On behalf of the Acus team, we give a warm welcome to our fifth cohort of military physicians and clinicians, the Class of 2019-2020! On Friday, our latest class of students began their training in comprehensive Acus medical acupuncture in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

The 27 students hail from all five Family Medicine Residencies in the U.S. Air Force, based at Eglin AFB (Florida), Nellis AFB (Nevada), Offutt AFB (Nebraska), Scott AFB (Illinois), and Travis AFB (California). We also welcome students from both the Southern Nevada VA and the Salt Lake City VA.

Study hard and get ready for the exciting journey ahead!

We are proud to present the second gratitude issue of our newsletter, now an annual tradition at Acus Foundation. Click here to read the words of appreciation from the military physicians that your donations helped to train in Acus medical acupuncture.

“With acupuncture, I don’t have to tell my patients that they will have to live with their pain and dysfunction for the remainder of their lives,” said one member of this year’s graduating class. “It is life-changing.”

“Acupuncture makes unthinkable treatment outcomes a reality,” said another graduate. “I’ve seen it and experienced it.”

Patients jump off treatment tables, laugh their way out of exam rooms, and dance down hospital corridors, bewildered and ecstatic that their pain is gone, thanks to their treatment with Acus medical acupuncture.

For more: https://mailchi.mp/acusfoundation/acus-foundation-newsletter-no-17-the-gratitude-issue-2019?e=6445cc1cc0

Acus Founder, Dr. Joseph Helms, right, presents a certificate to a course graduate, center, at commencement in early June. Preceptor Allen McDaniels, far left, looks on with a smile.

Acus Foundation is proud to be featured in the program of the 2019 MLB All-Star Game. If you’re in Cleveland for the MLB All-Star game, pick up a game-day program and check out the full-page advertisement for Acus Foundation. We are proud to appear alongside ads by the DEA and the DOJ in a concerted effort to combat the opioid epidemic.

Three quarters of all opioid addiction and abuse begins with a prescription. We give doctors and patients a difference choice: medical acupuncture. We train the doctors who treat the pain.

Our doctors have documented a 45% reduction in opioid prescriptions when they added Acus medical acupuncture to their patients’ treatment plans. Our flagship training program was named by The Economist Intelligence Unit as one of eight programs nationwide successful fighting the opioid epidemic. Our Founder, Dr. Joseph Helms, was named one of Oprah Magazine‘s 2018 Health Heroes.

Check out our ad, or better yet, join the Acus community today by signing up for our newsletter and following us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn). Thank you, and together, let’s make warriors well.

Thanks to your generous support, we reached—and surpassed!—our goal to raise $5,000 on Independence Day.

Your gift helped us to make our match, resulting in more than $10,000 that will bring life-changing medical acupuncture to our nation’s service members and veterans.

We are grateful to have you as members of the Acus community. Thank you very much for your support. Together we can make warriors well.

Today, as the country celebrates freedom, we at Acus Foundation dedicate ourselves to those who have protected our liberties.

Our mission is to bring life-changing medical acupuncture to our nation’s service members and veterans by training the doctors who treat their pain.

However, it’s not enough to say simply that Acus medical acupuncture is life-changing.  Rather, it is life-saving.

“The empowering part of learning acupuncture has not only been its academic explanation.  Far, far more impressive has been seeing patient after patient getting off my exam table saying ‘I feel better’,” wrote Air Force Capt. Christy Broszko, MD. “There is nothing better than that moment.”

“It’s not enough to say that it’s lives changed,” she added. “It’s lives saved.”

Join us in both celebrating freedom and making warriors well.