http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/2009/01/06/can-medical-acupuncturists-contribute/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:47:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/2009/01/06/can-medical-acupuncturists-contribute/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Margaret Landry Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:08:58 +0000 http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/?p=142#comment-98 I call what they do 'party tricks acupuncture' -- they can make something happen using specific points, but they do nothing for the patient's whole condition. I call what they do ‘party tricks acupuncture’ — they can make something happen using specific points, but they do nothing for the patient’s whole condition.

]]> http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/2009/01/06/can-medical-acupuncturists-contribute/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Karen Lynette Bauer Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:40:12 +0000 http://www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/?p=142#comment-38 I totally disagree with you that they are making a contribution. I am taking a Research Principles course at the moment, and what stuck out the most from reading numerous journal articles was that most of the time, the people doing the needling had at most 300 hours of training in acupuncture. I have 1600 hours and have another 3 semester before I complete my course of study. You cannot reasonably argue that these people would perform the same sort of treatment that I would, given how much more I understand about acupuncture energetics and the meridian and zangfu connections that these "medical acupuncturists" simply cannot learn in that amount of time. They do not practice standard acupuncture, they practice an enormously watered-down version of acupuncture that hardly resembles real practice in our field. Not only that, but they have no knowledge whatsoever of the even deeper treatments available through classical medicine. I'm sorry, but I simply have to disagree with your assessment of their value to the field of research in acupuncture. REAL acupuncturists should be the ones designing the studies. We know how real acupuncture is done, and they simply don't. I totally disagree with you that they are making a contribution. I am taking a Research Principles course at the moment, and what stuck out the most from reading numerous journal articles was that most of the time, the people doing the needling had at most 300 hours of training in acupuncture. I have 1600 hours and have another 3 semester before I complete my course of study. You cannot reasonably argue that these people would perform the same sort of treatment that I would, given how much more I understand about acupuncture energetics and the meridian and zangfu connections that these “medical acupuncturists” simply cannot learn in that amount of time. They do not practice standard acupuncture, they practice an enormously watered-down version of acupuncture that hardly resembles real practice in our field. Not only that, but they have no knowledge whatsoever of the even deeper treatments available through classical medicine. I’m sorry, but I simply have to disagree with your assessment of their value to the field of research in acupuncture. REAL acupuncturists should be the ones designing the studies. We know how real acupuncture is done, and they simply don’t.

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