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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.

“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.”

“Chinese medicine is a very hard thing for Westerners to understand,” Glenn said. “This is a practice that is more than 5,000 years old – based on the vital energy in the body.”
Glenn said the Chinese were meticulous record keepers that began with the cause and effect in the body. It is not magic or mystical, but rather a physiological response to the body. It is all about balance – the yin and the yang.

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.”

Acupuncture has it’s origins in ancient China. For thousands of years practitioners of Eastern medicine have developed acupuncture skills and techniques that have been refined and re-refined into a very effective and precise medical art. However, it is still in many ways an art and can differ greatly from one practitioner to another. Within recent decades acupuncture has gain broad acceptance within Western medicine and has been scientifically show to have great benefit in many different medical and health circumstances. One of many specific uses for acupuncture that has been closely examined is it’s effect on athletic performance. Athlete’s have been shown to be more willing to engage in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), 56%, as compared to the general population, 36%. So is there an actual benefit to acupuncture on athletics? After a brief literature review, the answer is a resounding yes. Keep in mind, that there are many additional benefits of acupuncture, which are beyond the scope of this article.

A dog owner has told of her delight after her pet regained her health – through the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture.

Scottie dog Heather was left in severe pain after developing a problem with a disc in her spine.

Conventional medicine did little to help the nine-year-old animal, who still had trouble walking three months after her injury despite rest and medication. But owner Helen Anthony, from Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, found an unexpected solution when her pet was referred to a vet who practises acupuncture, which involves inserting needles into the body for therapeutic purposes.

While plenty of people who receive acupuncture for the relief of chronic pain swear by its effectiveness, the western medical community has long remained skeptical of this increasingly popular alternative treatment. More and more research studies, however, are confirming the idea that acupuncture has its place in western medicine. The latest, a study out of the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, suggests that acupuncture transforms the way the brain processes pain.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers led by Dr. Nina Theysohn from the University Hospital’s department of diagnostic and interventional radiology and neuroradiology were able to observe the areas of the brain that typically deal with pain perception and response. By studying 18 healthy volunteers who received an electronic pain stimulus to their left ankles, radiologists discovered that when acupuncture needles were placed on the right side of the subjects’ bodies, the activation of the brain’s pain processing areas was substantially reduced.