James Whittle, MS, LAc, is an acupuncturist and an expert in traditional Chinese medicine. James has been to China eight times and spent nearly eight months working in Chinese hospitals with some of the most respected doctors in China. He is a graduate of the internship program at The Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He completed a four-year clinical master's degree in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture at Bastyr University in Seattle and did his undergraduate work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James now teaches and speaks on many issues related to contemporary medicine, acupuncture and complementary modalities of healing. Most recently, he was invited to teach cancer nurses at the annual Oncology Nursing Society in Seattle about integrating Chinese medicine with cancer care in U.S. hospitals. He specializes in pain conditions, women's health including infertility and cancer.
He may be contacted at james@blueridgeclinic.com or at www.blueridgeclinic.com.
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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