For the past decade, the profession has seen steady growth in stature with legislators and the general public. The growing presence of the profession has been directly reflected in the growth of our publication.
As the leading publication for the profession, Acupuncture Today has remained committed to providing the most up-to-date news, research and information for the past 12 years. Throughout this time, we can proudly report that our circulation has consistently increased by 10 to 15 percent every single year. As of the most recent issue of AT (Oct. 2013) our total copies mailed were 28,273. That is more than 3,300 additional providers than last year. We also reach more than 4,600 students.
We have also established a strong social media presence. AT currently reaches more than 10,500 providers from around the world through our Twitter and Facebook pages combined on a daily basis.
The new AT APP will further increase our outreach to domestic and international readers. Today, acupuncturists see an average of 2,500 patients per year. Profession-wide, this represents 42.5 million patient visits annually.
We look forward to continuing to grow our publication as acupuncture becomes available to a larger part of the general population.
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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