Drs. James Padilla and Steven Ross, DC, DAAPM,FASBE have a combined practice experience of more than 45 years. They have worked with thousands of patients around the world to help them find the root cause of their health challenges and restore them to health utilizing Integrative Medicine. They founded the Institute for Integrative Medicine in 2009, when it became apparent to them that many of their patients were suffering from illness and disease that could have been prevented with early detection. The institute will hold its second Comprehensive Integrative Medicine Conference, Advances in Integrative Medicine - 2011, Jan. 26-28, 2011, at the Waldolf Astoria, Bonnet Creek Hilton, on Disney property in Orlando, Fla. Additional information about the conference can be found at www.theifim.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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