clinic: August 2008 Archives

This video was made for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare services by Mazur Media. From the "Mind/Body Medicine Show", this segment gives an overview and demonstration of acupuncture.

Many people would like to try acupuncture and Chinese herbology, but they are held back because many insurances do not cover acupuncture treatments. Affordable acupuncture treatments are offered by schools of acupuncture in their teaching clinics.

An acupuncture school's teaching clinic offers affordable Acupuncture and Chinese Healing Arts to the community while providing advanced students with a clinical internship.

The interns are senior-level students who have passed a series of qualifying exams that allow them to diagnose and prescribe therapies for the patients who come to the clinic. Licensed Acupuncturists and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners supervise the interns.

I have had acupuncture treatment for back pain at the Teaching Clinic of New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Mineola, Long Island, NY. First there was an initial consultation with four students, myself, and a supervising acupuncurist. The four students gave me the acupuncture treatment. My back pain was much improved for months afterward, and after the treatment I felt great.

Are you new to acupuncture? Do you know what to expect with your first acupuncture treatment? NCCAM, part of NIH, introduces you to acupuncture in this article.

An introduction to Acupuncture by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

"Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. As part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture aims to restore and maintain health through the stimulation of specific points on the body. In the United States, where practitioners incorporate healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries, acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)."

See pdf file D404_BKG.pdf for complete article or visit the NCCAM website.

The New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Teaching Clinic in Mineola, Long Island, New York and Manhattan offers reasonably priced acupuncture treatments and Chinese Herbal consultations.