FORT WAINWRIGHT — In a small treatment room inside Bassett Army Community Hospital, Joann Allison quietly breathes as golden needles are placed into her ear. She isn’t here for a routine exam, she’s ...
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Doctors at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here and its outlying clinics are implementing a pain treatment that reduces or eliminates opioid prescriptions, is fast and ...
What also makes battlefield acupuncture attractive is that is has the possibility of lessening a patient’s need for addictive prescription pain medications. “In the day that we’re in with the opioid ...
FORT POLK, La. —Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital is spotlighting battlefield acupuncture, a fast-acting, medication-free ear acupuncture protocol used to treat chronic pain, migraines, anxiety and ...
Dr. Richard Niemtzow, chief of the Air Force Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Center, performs battlefield acupuncture on a patient. BFA can be taught and safely performed by medics throughout the ...
A rehabilitation specialist in central Iowa is the first doctor in the state to be certified in what’s known as “battlefield acupuncture.” Developed in 2005 by a U.S. military doctor, the technique ...
The military uses some of the most technologically sophisticated machinery and innovative medical techniques in history. But a disturbing current of pseudoscience in the military is wasting money, ...