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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~Andy Rooney C
The future will either be green
or not at all. ~Bob Brown
Acupuncture Energizes Health by Kathleen Barnes
hiropractic manipulation of the spine has long been a remedy for structural malfunctions such as
aching backs and recurring headaches. Today, chiropractors are also treating neck pain from stress, plus tight shoulders and numb fingers from long hours of comput- er use. An increasing number of them are now incorporating acupuncture into their arsenal against disorders once treated by chiropractic alone, with great success. “What if you had a nail in your
foot? You can do anything to try to heal it, but until you pull the nail out of your foot, you’ll still have a recurring problem,” explains Dr. James Campbell, owner of Campbell Chiropractic Center, in East Brunswick, New Jersey, a certi- fied diplomate and incoming president of the American Board of Chiropractic Acupuncture (ABCA). “Like removing the nail, chiropractic removes the me- chanical problem and opens the way for acupuncture to stimulate healing,” Similarly, a chiropractic adjustment
removes obstructions and opens acu- puncture meridians to facilitate quick healing, “sometimes even immediately,” says Campbell. “Instead of having the needles in for 20 to 30 minutes, I can actually use a microcurrent device to access the meridians in the ears or on the hands and get the same results in
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five to 10 seconds.” He notes that relief can be both fast and permanent because the healing energy currents are able to circulate freely throughout the body.
Growing Movement Combining the two modalities has been practiced for more than 40 years, although awareness of the enhanced effectiveness of doing so has been pri- marily realized in the eastern half of the U.S. The dual therapy is the brainchild of the late Dr. Richard Yennie, who initial- ly became a Kansas City chiropractor after acupuncture healed a back injury shortly after World War II. An acupunc- turist smuggled prohibited needles into Yennie’s Japanese hospital room in the sleeve of his kimono for treatments that ended with Yennie’s hospital discharge marked, “GOK,” meaning in the doctor’s opinion, “God only knows” how the intense back pain was healed. While Yennie went on to teach judo and establish five judo-karate schools, his greatest achievement was bringing the two sciences together in the U.S. He founded both the Acupunc- ture Society of America and the ABCA, affiliated with the American Chiroprac- tic Association. Certification as a diplo- mate requires 2,300 hours of training in the combined modalities.
DYNAMIC DUOCombining Chiropractic and
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