Dear Patients,
Spring is here and things are popping up everywhere, including in my professional life. Within the span of one week, I have become a contractor for the Department of Defense, enrolled in a residency program, and started a patient education campaign.
The Department of Defense is paying acupuncturists to treat veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness. These soldiers experience extreme fatigue, muscle pain, and depression as a result of being exposed to pesticides and medicines designed to protect them from chemical warfare during Gulf War II. If you know a veteran who would like to enroll in the program, feel free to send me his or her contact information. I remain available to treat non-vets.
When I’m not treating patients, veterans or otherwise, I will be going back to school! The three month residency program focuses on providing care to patients in hospice. I will spend part of that time in a class room and part of it treating patients of All Care Hospice. Again, if you know of someone who being cared for by All Care Hospice (for now, until I finish the training) who would like acupuncture treatments, feel free to send me their name.
As for the patient education campaign: Did you know that spring is a great time for a tune-up!? Many very painful disorders, such as migraines, Parkinson’s, Restless Leg Syndrome and acid reflux kick up in the spring. It’s also a great time to get ahead of allergies, and believe it or not, depression. Recently, several patients have asked me to help them wean themselves off of anti-depressants. The results were excellent. If you would like to avoid the side effects prolonged use of anti-depressants (loss of libido and all emotional response), please give me a call.
If you would like to learn more about why certain disorders are worse in particular seasons, feel free to find me/Milton Acupuncture on Facebook. Regular posts from my blog: http://stemsandbranches.blogspot.com/ will be appearing on my Facebook page, soon.
And please, let me know if you’d rather opt out of the “Patient Education Campaign” and I’ll take your name off of my list.
I hope you have a wonderful spring.
Daria Casinelli, Lic. Ac.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Welcome Spring! Welcome Readers!
Dear Patients and Any One Who Happened to Drop By,
It's a beautiful sunny day outside. Spring, the season of new beginnings is definitely in the air. Traditional Chinese Medicine recognizes spring as the time when our energy, Qi, rushes up and outwards propelling us into the world to do what we have to do. This can result in feeling kind of frisky! Or, if that energy encounters blockages, springtime disorders such as headaches, worsening of premenstrual syndrome, restless leg syndrome and other ailments. This is the reason that spring is the best season for acupuncture "seasonal tune-up".
If you'd like to know more about why your aches and pains are worse at different times of the year, feel free to give me a call or to check out some of the links on my blog, website and Facebook page. I will, in the spirit of the season, be posting more regularly and look forward to your comments.
peace,
Daria Casinelli, Lic. Ac.
It's a beautiful sunny day outside. Spring, the season of new beginnings is definitely in the air. Traditional Chinese Medicine recognizes spring as the time when our energy, Qi, rushes up and outwards propelling us into the world to do what we have to do. This can result in feeling kind of frisky! Or, if that energy encounters blockages, springtime disorders such as headaches, worsening of premenstrual syndrome, restless leg syndrome and other ailments. This is the reason that spring is the best season for acupuncture "seasonal tune-up".
If you'd like to know more about why your aches and pains are worse at different times of the year, feel free to give me a call or to check out some of the links on my blog, website and Facebook page. I will, in the spirit of the season, be posting more regularly and look forward to your comments.
peace,
Daria Casinelli, Lic. Ac.
Acupuncture Best Cure For Headaches
Acupuncture best cure for headache
From AFP
16 March 2004
ACUPUNCTURE is the best treatment for people who suffer from chronic headaches, according to the largest study into the effectiveness of this therapy for treating migraines.
British doctors recruited 401 patients who suffered from several days of severe headache each week.
Patients were allotted randomly to a group that received up to 12 acupuncture treatments per week, or to a control group that received conventional headache treatment, based on medication.
Each volunteer was asked to complete a diary, detailing the frequency and severity of their headaches and medicine use, for four weeks at the start of the study; again at three months; and finally at one year.
In the acupuncture group, the severity of headaches fell by 34 per cent over the year, compared to a decline of 16 per cent in the control group.
The acupuncture group also experienced on averaged 22 fewer days of headache per year, used 15 per cent less medication, made 25 per cent fewer visits to their doctor and were absent from work through sickness 15 per cent than the control group.
"Acupuncture leads to persisting, clinically relevant benefits for primary care patients with chronic headache, particularly migraine," the authors say.
The findings should be taken into account by policymakers when they have to assess the most cost-effective way of treating patients, they add.
The study, led by Andrew Vickers, a researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was published online on Monday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
AFP
From AFP
16 March 2004
ACUPUNCTURE is the best treatment for people who suffer from chronic headaches, according to the largest study into the effectiveness of this therapy for treating migraines.
British doctors recruited 401 patients who suffered from several days of severe headache each week.
Patients were allotted randomly to a group that received up to 12 acupuncture treatments per week, or to a control group that received conventional headache treatment, based on medication.
Each volunteer was asked to complete a diary, detailing the frequency and severity of their headaches and medicine use, for four weeks at the start of the study; again at three months; and finally at one year.
In the acupuncture group, the severity of headaches fell by 34 per cent over the year, compared to a decline of 16 per cent in the control group.
The acupuncture group also experienced on averaged 22 fewer days of headache per year, used 15 per cent less medication, made 25 per cent fewer visits to their doctor and were absent from work through sickness 15 per cent than the control group.
"Acupuncture leads to persisting, clinically relevant benefits for primary care patients with chronic headache, particularly migraine," the authors say.
The findings should be taken into account by policymakers when they have to assess the most cost-effective way of treating patients, they add.
The study, led by Andrew Vickers, a researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was published online on Monday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
AFP
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