Interesting Video of Patients/ Frequency of Treatment

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Caitlin, you are welcome. If you are interested in this, there is a page with a

lot of other

resources about community acupuncture:

 

http://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/links.html

 

articles, books, another video.

 

One article on that page is by Subhuti Dharmananda Ph.D " Restructuring American

Acupuncture " (though it sounds like it might be true for British acu too?). He

talks about

the treatment frequency and duration.

 

It was said earlier in this discussion " in the west people like their space,

time, and privacy. "

There is another video on Google of the founder of Working Class Acupuncture

making a

presentation at the school I attended, OCOM. Her point is that there are a lot

of working

class people who are in pain who don't care about individual treatments, they

just want

results. I have visited the WCA clinic and I think I agree. They don't have a

single private

treatment room and they treat 350 patients a week. The clinic runs on the fees

the

patients pay. It makes sense to me that there are different kinds of people and

they want

different things. That's true about everything else, why not acupuncture too?

 

Jennifer

 

 

--- caitlin allen <caitlin.a wrote:

 

> Thanks for this link Jennifer. I practice

> acupuncture in England and the model of treatment

> most acupuncturists find themselves in is private

> healthcare. We obvioulsy have a very different model

> of healthcare than the US but the similarities are

> getting greater all the time. I found the video of

> working class acupuncture patients talking about

> their experience really interesting. As one woman

> said, it is not only that it is low cost and thus

> accessible that makes it beneficial but that she

> feels she receives healing from being in a group

> setting and being able to sell the practice to

> others, thus making the relationship feel

> reciprical. This is much food for thought. Thank you

> for posting the link.

> Caitlin