Resources for a More Balanced Life
Stop the Hurt: 3 Ways You Can Relieve Pain
If you're finding it difficult to relieve pain, you might want to try a few of these approaches. Diet Diet and exercise have been shown to help a lot of things, and believe it or not, watching what you eat can actually also help you reduce headache and migraine pain....
3 Ways to Maintain Healthy Relationships
Maintaining healthy relationships isn't difficult, but it does take work. If you're finding it hard to be with those whom you once held close, take a second, and consider taking some new approaches. Here are a few things that may help. Figuring Out What the Real...
3 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Art of Acupuncture
Chances are you know that acupuncture clinics use a 3,000-year-old art originating in China to help patients relieve chronic pain, and expedite the healing process, but what you don't know will astound you. Here are just a few amazing facts about acupuncture that will...
Help for Pregnant Women Suffering from Anxiety and Depression
Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of anxiety and depression during pregnancy, according to new research. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts) and the Advanced Integrative Rehabilitation and Pain Center (Washington, DC) conclude...
Can Acupuncture and Counseling Help People With Depression?
For people with depression, acupuncture could be the missing piece in a complete management plan. According to a recent study, adding acupuncture or counseling to usual care for depression could help to decrease symptoms of the condition in the short- to medium-term....
Study: Refined Carbs Are Like Drugs
A recent study by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that the brain’s reaction to refined carbohydrates such as corn syrup is similar to the craving that drug addicts experience have for drugs. The quick spike and subsequent crash in blood sugar that...
Is Acupuncture Better than Prozac for Fibromyalgia?
A recent study compared the effectiveness of acupuncture with fluoxetine (generic Prozac) in the treatment of fibromyalgia. After four weeks, the acupuncture group was markedly better than the control group in the number of tender points. At the end of one year of the...
Acupuncture Boosts Outcomes for Infertility and IVF
Recent research has shown that acupuncture improves the success of IVF, in vitro fertilization. With IVF, a treatment for infertility, a woman’s egg is fertilized with sperm outside the body in a petri dish and then inserted back into her uterus. Usually acupuncture...
Ear Acupuncture Reduces Breast Cancer Tamoxifen Hot Flashes
Ear acupuncture helps control hot flashes and night sweats for women receiving breast cancer treatment. Researchers studied the effectiveness of ear acupuncture on women 35 years or older receiving tamoxifen therapy. The results were clinically significant. The mean...
Acupuncture Works for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Patients with Breast Cancer
I read an article today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology about a study testing acupuncture's effectiveness in treating fatigue for patients with breast cancer. The randomized controlled trial compared acupuncture with "enhanced usual care." Results showed that...
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8705 Shoal Creek Blvd. #113
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