In the search for ways to cope with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), some patients are finding relief with acupuncture:
When you think of post- traumatic stress, you probably don’t think of feet.
But it’s one of the first places Dr. Lori Jones looks. This English-born acupuncturist says it may look odd – but she nestles needles into specific points on the body. She says that promotes healing.
“We’re not only physical beings,” she explained, “We have our minds and we have our emotions, and when you put the needle in, you can affect those.”
Dr. Jones says she can treat mental and emotional issues — from attention deficit to autism, to post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The incredible thing with using acupuncture is that we have – and certainly my experience is – 97% of any client who comes to me with PTSD gets better within a few weeks. That’s a pretty phenomenal statement.”
She says ally is one of those clients.
“I was actually shot 8 times, in my back and in my arms,” the woman said, quite calmly. Her only physical sign of that robbery last summer is this sling on her arm. But she constantly worries about who is on the other side of her door.
“It’s basically a huge nightmare, is what it is,” she said. “And it’s just something you have to work through, and that’s what I’m doing right now.”
But she says the needles go deeper than her skin. “It just works,” she shrugged. “I can’t tell you how, I just know.”
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