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.
Peter Deadman
Peter Deadman has worked with Chinese medicine and health promotion for more than 45 years. He is the founder of the Journal of Chinese Medicine, co-author of A Manual of Acupuncture and author of Live Well Live Long: Teachings From the Chinese Nourishment of Life Tradition. He is also an international qigong lecturer and teacher. He can be contacted at: peter@jcm.co.uk.