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Veterinary Acupuncture - Alternative Treatment For Your Pet
Acupuncture and Sciatica
Sciatica is a condition Acupuncture can treat. See these patient testimonials or call or email for more information. ]]>
Blood Pressure Lowered by Acupuncture
A 2005 study conducted at the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, Irvine found that acupuncture treatments that used low levels of electrical stimulation can lower blood pressure elevations by as much as 50 percent.[from Acufinder.com News - click on title for more…]
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Acupuncture and Depression: An Old Answer to an Old Problem
Depressive disorders affect almost 19 million Americans, or 9.5% of the population in any given one-year period and are estimated to cost the workplace over 40 billion dollars . At some point in their lives, 10%-25% of women and 5%-12% of men are likely to become clinically depressed. Even when depression is sub-clinical, the body's immune system is compromised and the symptoms reduce functioning and impair work performance and social relationships. Common symptoms of depressive disorders include: a decreased interest in most activities, insomnia, fatigue, and feeling empty and worthless. When depression is at its worst, hopelessness sets in and suicide becomes a desperate option for approximately 15% of people who suffer from severe depressive disorders. The personal and societal costs are staggering. Luckily, many people seek therapy and/or medications and now, Harvard Medical School reports that depression is one of the top 5 conditions for which people seek alternative care.[from Acufinder.com News - click on title for more…]]]>
Peripheral Neuropathy and Acupuncture
"Peripheral neuropathy is a condition that I have treated successfully perhaps more often than any other condition listed on my website. I have probably performed over 3000 treatments for this condition, maybe more..."
In this new article, Steve Phillips, L.Ac. talks about his experience treating three types of peripheral neuropathy with acupuncture. ]]>
Veterinary is the treatment of pets like cats, dogs and horses. Acupuncture is a part of Chinese medicine use to diagnosis and treat animals and people. This treatment is known as the traditional Chinese medicine. It is a holistic approach to the cure of chronic diseases in patients. This treatment considers the patient as an organism having unified energetic parts rather than considering individual body parts for the treatment. In veterinary acupuncture, animals are also considered as a whole-unit consisting of body, mind, diet, spirit, and environment.
Generally, the holistic approach of this medicine helps to explain this ancient medical approach. In conventional medicinal treatments, doctors tend to analyze the symptoms and according to the diagnosis, the physician addresses the problem by trying to cure the symptoms. On the contrary, holistic or therapy looks at the symptoms and tries to find out the causes of the symptoms that are present.
The treatment is given only after the root cause has been ascertained by analyzing the symptoms. There are few competitors to western vererinary medicine, however this therapy is the next best thing by far. Holistic approach can bring good total health and welfare to your pets. Some times this treatment also includes the conventional methods. Traditional medicine treatment generally includes and herbs along with certain other techniques to balance the body and allow the animals to cure.
Other techniques are also involved in the treatment of animals. Laser stimulation, electric stimulation and many more are common treatments. Acupuncture and herbal medicinal treatment have been in practice for thousands of years by the Chinese. The US has now greatly accepted this treatment.S, practitioners to cure animals as well as the humans. In this treatment, the accupoints are stimulated and then treated with the herbal medicines.
Accupoints are the points where the needles pierce the skin during therapy. This piercing stimulates those points and the stimulation cures the diseases. This is the manual treatment to cure a disease. In the electric treatments, passing electric currents through the needles stimulates the accupoints. These needles are treated as the electrodes. The points are stimulated by the current passing. Another method to stimulate the points is by laser method.
These are the certain methods to stimulate the accupoints and treat the disease. Acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicines are good for diagnosing diseases and treating them. Acupuncture shows the effects according to the time and after certain time the disease will cure. Although small pets like birds, ferrets and rabbits can be cured with this treatment, physicians generally treate animals such as cat dogs and horses.
Generally, the therapy is done with the help of needles made of metal. The weight of the needle is about 28gm to 30gm. These needles are sharp and used to prick certain accupoints on the skin. Penetration depth of the needles in the skin of the animal is about 1/2" to 3/4". The penetration and stimulation of these points can help lead to the cure of the animal. Article Source: Article Beam - a service of A1 Web Server Web Hosting Acupuncture is a ancient chinese practice used to cure many medical conditions. Visit About Acupuncture to learn more about the many different forms of acupuncture.
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