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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.

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 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 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.

18 year old Lu Lu the cat gets acupuncture regularly. A year ago she was down to a mere five pounds.

“She had about 45% kidney functioning,” said Lu Lu’s owner John Hassell.

He said Lu Lu’s future didn’t look good.

“We had taken her to another vet and they didn’t see any hope,” Hassell said.

That’s when Hassell heard about Veterinarian Paul Wittke at Battle Ground Veterinary Clinic on North Ninth Street who, along with traditional Western medicine, also uses integrative, or Chinese medicine, to treat pets.

“When your cat is at a point that conventional medicine isn’t doing anything, then you try anything,” Hassell explained.

A dog owner yesterday told of her delight after her pet regained her health – through the ancient Chinese practise 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.