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battlefield acupuncture was really

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developed by Colonel Retired Richard in

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the afternoon of 9 11 . I have seen

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many um , um , sad cases of patients

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returning from the war theater pain

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medication . It was not working can be

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a really sort of like complex topic to

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try to address . And in this field ,

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especially when we have people coming

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back from overseas with injuries that

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can be either acute or chronic . It's

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really valuable to have more than one

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like method to try to address that ,

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whether it's acute pain due to a

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sprained ankle or a fractured ankle or

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even more severe or ongoing pain such

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as low back pain or even cancer related

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pain as well . So having just returned

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from my second deployment battlefield

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acupuncture was something that we use

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on a regular basis to treat our

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soldiers , airmen , marines , guardians

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in a deployed setting . Today we're

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doing battlefield acupuncture course ,

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kind of going through the five points

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in each year . Um , practicing on a

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model and then practicing on our fellow

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students . Put your finger on top of .

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One of the reasons why we think that

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the battlefield acupuncture works so

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well is that it appears to stimulate

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key points of the year that correlate

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to three points in the brain . This

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training is really important because

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it's just another unique skill set that

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you can have to try to address your

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patient's pain in a non traditional

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manner . The results of a single

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treatment may literally last minutes ,

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hours , days , weeks leaving year .

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Yeah , that's exactly right .

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That's not a bad spot in our country .

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We have a problem with overuse of pain

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medications and poly pharmacy in

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general . So having this as a tool ,

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it's very versatile lightweight to

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bring into any setting is very , very

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effective for our military clinician .

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Given the concern about the opioid ,

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overuse and dependency in our country

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and in others as well , we really

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thought it important to teach our

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medical students this early on in their

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careers . It's just having more tools

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in your toolkit to , to deal with with

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pain and other other things that pop up

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for guys other than your , your

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conventional stuff that you have ,

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having more tools is never going to be

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a bad thing . I would also add that in

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a deployed setting where people are

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wearing lots of gear , body armor ,

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helmets , the ear in general is always

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readily accessible so you can be highly

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effective and quick and get in there

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and hopefully reduce pain down a little

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bit right there . That's it . It's a

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real pleasure to be able to show and

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teach this technique to future

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generations of students , uh , and

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knowing that they're going to be able

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to take this and deploy this technique

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wherever they go , whatever practice

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they use for the benefit of all our

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patients , not only in the military

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health system , but those in the

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civilian sector as well