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Acupuncture
Acpuncture
services are offered at our Raleigh Clinic location.
Acupuncture is a component of the health care
system of China that can be traced back for at least 2,500
years. Since President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972,
there has been an explosion of interest in the application
of the technique of acupuncture in many western countries
including the United States. Acupuncture has been used by
millions of American patients and performed by thousands of
physicians, dentists, acupuncturists, and other practitioners
for relief or prevention of pain and for a variety of health
conditions. After reviewing the existing body of knowledge,
the U.S. food and Drug Administration recently removed acupuncture
needles from the category of "experimental medical devices" and
now regulates them just as it does other devices, such as
surgical scalpels and hypodermic syringes.
In November of 1997, the National Institutes
of Health sponsored a conference to examine and evaluate the
many international studies, trials and research projects conducted
on acupuncture. The conference brought together national and
international experts in the fields of acupuncture, pain,
psychology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation,
drug abuse, family practice, internal medicine, health policy,
epidemiology, statistics, physiology and biophysics, as well
as representatives from the public.
At the end of the three-day conference, on November
5, an independent consensus panel weighed the scientific evidence
and released a consensus statement which found among other
things, clear benefits for various post-operative pain and
nausea, relief of pain in diverse conditions such as tennis
elbow and fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and low back pain.
The statement recommended several steps to assure
access to qualified acupuncture professional for appropriate
condition: good communication between physician and acupuncturist,
and the extension of coverage between both private insurers
and governmental health plans, including Medicare and Medicaid.
Since becoming licensed in Acupuncture in 2000,
Dr. Osborne uses various techniques of acupuncture to treat
those patients with joint or back pain as an alternative to
chiropractic manipulation or other pain therapies. Like any
treatment, not every patient will respond to acupuncture,
but most find significant relief, often when other therapies
have failed.
Osborne
Chiropractic Clinic
Raleigh
Chiropractic Clinic Location
5603 Suite 101, Duraleigh Road • Raleigh, North Carolina 27612
Rolesville Chiropractic Clinic Location
258 Southtown Circle • Rolesville, North Carolina 27571
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