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In This Issue
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How Can Acupuncture Help You?
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Acupuncture May Decrease Chronic
Headaches
Sept. 3, 2008--Results recently published in
Cephalalgia, described a study
conducted on over 15,000 patients with
chronic headaches. The researchers found a
significant decrease in the number of days
with headaches between the acupuncture and
control groups over the 6 month study
Acupuncture Reduces Pain, Urinary
Retention, and Need for Opioids after
Surgery
A Meta-analysis done by researchers at Duke
have found that using Acupuncture before and
during surgery greatly reduces side effects
of opioids taken post-surgery, as well as
common recovery markers.
Patients who received acupuncture had
significantly lower risk of developing most
common side effects associated with opioid
drugs compared with control: 1.5 times lower
rates of nausea, 1.3 times fewer incidences
of severe itching, 1.6 times fewer reports of
dizziness, and 3.5 times fewer cases of
urinary retention.
Acupuncture Alleviates Hot
Flashes--Performs Better Than Medication
A recent study presented by Eleanor Walker of
Henry Ford Hospital explains how acupuncture
works as well as the drug Effexor. Effexor is
commonly used to combat hot flashes and other
menopausal symptoms. Acupuncture treatments
can accompany breast cancer treatment, and
its benefits last longer, without the bad
side effects. (Source: Reuters, Sept. 22,
2008).
Acupuncture Reduces Pain and Dysfunction
in Head and Neck Patients after Neck
Dissection
A recent study presented at the annual
meeting of the American Society for Clinical
Oncology, showed that pain and mobility
improved 39 percent in patients receiving
acupuncture, compared to a 7 percent
improvement in the group that received usual
care. (Source: Science Daily News)
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Dear Alan,
It is so hard to believe the holiday season
is upon us! As we bring 2008 to a close and
welcome in a new year, be sure to keep you
and your family healthy this season with a
maintenance adjustment and proper nutrition.
We are happy to assist you in your health
needs, so we are hosting a sale on
GreensFIRST and RedALERT this month. Be sure
to print out the coupon at the bottom of this
newsletter, and ensure your family is
receiving the nutrition they need to stay
well this holiday season.
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"O"Zone
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This Months message is simple, short and
vital. Most of you are reading this note
because you are willing to grow. The reasons
for growth are many and varied; they are also
vital to the type of growth we materialize in
life. But no matter our manner of growth,
there is one ingredient that must exist for
growth to happen.
I believe that ingredient to be Gratitude.
Gratitude is the catalyst of all other
virtues. Virtues are the by product of
living in the moment, and leaning toward our
highest potential. Gratitude is like oxygen.
It doesn't change the appearance of anything,
doesn't make things look different, but it
does make everything be able to assume the
gentle nature of virtue.
The well reported story goes like this: "In
order to build interest in his traveling
show, the great escape artist Houdini would
frequently arrive in a town early and
challenge the local jailer to try to keep him
locked in a cell. If he couldn't escape
within an hour, he would offer the jailer a
$1,000 reward.
In one town, he made the challenge and was
dutifully ushered into a jail cell. As soon
as the door clanged shut behind him, he began
trying to find a way out. As the minutes
slipped by, he soon found that this escape
was going to be tougher than he had expected.
He tried every trick, but he couldn't find a
way out. At the end of the time, the jailers
found him sitting in the middle of the cell
sobbing in frustration. He had failed.
The biggest surprise came when the jailer
discovered that he had forgotten to lock the
door. Houdini could have walked out any time
he wanted by just pushing the door open,
instead of pull it. The irony was that his
escape route was one that he had never
considered-an unlocked door!"
When we can find gratitude, we are realizing
that our self-created prison door was never
locked, only closed, and looked impossible to
escape from.
This time of the year, no matter what your
philosophy, politics, religion, race, age,
social status, health status, financial
status, or mental status, let me challenge
you to look at your life, and find the open
door in some thing you struggle with. The
key to this exercise is that the open door is
always there. Always! When you find the
gratitude, your captivity is coming to an
end.
Happy Holidays! -Dr. Olson and Staff
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Annie's News
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Annie Bathgate, our resident Reflexologist
and EFT Practitioner, will be going on
maternity leave as of December 6th to rest up
for and celebrate the arrival of her new
family member. She looks forward to working
with you again in the spring and plans to
return to our office in March 2009. We wish
her and her family the best!
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Holiday Schedule
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Our holiday office hours are as follows:
Wednesday, Dec. 24th--Regular hours (8am-6pm)
Thursday, Dec. 25th--Closed
Friday, Dec. 26th--Closed
Saturday, Dec. 27th--Regular hours (9am-1pm)
Wednesday, Dec. 31st--8:00am-2:00pm
Thursday, Jan. 1st--Closed
Friday, Jan. 2nd--Regular hours (7am-5pm)
Please have a safe, healthy, and happy
holiday season!
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NewsWorthy
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Some Breast Cancers May Naturally
Regress
-Researchers who tracked breast cancer rates
in Norwegian women proposed the controversial
notion that some tumors found with mammograms
might otherwise naturally disappear on their
own if left undetected.
-The study, conducted by Dr. Zahl of the
Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo
and Norwegian and U.S. colleagues, examined
invasive breast cancer rates of 120,000 women
who had mammograms every two years, and
110,000 women who had just one mammogram
after 6 years.
-Researchers said they expected to find no
differences in breast cancer rates, but
instead found 22 percent more invasive breast
tumors in the group who had mammograms every
2 years. This raises the possibility that
some cancers somehow disappear naturally,
although there is no biological reason to
explain how this might be.
-The researchers acknowledged many doctors
might be skeptical of the idea, but they
cited 32 reported cases of a breast cancer
regressing, a small number for such a common
disease.
-The reseachers said their findings provide
new insight on what is "arguably the major
harm associated with mammographic screening,
namely, the detection and treatment of
cancers that would otherwise regress."
Source: Reuters Nov. 25, 2008
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