October 14, 2005 (WebMD) Adding acupuncture to standard medical treatment may improve the quality of life for people who suffer from frequent headaches, according to a new study. A new study shows that people who suffer from headaches most days of the month, a condition known as chronic daily headache, fared better when they …
Discover, Sept, 1998 by Catherine Dold For those reluctant to accept that acupuncture has a real effect on the body, a physicist offers some surprising hightech evidence. FIVE YEARS AGO, WHILE VISITING HIS NATIVE Korea, physicist ZangHee Cho took a tumble down a hiking trail. “We were in the mountains for a picnic, and my shoes were …
A Knife in the Back Surgeons have often touted procedures that ultimately proved to be disappointing. In the nineteenfifties, many patients with angina and coronaryartery disease had an operation that involved tying off an artery that runs under the sternum. The idea was that it would increase the flow of blood to a heart that …
Going under the needles brings relief for some. Kara G. Morrison / The Detroit News November 29, 2005 Last year, Isaiah McKinnon suffered from debilitating neck and upper back pain. The former Detroit police chief tried all the normal routes to end the agony. Pain pills didn’t fix it, an MRI failed to yield answers, …
Acupuncture To ease arthritis pain, you do not necessarily have to rely solely on pain pills and steroids; there are a few alternative treatments that may help you find relief, including acupuncture. What Is Acupuncture and How Does It Work? Sixteenth century Chinese doctors believed that illness was due to an imbalance of energy in …
Once thought of as quackery and scoffed at, acupuncture is making its way from alternative to mainstream medicine. WebMD Feature Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario Acupuncture the 2,500 year old mainstay treatment of traditional Chinese medicine popularized in the West when President Nixon checked it out in China was initially regarded by the medical establishment as …
October, 2004, Volume 05, Issue 10 John A. Amaro, DC, FIAMA, Dipl. Ac., LAc In contemporary applications of acupuncture in North America, it is becoming increasingly common to hear patients complain that they are being challenged by their insurance carrier with the comment that acupuncture is not effective for a particular situation, and therefore coverage …
You could be anywhere when it starts: the supermarket, your desk at work, your daughter’s school play. Sometimes it creeps slowly behind your eyes, other times it arrives with the fury of a hurricane. The symptoms of a migraine – jagged vision, blinding light, uncontrollable nausea, numbness or tingling, and the pulsing or pounding behind …
