Acupuncture Collaboration with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marines
(Published Jul 31, 2009)
UCSF Medical School Offers Traditional Chinese Medicine Elective Course
(Published Jul 31, 2009)
Acupuncture Scores Home Run With SF Giants
(Published Jul 31, 2009)
From an Acupuncture Patient's Perspective, Part I
(Published Jun 30, 2009)
The Path to Acupuncture Legislation
(Published Jun 30, 2009)
Acupuncture Found Effective for Back Pain
(Published Jun 30, 2009)
Obama Positive Toward Acupuncture
(Published Jun 30, 2009)
Lone Star State Shines for Southwest Symposium
(Published May 31, 2009)
News in Brief
(Published May 31, 2009)
Integrative Medicine and Public Health
(Published May 31, 2009)
CCAOM Convenes National AOM Organizations Meeting
(Published May 31, 2009)
Acupuncture Falls Victim to California Budget Crisis
(Published May 31, 2009)
Lasers and De Qi
(Published Apr 30, 2009)
News in Brief
(Published Apr 30, 2009)
NCCAOM Helping Promote Your Practice
(Published Apr 30, 2009)
AOM Integrates Wellness on Capitol Hill
(Published Apr 30, 2009)
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
Research supports the effectiveness of selecting the distal acupuncture points for the treatment of microtrauma and for relieving pain, particularly in cases of chronic shoulder pain. But to make the treatment results long-lasting, clinical experience and research suggest that instead of treating the most painful structure first, we identify the inhibited driver, restore reliable recruitment, confirm it with immediate re-testing, and only then address the painful area as a branch of a deeper pattern.
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The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.