Some vets exploring Chinese healing

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Some vets exploring Chinese healing
By Carol Ann Alaimo - Arizona Daily Star via The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 1, 2008 7:17:25 EST

TUCSON, Ariz. — Can ancient Chinese healing rites help Iraq war veterans cope with combat trauma?

A Tucson-area therapist believes they can, and is offering free treatments for local Iraq vets to test an approach that involves tapping on the acupuncture points used in Chinese medicine.

The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, relatively little known and not widely embraced in traditional therapy circles, has been used to successfully treat crime victims, disaster responders and witnesses to the World Trade Center attacks, according to recent articles in psychology and traumatology journals.

It also is being used to treat troops for combat stress at a handful of veterans’ hospitals around the country, though not in Tucson.

Mary Stafford of Oro Valley is one of a dozen or so therapists nationwide taking part in a clinical trial of the method to assess its effectiveness on returning veterans.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/ap_chinesemedicine_120108/%2e