The latest report from acupuncturetoday.com's Acupuncturist Locator shows that practitioners who have placed their information on the Locator received an average of five referrals in just one month (December). The number of monthly referrals has been between five and nine each month since the inception of the Locator last year.
The primary reason why the Acupuncturist Locator is so well used is that it is the most complete directory of acupuncturists and doctors of Oriental medicine on the Internet. The enhanced Locator service is open to all acupuncturists, regardless of affiliation.
The enhanced listing is similar to a mini-website in that it can include a photograph; contact information (as desired); information on your services; and four additional pages (pop-up windows) on your education, techniques, other services and memberships. Those interested in more information on this service should call Acupuncture Today's Reader Services department at 714-230-3159.
Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, beyond offering a few toxic medications. Then they tend to steer people with pain away from those health practitioners who are trained. This puts the acupuncture community on the front lines for addressing this epidemic.
When the body is going through a stressful event, the sympathetic system is activated. This activation will help the body with a life-threatening situation. If this state is activated for prolonged periods of time, it starts to consume energy. These traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized.
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One of the things that makes acupuncture so difficult to measure is that the medicine actually does contain some esoteric aspects. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate the neurochemical reasoning behind why acupuncture points stimulate the autonomic nervous system to enact change However, not all the benefits of TCM can easily be measured by randomized, controlled trials. But does that make them fundamentally and definitively untrue?
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