Acupuncture is definitely becoming mainstream. A quick bit of research for my new client, Urban Remedy Community Acupuncture in Venice, CA, revealed that acupuncture in now a standard part of the regime for detox and rehab in both public and private hospitals and clinics. Prior to meeting the proprietor and acupuncturist at Urban Remedy, Eric Baumgartner, I knew that some of my friends had used acupuncture for severe headaches and migraines, and I knew that acupuncture was being used for things like joint pain and stress, but I have gained a great deal of additional knowledge in a short few weeks on the extent of what folks visit acupuncturists to cure.
Hand-in-hand with the detox and rehab, similar methods are used for other habitual or addictive issues such as smoking or overeating. My own sense of things is that 75% of illness of any kind is related to stress, and Eric put the number even higher. Some of the less enthusiastic articles on acupuncture suggest that the needles don't do anything, but folks get better from the placebo effect and the nap that commonly goes with acupuncture. If that's true, then we just need to convince folks to take more naps. Somehow it is easier to get the overstressed adult in Venice to go to an acupuncturist for that relaxing procedure than to just put their head down on their desk for a half hour.
The Urban Remedy Community Acupuncture Center is a very unique medical practice. Check out a press release that I sent out on the center here, or visit their website here, or their blog here.
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