Sloan-Kettering Hospital Study States Acupuncture Works

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  A study conducted by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital states that acupuncture works for many pathologies, particularly pain management.  I have been trained and certified by Sloan-Kettering to treat cancer patients who are considered special needs.  Read this article and if you haven't already tried acupucnture, call or email my office today to schedule a session.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/sloan-kettering-study-acupuncture-works-chronic-pain-article-1.1156095?localLinksEnabled=false

WSJ Reports on Acupuncture

From the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Despite acupuncture's 4,000-year history, little is known about the biological pathways that enable carefully placed needles to relieve pain in many patients.


The compound adenosine is key to acupuncture's effectiveness, according to a study in Nature Neuroscience. Despite acupuncture's 4,000-year history, little is known about the biological pathways that enable carefully placed needles to relieve pain in many patients. Researchers mimicked acupuncture in mice by placing and gradually rotating a needle at a point just below the knee, for 30 minutes. Levels of adenosine, a neurotransmitter, rose 24-fold in the tissue fluid surrounding the needle. Mice injected with an inflammatory substance in their paws and given acupuncture displayed fewer pain symptoms than mice that didn't get acupuncture. But mice genetically engineered to lack a certain adenosine receptor didn't benefit from the acupuncture session at all—further evidence of adenosine's role. Blocking enzymes that break down adenosine made the acupuncture much more effective, tripling the level of adenosine near the needle and extending pain relief from about one hour to about three hours.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Acupuncture Works!!!!  Call or email me to make an appointment today or you must really like to be in pain!
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Progress of the knee

To all those who asked....I've been able to do the subway steps today...gently and slowly, but getting there.  The knee is becoming more and more flexible; stronger and stronger everyday.  Today, while during my physcial therapy exercises, I added shadowboxing into the mix...very carefully push kicking with my right leg and practicing knees with the left - imagining I was once again, back in the ring or training for another fight.

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