The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine is delighted to announce that Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc, and Academic Dean of PCOM, New York has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health. The Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) nominated Anderson for this position as she is both an ACIH Research Working …
By Peter Deadman Slow, deep, lower abdominal breathing, a mainstay of Asian internal cultivation practices for millennia, is a powerful tool for healing and transformation. A wide range of emotional and physical problems can be helped by slow breathing and it can be easily taught to patients, both while lying on the couch and as …
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Dr. Greg Lane, DACM, Pacific College’s Dean of Graduate Faculty, was recently interviewed by Wendy Gould for “Everything You Need to Know About Facial Acupuncture” on The Klog, a blog devoted to Korean culture and beauty trends. Dr. Lane, along with Julie Von, a Manhattan-based holistic and fertility doctor, introduced Gould to the basics of …
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As required by New York State, Pacific College of Health and Science, New York campus, sent a campus climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct to the entire student body, and drafted a targeted set of procedures and guidelines to address sexual violence, including a uniform definition of affirmative consent, a statewide amnesty policy, …
Jennifer Williams is driven by a calling. She had an inkling of her future vocation very early in her life: It was simply to heal people. As an adult, Williams felt herself gravitate naturally to the field of Chinese medicine, and she has gone on to bring acupuncture to hundreds of people who might not …
There was not a precise moment that Xiaolong Alcocer discovered acupuncture—because there was never a time when he wasn’t living and breathing it. Alcocer’s Chinese mother and Mexican father are both acupuncturists. In fact, four generations preceding Alococer on his mother’s side had treated acupuncture patients out of the family’s home in Mexico for years. …
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Not long after acupuncturist Amy Mager graduated from PCOM, she found herself testifying in front of a committee of Massachusetts legislators. It was a common enough task for Mager, who serves on the boards of both the Acupuncture Society of Massachusetts and the American Society of Acupuncturists. But something was different this time. “They were …
Patients Experiencing Positive Results with Acupuncture for Vision Loss Approximately 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. Many of these conditions are considered untreatable by conventional medicine, often leaving patients in a hopeless situation. My interest in treating degenerative eye diseases began when I was …
What is Tourette syndrome? According to the Mayo Clinic, Tourette (too-RET) syndrome is a disorder that involves repetitive movements or unwanted sounds (tics) that can’t be easily controlled. For example, patients might repeatedly blink their eyes, shrug their shoulders, or blurt out unusual sounds or offensive words. In ancient cultures, Tourette syndrome (TS) was thought …
Both a concern and critique of acupuncture frequently espoused by the biomedical community is that “there is no standard of care for acupuncture”. This statement is, at best, disingenuous. Perspectives on Acupuncture Standards from the Biomedical Field FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY Before we get into what determines the standard of care for an acupuncturist, we …
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