Have you ever wondered what you contribute to the community? The Twitter-community that is… Well I have, and before I just shared some cool links I stumbled-upon with my friends and followers. But I have decided that there are allready excellent programs for that.
Yup, that’s right. There now is an online acupuncture practice on the internet. No you will not get virtual needles and pay me lots of money for it, but I will answer your questions about acupuncture and health for you.
And all of this on twitter. Just tweet me at @acubas and I will answer a.s.a.p (when I am online). So, tweet, retweet and retweet the word: the first online acupuncture practice has opened!
Just a short update on my blog because of all the hysteria round the mexican or swine flu. A lot of people are wondering if this new flu can be prevented or cured with alternative medicine. Offcourse!!! some sites will say and they will sell you their expansive therapies. My spam-box was already full with all kinds of cures for the swine flu and only one cure for the mexican flu as it now is called in Europe.
Unfortunately little is known about this new flu. So what can we say about the effect of acupuncture on it? Very little indeed…
Just a short message to empower all you acupuncturists out there. A new study done by dr. S. Schroeder et all in Germany shows significant improvement on pheripheral neuropathy.
The result of the therapy was measured in nerve condition and in subjective symptoms. Not only did this study show that there is a positive effect form acupuncture on pheriperal neuropathy, but also that the subjective improvement was correlated with the improvement of the nerve condition.
In the Netherlands this is already an almost ancient commercial. I had to hear this a lot form my patients. The first text that appears translates as: ‘better call the insurance?’
Hope you like it as much as I did, especially the music in the end.
Wow, a new blog: a clean white sheet of virtual paper in front of me. So, what’s this blog all about? Let me first tell you something about myself. After being a physiotherapist for some years, I found out that there are a lot of patients who I couldn’t help in any way. At first I thought it was just my lack of knowledge as a starting therapist. But all the courses I took and studies I did didn’t give me insight in what the real problem was. So I decided there had to be more. And I found it in acupuncture. Read more »
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