Comments on: Paying for Medical Acupuncture and NOT for Real Acupuncture (Licensed Acupuncturists L.Ac.) is Unconstitutional! http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/2008/11/14/paying-for-medical-acupuncture-and-not-for-real-acupuncture-licensed-acupuncturists-lac-is-unconstitutional/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Karen Vaughan, L.Ac., Registered Herbalist AHG http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/2008/11/14/paying-for-medical-acupuncture-and-not-for-real-acupuncture-licensed-acupuncturists-lac-is-unconstitutional/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Karen Vaughan, L.Ac., Registered Herbalist AHG Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:04:07 +0000 http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/?p=50#comment-57 Well I would suggest that there are a very few doctors and chiropractors who have decided to take the full 3000 hour acupuncture training. I attended school with an MD, head of a significant center for AIDS patients, who felt that with Chinese medicine she was finally having the time to practice real medicine. While it may not be cost effective for most to do the real study, a few find the study so compelling that they do it anyway. And neither the doctors nor chiropractors found much of the Chinese medicine study to duplicate what they had already done excepting the basic anatomy and ortho-neuro courses. So ask if your Certified Acupuncturist has done the full 3-4 years of acupuncture school, just in case. Ask what continuing education they have. Ask if their courses are video courses. And ask what kind of certification they have from NCCAOM. Well I would suggest that there are a very few doctors and chiropractors who have decided to take the full 3000 hour acupuncture training. I attended school with an MD, head of a significant center for AIDS patients, who felt that with Chinese medicine she was finally having the time to practice real medicine. While it may not be cost effective for most to do the real study, a few find the study so compelling that they do it anyway. And neither the doctors nor chiropractors found much of the Chinese medicine study to duplicate what they had already done excepting the basic anatomy and ortho-neuro courses.

So ask if your Certified Acupuncturist has done the full 3-4 years of acupuncture school, just in case. Ask what continuing education they have. Ask if their courses are video courses. And ask what kind of certification they have from NCCAOM.

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