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In my last article, I wrote about how practitioners can tap into the unlimited power of positive intent to amplify the results of their treatments. This article discusses a very popular treatment called facial rejuvenation, and why there has sometimes been a wide variance in results and client satisfaction reported…

I have heard that health care providers will have to have something called an NPI number. Is this something an acupuncturist must have? And if I do need one, how do I get it?

Shifting the paradigm of private practice, new models of practice and service delivery are continually being developed and evaluated by the acupuncture community. In this month’s column, we interview Michael McCoy, executive director of the AOM Alliance.

In the first article of this series, we examined theories regarding the biomedical mechanisms involved in facial acupuncture and likewise considered skin aging from the standpoint of Oriental medicine. We discovered that, despite the seeming disparities between the two perspectives on reality embodied in these approaches, the reductive paradigm of…

Dave Fisher, LMT, is one of the most caring men I have ever met. He has been gifted in this life with remarkable ability as a healer and as a computer systems analyst - not the usual combination of talents. I had the pleasure of working with him in a…

Many people used to call vascular disease “the silent killer,” because individuals had no knowledge of its accumulation until the fatal event occurred. We now have a much broader dissemination of knowledge and equipment to allow many more people to survive their acute crises, yet the insidious accumulations that create…

In early August, my family and I had the good fortune to be able to spend a week on the Big Sur coast. It was there that we met Lee Klinger, PhD. Dr. Klinger is an ecologist who is a leading scholar in earth systems science and Gaia theory. He…

I am writing to applaud an article you published by John Scott, DOM, called ” What Are We Doing Anyway? ” in the July 2006 issue of Acupuncture Today . Dr. Scott’s summary of where our current American health care system developed from is enlightening. Out-lining the multiple advances in…

The Acupuncture Poll’s question for September 2006 was: What is the most significant benefit of the unification of the complementary medicine professions?

One person really can make a difference. I know that sometimes our readers are more concerned with what is happening on a national level and do not want to read about events that are happening within any single state. However, the most recent turn of events involving acupuncturists in California…

Acupuncturists from around the country will soon be making their way to San Diego for the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) annual convention. The 2006 Pacific Symposium, Nov. 2-5 at the Catamaran Hotel, will feature more than 40 workshops from well-known members of the acupuncture community, as well as…

After traveling between the two houses of the California legislature for two months, A.B.3014, a bill that defines the term “Asian massage” to clarify the scope of practice for acupuncturists, has reached the governor’s desk and awaits his signature. After fighting against the bill throughout the entire legislative year, the…

The Serbian siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s has left scars on the land, its people and their spirits. For four years, from 1992 to 1996, the city’s inhabitants suffered through ethnic cleansing, torture, rape and being cut off from food, electricity and medicine. Ten years later, the Healing Hands…

No matter your economic background, health care is an increasingly hot topic these days. With more and more consumers looking for additional options from their insurance companies as prices continue to skyrocket, where do acupuncture and other forms of complementary and alternative medicine fit into the mix? And how much…

Welcome to the second installment of Student Corner, Acupuncture Today ‘s column devoted to current and lifelong students of Chinese medicine. In my last column , I talked about the philosophical dilemma of the American TCM student - the adjustment we go through in our pursuit of information and knowledge,…

How soon does acupuncture start to work after you put the needle in the acupoints? Some say it works immediately, while others argue it begins to work after the needle has been pulled out. Which is the correct answer?

In the first two parts of this three-part series on the sliding scale, we’ve looked at the why (part 1) and the how (part 2) of using a sliding scale. In part 3, we’ll consider the who . Specifically, who benefits from acupuncturists using a sliding scale? Who are the…

In a clinical practice, business success usually is measured by increased income, increased numbers of patients seen per day and lower operating expenses. By comparison, practice success may be measured by factors such as high percentage of favorable clinical results, high patient satisfaction, high referral levels, and personal satisfaction with…

In my last article, I discussed avenues for integrating TCM and ayurveda in chronic lower back pain and focused mainly on herbal therapies. In this article, I wish to expand this topic further and discuss clinical scenarios in which herbal medicine could potentially aggravate lower back pain, offer complementary yoga…

Regardless of the Causative Factor (CF), a patient will be imbalanced primarily at the level of body, mind or spirit. Just as no two bodies are the same in any two people, neither are two minds or two spirits.