ACUPUNCTURE IMPROVES MUSCLE ATROPHY  Japanese Researchers Show. The elderly and the sick often have loss of skeletal muscle mass and have great difficulty in engaging in physical activity. Akiko Onda, graduate Waseda University School of Sport Sciences gave presentation at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting. Research of 4 years of studies showed showed that decreases in muscle mass in the mRNA expression level of the E3 ubiquitin ligase atrogin-1 can be significantly reversed by acupuncture. Results have uncovered one molecular mechanism responsible for the efficacy of acupuncture treatment and clarified its usefulness in preventing skeletal muscle atrophy,” Onda said.

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ACUPUNCTURE HELPS WOMENS SURGICAL PAIN. Acupuncture helps to improve recovery times and improves pain control following gynecologic and abdominal surgeries according to a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, and  in a study published in Pain, the Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Researchers also note that acupuncture reduced opioid side-effects including nausea, dizziness, sedation, pruritus and urinary retention. 
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Fort Carson has an Acupuncture clinic in a new $72 million Soldier Family Care Center opened with Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins, Fort Carson's commanding general attending.

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Acupuncture Is Safe for Children Studies Find. According to a large new study in the journal “Pediatrics” acupuncture is very safe in the hands of a trained practitioner. The study, the first large-scale systematic review on the safety of pediatric acupuncture, found Acupuncture is very safe for children. A Harvard Medical School found “Most families reported acupuncture pleasant and helpful, even for pain that had been very resistant to standard treatment.”
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SEE THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO OF MILITARY ACUPUNCTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmPJKO2Gxsg

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ACUPUNCTURE BOOSTS PREGNANCY SUCCESS RATES. Two studies, one in Acupuncture in Medicine and the other in the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, found a benefit when acupuncture was used on the day an embryo was transferred into a woman's uterus. The study from the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation also found that women with polycystic ovary syndrome and men who had infertility issues with no known cause also received benefit from acupuncture. Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of the New York University Fertility Center and director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, said that "acupuncture does help patients have better success."

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Acupuncture helps in labour and birthing a new research report shows. Experts from universities including Liverpool, Warwick and Manchester, said: During pregnancy, women should be told about the benefits and potential adverse effects on themselves and their babies of the different methods of pain control." "Overall, women should feel free to choose whatever pain management, including Acupuncture, they feel would help them most during labour.
Acupuncture was described as an intervention that "may work" in pain relief with fewer adverse effects than pain killers. Acupuncture decreased the use of forceps and ventouse in delivery, with acupuncture also decreasing the number of caesarean sections.

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Jefferson Animal Hospital BATON ROUGE uses pet Acupuncture to help pets with pain following an injury or surgery. Dr. Larry McCaskill is a certified veterinary acupuncturist and uses natural treatments to help pets enjoy pain relief when traditional methods, like anti-inflammatories, are ineffective.

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