Acupuncture Center of Rapid City

05/29/2022

Through a grant, Dr. Terence McCormick, DAOM, DN has a stock pile of Traditional Asian herbal medicine formulas available to his fellow local Pan-Asian Medicine practitioners and patients to help support the immune system to help againt COVID and other present and future immune system concerns.

The big names in Chinese medicine have provided hundreds of bottles of these health supporting formuals to me and I am wanting to help the local community by providing these FREE supplements to my local practitioners first then to their patients by refill (with consult with them). This stock has expiration, mostly by the end of 2022.

02/16/2022

Dr. McCormick, DN, DAOM continues to provide FREE immune boosting acupuncture and herbal medicine care throughout 2022 continuing to support the community with COVID prevention support.

01/16/2019

Dr. McCormick, BS, NCMT, MAcOM, DAOM, DN, LAc is Rapid City's senior doctor of Oriental medicine, the first and only naprapathic doctor and DAOM in South Dakota. He provides FREE herbal consultations by phone daily as part of his natural medicine practice.

He practices throughout South Dakota with office in Rapid City, Sioux Falls and Brooking. He has been in continual professional practice since the 1980's and open his first South Dakota clinic in 2010.

Call (605) 218-0383 or
e-mail: blackhillsacu@gmail.com

09/04/2017

Acupuncture is very helpful supporting people going through grief. It is also a very helpful therapy for other emotional issues from controlling anger to calming anxiety. This video is from the Mayo Clinics center of complementary medicine. Dr. McCormick was the first acupuncturist to be invited to lecture on complementary medicine and acupuncture to physicians in 1996. His work as an advocate for acupuncturists and acupuncture has contributed to the opening of this complementary medicine center by the Mayo Clinic. Dr. McCormick was one of the first acupuncturists to be licensed by the Medical Board in Minnesota and played an important role in the development of the acupuncture profession in that region during the 1990's.

Grief is something that impacts everyone. It can be crippling and make day-to-day tasks seem impossible. Some are turning to acupuncture to heal the hurt from grief.

09/13/2016

Dry Needling by physical therapists needs to end now!

Acupuncturists say “dry needling” is acupuncture and requires specialized training. Physical therapists disagree.

09/06/2016

Acupuncture along with Traditional Chinese Medicine herbal formulas and nutritional therapy can go a long way to help patients heal.

A study conducted at Rutgers University found a connection between acupuncture and the physical processes that may treat sepsis, an infection with inflammation that causes 25,000 deaths each year in the United States. Sepsis often occurs in intensive care units at hospitals. The lead researcher, Lui...

09/01/2016

Dr. McCormick uses laser acupuncture in his practice on a daily basis. It is a great non-needle option for treatment.

Author: Kimberly Thompson. Title: Laser Acupuncture in Your Practice: What you Need to Know. Summary: Isn't it interesting that the number one reason people visit a healthcare provider is because of pain.

08/30/2016

Dr. McCormick began providing acupuncture at addiction treatment centers in 1993. Since then he developed an acupuncture addiction program that has been integrated in to a regional medical center's addiction services in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Acupuncture is a traditional method of health care that has been practiced in China and other parts of Asia for 2,000 years using a textbook that is stil...

08/27/2016

Acupuncture not only treats pain but can also address healing the root of the condition vs. simply masking the pain.

A new study has found that acupuncture, the ancient practice of using needles to stimulate bodily self healing, is more effective than intravenous morphine for pain.

08/26/2016

Dr. McCormick, DAOM, LAc has been treating children with complex medicinal conditions for over 27 years!

It appears that acupuncture may be a viable option for pain management when it comes to pediatric patients who have complex medical conditions, according to new research published by Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota.

08/25/2016

When is performed within the context of Traditional Asian Medicine (and performed by a properly trained acupuncturist -"L.Ac" - with a minimum of a Master's degree in acupuncture - 3,400+ hrs of graduate college education) and not some "add-on" technique to a chiropractic practice (chiropractors get as little as 100 hrs of a crash course held over a few weekends with no supervised student clinical training - Yikes! very unsafe). . . .It can be the doorway to a deeper level of healing in mind, body and spirit.

The relationship I had with my body was deteriorating. I had begun to resent it for the sharp, piercing sensation it allowed…