Acupuncture for Military & Family

PTSD

Broadly conceptualized, the term “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) refers to treatments not considered to be standard to the current practice of Western medicine. “Complementary” refers to the use of these techniques in combination…

Reduce use of Pain Killers

WASHINGTON -- Acupuncture and other forms of alternative and complementary medicine are helping reduce the use of opioids to block pain in Army patients, the service's assistant surgeon general said.…

Battlefield Acupuncture

It has just been announced that the U.S. Air Force will begin training physicians being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The treatment uses small needles in the skin of the ear to block pain in as few as five minutes and can last for several days or longer…