Lake Merritt Community Acupuncture

01/21/2020

Lake Merritt Community Acupuncture is phasing out, but Phil Settels will continue to treat patients in downtown Oakand, CA.

www.philsettels.com

www.philsettels.jane.app.com

04/24/2018

The Food and Drug Administration released proposed changes Wednesday to its blueprint on educating health care providers about treating pain.

02/26/2018

Beautiful article on the tendencies of the coming year

Loyalty, trust and alliances are on the menu this year. It's a great year to get things done, and bring into the world projects that have been forming the last two years.

http://www.tigersplayastrology.com/tigers-play/nourishing-loyalty-qi-of-the-yang-earth-dog-wu-xu-year-20184716

02/06/2018

Stellar article on the impact a wonderful acupuncture practitioner/teacher/researcher has had on national healthcare policy.

Addiction to opioid medication has been declared a national epidemic in the US

“The US has 4.6 per cent of the world’s population. We’re using 80 per cent of the opioid supply, 99 per cent of global hydrocodone — and we’re still in pain.” — Arya Nielsen, Ph.D."

"According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 116 people die each day from opioid-related drug overdoses."

Researchers and policy makers in the mainstream medical system recognize the value of non-pharm pain management options.

"In 2017, the American College of Physicians came out with a recommendation that nonpharm therapies be considered the first line of care for acute, sub-acute, and chronic back pain."

Because modalities like acupuncture are more effective than many opioid approaches, and with far less side effects.

"One study looked at 300 emergency room patients who presented with acute pain. Half were randomized to have acupuncture, while the other half were put on intravenous morphine, which is commonly given in the ER. “They were looking for a pain score reduction of 50 percent,” said Nielsen, “which was reached by 92 percent of the acupuncture patients and 78 percent of the people on IV morphine. The time it took to get to pain relief was eight to 24 minutes with acupuncture, 14 to 42 minutes with morphine.” Furthermore, only 2.6 percent of the acupuncture patients experienced any adverse effects, as opposed to 56.6 percent of the morphine patients."

And acupuncture actually helps resolve underlying issues, which leads to lasting pain reduction.

"Ninety percent of the benefit of a single course of acupuncture treatment for chronic pain has been shown to persist at one year. "

It even saves a great deal of money.

"including nonpharm methods in treatment at a pediatric pain clinic reduced ER and inpatient insurance costs by $11,000 per patient per year, with hospital cost savings of $36,000 per patient per year"

So acupuncture in the management of pain is effective, long lasting, with far fewer side effects, and inexpensive to administer.

Using acupuncture instead of narcotics.

01/22/2018

Every day we are called to perform to the best of our abilities. Chinese Medicine can help.

Been seeing this cool image all over social today:
New England Patriots linebacker James Harrison ()
Excerpt from post:

"Scientists are skeptical about cupping some of the other treatments he uses. Harrison shrugged. “All I know is before I get treated, I HURT, and after, I feel better."

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12/31/2017

This article sheds light on one very important aspect of pain.

Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine

11/22/2017

Modern scientific studies validate Acupuncture as a form of natural, drug free pain management.

The data support a trial of acupuncture for some common pain conditions.

11/11/2017

A little Guasha (scraping, or spooning) goes a long way!

This video features Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpretation. Can 20 seconds of spooning change your life? Kal Ientile thinks it can. In this talk, K...

09/26/2017

What are the side-effects of Acupuncture?

Here is a reasonable answer, from a senior acupuncturist

Lonny Jarrett's answer: Please ignore the ignorant answer that suggests acupuncture has no use and can result in death. I’ve practice full-time for 32 years and have done about 80,000 sessions. Chinese Medicine (CM) is almost the mirror image of Western medicine. Hence, the most significant side...