Acupuncture Today has been added to the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) print index and database. The database, which has been available since the 1950s, is used by librarians, health care professionals and scientists to help them retrieve articles and gain information on specific health topics.
CINAHL's index contains more than 1,200 publications divided into 64 subheadings. In addition to print publications, CINAHL also indexes commentaries, interviews, practice guidelines, websites and other documents. Members who sign up for a subscription to CINAHL receive full access to its database, as well as the National Library of Medicine's Medline database; in many instances, a CINAHL information specialist is available to help practitioners and students conduct a search for the most relevant data.
Acupuncture Today is one of 73 publications listed in CINAHL's "Alternative/Complementary Therapies" section, and of only seven acupuncture and Oriental medicine journals indexed. This represents a major step forward in Acupuncture Today's reputation, as it makes the articles in AT available to a much wider audience.
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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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