Acupuncture Frequently Asked Questions And Answers, Photos and Videos

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Here Is A List of Frequently Asked Questions And Answers Provided On This Page...To Improve Your Ease of Use

• What Is Acupuncture? Is It Only About Sticking Needles In People...Or Is It More?
• Is Acu-point Needling Effective? Who Says?
• How Does It Work?
• What Is Qi or Chi And What Does It Do?
• What Does Needle Insertion Feel Like? And What Can I Expect During A Treatment?
• What Is An Initial Examination And Medical History Visit Like?
• What Am I Likely To Experience After A Treatment?
• What Is The Training And Experience of A Qualified Acupuncturist?
• Is Everyone Who Performs Acupuncture Qualified To Do So?

Is It Only About Sticking Needles In People...Or Is It More?

Actually It Is Much More Than Sticking Needles In People.

• It is actually a powerful medical diagnostic and healing system based upon profound understanding of the body's energy systems at a deeper level and more subtle level than what we call Western or Allopathic medicine knows.
• Acupoint meridian therapy and its various healing processes and procedures promotes healing, strengthens the immune system, prevents disease, controls pain, and increases both functional ability and the quality of peoples lives.
• Oriental Medicine which includes meridian acu-point needling is a well-developed primary and preventative health-care system based on natural energetic laws.
• Dating back over 3,000 years in written documentation in Chinese history, its use is widespread in Asia, Africa, S. America, Canada, Europe and in the U.S.
• Bronze statues like the photo of the plastic "Acu-point meridian or channel dummy" below have been found in excavations in China and elsewhere dating back thousands of years ago.
• No one knows for sure how these ancient people determined where these channels or meridians of non-physical energy were located in the body, but only the most modern radioactive isotope tracking equipment has documented the presence of these non-electrical...non-nerve related...channels of energy.

• While one of the effects of competent acupuncture treatment is symptom relief, it is much more than this. Properly performed by one with sufficient education and training...at least 4 year of formal education and training...can initiate healing of the root cause of many physical problems, but it does even more.
• It has served over the centuries as intervention to return a person to the dynamic balance of health.
• Those who receive this treatment often not only heal physically, and experience pain relief, also experience profound states of relaxation, peace, clarity and harmony through treatment which often has lasting impact.

Is Acupuncture Effective? Who Says?

The 1997 NIH Consensus Statement concludes that,"promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain.

There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myo-fascial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, in which acu-point needling may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program.

Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful."

Dr. Brian Berman, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has done a series of studies showing acupuncture's benefits for osteoarthritis of the knee.

In 1999, eight academic medical centers, including Harvard, Duke and Stanford, banded together with the purpose of encouraging research and education on alternative medicine.

Eight years later, the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine has 38 member universities, and has gathered evidence about what practices have solid science behind them.

Experts at five of those universities, cited the number one alternative medicine practice that is among the most promising that have solid science behind them...

Guess what?

Acupuncture for pain.

Hands, down, this was the No. 1 recommendation from the panel of experts.

They also recommended it for other problems, including nausea after surgery and chemotherapy.

According to the results of a recent national study conducted by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)...

1 in 10 US Adults has tried acupuncture. This means that 20 million American Adults have tried it.

24% of those who tried it were extremely satisfied...

24% were very satisfied and 34% were satisfied.

Only 8% of those who tried it said they were not at all satisfied.

Acupuncture has helped 82% of the people who have tried it.

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) statistics on acupuncture use in the United States show that the number of visits (for acupuncture) rose from 27.2 to 79.2 per 1,000 adults between 1997 and 2007.

Approximately 3.1 million adults in the United States used acupuncture within the year prior to 2007 a 47 percent increase from the 2002 NHIS estimate.

The increases are related to growing evidence for acupuncture in the treatment of medical ailments include chemo-therapy induces nausea, chronic back pain, hypertension and allergic rhinitis to name but a few things acupuncture is known and proven to be effective for.

People don't choose to do something over and over again for thousands of years that doesn't work.

How Does Acupuncture Work?

• Each point has a specific function or set of functions in the body to regulate various aspects of the body. Acu-points are like the keys on the keyboard of your computer, each point or key tells the Qi to do one or a number of specific things to the function of the body metaphorically
• Needling Acu-points accesses the Qi which can balance the energetic systems of the body and do even more like quickly reduce pain.
• The acupuncturist affects specific points grouped along certain lines of energy called channels or meridians which run along the surface of the body and then go deeply inside the body to connect to its pertaining organ.
• Each organ in the body has its own meridian or channel. Disease can be prevented or treated by stimulating or reducing the flow of vital energy called Qi (chi) to get the desired effect.
• Pharmaceutical companies create medications that can suppress or stimulate energy within the body, but often with incredibly harsh side effects...because they try to do with artificially created chemicals what acupuncture does directly and energetically communicating with the body so that it adjusts its own electro-chemical balance.
• Studies indicate that acupuncture influences the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as the autonomic nervous system.
• Evidence shows that acupuncture causes the release of endorphins from the brain which makes acupuncture particularly effective in pain control.
• However not only does acupuncture reduce or eliminate pain, this pain relieving effect is not due to masking the pain like drugs do, but rather to the healing of the underlying pathology or trauma.
• Among a host of factors, acupuncture affects blood sugar, cholesterol, triglyceride levels, the function of the gastrointestinal system as well as every other organ system of the body and the activity of the endocrine system.
• Acupuncture works with the body by strengthening and balancing the energy of the body's systems.
• It improves circulation and allows the body to heal itself more quickly and more completely.

What Is Qi or Chi And What Does It Do?

What Does Acupuncture Feel Like? And What Can I Expect During A Treatment?

Insertion is nearly painless and is often followed with a sensation of tingling, distention, radiating electric like sensations or traveling warmth.

Most people are surprised at the depth of relaxation, the movement of energy they feel in their body and the sense of well-being that occurs from the re-balancing of energy.

More people than not fall asleep on the table, while the needles are in doing their work, because they are so deeply relaxed. Many have told me that it is more relaxing than even massage.

For those who would prefer alternative stimulation of the points, we can use micro-current, light or pressure.

What Is An Initial Examination And Medical History Visit Like?

On your first office visit your practitioner will do a thorough evaluation of your current health status and determine a wealth of information about how the body is functioning.

He or she will look at your face, observe the way you walk and move, listen to the sound of your voice, perhaps look at the appearance of your tongue and consider many other factors to determine what is and is not functioning optimally in your body.

Particular patterns of symptoms and other physical indications lead directly to treatment principles that determine the choice of the specific acu-points to use and herbs to prescribe, if indicated.

What Am I Likely To Experience After An Acupuncture Treatment?

For a health issue that has been ongoing for months or years, it may take more than one treatment before you begin to feel symptom relief depending upon the severity of the symptoms.

Once you experience any improvement in your symptoms...that is a sign that the pattern of dysfunction is beginning to break up.

You will find that you will look forward to treatment for the many benefits you will receive...securing healing in many cases where other treatments have failed.

Many who have lived with their condition for months or years believe they will just have to make do.

Others live with pain thinking that someday it will go away or take dangerous drugs to kill the pain.

Call me at (941)926-4711 to schedule your appointment or for a free phone consultation.

I serve the local communities of Bradenton, Sarasota, Osprey, Nokomis, Venice and North Port, Florida.

What Is The Training And Experience of A Qualified Acupuncturist?

A doctor of Oriental Medicine has often more than 2700 hours of class study, twice that number of hours of outside study and 710 hours of hands on clinical experience treating over 300 different patients with all kinds of serious health conditions.

The following are not qualified to needle acu-points although through political influence they in certain areas have been granted the right:

MDs, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors and even some Dentists are allowed to perform it when they have take a brief 100 or even 200 hour acu-point seminar...

meaning that they may have inserted a needle into themselves and were given a little manual on the insertion of needles into points based upon cook-book prescriptions. And these poorly trained and totally un-qualified people are allowed to perform acupuncture on unsuspecting victims.

Remember that statistic saying "It has helped 82% of the people who have tried it. Well, treatment from practitioners with inadequate education and training largely explains the 18% of people who were not helped.

Some MDs claim to be practicing "medical acu-point therapy", apparently to make it sound like they are practicing "the real acupuncture".

Nothing could be more absurd, since they lack the extensive education and training in it and Oriental Medicine physiology and energetic function, diagnosis, and treatment principles and skills.

Often they do not know how to locate the acu-points or how to needle effectively. And since they have no training in Oriental Medicine physiology which involves learning about Qi and the channels the Qi Flows along, they lack the knowledge and ability to diagnose and develop the correct treatment principles and point selection.

What this means is that if you have ever had acu-point therapy that didn't work, you probably got it from someone with inadequate training.

You want someone who has the best training to treat you, don't you? You want someone who guarantees you pain relief on your first visit and on every other visit, don't you?

Call Dr. Eichenauer to schedule your appointment or for a free telephone consultation at (941) 926-4711. Serving the local communities of Bradenton, Sarasota, Osprey, Nokomis, Venice, and North Port, Florida for over 12 years.

Is Everyone Who Performs Acu-Point Needling or Stimulation Qualified To Do So?

MDs, Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Osteopaths are allowed to needle acu-points after taking a 100 to 200 hour seminar...as if "it" was only a technique that is just about sticking needles in people...

Actually, Oriental Medicine Doctors (OMD) have a minimum of 2700 hours (four years of study and training (not counting 4 years of clinical training and practice prior to becoming licensed.

Would you have surgery performed by someone who took a seminar? I don't think so.

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Trust me on this, you do not want acupuncture from one who is not qualified to perform it.

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