Happy Holidays from
Acupuncture Center of Salem
Acupuncture Center of Salem
Wishing you and your family a very happy and healthy holiday season from all of us at Acupuncture Center of Salem.
We will be closed Christmas Eve Friday 12/24/10 through Boxing Day Sunday 12/26/10. Appointments for acupuncture sessions are still available for Monday 12/27/10 through Thursday 12/30/10. The office will be closed on New Years Eve Friday 12/31/10 through Sunday 1/02/11.
New ACS hours and services for 2011 will be announced soon.
Jeanie Marie Kraft, L.Ac. will be joining the practice starting January 2011. She will be treating women patients on Wednesday evenings. Specializing in pain disorders and stress using Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, Tui Na, Nutritional Counseling, Bach Flower and Aromatherapy. Jeanie Marie is the owner of Four Paws Acupuncture . After years of treating animals, Jeanie has developed a gentle touch which she calls fluffupuncture. Pampering her patients is part of her treatment session.
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Tai Chi Boosts Efficacy of Antidepressant Therapy in Older Adults
June 21, 2010 (Boca Raton, Florida) — Adding an abbreviated version of Tai Chi to antidepressant therapy with escitalopram improved resilience, quality of life, and cognitive function in adults with major depression 60 years and older, according to new research presented here at the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) 50th Anniversary Meeting.
via Tai Chi Boosts Efficacy of Antidepressant Therapy in Older Adults
Treatment Expectations and Preferences as Predicto… [Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2010] – PubMed result
A study of 477 patients with low back pain found that treatment expectations and preferences for acupuncture were not found predictive of treatment outcomes. That is to say, you don’t have to believe in acupuncture for it to work. I’m sure most of my patients have heard me say something like this at one time or another. Here’s the science perspective on it:
Treatment Expectations and Preferences as Predicto… [Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2010] – PubMed result
Chinese Acupuncture Affects Brain’s Ability To Regulate Pain, UM Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Aug. 11, 2009) — Acupuncture has been used in East-Asian medicine for thousands of years to treat pain, possibly by activating the body’s natural painkillers. But how it works at the cellular level is largely unknown.
Using brain imaging, a University of Michigan study provides novel evidence that traditional Chinese acupuncture affects the brain’s long-term ability to regulate pain.
Read the rest of this article here: Chinese Acupuncture Affects Brain’s Ability To Regulate Pain, UM Study Shows
Pulse – Acupuncture improves exercise tolerance
Acupuncture can ‘remarkably’ improve exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure say German cardiology researchers. Their study included 17 patients with congestive heart failure with mild or marked limitation to their activity- all on optimised medication. They were randomised to receive acupuncture or placebo – a needle that simulates the procedure without piercing the skin. No improvement in cardiac ejection fraction or peak oxygen uptake was seen. But the six minute walk distance was ‘remarkably increased’ in the acupuncture group by 32m on average, compared to a drop of 1m in the placebo group. Post-exercise recovery and ventilatory efficiency were both improved in the acupuncture group but not in the placebo group. Study leader Dr Johannes Backs, head of the research group at the department of cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital said: ‘This is the first indication that acupuncture may improve exercise tolerance in CHF patients- when given in addition to optimised standard heart failure medication.’
via Pulse – Acupuncture improves exercise tolerance
Kidneys and Adrenals In Traditional Chinese Medicine – EmpowHER.com
The author of the article below, Jody Smith, describes in everyday language the Kidney as perceived in Chinese Medicine, and she maintains an excellent website http://www.ncubator.ca/ describing her journey of recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I recommend a visit to those readers who struggle with CFS.
“In traditional Chinese medicine, balance is the goal. The kidneys are your source of yin and yang. When you are in excellent health, the relaxed yin state is in balance with the adrenal yang state. When you experience an excess of yin or yang influences, the problem may be in the kidneys. Any chronic imbalance can eventually cause a deficiency in the kidneys. In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys are your most important organs. They regulate your internal qi (chi). If you are strong physically, and sound mentally and emotionally, you have abundant kidney qi.”
Read the rest of this article here: Kidneys and Adrenals In Traditional Chinese Medicine – EmpowHER.com
Natural Pain Relief for Osteoarthritis
One of the most painful and crippling autoimmune diseases to affect the joints, osteoarthritis is a condition that affects the articular cartilage and the subchondral bones. Symptoms of this disease include joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, locking and at times, effusion. There can be many different causes of osteoarthritis, like hereditary, developmental, metabolic etc. The basic pathophysiology of this condition lies in the fact that there is progressive loss of cartilage due to which the bone may be exposed and eventually damaged. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and is one of the leading causes of chronic disability in the United States, affecting nearly 27 million people. This is the reason why everyone is always trying to find natural pain relief for osteoarthritis, because as it is an autoimmune disease, there is no fixed cure for it. Rather than endlessly popping pain killers, it is better that people try out other measures to attain pain relief. Given below are a few natural measures to deal with osteoarthritis
Read the rest of this article here: Natural Pain Relief for Osteoarthritis
Brain Scans Show How Meditation Calms Pain
TUESDAY, June 8 HealthDay News — People who routinely practice meditation may be better able to deal with pain because their brains are less focused on anticipating pain, a new British study suggests.The finding is a potential boon to the estimated 40 percent of people who are unable to adequately manage their chronic pain. It is based on an analysis involving people who practice a variety of meditation formats, and experience with meditation as a whole ranged from just a few months to several decades.
Read the rest of this article here: Brain Scans Show How Meditation Calms Pain: MedlinePlus
Polyphenols in red wine and green tea halt prostate cancer growth, study suggests
Patients often ask me about the health effects of red wine and/or green tea. This is a great article about some of the new research into these powerful foods:
ScienceDaily (June 11, 2010) — In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth. This new discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, explains how antioxidants in red wine and green tea produce a combined effect to disrupt an important cell signaling pathway necessary for prostate cancer growth. This finding is important because it may lead to the development of drugs that could stop or slow cancer progression, or improve current treatments.
To read the rest of this article, click here: Polyphenols in red wine and green tea halt prostate cancer growth, study suggests