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8 October 30, 2015
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99th MDG providers receive acupuncture training
By Senior Airman Mikaley Kline
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. —
Medical providers assigned to the 99th
Medical Group recently underwent
training for first aid acupuncture here to
become certified acupuncturists.
The 99th MDG is partnering with the
Acus Foundation to provide acupuncture
training to approximately 120 medical
providers over the next several years.
Acupuncture is a treatment that is
highly individualized and it can include
insertion of various types of needles into
the body, scalp, or the ears. Most acu-
puncture needles are transient, meaning
they are left in for about 20 to 30 minutes
and then removed. Needles in the ear can
stay in for about a week.
“Currently, the 99th MDG has very
few acupuncturists and the training is
expensive so we have partnered with the
Acus Foundation to provide training to
120 medical providers here,” said Lt. Col.
(Dr.) Paul Crawford, 99th Medical Op-
erations Squadron Clinical Investigation
Program and Family Medicine Residency
program director. “The overall goal of this
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U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mikaley Kline year ago when we contracted with them
Dr. Joseph Helms, Helms Medical Institute president, demonstrates how to use a
pointer plus on a patient at the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Medical Center on Nellis Air
Force Base, Nev., Oct. 26. A pointer plus helps find the most sensitive points on the ear.
program is that we switch from a mindset “By training most of the providers at
that acupuncture is often thought of as a the 99th MDG, we will make acupunc-
last ditch effort for treating stress, pain, ture accessible to everybody. This will
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of ‘think acupuncture first’ which is our patient-centered care,” he said. “Our
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to provide additional training. Now
through philanthropic donations, they’re
providing training to us.”
Chronic pain, stress, insomnia, and
other medical conditions have a huge
impact on quality of life of Air Force
beneficiaries.
“Acupuncture can transform those
lives,” said Crawford. “Experiences at the
National Intrepid Center of Excellence
for Traumatic Brain Injuries and Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorders and while de-
ployed have shown that acupuncture can
help with wounded warriors and people
affected by deployments dramatically.”
Acupuncture can be very useful either
as the exclusive treatment or to comple-
ment conventional treatment, especially
for pain and stress-related problems.
Airman 1st Class Tawni Deboma,
99th MDOS medical technician, volun-
teered to be a part of the acupuncture
training to help relieve some pain she
was having in her neck.
“I started with a five out of 10 pain
and it decreased to a one out of 10 after
all the needles were taken out,” she said.
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