RULES NOW ENFORCED BY AD. STANDARDS AGENCY
This is the statement we’re having to put out on the clinic website:
So I’m trawling my blog to remove any evidence that suggests that I may be able to treat your eczema, or migraines etc etc. Of course I hasten to add that in the past the significant number of lifetime migraine sufferers that attended my acupuncture clinic and experienced alleviation or cessation of their migraines….. IT WAS ALL COINCIDENCE !! I’m sorry if any connection was in any way made with the treament you had, and the relief you experienced, even those of you where symptoms were apparently significantly reduced while lying on the treatment couch; sorry my friends, all in your heads (no pun intended).
So bear with me while I digest this ridiculous new edict and find out what I’m allowed to vaguely allude to as a slight possibility that maybe acupuncture might have some bearing on treating. Possibly. Though of course unlikely.
SO HERE”S THE LIST !!
Conditions for which suitably qualified medical advice should be sought
Addictions Alcoholism (Dependence) Age related Macular Degeneration, AMD Anaemia Angina Anorexia Arthritis [c.f. Arthritic Pain (M)] Asthma Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD Autism
Blood Pressure, High Bronchitis Bulimia
Cancer Cataracts Crohn’s Disease Circulation, Poor [c.f. Circulatory Problems] Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease, COAD Compulsions (P)
Depression [c.f. Feeling Down or Feeling Blue] (P) Diabetes Diverticulitis Dizziness
Drowsiness Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse)
Ear Disorders, Serious Eating Disorders Emphysema Epilepsy
Erection Problems or Erectile Dysfunction [c.f. Temporary Erection Problems, Temporary Erectile
Dysfunction] Eye Disorders, Serious
Fibroids Fits Frigidity (P)
Gall Bladder Disorder Gall Stones Genito-Urinary Disorders Glaucoma
Gout
Impotence [c.f. Temporary Erection Problems, Temporary Erectile Dysfunction] Infectious diseases Infertility [c.f. Sexual Counselling]
Insomnia, Chronic Jaw Joint Dysfunction
Learning Difficulties Leukaemia
Kidney Disorders
Malignant Diseases Mania (P) Multiple Sclerosis, MS Malaria
Memory problems or Memory Lapses Menopausal Symptoms Menstruation, Regulation of Metabolic Diseases
Migraine [c.f. Migraine Headaches] Muscular Dystrophy Myopathy
Obesity [c.f. Diet, Trouble Sticking to] Obsessions (P) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD (P) Osteoporosis
Overdose
Pancreastitis Paralysis Parkinson’s Disease Prostate Problems Psoriasis [c.f. Skin Problems] Psychosis (P)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Respiratory Diseases
Schizophrenia ‘Senility’ Sexually Transmitted Diseases Skin Disorders, Serious Spinal Injuries Stroke
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Chronic back pain
We treat a lot of back pain in this clinic (Physic, Girton just on outskirts of Cambridge). I say ‘we’ because since I joined the practice 18 years ago, myself and Roger Giddings, the owner & senior osteopath, have developed protocols for using acupuncture & osteopathy alongside each other for complex musculo-skeletal stuff – a strategy enthusiastically embraced by some of the osteopaths here. Certainly justified by the results we get and by talking to the recipients of such treatment.
But so many times you get improvement up to a point, then just maintain it at that level.
I’m a back pain sufferer because of childhood (undiagnosed problem leaving thoracic spine weak & a bit misshapen), and subjecting my back to ridiculous overload when I was in my twenties and immortal. So I talk from experience. Acupuncture & Osteopathy have helped me hugely, I think I’d be in a bad way now without them.
But ever questing for perfection !!! how to take things further.
When I was at uni in London in the seventies, I studied (then taught) Yoga with an excellent teacher from the Swami Satyanand (Sivananda school) line. Then recently I took it up again, my teacher this time the unassumingly wise Alison at the ‘old red lion’ backpacker hostel and Yoga centre at Castle acre, in Norfolk.
It’s making a lot of difference. I won’t use superlatives here because the key is steady perseverance, but the rewards are there in flexibility, reduced pain, healthier muscles & joints, and I’m pretty sure this applies to many other people.
More on this in my next post.