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Maryland Acupuncture Society
Celebrate AOM Day, October 24th
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Celebrate AOM Day, October 24th

On October 24th, millions of Americans will celebrate National Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM) Day. Commonly referred to by its procedural name “acupuncture”, AOM is a complete medical system that can stand alone or be used in conjunction with conventional medical treatment to serve your health care needs.

While many people think of acupuncture as just needles, AOM includes additional therapies such as manual therapy (tuina), the use of tools to break up painful adhesions in the muscles (cupping or gua sha), recommendation of Chinese herbs, therapeutic exercises and breathing routines (Qi gong), and Chinese nutritional recommendations.

Even when placing needles, your acupuncturist is trained in many different ways to stimulate the skin to achieve the correct therapeutic effect. Did you know there over 25 classic needle techniques to stimulate the needle once placed? Depending on the treatment objective, your acupuncturist may briefly insert the needle and remove it, leave the needle in for 30 minutes, or quickly lift and thrust the needle to release a painful trigger (ashi) point.

Acupuncturists employ different diagnostic tools to evaluate the root of your problem. Diagnostic techniques include pulse and tongue reading, hara (abdominal) diagnosis, and evaluation of your color, sound, odor and emotion. Through the use of these diagnostic tools, your acupuncturist will create a specific treatment plan. It is important to remember that the arising of symptoms may come from a different root cause in different people. Therefore, two people with the same symptom of migraine may receive different treatments because the root cause of their migraine is different.

In Maryland, acupuncturists are licensed under the Health Occupations laws after completing a Master degree including 3,000 or more hours in both ancient and modern medicine concepts, and hundreds of hands-on treatments in clinical settings.

Modern research is confirming what the Eastern world has known all along about the effectiveness of AOM. Studies from Maryland's own National Institutes of Health not only show positive clinical results, but are using newer imaging technology to show acupuncture's effect on various brain centers to determine how or why it works. It's no wonder that the World Health Organization recommends the use of acupuncture for over 100 health conditions.

To find a licensed acupuncturist near you, visit Maryland Acupuncture Society's referral webpage, www.maryland-acupuncture.org/member-listing.html, where you can search by city or county to find the practitioner that meets your health needs.

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