By David WoodDecember 11, 2008ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE

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This is Andy Wegman and Tracy LaCreta’s Community Acupuncture Clinic in Manchester, NH……

Channel Qi Acupuncture will be moving a few blocks away offering acupuncture in a new location:

 Joseph Rockman, LAc, LMT 

2792 Long Beach Rd., Oceanside, NY

The new office offers Community Acupuncture

$15 - 35 Treatments

Community Acupuncture is acupuncture is a group setting. It is done in a quiet, spacious, and relaxing room in reclining chairs with other people in the same room. This gives the acupuncturist the ability to do several treatments while offering affordable high quality acupuncture.

This style enhances the healing effect while keeping the issue of money out of the equation. We at Channel Qi Acupuncture want you to get the care you need without financial issues causing a problem. This effective acupuncture style is practiced throughout Asia/China, and is common among many other countries including Europe, and Japan as well. This creates a real healing environment which gives a person a chance to come in as often as required to get the amount of treatments they, and get well sooner so they can be on their way. We offer a sliding scale and do not ask for financial verification. You decide how much you can afford, as everyone has a different situation.

Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) is a nonprofit organization of practitioners, patients, and supporters whose goal is to make acupuncture more affordable and accessible by promoting the practice of offering acupuncture in community settings for a sliding scale ranging within $15-35 a treatment.    Read more at the CAN website….

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The use of acupuncture before and during surgery reduces patients’ post-operative pain as well as the need for pain-killing medication, researchers said on Tuesday. Read more….  

Channels or meridians which run along certain areas of the body can be utilized for healing. These channels run along the arms, legs, and torso both front and back of the body. They are pathways which move qi, (or chi) blood, and body fluids from one area of the body to the other. These channels have to flow smoothly in order for the body to be in harmony or in other words in good health. The channels also have an organ assigned to that channel. For example, there are six channels which run along the arm, one of them is called “the heart channel”  which is on the inner side of the arm, points along this channel can either help the heart organ itself or help the arm along that channel if there is a blockage associated to that channel. The points can also be used to treat another which is not healthy. For instance, if a person has neck/shoulder pain, a point on the “heart channel” near the wrist may be used to treat “the gall bladder” channel which is located on the shoulder and part of the neck. This point will unblock the channel when needled to allow the free flow of qi, and the person will feel pain relief in that area on the gall bladder channel. This allows a person to get treatment without aggravating the area which is in pain. This way there is no pain during treatment which makes the treatment easier to do. The treatments will eventually correct the problem within a few weeks of treatment.