physics-Is this publication useful for the education of your patients?

1. Langevin, H.M. and Vaillancourt. Acupuncture: Does it work and, if so, how? Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry 1999; 4(3) 167-175.

 The above article is attached to this announcement.  Your assignment is to answer the following questions:

1.) Is this publication useful for the education of your patients? 

2.) How might this information regarding the mechanism of acupuncture change the way you practice acupuncture?

3.) Does the opioid peptide pathway encourage your use of electroacupuncture in treatment? Would you utilize electroacupuncture for pain cases only?  What other types of conditions would you continue utilizing it for?

4.) Based on the previous two class lectures, what are the three opioid receptor sites in the CNS? Which frequency-specific windows active each individual center? Explain which frequencies provides immediate relief (but not lasting), and which frequencies in electroacupuncture create lasting relief, but that must be built up over time.