USAF: Healing with needles
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:38 pm
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Healing with needles
Air Force to use acupuncture on bases and in the battlefield
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 15:36:27 EST
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — Sitting in the Defense Department’s only acupuncture clinic with needles sticking in his ears and wires wrapped around his feet, Staff Sgt. Samuel Darwin admitted the acupuncture was his big idea.
He suggested it to his doctor after sharp foot pain he’s suffered since February just wouldn’t disappear.
Darwin goes twice a week for treatments and sometimes draws stares from airmen in his squadron when he returns with the acupuncture needles still in his ears.
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