The medication worked, but one of the side effects was body soreness. Bottom line is that I didn’t pitch well. No excuses. But I wanted to get off the medication,” said Hammel, who went 10-9 with a 4.81 ERA last season. “My wife suggested that I try acupuncture and I was like, ‘Come on.’ But I was astonished.”

“The study shows that both acupuncture and exercise reduce high levels of testosterone and lead to more regular menstruation,” says docent associate professor Elisabet Stener-Victorin, who is responsible for the study. “Of the two treatments, the acupuncture proved more effective.”

A few years ago, 83-year-old Janet Davis was enjoying her plane, and her retirement. But a second mastectomy grounded her last April. And now the cancer has spread to her bones. So Dr. Jongbae Park stepped in to help. His solution: acupuncture. Janet would rather have needles than pain killers. “It reduces the pain. It’s just not there anymore,” she said. “As treatment effect of acupuncture becomes noticeable, patients start to reduce their narcotics or pain killers,” said Dr. Park. The proof? Studies show acupuncture alone cut post-chemotherapy fatigue by 31 percent. It also cut hot flashes by 50 percent, and slashed overall cancer pain by 36 percent.

Charleston chiropractor Paul Casingal added acupuncture to his medical toolbox because he believed it could help the terrible migraine headaches his 14-year-old daughter suffered. Indeed, the very first treatment in which Casingal gently inserted a half-dozen needles in his daughter’s head – needles she didn’t even feel – resulted in her pain decreasing by half in about 30 minutes. Subsequent treatments have actually eliminated her headaches. She hasn’t suffered a migraine in a year. “That’s when I had my ‘aha’ moment,” Casingal said. His chiropractic work had been helping patients with chronic pain, back and neck problems. By adding acupuncture, Casingal believed he could do more. “Everything I did before then helped them, but not as fast as acupuncture,” Casingal said. “Doing both together has been incredible in terms of helping my patients.”

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese therapy that involves putting tiny needles in the skin at certain points in the body to restore the flow of energy through the body. Nancy Naeve Brown met a Sioux Falls woman who is sold on it’s healing nature because she no longer has hot flashes, insomnia or allergy congestion.

Linda Olson has been coming to get acupuncture from Dr. Dawn Flickema at the Sioux Falls Avera McGreevy Clinic on 69th going on 3 months now and going on 3 months she says she has never felt better.

Linda says, “I’d been having issues with hot flashes and insomnia for well over a year and anytime I don’t have to take a pill I’m for it.”

Dr. Flickema says, “It’s not a hollow needle like you draw blood with. It’s a solid stainless steel sterile needle when I put the needle in I’m looking for specific anatomic landmarks as to where the meridian is for the person I’m trying to fix. What I do is twist the needle down to hit the specific cells associated with the meridian.”