This year, the Trudy McAlister Foundation (TMF) received a record number of excellent applications for the 2016 scholarship awards and has awarded five scholarships for $2000 each. More information is available on our website: AOMScholarship.org.
The Recipients of the 2016 scholarships are: Elizabeth B. Barrett, Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts (scholarship sponsored by Dr. John Scott of Golden Flower Herbs); Colleen Teska, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine; Melissa (Ariel) Bobotek, National College of Natural Medicine; Katherine (Kate) Iberg, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago; and Marina Orlova, Acupuncture & Massage College.
The main goal for the AOM Scholarship Fund is to increase the amounts of the awards provided. In order to accomplish this, we need the support of the community, including vendors, colleges, organizations and individuals who want to help us make the opportunity of an education in Oriental Medicine more available to deserving, committed students. The TMF is a 501c3 non-profit corporation and all donations are tax deductible and can be made directly to the TMF. For more information or to make a contribution, visit www.AOMScholarship.org.
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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