#Acupuncture and #Parkinson's - Steve's story
https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/information-and-support/your-magazine/stories/acupuncture-and-parkinsons-steves-story
"People do not forget how you treat them during birth," Cheyney said. "I've had people tell me about their birthing experience 40 years ago, and they still remember the nurse who snapped at them or a physician who made them feel disrespected. They also remember the person who said nothing but stroked their hand at the hardest part of labor, offering comfort."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-cesarean-vaginal-childbirth-greatly-affected.html
#birth #labour #experience
This visual shows how internal rotation (knees together feet apart) during pushing opens the outlet or bottom of pelvis during birth. This makes the widest opening to help move baby out. It also takes tension off the vulva to help reduce risk of tearing Plus hands and knees allows for movement of the pelvis so you can listen to what your body needs and tilt/rock/move accordingly.
#Labour #birthing #commonsense #thenaturalway
A traditional treatment for black eye using an egg and herbs.
#TCM #acupuncture #blackeye #herbs #martialartists
Lisa Rohleder is a licensed acupuncturist who founded in 2002 the clinic that would become the model for Working Class Acupuncture (1), piloting what’s now called the community acupuncture model (2). She currently maintains a blog on Substack (3). In The Hague, The Netherlands, The Open Acupunctuur Kliniek (4) is inspired by her example.
(1) https://www.workingclassacupuncture.org/
(2) https://pocacoop.com/what-is-community-acupuncture/
(3) https://workingclassacu.substack.com/
(4) https://oakliniek.nl/
Moxa is an important part of Acupuncture practice. Acupuncturists will often ask their patients to apply moxa at home between treatments. Rice grain moxa is just one of the many different types of moxa techniques. It is relatively easy to learn and can be applied in the home. This video was made to support acupuncturists in teaching their patients this simple technique. The location of 2 main points often used with rice grain are also included - Stomach 36 (ST36) and Spleen 6 (SP6).
#moxa #moxibustion #acupuncture #selfcare
University Hospitals pilot program offering #acupuncture for #fertility
It's estimated between 10%-15% of couples experience fertility issues. The reasons can cause stress and certainly impact well-being.
A year ago, University Hospitals Fertility Center surveyed patients about what they felt were their unmet psychosocial needs. The survey found that 80% of survey participants wanted to use acupuncture in their journey and 70% desired health, nutrition, stress, exercise, and supplement guidance.
"There's actually a lot of research around specifically acupuncture and IVF treatment. It's been studied for, I want to say, over 15 years now. And we continue to see success with adding acupuncture to IVF protocols. I take it a step further and also add the lifestyle medicine piece to the fertility journey, because I think it's important to focus on nutrition, stress management, sleep, exercise because we see a correlation to helping fertility as well in the research. So our our Vitamix group is really focused on learning all of those tools and then having the support of a health coach to implement those healthy habit changes that are often hard to do on your own. And incorporating that with other modalities like acupuncture, massage, chiropractic that we offer here as well," said Christine Kaiser, DACM, LAc, LCH, FABORM who is the Connor Endowed Director of Reproductive Well-being and Clinical Manager of Acupuncture at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health.
Three excellent interviews with Ted Kaptchuk, Peter Deadman and Will Morris just became available online at the website of the Chinese Medicine and Culture. These interviews were conducted by Charlie Buck and Ioannis Solos.
https://journals.lww.com/cmc/pages/default.aspx
#tcm #acupuncture #interview #culture #china
To really understand #China, you have to get to know its people. Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China's first tier cities - Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen - meeting the cities' most fascinating people, including a racy nude photographer, a mosquito breeding scientist and a DIY maker challenging gender and tech stereotypes.
