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NCCAOM Elects New member of board of Commissioners, ACAOM Changing Dues Structure, AAAOM 2009 International Conference and Expo Announced and OCOM and Portland Classical Chinese Garden Offer Taste of New Year

Attention-deficit disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) are developmental conditions in which the affected person is unable to concentrate and is easily distracted, with or without accompanying hyperactivity. There must be an onset of symptoms before age 7 that causes significant social or academic impairment. The incidence of ADD/ADHD is…

Many dancers from diverse styles such as traditional ballet, jazz, modern and hip-hop, start training as early as the age of 3. They tend to put their bodies through biomechanical stress, excessive compression, lack of rest, irregular nutrition, overexertion and overindulgence in greasy or sweet food, as well as excessive…

Life is based on transactions. Embodied spirits live by exchanging both physical and experiential influences with the environment. Individuals ingest food and drink as physical inputs and sense data as experiential inputs, which are both grasped internally to digest them. This is the process that generates postnatal qi , allowing…

In my last article, I discussed the importance of taking the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) concept of blood stasis into account when dealing with chronic joint pain. In this installment, I’d like to continue this topic and elaborate further on signs and manifestations of blood stasis, discuss the thermal nature…

The desire of many in the OM profession to forge better connections with the Western health care system is not one held by all practitioners. Oriental medicine has stood the test of time without Western medical support. On a naturalistic and spiritual level, the Taoist and Confucianist roots of OM…

Happy New Year! This cycle begins the Year of the Ox. Those born under this sign are patient, work hard and show great amounts of fortitude, just as their animal namesake implies. Let’s all emulate the ox and remind ourselves to be strong and steady for the good of our…

An acupuncturist is shocked when she is reprimanded by her state board of acupuncture for hugging a patient. Another practitioner loses his NCCAOM certification and state license for failure to file accurate insurance claims. Yet another is placed on probation for befriending a patient who mistook the friendship for more.…

An estimated 3.1 million Americans used acupuncture and Oriental medicine in 2007, a 50 percent increase since 2002, according to a study released by the federal government. The dramatic rise was reported in a report from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), which is part of the…

Could occupational medicine revolutionize the field of acupuncture and Oriental medicine and health care in general? The Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin (AOMA) is involved in a joint initiative with Whole Foods Market (WFM) and Lerner Education to provide an avenue for acupuncturists wishing to get into the field…

The U.S. Air Force has started a first-of-its kind pilot program designed to train its active-duty physicians to provide battlefield acupuncture services, expanding health care services to personnel on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. In its Winter 2008 newsletter, the Air Force Medical Corps announced: “The Air Force…

The majority of these columns have targeted the paradigm shift in societal attitudes about the well-documented “graying” of the enormous baby boomer demographic in the Western hemisphere, particularly in the United States. But this philosophical about-face, and its impact on acupuncture and those drawn to it, is arguably a worldwide…

I would like to put Western medicine into perspective. The training focuses on hospitalized patients, and the profession’s greatest successes lie in saving life and limb: fighting serious infection, severe trauma, and life-threatening deterioration of major organs. When a patient needs to be hospitalized, Western diagnostics, surgery and pharmaceutical medicine…

Calling for my attention, my front-office manager stated, “Mrs. Smith has cancelled her upcoming appointments because she said the treatment gave her a headache.” This is one of the most disheartening, frustrating scenarios any health care practitioner can experience. It is one that every practitioner has dealt with. However, the…

Cancer and heart disease were not major diseases in human history until the past 40 to 50 years. True, there are many factors that did not exist before this time, such as radiation, new chemicals and toxins. Now, a re-examination of a doctor’s work in the 1930s gives us a…