Acupuncture Administered by US military Physician

For Immediate Release

Acupuncture Administered by U.S. Military Physicians
Growing for a Variety of Medical Conditions
Journal coverNew Rochelle, NY, May 12, 2011—The U.S. military is increasingly using acupuncture as a complementary therapy to help alleviate the debilitating effects of mild traumatic brain injury. Colonel (Ret.) Richard Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Acupuncture, a peer-reviewed journal and the official journal of American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, has been at the forefront of efforts to adopt battlefield acupuncture and has demonstrated its effectiveness in pain control. The Journal is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

The Wall Street Journal recently featured an article on the growing success of medical acupuncture to treat mild cases of traumatic brain injury, one of the most common types of injuries affecting U.S. wounded warriors. The article describes the Navy’s use of acupuncture—inserting needles at key targets in the head, ears, hands, and feet—to relieve symptoms such as sleeplessness, memory problems, anxiety, headache, and irritability that often follow an injury to the brain.

“The expanded use of acupuncture on the battlefield is being met with enthusiasm from physicians and patients because it works,” says Dr. Niemtzow, Colonel (Ret), U.S. Air Force, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD) and Director of the USAF Acupuncture Center, Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. “Acupuncture may be used as a primary modality or as an adjunct to Western medicine. In either case, it is changing the face of military medicine as a force multiplier.”

Medical Acupuncture is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published quarterly in print and online that presents evidence-based clinical papers, case reports, and research findings that integrate concepts from traditional and modern forms of acupuncture with Western medical training. Tables of contents and a free sample issue may be viewed online.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of Women’s Health, and Journal of Palliative Medicine. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry’s most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm’s 60 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at our website.

The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private views of Colonel (Ret) Richard C. Niemtzow and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of Defense.