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 Acupuncture
- the oldest continuously employed form of medical therapy
on earth - has been practiced for over twenty centuries in
the Orient and since the 18th century by physicians in
France. The principal of acupuncture is to restore and
facilitate the harmoniously balanced flow of the natural
energy of the body so that pain relief, healing and health
restoration can occur.
Today
"Medical Acupuncture" - acupuncture used by
physicians for contemporary medical conditions –
represents the unique synthesis of ancient concepts of
holistic healing with modern evolving knowledge of
neurophysiology and immunology.
Backed by over 7,000 published scientific articles
and research papers in the National Library of Medicine,
physicians are incorporating their knowledge of the human
body with the practice of scientifically based acupuncture.
 Due
to its safety, ease and efficacy - and positive reports by
the National Institutes of Health, FDA and World Health
Organization - Medical Acupuncture is now being increasingly
employed in the United States. Approximately 3,500 American
physicians are performing Medical Acupuncture and most were
trained in the rigorous, peer-reviewed UCLA School of
Medicine program. For the physician, Medical Acupuncture is
a unique organization of knowledge and practice that
requires a transformational intellectual and clinical
approach. For the patient, Medical Acupuncture provides a
remarkably effective, easily tolerated and unique form of
therapy.
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In
western medical circles, acupuncture is
best recognized for
its role in pain management. It may be effective as the only
treatment against pain, or as part of a program involving
other approaches as well. The types of pain that seem to
respond especially well to acupuncture include back, neck,
facial, muscular, and shoulder pain, sciatica, arthritis,
and headaches.
Some
forms of abdominal pain, pelvic and menstrual pain, nerve
pain, and scar pain, may also respond. Research also looks
promising regarding the use of acupuncture to treat such
diverse conditions such as asthma, infertility,
problems during pregnancy and nausea.
Medical acupuncture represents
the unique combination of the most advanced understanding of
western medical science with the holistic approach for the
treatment of disease found in the ancient healing traditions.
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