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February 2003 (Vol. 4, Issue 2)

Billing / Fees / Insurance
ACAOM Considers New Proposal on Doctoral Programs -- Your Feedback Wanted!
AAOM, CCAOM, Alliance Issue Responses
Acupuncture Today Staff

The Wonderful World of HIPAA

The Importance of Diet Therapy: An Interview with Juliette Aiyana, LAc, Part One
Brian Carter, MSCi, LAc

Expanded CPT Codes for Acupuncture May Be Coming
Acupuncture Today Staff

Practitioner/Patient Rapport: Developing Rapport with the Emotion of the Water Element, Part Two of Two
Neil Gumenick, MAc, LAc, Dipl. Ac.

Institute of Medicine to Study CAM Use in U.S.
Acupuncture Today Staff

Acupuncture Complements Cancer Therapy

A Rediscovery of Classical Chinese Tone Therapy
Dean Lloyd

Acupuncture in Ananda Nagar: A Place That Has Captured My Heart
Charles Fallick Martley

Part Four: The Pattern
C.P. Negri

News in Brief
Acupuncture Today Staff

Acupuncture Poll
Acupuncture Today Staff

Pain Relief / Prevention
Laser Acupuncture and Musculoskeletal Pain
David Rindge, DOM, LAc, RN

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Health & Wellness / Lifestyle
Cultivating the Empowered Patient: Help Them Commit to Their Own Process
Cultivating the Empowered Patient: Help Them Commit to Their Own Process

The most important relationship I seek to nurture in the treatment room is the one a patient has with their own body. We live in a culture that teaches us to override pain, defer to outside authority, and push through discomfort. Patients often arrive hoping I can “fix” them, but the truth is, we can’t do the work for them. We can offer guidance, insight and support, but healing requires their full participation.

Aiden Jakob Seraphim, DACM, LAc
Healthcare / Public Health
From Needle to Knife
From Needle to Knife

Chinese medical theory details each meridian’s functions and associations, which can be extrapolated for metaphorical significance. For example, the Large Intestine (LI) meridian expels physical and emotional waste, supporting systemic purification and renewal. Its anatomical trajectory, which traverses the index finger, upper extremity, shoulder, neck, and terminates at the contralateral nasolabial groove, also serves as a narrative metaphor, eloquently illustrating my journey from acupuncturist to colon and rectal surgeon.

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Vanessa Hortian, DO, MS, LAc, CHSE
Chronic / Acute Conditions
Transformational Work With Anxiety (Pt. 1): Panic Attack
Transformational Work With Anxiety

When we are in the grips of an anxious pattern, it dominates our brain and nervous system, and we lose our normal body-mind regulation. In this and subsequent articles, I present effective mindfulness-based method* via case study, that we can add to our acupuncture treatments to help clients consciously stop the dysregulating cascade of events and bring “distressed parts” into coherent body-mind-spirit integration.

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Kamala Quale, MSOM, LAc