Honora Lee Wolfe has been involved in professional health care education since 1976. She helped found the Boulder School of Massage Therapy in Colorado, serving as the school's director for the first five years of its existence. She then went on to study tui na at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, completing her acupuncture training in 1988.
Ms. Wolfe has taught at numerous national and regional acupuncture colleges throughout North America and Europe, and has authored or co-authored more than a half-dozen books related to acupuncture and Chinese medicine. She currently maintains a busy practice in Boulder, Colorado which specializes in musculoskeletal and nervous system pain and sports medicine.
Ms. Wolfe currently lives in Boulder, Colo., and is the author of Points for Profit: The Essential Guide to Practice Success for Acupuncturists.
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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