Acupuncture and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) 12 April 2009 127 views No Comment When most people think of PTSD they think of a solider fighting a war. PTSD can be anything that is mentally and emotionally disturbing to a person. This can be a death, an accident, physical, verbal, or emotional abuse. Regardless of the event, PTSD is very real, very crippling for the individual and at time life consuming. Acupuncture has been very helpful in reducing, controlling, and eliminating PTSD. Many times in Recovery people will have had events in their life that lead to their addiction. As we began to unravel the addiction we see that the individual has an emotional connection to the addiction. This emotional connection is usually wrapped around a traumatic event. By using acupuncture to move past these PTSD types of events, we can heal the emotional connections to the drugs and thus increase our chances for a successful recovery. In one study 17 patients had completed an acupuncture program led Dr. Sinclair-Lian. She said; My sense is its going well, People are expressing satisfaction with the treatments, and some are amazed at how well they are feeling after suf fering for several years with debilitating symptoms. A few patients have moved from unemployment to employment status, and from homelessness to finding a home during the course of their treatment In another study, Michael Hollifield, M.D., and colleagues conducted a clinical trial examining the effect of acupuncture on the symptoms of PTSD. The researchers analyzed depression, anxiety, and impairment in 73 people with a diagnosis of PTSD. The participants were assigned to receive either acupuncture or group cognitive-behavioral therapy over 12 weeks, or were assigned to a wait-list as part of the control group. The people in the control group were offered treatment or referral for treatment at the end of their participation. The researchers found that acupuncture provided treatment effects similar to group cognitive-behavioral therapy; both interventions were superior to the control group. Additionally, treatment effects of both the acupuncture and the group therapy were maintained for 3 months after the end of treatment. Finally, Joan Dolan reported the following at using ear needles for PTSD type events: New York-based Joan Dolan is a nurse and NADA practitioner who spent more than six years treating 9/11 victims with ear acupuncture in St. Vincents Catholic Medical Center in New York. People said they slept better, they felt calmer, and they felt less stress, she says in a phone interview. Ear acupuncture also works really well for PTSD, says Sarah Tewhey, the veterans program coordin ator for Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB), a New Mexico-based nonprofit that promotes community NADA-protocol clinics for trauma victims. After Hurricane Katrina, AWB pulled together 75 acupuncturists to treat more than 8000 people in Louisiana. In New Orleans, we treated everyone in a circle, from the homeless to firefighters, Tewhey recalls on the phone. Its an incredibly democratic and equalizing process. Traumatic events dont have to stay locked away in someones mind. We can open the doors of the past, heal the present and free the soul for the future. Acupuncture works.
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