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Can acupuncture help patients with limb paralysis caused by traumatic brain injury? A new study suggests it has promising potential.

If you aren’t already familiar with TRICARE, here’s the scoop: It’s the government-managed health care insurance program for U.S. uniformed service members, retirees and their families worldwide, currently providing coverage for 9.4 million – yes, you read that correctly – eligible beneficiaries.

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Acupuncture Valuable for Angina, Says Study; ASA: New Board Members, Member Associations.

It is such an honor to walk the last few weeks of a life with patients and their families. A few needles, some tuning forks, compassionate attentiveness toward all of those in attendance can go a long way in easing the suffering of inhabiting and caring for a failing body.…

Fasting dates back to the earliest humans. At a time when food sources were scarce and irregular, eating cycled between periods of hunger and feasting. This cycle encouraged – and ultimately, evolved – the body’s ability to survive during periods of food scarcity.

The blog post to which my attention was called was entitled, “When Big Brother Went High Tech.” The news from energy medicine author Lynn McTaggert jerked attention of the integrative community to a story I’d long anticipated: Google’s censors turned their attention to the still-wild political-economical-medical frontier of “alternative medicine.”

Let’s talk about an industry that many of us are involved with – the market for esthetic, cosmetic and rejuvenative treatments. From the perspective of consciousness, this entire industry can really use a facelift! One reason it matters: The global market for cosmetic and esthetic products and treatments is a…

Meet Computer Jo. I introduce Jo to my students and graduates by drawing a crazy figure on a flip chart or blackboard. Jo is all hunched up in front of the computer screen, eyes bugging out. His/her neck juts out like a turkey. Jo’s lower back is killing him/her. Coffee…

As a follow-up to my last article on functional neuroanatomy and neurological examination techniques [July issue], I want to discuss the cerebellum. When patients present with tremors or ataxias, we commonly label these as Internal Wind and recognize the role of the cerebellum in such cases; however, we were never…

Acupuncture can seem like miracle work, especially when a patient comes to us with a painful condition which disappears immediately after one treatment. Yet the most satisfying experiences often come after months or even years working with a patient which yield vastly profound change.

Sulfa, sulfite, sulfate and sulfur are four terms that have similar sounds, but very different allergy profiles. As health care practitioners, it is important to understand these four terms to establish whether your patients have true allergy, cross-allergy or no allergy among drugs, herbs and foods.

Some may feel the departure of longtime National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) CEO Kory Ward-Cook ended an era, but the announcement of Mina M. Larson, MS, MBA, CAE, as the organization’s new CEO ushers in a new one that bodes well for both the commission and…