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At Whole Health Center we treat children with acupuncture. Paul Murray, Whole Health Center’s director, points out that acupuncture may actually work better on children than adults. Since they are young, their conditions are newer, less entrenched in the body. Chinese medicine believes that the fresher the condition, the easier it is to treat.
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Two new systematic reviews have found that acupuncture therapy can provide patients who suffer from tension and migraine headache an alternative treatment for their pain.
Tension headaches are the most common headaches, and generally cause infrequent mild to moderate pain, but in a considerable number of patients, tension headaches are so frequent that they require treatment. [...]

Insulin resistance occurs when the body produces enough insulin in response to sugar consumption, but the insulin is not able to perform its function within the body properly.  Insulin is a hormone whose role is to signal cells to bring sugar from the blood stream into the cells, so it can be turned into energy.  When an individual [...]

Will Dunham
WASHINGTON Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:35pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The use of acupuncture before and during surgery reduces patients’ post-operative pain as well as the need for pain-killing medication, researchers said on Tuesday.
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina analyzed the results of 15 clinical trials on the effectiveness of acupuncture — [...]

Acupuncture is big on the Steelers.
One night last week, I was with an NBC crew in Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison’s home north of Pittsburgh. He was talking about staying in one piece during the physical NFL season, and he said he owed a lot to acupuncture.
Specifically, 314 needles per session, twice a week. That’s how [...]

Having a condition where the mouth doesn’t produce enough saliva can develop following radiation treat­ments and after taking certain medications. While this is not rampant in society, it would be good to know that Acupuncture offers help to those who suffer from it should the condition become something you or someone you know develops.
Basically, dry [...]

As more and more testing is done regarding the benefits of Acupuncture versus drug therapy, the age-old alternative treatment continues to post favorable results. The most recent test shows that Acupuncture is very effective in providing long-lasting relief for the side effects suffered by breast cancer patients.
According to the most recent first-of-its kind study, Acupuncture [...]

Acupuncture has a long history of helping people live their lives with high energy while enjoying an excellent level of health. People working with a professional acupuncturist become very familiar with how the body and the mind work in harmony as well as how chi (also called qi), the universal life energy, affects the body.
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