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Acupuncture is being increasingly offered to patients as an alternative to opioid prescriptive medications for the treatment of pain. However, to date, there has been little published evidence available to demonstrate whether opioid prescriptions are decreasing as a result of acupuncture use.

An increasingly positive tone continues within national discussions regarding the inclusion of acupuncture in our health care systems. The recent Request for Information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding non-pharmacologic pain management to avoid opioid addiction demonstrates this continued interest in acupuncture.

Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a condition in which the soft-tissue capsule that surrounds the glenohumeral (shoulder) joint begins to stiffen, causing pain and decreased range of motion. The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint made up of three bones: the humerus, scapula and clavicle. The head of the humerus fits…

Points on the Governor (Du) and Conception (Ren) vessels are some of the most powerful points on the whole of the body, and may be conjoined with treatment of any of the elements and their corresponding meridians. The Conception and Governor vessels are likened to vast reservoirs or seas of…

A re-evaluation – essentially a modified initial evaluation performed at a predetermined time or occasion – has a pivotal role in the continuation of care.

Perhaps it is time, again, to revisit the issue of using the term Oriental to describe our medicine, our schools, our degrees and our communities. Historically, we have used various words and phrases to describe our medicine: traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, classical Chinese medicine, Oriental medicine, and more recently,…

We can thank the vagus nerve for our two-way gut-brain connection! We know that with digestive insult and microbiome imbalance, our brain is affected; and also that with a brain trauma, such as a concussion, digestive function and the microbiome suffer greatly. However, evidence shows that if there is pre-treatment…

You are indeed correct that ICD-10 coding does make its updates on Oct. 1 for the following year. This means the codes actually update on that date and any date of service on or after Oct. 1 must use the new or updated code to be valid. CPT codes or…

Pacific College’s degree offerings have expanded from a few certificates in 1986 to include five doctorates and three masters in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, a bachelor’s degree in holistic nursing, associate degrees in massage therapy, a holistic nursing certificate, and an advanced certificate in Chinese herbology for licensed acupuncturists.

One of the most important texts in acupuncture and Chinese medicine is the Ling Shu or “Spiritual Pivot,” one of the two parts of a larger medical work known as the Huang Di Nei Jing or “Yellow Emperor’s Inner Cannon.” Let’s focus on two key lines from this inspiring text…

There is a saying, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Acupuncture Today was one of those ideas. Over the past 20 years, Acupuncture Today has helped bring news and information to AOM practitioners throughout the United States ... and now, with a digital edition,…

A historic and urgently needed process to implement a “uniform degree structure and naming convention"1 is now underway through the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM). Currently, more than 20 different institutional degree title variations are offered by the 51 accredited Asian medicine graduate programs in the U.S.…

An exciting study has been published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine regarding the probability of U.S. medical physicians recommending “complementary health approaches” to their patients. For their study, the authors used “physician-level data” from the “2012 Physician Induction Interview of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS…