Pediatric acupuncture brings relief from pain

[Celebration]

http://www.fox41.com/story/14083795/pediatric-acupuncture-brings-relief-from-pain

The 9-year-old has had two hospital visits in October and one in January. She suffers from debilitating migraines. She was a "preemie," and sees a pulmonary specialist. For years her doctors and family thought her constant pain was linked to severe asthma.

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When they did figure it out, her mother says Gabi went on a trial-and-error prescription cocktail: "She had been on ten different medicines prior to the migraines for her asthma, trying to get that under control and then you add more medicines then two or three more for her migraines."

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Doctor Mark McDonald offered a different answer. The new U of L physician just launched a pediatric acupuncture office in addition to his traditional practice, making him one of only two physicians in the Metro area performing the ancient Asian medicine on children. He explains, "Japanese acupuncture, we clear her Harare, that's the abdominal reflexes associated with everything in her life -- toxins, immunity adrenal, western culture we have stress so I can tell where she has pain and release it through acupuncture points."


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Her mother says she came back to life, playing like a normal kid again, her grades improving, and her asthma under control. "She's happier when she's pain free," Kristeen says. "She's easier to live with, let's just put it that way."

Gabi calls the acupuncture needles "relief sticks".

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Glad to see this being proved out but there will be those who will fight tooth and

nail to convince themselves and others that it is the placebo effect.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Acupuncture helped my 17-year-old dog walk again.

That's proof to me that it's not a placebo effect. :)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. If your dog reads medical journals it could still be the placebo effect, in fact I'd

bet on it.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. He's not at all interested in medical journals, prefers light fiction.

In fact, he's a mystery buff. He loves the "Lassie" series. :D

[drokhole]

7. Funny thing about the "placebo" effect...

...is that it's one of our body's greatest weapons against disease. There have been countless studies that have shown that optimism - or simply the thought of a "drug" working, or that one might pull through - releases some of the body's greatest natural chemicals in fighting disease. There's even a bit of the placebo effect in almost any and every drug people take. Obviously, "thinking good thoughts" isn't going to mend/heal a compound fracture. But, as one author put it, it's the "potent neurochemistry of hope."

[trotsky]

11. Of course that's not what is being said...

but you've never let a few pesky facts keep you from bashing those you disagree with.

[truedelphi]

2. The child could very well be victim of one of the side effects of

The "well Baby Clinic Vaccines." I am thinking of the Hep B vaccine in particular.

Administered to babies in a series of three shots, before they are even one year old, it is known to trigger such maladies as paralysis, arthritis and migraines. And those kids are the lucky ones. Some children, like Michael Belkins five week old daughter, die.

My physician wouldn't allow me to have the vaccine even when I was forty three years old. Said the risk to benefit factor was inconclusive as to benefit, but the risks were tremendous and were well known.

But what child under the age of a year can explain to its parents that it is suffering a migraine?

[Celebration]

3. well who knows?

Could be because of being premature and all those problems. I would hope they wouldn't vaccinate a preemie with hepatitis vaccine. Yeah, a kid that age with migraines is just awful. Thankfully they are figuring it out without the ten drug cocktail they were considering. I might try the acupuncture a bit more often myself.

[Jolimont]

13. I beg to differ

My 28 weeker preemie did get the hepatitis vaccine as well as all other vaccines as is the standard of care. The LAST thing a preemie needs is hepatitis or polio or whatever, especially when those issues are totally preventable with a simple vaccine. No problems with pain or anything else at age 12, as is the case with most preemies.

Be nice, this is my first post here ever :-)

[HuckleB]

14. Good post!

Welcome to DU.

[semillama]

15. Wow, you picked a hell of a forum for a first post!

Welcome to DU!

[drokhole]

5. More and more people are beginning to realize the benefits of "holistic" medicine...

...unfortunately, not as many people as there should be. There's still a highly concentrated effort by Big Pharma, insurance companies, and even the AMA to degrade and denigrate this type of "Eastern" medicine/healing. As a result, the generally public usually scoffs at the thought of these mind/body cures. Andrew Weil has done a fantastic job in an effort to make this more acceptable/mainstream in what he calls "Integrative Medicine":

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02054/Andrew-Weil-Integrative-Medicine.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. 59 of the most favorite diseases we suffer with have a component of accellerated

or exceptionally efficient oxidative stress associated with them. Only when the body's store of antioxidants is depleted do type II diabetics experience the maladies associated with this illness.

[truedelphi]

6. K & R. n/t

[BuddhaGirl]

12. k & r

:thumbsup: