After a deployment, the effects of war
leave its
marks on veterans in more ways than one. One of the most prevalent is
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) which causes havoc on the nervous
system leading to numerous health issues from depression to severe
anxiety.
As thousands of people continue to pick
up the pieces following Superstorm Sandy in the east coast,
Acupuncturists without Borders have begun to offer free relief to
survivors.
By Mercy Yule, LEAMP (Licensed East Asian Medicine Practitioner)
Qi Blog
January, 2012
When I see the devastation of an earthquake or fire,
I recall my own pain and paralysis after 9/11. I felt scared,
overwhelmed and helpless, even though I was miles away. I remember not
being able to attend to simple things like paying my bills or
concentrate on a book.
... Acupuncturists Without Borders came
to promote the benefits of sticking needles in ears to reduce trauma;
and an elephant, guided by circus employees, ...
This past February, Acupuncturists
Without Borders led a group of 11 acupuncturists from around the world
to Oaxaca, Mexico on a World Healing Exchange (WHE) trip.
In response to the growing need for
support above and
beyond what the current system is equipped to provide, Omega Institute
for Holistic Studies has convened national experts, healing
practitioners, and veteran’s advocates, including Montel Williams, to
collaborate on best practices in healing modalities in an effort to
help more Veterans get treatment, more quickly.
Last October I joined 15 other licensed
acupuncturists from all over the country and traveled to Nepal with the
organization Acupuncturists Without Borders...
By Kristen Porter, MAc, LAc and Beth
Sommers, PhD, MPH, LAc
Acupuncture Today
July, 2010
The accomplishments of Acupuncturists
Without Borders (AWB) inspire and challenge our community to
rise to the highest levels of service in promoting access to
acupuncture care.
American physician Dr. David P. Sniezek,
a pioneer in
integrative rehabilitation medicine in the Washington, D.C. area, spent
nine days in May volunteering in Haiti.
East Mountains resident Diana Fried is
helping to
send acupuncturists into underserved communities affected by disaster,
war and poverty. In September 2005, Fried founded Acupuncturists
Without Borders in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Participatory journalism has given me
the opportunity to do really interesting things. I’ve walked
on glowing hot coals, only to discover it felt pretty much like I had
hoped it wouldn’t. I’ve straddled a humongous rodeo
bucking bull, but showed some sense in that instance by getting off it
before the chute gate opened.
Charlie Minnick, 74, was struck in the
head with a lead pipe during a robbery in 1986. “I really
believe in
the power of acupuncture,” the Korean War veteran and former
smoker
says, adding that the sessions ease his pain...
On Veterans Day, serious acute traumatic
stress might
combat veterans. Flashbacks, panic, insomnia, suicidal ideation and
other symptoms continue their daily assault on veterans...
Because of the design of Iowa's
licensing
regulations, however, the group's out-of-state licensed acupuncturists
have been unable to treat Iowa flood victims. The same is true for
out-of-state dentists and doctors who had hoped to offer a free clinic
at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids this weekend.
Many of our nation's veterans suffer
from debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder and addictions. U.S.
Navy veteran and SouthPark acupuncturist Denise Slavich wants to help
them…
When devastating fires recently raced
through large sections of Southern California, a team of acupuncturists
were among the responders who provided needed aid…
…To do her part, Gargarian -
an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has training
in acupuncture - recently joined an offshoot of Acupuncturists Without
Borders…
BEREA — Community Acupuncture
Berea (CAB) will host a day of free ear acupuncture treatments, Tibetan
pulse readings and qi gong demonstrations Monday in celebration of
World Health Day…
The sounds outside the Acupuncture
& Qigong Health Center are enough to grate on
anybody’s nerves … [but] serenity is most apparent
in Colchester’s Bill Maynard, who has just received five
needles in each ear…
Article written by AWB Volunteer
Jennifer Leonard. “I was fortunate to be able to join
Acupuncturists Without Borders in its relief efforts for the victims of
the San Diego Fires that burned for weeks in
October…”
…immediately following the
$30,000 WEF in
Wellington, FL, the non-profit organization…(AWB) will hold
an
event at the International Club...The event will provide attendees with
information about AWB's work with returning veterans.
Kristin Althea is using the exercise
routine to
promote her support and collect donations for a group, Acupuncturists
Without Borders, which provides alternative medical treatment to
victims of disasters and those returning from war…
Our collective response to humanitarian
crises, as
global citizens in the 21st century, represents perhaps our greatest
opportunity to heal many of the roots of violence…
More than fifty people ventured into a
Scottsville
art gallery for a photo exhibit of a first-person view of war in Iraq,
and some acupuncture on the side…
... an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts
General Hospital who has training in acupuncture - recently joined an
offshoot of Acupuncturists
Without Borders. ...
With
grateful acknowledgment to Acupuncturists Without Borders for the
groundbreaking work they are undertaking in the area of healing this
epidemic of PTSD in Veterans. Further acknowledgment is due to Lisa,
Skip, and Lupine at Working ...
In the process we raised $277.50 for Acupuncturists Without Borders.
At one point in the morning, we had 3 acupuncturists tending to about
15 people. Every chair in the treatment room was taken, the couch and
most of the chairs in the ...
All donations for services will support
the work of Acupuncturists
Without Borders, a nonprofit organization which provides
free acupuncture to communities ...
Acupuncturists Without Borders
has set up in Ramona at a senior center. The group says the alternative
treatment can help emergency responders be more ...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- An Albuquerque-based
acupuncture group is providing free treatment in fire-ravaged southern
California. Acupuncturists Without Borders ...
... therapists and acupuncturists who
volunteered their services in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,
coordinated by Acupuncturists
Without Borders. ...
About a
month ago, I attended a three day team leadership training of the
organization Acupuncturists
Without Borders, a relatively
new group out of Sandia ...
Kwan
Yin,the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy
often appears with one thousand arms,
hands, and in the palm of each hand an eye. One thousand eyes scan the
universe, ready to respond wherever suffering is found. When I reflect
upon the work of Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) in New Orleans
over the past twelve months, I wonder if maybe She also appears with a
needle in each hand, poised to treat a roomful of trauma victims, still
struggling to find the ground under their upended lives in the
deepening aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In this
photo released by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), a Hurricane Katrina survivor receives
auricular acupuncture by a practitioner from Acupuncturists Without
Borders Friday, May 11, 2007 in New Orleans.
Two
acupuncturists experienced in treating trauma are offering the simple
therapy to Vermont veterans, their families and the families of
soldiers currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
No doubt
you've heard of Doctors Without Borders, which sends volunteer
physicians to wartorn, disaster-ravaged and poverty-stricken parts of
the world.
Drop in any
time for a group acupuncture treatment, the style being offered in New
Orleans. Suggested donation is $10-20; proceeds will benefit
Acupuncturists Without Borders programs.
Known for
their calm nature and healing hands, acupuncturists from across the
country brought peace to an area still in chaos and repair one year
later.
Hurricane
Katrina Anniversary Fundraisers are being held all across our country
to continue to provide much needed support to the many people still
homeless, jobless and traumatized...
Licensed
acupuncturist Kim Paquette with Lotus Sun Therapeutics, has organized
an event to help raise money for Acupuncturists Without Borders, which
provides community acupuncture free to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
After
hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the outpouring of support focused mostly
on the physical and material needs of those affected by the storms.
Local acupuncturist Brodie Welch says that emotional and mental needs
have to be addressed as well.
Diana
Fried, Executive Director of Acupuncturists Without Borders
(³AWB²) announced today that the Louisiana State
Board of Medical Examiners (³LSBME²) enacted an
emergency regulation on May 16, 2006 to allow out-of-state licensed
acupuncturists...
After
working many jobs, including banking, being a ski bum and herding sheep
on an Native American Reservation, Jordan Van Voast, of Seattle,
brought acupuncture to the small town of Ellensburg...
Twelve
years ago, Karen Nielsen stumbled onto her life's calling when she
accidentally walked into a room full of people getting acupuncture
treatments while visiting a friend at Fairview Riverside Hospital...
The
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners has made a decision barring
the organization Acupuncturists Without Borders from bringing free
community acupuncture to the people of New Orleans ...
The idea
that pins and needles could help people may be a revelation for many,
but Acupuncturists Without Borders has used the ancient healing art to
soothe the stress ...
Acupunturists
providing free care to Katrina survivors get pricked by some Louisiana
bureaucrats
In Health
and Medical Monthly
By Leslie
Turk
March,
2006
The
thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors and relief workers who got
free acupuncture from licensed out-of-state practitioners are
exceptionally grateful for the kindness of strangers ...
A group
that calls itself "Acupuncturists Without Borders" has been told it
can't use its needles. So, among other things, it puts seeds into
pressure points in the outer ear to treat various ailments ...
Among
thousands of volunteers who have come to the Gulf Coast following
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, perhaps none are as urgently needed as
health professionals ...
The idea
that pins and needles could help people may be a revelation for many,
but Acupuncturists Without Borders has used the ancient healing art to
soothe the stress ...
Acupuncturists
Without Borders has organized several teams of volunteers. Volunteers
have come from Minnesota, Massachusetts, Iowa, Texas, New Mexico and
Canada ...
The idea
that pins and needles could help people may be a revelation for many,
but Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) has used the ancient healing
art to soothe the stress, aches, pains, tired minds and muscles of
residents, relief workers and National Guardsmen struggling under the
weight of surviving and rebuilding a still devastated New Orleans in
the wake of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. ...
Acupuncturists
Without Borders, a network of volunteer acupuncturists, is using the
ancient healing art to ease the stress, strain and pain felt by
residents, relief workers and others struggling to help rebuild New
Orlean ...
In the wake
of one of the most devastating natural disasters since the December
2004 tsunami, thousands of generous individuals nationwide have offered
time, money and supplies to the victims of Hurricane Katrina...
Acupuncturist
Karen Adams said New Orleans, La., is a world of contradictions and
extremes. She just spent 10 days down there in late November with the
organization Acupuncturists Without Borders helping the victims of
Hurricane Katrina. ...
