Acupuncture Quick-Start Guide
The basic principle behind acupuncture is to stimulate specific points under the skin to adjust bodily functions to optimum levels. Both ancient Traditional Chinese and modern Western practitioners can use this technique to relieve symptoms for those suffering from a chronic disease. Needling is the most common approach and is an essentially safe treatment strategy. It can be used to relieve pain, improve healing, and enhance your general well-being. A
common question people ask is how is this procedure actually done and what sort of benefits
can you expect?
Needle Insertion Process
There are two main categories of acupuncture practice in America today, Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) and Medical Acupuncture. Each has its own merits, so your choice is an
individual one. Most people make their decision based on upon which philosophy they are more
aligned with and which technique creates the least apprehension.
TCM practitioners work with the concept energy flow or Qi, and the meridians through which this
energy travels in the body. Most procatitioners insert small needles just under the skin at certain
places on the body in order to reach the acupuncture meridian points. So far, modern scientific
methods have only found little evidence to prove the existence of these energy channels despite
the fact that this technique has been used effectively for thousands of years across various
countries to treat millions of people.
Medical Acupuncture practitioners are most often Medical doctors who graduatesd from western
medical schools. Their needle locations are not based on the traditional acupuncture points, but
on anatomic data. They will often use fewer needles and ...
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...icular medical condition. Results do
vary, so it is helpful to have an open and honest discussion with your acupuncturist about
expected results and their time frame. In general, most patients begin to feel positive effects after
three or four sessions. Certain specific conditions may actually get a little worse before
improving. This is known as a "healing reaction". Keep your practitioner informed if you
experience this sort of reaction so adjustments can be made to your treatment.
In modern medicine, using traditional healing techniques with proven results has become a more
accepted and widely practice. Acupuncture has proven its value over and over again. Current
practice guidelines help keep it effective and safe. It is a gift of healing from ancient healing sages
that has the potential to provide relief to millions of people in the future.
...uals, even if they don't agree with them. It really falls to nurses to address the situation properly, and effectively ensure that the cultural communication between the doctor and the patient does not break down. Nurses most of all have to communicate with patients in a healing way, even if they do not agree with mystical remedies because the nurse has to recognize that there is nonetheless a function that mystical ritual remedies do serve, even to western medicine: to comfort the patients and their families. Ancient rituals or customs, retained to some extent or respected by western caregivers, can serve to maintain a healing and positive attitude, and as a psycholgocial support which the nurse can provide through respect and symbolic use of non-western cultural myths as a psychological stimulant to assist the healing process and inspire the patient thereof.
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Therapeutic touch was developed by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz in the 1970s as a non-invasive nursing intervention (Kelly et al. 2004). Jackson and Keegan (2009, p.614) defined therapeutic touch as “a specific technique of centring intention used while the practitioner moves the hands through a recipient’s energy field for the purpose of assessing and treating energy field imbalance.” The original theory of the technique proposed by nursing theorist Rogers (1970) is that individuals as a unified whole have their own permeable energy fields that extend from the skin surface and flow evenly when they are healthy. The energy field of the ill physical body is disrupted, misaligned, obstructed or “out of tune” (Huff et al. 2006). TT has the potential to re-pattern, reorganize and restore the individual’s imbalanced energy fields through the open system extending from the surface of the body interacting with the environment constantly (Krieger, 1979). The earliest studies of healing touch were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s: biochemist Bernard Grad (1965) collaborated with famous healer Oskar Estebany to demonstrate the significantly accelerated healing effects of therapeutic touch on wounded mice and damaged barley seeds. The central aim of healing therapies is to relax and calm patients in order to activate patients’ natural healing ability, and it does not include any religious activity (Lorenc et al. 2010).
Your healthcare provider will discuss the options with you and will help you decide which procedure is best for you.
Which of them is closer to enlightenment at the end? Use quotes to support your answer, and explain thoroughly.
In my opinion this method is only good for men that do not want to be the biological father of any children in the future. Men who are sensative to surgery should think hard before they proceed with this.
...this alternative medicine in reinforcing the legitimacy of their work is that there are even discrepancies between them on exactly how to achieve the desired results. “One of the many methodological problems with auricular acupuncture is that there are so many maps of the ear and little agreement exists regarding point location, lacking definite anatomic stud on the ear skin and its somatotopic correspondences” (Gori 16). In order for this alternative method of treatment to become more mainstream and accepted as legitimate, more conclusive evidence and more consistent results across multiple studies, and more consistent application of the acupuncture itself must be achieved. Until that point, auricular acupuncture will continue to help persons who have experienced its benefits, but it will not receive the attention that a more proven treatment would by the masses.
Most of the information on acupuncture is circulated by acupuncture therapists and clinics, with one such therapist being Dr.
Public Health Reports (Interagency Team at NIMH and NIDA Studies How Acupuncture Works.) (1974-) , Vol. 95, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1980), pp. 503-504
Effect upon arrival of qi, literally meaning pain is eliminated instantly when needling sensations are acquired after needle-insertion, is a familiar clinical fact when acupuncture is used for kinds of pain. Of course, such quick responses are not resulted from changes of humoral factors. There were similar successes duri...
...lementary and Alternative Medicine. (2012). Acupunture: An Introduction. Retrieved on July 12, 2014 from http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/introduction.htm
Liposuction is also known as lipoplasty and liposculpture and is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery performed in the United States. Liposuction has been a means of contouring the body in one or more areas for the past twenty years. This surgery is mostly performed on women, but among men and older people, the surgery has become more popular. Also, this surgery has been classified as the rich person’s surgery (Pavlovich-Danis, 2001, p. 1). Liposuction begins by the surgeon making tiny incisions throughout the areas where the liposuction is going to be performed. Then the surgeon takes the cannula, narrow tube, and vacuums out the fat layer deep beneath the skin. The cannula then breaks up the fat cells by being pulled continuously back and forth throughout the skin. The broken up pieces of fat are then suctioned up by the cannula. The fat that is taken out is replaced by fluid, so that the patient does not go into shock ("New Image," 2001, p.2). Even after this surgery, the results are not guaranteed.
Reiki symbols have specific frequencies that specialize in certain conditions to sanction the flow of energy throughout the body. The colour and shape of each symbol signifies the frequency and amplitude of the energy. The healing power of reiki can be verified by the existence of first degree of reiki and second degree of reiki, as well as enhancing the results of medical therapy. In the beginning, the Reiki practitioner must learn and master the first degree of Reiki or the first stage of Reiki. The first degree of Reiki enables poise energy for healing one’s self, others, plants and animals.
Derived from several ancient healing practices, therapeutic touch is based on the theory of human energy fields - every person has an energy field that surrounds the entire body. During therapeutic touch treatment, practitioners use their hands, without actually touching the person, to re-establish a healthy energy flow. Therapeutic touch seeks to restore balance within the body while also stimulating the patient's own healing response. The practice of therapeutic touch is used worldwide in thousands of hospitals, clinics, and private practices. It is an easily learned, successful complement to other healing programs.
These groups include effleurage, petrissage, tapotement, vibration and friction. Each of these movements can be used in many different ways to create specific effects and benefits for the individual client. Effleurage consists mainly of light, long, sweeping movements allowing the hands to softly run over the surface of the skin. This movement is used for application of massage medium such as oil and also the general warming of an area by creating an erythema (redness) on the clients skin.... ...