acupuncture: you know, for kids!

[JMEJAM]

This article took up the entire front page of our local suburban newspaper.

I intend to write a letter. I encourage you to do the same.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/downersgrove/

 

[tsg]

"Bilstrom practices kid-friendly, needleless acupuncture at Associates in Rehabilitation Medicine in Downers Grove."

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it's just as effective.

 

[jon]

using accupressure as an alternative to effective treatments for ashtma - if the kid had an ashtma attack, would he really suggest pushing on an acupressure point

Somehow, though, most disturbing is the idea that he sticks needles in babies - but only does this until the kids are big enough to run away/fight back. I mean, what would happen if someone stuck needles in babies for no good reason, without wrapping it up in woo

 

[princesspoppy]

Surely there should be tighter regulations and restrictions on what people are allowed to do in the name of "alternative medicine"?

 

[JMEJAM]

would that device that finds "hotspots" qualify for the million?

 

[drfrank]

By the time Amy, an Aurora resident, was 5 years old, her family had already tried a string of Western medicines. Amy would get sick about every three weeks, said her mother, Lori TenHaken.

Gaaahhhhh but it infuriates me when people use the term "Western Medicine". It would probably also annoy everyone everywhere else in the world where people use the scientific method to determine the efficacy of a treatment.

 

[Lamuella]

I believe in stabbing children with pins for medicine

 

[Tanstaafl]

"Bilstrom practices kid-friendly, needleless acupuncture at Associates in Rehabilitation Medicine in Downers Grove."

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it's just as effective.

The first time through I read this as "needless acupuncture", but then I realized it's the same either way.

 

[drfrank]

Between May and September 2005, Bilstrom treated Amy 14 times, about every two weeks. Insurance even covered the treatment. About halfway through, Lori stopped all of her daughter's prescription medications because she decided they weren't doing anything.

So she was having both medication and acupuncture for half the time, but then the mother came to the conclusion that the medication wasn't having any effect, but the acupuncture was? How exactly she managed to determine this I'd be very interested to know