mendation of nonprescription sub- stances (dietary supplements to promote health), which must meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) label- ing requirements; breathing techniques; therapeutic exercises; lifestyle and stress management coaching; and homeopath- ic preparations approved by the FDA and U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopeia Committee. Also included are herbology and acupoint injection therapy, which uses hypodermic needles to inject herbs, homeopathics and other nutritional supplements into acupuncture points. Injection therapy promotes, maintains and restores health and is used to prevent disease and assist with pain management and palliative care. Adjunctive therapy can also in- clude low-frequency electrical current applied to needles to produce greater stimulation. Other procedures used separately or together with acupuncture include: moxibustion (burning of floss or herbs applied to the skin or to an acupuncture needle); applications of laser beams (laserpuncture); placement of needles in the external ear (auricu- lotherapy); and acupressure (use of manual pressure).
Local Practitioners Offer Wellness Strategies Phyllis C. Weber, LAc, AP, is the owner of Gulf Coast Acu- puncture & Herbs, with offices in Fort Myers and Naples. Weber, like other APs trained in Japanese and Chinese styles of
stress, anxiety and insomnia since 2006, and helps with food allergies by offering testing, counseling and dietary manage- ment. “Acupuncture can help this condi- tion,” he says. “Diet, B12
For 16 years,
David Martin, DOM, AP, the owner of Lo- tus Blossom Clinic, in Fort Myers, has been treating patients and focusing on chronic pain, anxiety
Graydon Snow injections and
biopuncture therapy are also useful. It’s all part of the lifestyle counseling that I can do.”
Cen. “The informa- tion provided by the patient and gathered during the examina- tion by checking the tongue, pulse, skin color, etc., is all used to differentiate the
David Martin
and stress. He has found that acupunc- ture is helpful for infertile women that want to get pregnant, and frequently works on fertility issues with an M.D. that is board-certified in fertility and reproductive endocrinology, obstetrics and gynecology. “Western medicine sometimes has the right answer; how- ever, I think more often, it’s better to work in concert and integrate the best of both worlds,” he advises. Dr. Hu Pan,
OMD, AP, with Liu’s Acupuncture Center, in Fort Myers and Naples, has been practicing TCM for 25 years; first in China and then the U.S. Pan also treats infertil-
Phyllis Weber
acupuncture, uses either modality, de- pending upon what she is treating and the constitution of the patient. “Chi- nese is more aggressive and symptom- oriented, while Japanese balances the body to alleviate symptoms,” explains Weber, who has 19 years of experience in using acupuncture to rebalance the body so it can heal itself.
Graydon Snow, AP, DOM, the
owner of Axis Natural Medicine, in Fort Myers, initially chose his profes- sion because acupuncture therapy allowed him to avoid surgery for a torn rotator cuff. He has been using acu- puncture to treat fibromyalgia, pain,
man is a doctor of chiropractic and founder of Gold- man Chiropractic and Acupuncture, in Naples. In 2007, he responded to a number of his pa-
Xiu Quiong Cen
symptoms and understand the health condition of the patient.” James W. Gold-
James Goldman
tients’ inquiries about acupuncture and decided to invest 100 hours to get his acupuncture certification. Since then, he has used it to complement his chiropractic treatments. “I see how ef- fectively chiropractic and acupuncture work together,” he advises. John E. Pat-
ton, DOM, AP, is the owner of Heal- ing Arts Center, in Naples. He usually spends 90 minutes with a patient on the initial visit, uses blood analysis work
Hu Pan
ity. The patient consults with a fertil- ity doctor, and Pan uses acupuncture to balance the endocrine system and improve the functioning of the uterus. He also works with cancer patients to rebuild their immune systems after che- motherapy and radiation. “Acupuncture calms and relaxes the body, which is important to the rehabilitative process and key to helping individuals that suf- fer from anxiety,” he explains. Dr. Xiu Qiong Cen, AP, OMD,
owner of the Acupuncture Center of Naples, has been in practice for 28 years. From 1996 to 2001, she taught TCM at the Florida Health Academy. “I use a patient intake form that the pa- tient completes on the first visit,” says
John Patton
to practice functional medicine and does a lot of nutritional counseling. Patton, like most APs, uses functional medicine, which represents a science- based approach to whole-person health care that embraces optimal wellness as its goal, and believes that many health problems are reflections of underlying imbalances in physiology and chem- istry. “I help to identify and correct imbalances as the primary method of improving the patient’s health,” says Patton. “Because we are primary health care physicians, we can use any accepted health care protocol; it’s up to us to choose, based on intake, lab results and years of experience.” In their book, A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine, Dr. Len Saputo and Byron Belitsos suggest that the respon- sibility for our health should lie in our own hands, which makes prevention
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