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With Gratitude

I would like to acknowledge and thank Masakazu Ikeda sensei for demonstrating the extraordinary clinical possibilities of Traditional Acupuncture. To my patients, students, teachers, colleagues, friends and my beautiful daughters, thanks heaps for your tolerance. After 25 years as a parent and practitioner it has become increasingly apparent to me that the 'learning never stops'.

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Post Surgery

Japanese Acupuncture and Palliative Care

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Japanese Acupuncture and Palliative Care might seem an unusual combination but my clinical experience strongly suggests that there may be some significant positive clinical outcomes as a result of judicious treatment. Robyn A grandmother in her late 60s who has been sadly diagnosed as suffering from stage 4 ovarian cancer. The symptoms include extreme ascites [...]

Japanese Acupuncture and TCM

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Japanese Acupuncture is distinctly different in application from it’s 2nd cousin TCM. In response to a question posted on the http://worldacupuncture.com forum I am re running this blogpost in an effort to distinguish the difference in the application of Japanese Acupuncture and TCM. Although each of these styles has merit, Japanese Acupuncture is unique in [...]

Life, Death and Japanese Acupuncture

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

After a short, sharp session of Strewbee, “Fabulous Flying Fabric Frisbee” in the park outside clinic at ‘The Gabba’ in Brisbane, my students and I commenced a very enjoyable, comfortably busy Saturday morning in clinic. After finishing clinic around 1.15 pm, we ‘chowed’ (ate) down our tucker (food) kicking off what was an extremely productive [...]

Japanese Acupuncture, Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and Chemotherapy

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Greetings from Rainbow Bay on a Magnificent Summer Sunday morning, Even at 5am today (that is just light), the surf was crowded, whilst the waves are of significant of size and proportion, I find it somewhat difficult to enjoy the level of aggressive behavior required to snare and surf a wave when the surfers begin [...]

Acupuncture for Post Natal Depression and Recovery from Spinal Surgery

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Joel Fellman of http://altMD.com offered some very compelling questions regarding Acupuncture and Health Care during Pregnancy, Childbirth and Post Birth for the mums in addition to suitability for Infants, Children and Adolescents. Your post ‚More On Acupuncture, Pregnancy and Childbirth‚ is interesting. As you may recall, at Serono we were aware that Acupuncture was quite helpful for infertile couples in many cases. It seems to me that the pregnancy [...]

Traditional Acupuncture Treatment is First Choice for Acupuncturist Recovering from Lower Back Surgery

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Firstly, please read posts for November12 and 13, 2007   ‘I will keep you posted on the patient‚Äôs progress.This scenario is going down now in Arizona and it is altogether possible that this lady is undergoing surgery as I write this post. ‘ Today, I can happily confirm that my learned colleague from these posts [...]