Acupuncture Personal Statement

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If I had never been injured, I wouldn't have found acupuncture. For almost 25 years I had a career that subjected me to constant overuse and impact injuries. Although I’m young, I have a high milage body because routinely I had to carry 60-80 pounds of weight over treacherous terrain for days at a time, jumped out of aircraft carrying over 160 pounds of equipment, dive on live ordnance at depths exceeding 150 feet, as well as being subjected to blunt trauma and explosions. My former occupation was physically demanding and resulted in physical damaging that kept me in constant physical pain. At that time in the military, alternative medicine like acupuncture was not available or even discussed as a treatment option for my injuries.
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While I was researching what options alternative medicine offered, a very good friend recommended I try acupuncture, and as you can imagine, it changed my life. Each treatment provided benefits that left me in awe, my doctors were wrong after all and I had finally found pain relief for my high impact, high millage body. As I began to research other benefits of Asian medicine provided it occurred to me that this is a field that I would love to work in. For over 2 decades my passion had been helping others in need. Though I loved my job, I could no longer make that kind of physical sacrifice. After being exposed to medicine where attention to detail, thoroughness, and a holistic view the individual mattered, the idea of becoming an acupuncturist took hold. For the next few months, I conducted online research about the medicine, schools, student life, success stories and horror stories. For each piece of information gathered, I considered how my situation and personality would be well suited to becoming a successful student and practitioner. Feeling that I knew enough to start asking the right questions I conducting several informational interviews with local practitioners and contacted several schools filling in the blanks. One big attraction to entering the community was the diversity of backgrounds of people I interviewed: an

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