We are a Rhode Island based Acupuncture Association allied together in healing those who serve our great nation.
Veterans are challenged with a variety of post-deployment health concerns and are in need of recovery support and aid for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phantom limb pain / residual limb pain, post operative pain, chronic musculoskeletal pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and adjustment disorder.
A recent US army study has shown that 1 in 4 soldiers turn to alternative medicine such as acupuncture to cope with their disorder. It is estimated by pentagon officials that close to a third of the soldiers returning from current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A variety of scientific studies, like the one directed by Dr. Michael Hollifield at the University of New Mexico's Department of Psychiatry, support the use of acupuncture as a natural therapy for treating post-traumatic disorder symptoms such as anxiety, depression, insomnia and psychosomatic pain disorders.
One of many distinguishing advantages acupuncture offers as an effective therapy is that it is a non-exposure treatment that does not require the patient to neither recall or relive traumatic events nor even discuss them.
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