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Alderman Medical Acupuncture of Idaho specializes in providing compassionate, individualized care in the treatment and relief from your pain. We also successfully treat soft tissue, musculoskeletal injuries, and chronic debilitating conditions which do not respond to standard Western medicine. We regularly evaluate and treat the following pain syndromes and more for our patients:

If you’ve been told “nothing more can be done” or “you’ll just have to live with it,” Alderman Medical Acupuncture just might be your final step in regaining your freedom from pain and poor health.

We have found that quite often the pain of soft tissues and of musculo-skeletal origins responds dramatically to the skilled and experience practitioner of Acupuncture. Many medical conditions beyond pain also respond effectively to Acupuncture and Traditional Oriental Medicine. Dr. Alderman’s diagnostic and treatment protocols have been developed over the past three decades and have changed patient’s lives dramatically who have suffered from these conditions and more:

• Pain management (Acute & Chronic)
• Arthritis
• Allergies
• Anxiety, stress and depression
• Injury rehabilitation (Work, sports auto accidents)
• Fibromyalgia
• Infertility
• Cosmetic Acupuncture

Dr. Alderman has been a primary care provider in the Workers Compensation arena in California. As a Qualified Medical Examiner, he is an authority on the medical legal aspect of the qualified injured worker. His compassionate, yet objective, evaluations and treatment protocols for those suffering from Auto Accident injuries have earned the respect of patient’s, physician’s and attorneys representing the injured.

The following is a list of medical conditions found to respond effectively to Acupuncture according to the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture:

• Acute and chronic pain control
• Postraumatic and postoperative ileus
• Muscle spasms, tremors, tics, contractures
• Paresthesiae
• Anxiety, fright, panic
• Drug detoxification
• Neuralgias (trigemnial , Herpes Zoster, postherpetic, other)
• Seventh nerve palsy Sequelae of CVA's (aphasia, hemiplegia)
• Certain functional gastro-intestinal disorders (nausea and vomiting, esophageal spasm, hyperacidity, irritable bowel, etc.)
• Headache, vertigo (Meniere's), tinnitus
• Phantom pain
• Frozen shoulder
• Cervical and lumbar spine syndromes
• Plantar fasciitis
• Arthritis/arthrosis
• Bursitis, tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome
• Sprains and contusions
• In fractures, assisting in pain-control, edema, and enhancing healing process Temporo-mandibular joint derangement, bruxism
• Dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain
• Insomnia
• Anorexia
• Atypical chest pain (negative work-up)
• Idiopathic palpitations, sinus tachychardia
• Allergic sinusitis
• Persistent hiccups
• Selected dermatoses (urticaria, pruritus, eczema, psoriasis)
• Constipation, diarrhea
• Urinary incontinence. retention (neurogenic. spastic, adverse drug effect)
• Abdominal distention/flatulence
• Severe hyperthermia
• Cough with contraindications for narcotics
• Acupuncture anesthesia for high risk patients, or patients with previous adverse responses to anesthetics

Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.

Maryland Patient Survey

The Maryland Acupuncture Society contracted for a patient survey to be conducted in 1999, with the results being published in January, 2000. The Patient Satisfaction Survey - Final Report lists the following thirteen most common conditions for which patients sought treatment from an acupuncturist. Over 80% of the respondents also found these treatments to be very effective or moderately effective.

Thirteen Commonly and Effectively Treated Conditions

• Stress/Tension
• Depression/Mood
• Fatique/Energy
• Back Pain
• Other Musculoskeletal Pain
• Arthritis
• Migraine
• Other Headaches
• Female Concerns
• Gastrointestinal
• Allergies
• Asthma
• Health/Wholeness

World Health Organization

A World Health Organization Interregional Seminar on Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Acupuncture Anesthesia was held in Beijing ( Peking ) in June 1979, attended by participants from twelve countries.

The World Health Organization Interregional Seminar drew up the following provisional list of diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not necessarily on controlled clinical research: furthermore, the inclusion of specific diseases are not meant to indicate the extent of acupuncture's efficacy in treating them.

The following is a list of conditions which the World Health Organization determined may respond to acupuncture.

Upper Respiratory Tract

• Acute sinusitis
• Acute rhinitis
• Common Cold
• Acute tonsillitis

Respiratory System

• Acute bronchitis
• Bronchial asthma (most effective in children and in patients without complicating diseases)

Disorders of the Eye

• Acute conjunctivitis
• Central retinitis
• Myopia (in children)
• Cataract (without complications)

Disorders of the Mouth

• Toothache, post-extraction pain
• Gingivitis
• Acute and chronic pharyngitis

Gastro-intestinal Disorders

• Spasms of esophagus and cardia
• Hiccough
• Gastroptosis
• Acute and chronic gastritis
• Gastric hyperacidity
• Chronic duodenal ulcer (pain relief)
• Acute duodenal ulcer (without complications)
• Acute and chronic colitis
• Acute bacillary dysentery
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Paralytic ileus

Neurological and Musculo-skeletal Disorders

• Headache and migraine
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Facial palsy (early stage, i.e., within three to six months)
• Pareses following a stroke
• Peripheral neuropathies
• Sequelae of poliomyelitis (early stage, i.e., within six months)
• Meniere's disease
• Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
• Nocturnal enuresis
• Intercostal neuralgia
• Cervicobrachial syndrome
• "Frozen shoulder," "tennis elbow"
• Sciatica
• Low back pain
• Osteoarthritis

The National Institutes of Health Consensus Statement on Acupuncture
NIH Consensus statements are prepared by a non-advocate, non-Federal panel of experts, based on presentations by investigators working in areas relevant to the consensus.

On November 5, 1997 the panel that convened to consider acupuncture produced the following statement:
Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in the following:

• adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting
• post-operative dental pain
• addiction
• stroke rehabilitation
• headache
• menstrual cramps
• tennis elbow
• fibromyalgia
• myofacial pain
• osteoarthritis
• low back pain
• carpal tunnel syndrome
• asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program.

Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.

Welcome to the possibilities of experiencing the miracles of the wonderful art and science of Acupuncture and Traditional Oriental Medicine!

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