They're used in medicine to inject liquids, patch skin and to stimulate acupuncture points.
There are also acupuncture, acupressure, biofeedback, Alexander, Reiki, Feldenkrais and other bodywork and postural techniques.
Luckily, the health food, herbs and acupuncture were not expensive, and my insurance covered medical tests.
"Acupuncture may help reduce her anxiety and induce deeper sleep, " says Rubin Naiman, Ph.
What outcomes or process measures should we be assessing in clinical trials of acupuncture?
Acupuncture appears to work by releasing endorphins, the body's natural pain-killers, into the system.
Battlefied acupuncture is so ridiculously implausible that you might want to laugh out loud.
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Battlefield acupuncture is nothing more than sticking a bunch of needles into the ear.
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These life forces are thought to flow through "meridians" on which the acupuncture points are located.
Acupuncture lobbyists, say, persuade state legislators to require that every insurance plan in State X cover acupuncture.
Niemtzow has trained hundreds of military doctors in battlefield acupuncture, a method that he invented in 2001.
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And they have been broadening them beyond free meals and laundry to massages, counseling, acupuncture and more.
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Thus Cohen should have told us that acupuncture is not effective for any of these other conditions.
Despite the methodological flaws, if acupuncture works, surely that 12-year-old study would be replicated by now, yes?
Beyond Acupuncture These mainland and Hong Kong pharmaceutical companies have relatively small market values but enormous long-term potential.
His idea was to create high-end stores offering acupuncture, massage and herbal treatments and products to Western consumers.
Watching Yates begins to regain his health through gentle, low-cost therapies, including meditation and acupuncture, is profoundly moving.
Which of the many acupuncture traditions or approaches is most effective or appropriate for a given clinical indication?
By inserting needles into the acupuncture points, therapists hope to correct an imbalance of the two life forces.
Believers in acupuncture, naturopathy, Reiki, and homeopathy will argue that they are not unethical, because the treatments work.
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For this, battlefield acupuncture gets my award for the worst quackery of 2011.
It reports a case of arterial hemorrhage caused by an acupuncture needle.
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Berman has gone to great lengths to try to show that acupuncture works.
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and psychodramatherapy are offered, as are acupuncture and art.
The Air Force should put an immediate halt to their battlefield acupuncture program.
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In acupuncture, needles are selected according to the individual condition and used to puncture and stimulate the chosen points.
The patients that received electrical stimulation plus acupuncture had fewer episodes of vomiting.
He recommends his patients try everything from acupuncture to exercise and good nutrition to wearing mouth guards during sleep.
These women found help through their religious faith, herbs, acupuncture, or becoming involved in groups that help other Asian women.
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The insertion of acupuncture needles at specific points along the meridians is supposed to restore the proper flow of qi.
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