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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Expansion With The Launch of Acupuncture

Despite the relative success of acupuncture is to reach those who are not very keen on the idea of ​​a lot of fine needles into their bodies a cure for their disease.
It is for this reason that many players use acupuncture acupuncture marketing is very important. Basically, marketing, acupuncture is not just trying to expand its coverage of activities, but also want to educate people so they can correct the misconception that it can be an alternative method of treatment.

That is, if the sites acupuncture can be very useful. Acupuncture sites primarily accommodate a variety of information, such as acupuncture centers in a particular state or certified professionals in acupuncture, you can call, for example.
Acupuncture Marketing you try to let people in your area will know the services you provide.

Similarly, you would like those of neighboring states to take into account if no one in your area that offer the same services as you do.

In principle, there is no standard method of marketing as far as acupuncture, which means that you must be a little 'more creative ways to get the message. And this support is not acupuncture, many carriers are struggling financially to keep their practice alive. With a growing need something in the field of alternative medicine that can produce predictable results through the use of acupuncture acupuncture sites of great marketing.

When using acupuncture sites actually have the means to measure the results of acupuncture in the search marketing to determine the number of hits the site receives a day, week or month. Take this as a basis for acupuncture marketing techniques you are now able to discover what is really working and which are not by the number of patients, a marketing strategy for acupuncture.

Acupuncture sites can provide potential customers a way to contact you directly. This will give you a sort of feedback system on the value of investing in your website to acupuncture. Please note that by subscribing to the sites you want to acupuncture primarily to educate people first to go to where they were happy that they have sold. If you think you can be an effective part of your acupuncture educator marketing strategy would be to hold seminars and conferences to reach more people.

Do not lose sight of its main objective is to achieve greater exposure. Remember that there may be just the acupuncture professional in your area and who have much knowledge in the field, the more benefit from its competitors in the same area. You should focus on reaching as many people as possible in the shortest time possible with as little effort as possible.Establishing yourself as an authority in the field now offers more opportunities to expand in the future.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Spine Acupuncture for chest pain

The pain of the thoracic spine is sometimes difficult to help than the rest of backache. Some patients with type B, localized pain in the thoracic vertebrae, spines, and in these cases, the periosteal needling of these works well. Needling remote and the back, arm, or ulnar border of the Palm (SI 3) can also help the thoracic spinal pain. Chest pain usually does well, the local needling over the painful area itself is effective.


Most acupuncture treating musculoskeletal disorders. Acupuncture can also be used to treat a variety of ailments that are not - or not openly - related to the musculoskeletal system.

This is critical both for forensic purposes and future reference. In practice, tend to use a mixture of traditional and modern terminology to describe my treatment. If a traditional acupuncture points on the site I used, I note that if you use a description based on Western anatomical terminology. I also save the side (L or R) and other relevant information such as length of the needle (rare) and the effects, if any.
Note that in many cases it is not possible to assign a formal diagnosis for a patient has symptoms or other label used (eg "OA") is quite regrettable. This is not to arrive at a pathological diagnosis is not relevant, but rather that acupuncture can be used in cases where no formal diagnosis has been found despite extensive studies.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Antidepressants

I’m not surprised when a patient tells me she doesn’t want to take antidepressants.They make some people gain weight, and some lose their interest in sex or find it more difficult to have an orgasm. Others just don’t want to take a drug that mucks with their brains. So my interest was piqued by a recent article in The Wall Street Journal that discussed a “backlash against antidepressants sparked by concerns about their safety, efficacy, and side effects [that] is helping drive patients to alternative methods.”

Given what I do for a living (check the byline), my own bias is in the direction of therapies that have been rigorously tested for safety and effectiveness. However, for patients who can’t, won’t, or simply prefer not to go with conventional medicine, a prudent trial of an alternative therapy, like acupuncture or valerian, might be worth considering. But are these alternative approaches truly effective? That’s a tough question, and it depends on what you mean by “effective.”

For a drug to be effective it should work better than a placebo, but in most drug studies the placebo itself often has a measurable success rate—often around 20 percent. Thus, even if an alternative therapy is no more effective than a placebo, you’re still left with a one in five chance of feeling better at the end of the day. For some people, even this 20 percent chance of feeling better is worth it.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Diabetes

As an endocrinologist, I see an ever-growing number of patients with diabetes and heart disease. Many of my patients with prediabetes or diabetes do not realize the negative effect that disease has on their hearts. There is now good evidence that heart disease actually begins just as glucose levels start to rise. Thus early treatment of even prediabetes makes a lot of sense.
The risk factors for heart disease can be rattled off by almost anyone who watches Grey’s Anatomy: high cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure, family history, and of course diabetes. However, the famous Framingham Heart Study suggests diabetes is playing an even greater role in the development of heart disease. Researchers from the Framingham study collected data on more than 9,500 individuals ages 45 to 64 during two different periods of time and compared risk factors for heart disease and cardiovascular events, including heart attacks. The initial study found that between 1952 and 1974, heart disease was complicated by type 2 diabetes in 5.2 percent of patients. However, that number jumped to 7.8 percent for individuals in the later group (between 1975 and 1998).
This study raises some important red flags. First, it points to the growing epidemic of diabetes in our country. As Americans become heavier, and more sedentary, the number of people with diabetes (with and without heart disease) continues to grow. About 65 percent of patients with diabetes will die from cardiovascular disease.
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