Acupuncture Paper.
This paper talks about acupuncture and its growing importance in the field of health care in contemporary times. The paper focuses its attention on the research and reports on the national market trends for acupuncture. It discusses the opportunities to open the practice and why along with where do the best job opportunities for acupuncturists exist As conclusion, it talks about the future of acupuncture by talking about its future outlook and what is being done to open new doors for the acupuncture program today and as plans being formulated to do the same in future.
Acupuncture is a kind of therapy aimed at promoting health and freeing a person from excess pain and suffering. It is a method which has been being used since the past thousands of years as a therapy have energetic balance, healing and create vital energy in the body through the triggering of certain points on the body. These points are also called meridians or acupoints, which are stimulated in acupuncture with the help if very sharp needles and sometimes, herbs, electricity, lasers and even magnetic energy is used in combination. The entire point is relieving the person of something and making sure vital energy reached areas where it is needed at the correct time and place so that healing can automatically occur. (Chinese-School, n.d.)
National Market Trends for Acupuncture
In America, there are many established standards for acupuncture, which have been there for the last twenty five years or so. There has been a lot of training offered too since the eighties in around fifty schools or more that are recognized by the official partner the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. In many schools hence it is proper, formal four year program that teaches the art of acupuncture. The National Acupuncture Foundation has said that the number of licensed practitioners has now increased to a surprising 59 from 5,525 in 1992 to 22,671 in 2004 Now, there are around forty four states in the United States of America that have gained the status of official acupuncture practitioners.
The future of acupuncture in the US tells that people have started to look for therapies that are alternatives to regular expensive medicinal procedures and drug therapies. Therefore, acupuncture remains a good choice for these people. Integration, more and more of it can also be seen as practitioners combine their therapies with acupuncture to further stress upon the efficiency of whatever method as solution to a disease problem the patient is suffering from through the integrative therapy. A leading market research company known as the Hartman Group said that Acupuncture will become a Mainstream Modality for Pain Management. This was back in 2005, and as history tells us it has been fairly true (Stewart, n.d.)
Job opportunities in Acupuncture
In America, it is highly important that you do thorough research about where you want to locate or practice as an acupuncturist. There is a scarcity of opportunities in this country because of the lack of resources generally available to graduates of acupuncture. The education costs a lot and hence the graduate needs to find a job as soon as he or she graduates so to start getting return on that investment. However, the case that he or she sees only is that there is an option of opening up a private practice or going solo. What a graduate needs to do is
Have someone as a mentor, who has a lot of experience in the field and has been successful in his endeavors as an acupuncturist.
Be smart about learning and doing what you want to do
Collaborate with someone you think will lead to something inspiring and helpful.
Have support from the environment you are in or the community you are a part of
Make sure everything is a learning experience and do not lose hope
Team work is very fruitful be it part of your professional career or inside the college as part of your degree learning programme.
Look for opportunities all the time by doing a lot of networking, being in contact with wellness centers and being in touch with the alumni from your college school and other schools websites. (Doherty, n.d.)
Even though it is said that the job outlook for acupuncturist is very low and there are low number of resources available in this field or area of therapy we can still say that the situation is a lot better than what it was like before. It is said that now increasingly more and more doctors are prescribing acupuncture as a healing aid and its acceptance as a therapeutic ailment is greatly increasing. This increase has been indicative of through the fact that many insurance companies have now proposed packages that include acupuncture therapies to their plans. Generally, there are practitioners of acupuncture or acupuncturists that operate privately by having a private practice in the form of clinics. But, again there are many who work under doctors and aid his work through integrated treatments, as mentioned earlier. These are a few of the career opportunities that exist for acupuncturists. Many states have introduced the legislation to legally practice acupuncture, including New York, Oregon, Florida, California and Massachusetts.
The range of return that one gets through working in the field of acupuncture can actually varying depend on what form of practice that the person has for instance private practice, or working under an MD, or if there is a salary or wage involved or not. Overall, the salary amounts to around forty thousand dollars each year to even sixty to sixty five thousand dollars each year. The health care market has made acupuncture great career choice in contemporary times. It is said that in Canada, acupuncture can be seen to be the future growth or boom areas in the field of health care. It is advisable that whatever degree one gets in this field a lot of research coupled with appropriate training is done so that there is success in pursuing it as a career eventually. (Hecker, n.d.)
What is being done to open new doors for the acupuncture program
There has been the development of mechanistic models for acupuncture effects further as the field has now being taken seriously. The effects of the acupuncture needles having stimulation on the body nervous system, tissue and muscles is said to be a primary focus among the many different developments occurring in the field of health care and those that have been predicted for the future too. The future of acupuncture hence stands to be prominent and bright as a lot of research is now being carried out in this area to have more and more developments. The future also lies in iterative testing, expanding, manual stimulation, electric stimulation etc. that are the talk of the health care physicians when they talk about its future as related to being deeply set in the field of physiology. (Altern, 2008) More and more licensing efforts can be predicted as well.
With respect to how new doors are being opened for acupuncture in future, the following come to mind
Research Like mentioned above there are many EBMs or evidence based medicine related research initiatives to be taken in the future since this stands to be a promising field. There will be changes to this EBM so that technicians who are not that well trained can manage front line medical care as well. Research products are predicted to be created by China and within ten years it can be predicted that it will be able to compete with the U.S. strong hold in the health care or science industry. (Morris, 2010)
Lower costs driving growth Acupuncture generally lowers costs since hospital stays are shortened and there are not any very expensive drugs or medicines that are used in combination as part of the acupuncture therapy. However, in future it is expected that the system of reimbursement will change so that there is profit generated from acupuncture activities in hospitals too. (Morris, 2010)
Evolving business models The importance of occupational medicine will greatly increase in the eyes of even those companies like Whole Foods, Apple etc. This is to suggest that more and more people will notice its advancements and take charge. (Morris, 2010)
Education It is expected that in ten to twenty years, more and more acupuncturists will have doctoral titles and easy upgrade paths in their careers. Also, due to more advancement in research and education in this field there will be collaborations with the health care industry on the whole like pharmacists, therapists, health professionals etc. (Morris, 2010)
Acupuncture is a kind of therapy aimed at promoting health and freeing a person from excess pain and suffering. It is a method which has been being used since the past thousands of years as a therapy have energetic balance, healing and create vital energy in the body through the triggering of certain points on the body. These points are also called meridians or acupoints, which are stimulated in acupuncture with the help if very sharp needles and sometimes, herbs, electricity, lasers and even magnetic energy is used in combination. The entire point is relieving the person of something and making sure vital energy reached areas where it is needed at the correct time and place so that healing can automatically occur. (Chinese-School, n.d.)
National Market Trends for Acupuncture
In America, there are many established standards for acupuncture, which have been there for the last twenty five years or so. There has been a lot of training offered too since the eighties in around fifty schools or more that are recognized by the official partner the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. In many schools hence it is proper, formal four year program that teaches the art of acupuncture. The National Acupuncture Foundation has said that the number of licensed practitioners has now increased to a surprising 59 from 5,525 in 1992 to 22,671 in 2004 Now, there are around forty four states in the United States of America that have gained the status of official acupuncture practitioners.
The future of acupuncture in the US tells that people have started to look for therapies that are alternatives to regular expensive medicinal procedures and drug therapies. Therefore, acupuncture remains a good choice for these people. Integration, more and more of it can also be seen as practitioners combine their therapies with acupuncture to further stress upon the efficiency of whatever method as solution to a disease problem the patient is suffering from through the integrative therapy. A leading market research company known as the Hartman Group said that Acupuncture will become a Mainstream Modality for Pain Management. This was back in 2005, and as history tells us it has been fairly true (Stewart, n.d.)
Job opportunities in Acupuncture
In America, it is highly important that you do thorough research about where you want to locate or practice as an acupuncturist. There is a scarcity of opportunities in this country because of the lack of resources generally available to graduates of acupuncture. The education costs a lot and hence the graduate needs to find a job as soon as he or she graduates so to start getting return on that investment. However, the case that he or she sees only is that there is an option of opening up a private practice or going solo. What a graduate needs to do is
Have someone as a mentor, who has a lot of experience in the field and has been successful in his endeavors as an acupuncturist.
Be smart about learning and doing what you want to do
Collaborate with someone you think will lead to something inspiring and helpful.
Have support from the environment you are in or the community you are a part of
Make sure everything is a learning experience and do not lose hope
Team work is very fruitful be it part of your professional career or inside the college as part of your degree learning programme.
Look for opportunities all the time by doing a lot of networking, being in contact with wellness centers and being in touch with the alumni from your college school and other schools websites. (Doherty, n.d.)
Even though it is said that the job outlook for acupuncturist is very low and there are low number of resources available in this field or area of therapy we can still say that the situation is a lot better than what it was like before. It is said that now increasingly more and more doctors are prescribing acupuncture as a healing aid and its acceptance as a therapeutic ailment is greatly increasing. This increase has been indicative of through the fact that many insurance companies have now proposed packages that include acupuncture therapies to their plans. Generally, there are practitioners of acupuncture or acupuncturists that operate privately by having a private practice in the form of clinics. But, again there are many who work under doctors and aid his work through integrated treatments, as mentioned earlier. These are a few of the career opportunities that exist for acupuncturists. Many states have introduced the legislation to legally practice acupuncture, including New York, Oregon, Florida, California and Massachusetts.
The range of return that one gets through working in the field of acupuncture can actually varying depend on what form of practice that the person has for instance private practice, or working under an MD, or if there is a salary or wage involved or not. Overall, the salary amounts to around forty thousand dollars each year to even sixty to sixty five thousand dollars each year. The health care market has made acupuncture great career choice in contemporary times. It is said that in Canada, acupuncture can be seen to be the future growth or boom areas in the field of health care. It is advisable that whatever degree one gets in this field a lot of research coupled with appropriate training is done so that there is success in pursuing it as a career eventually. (Hecker, n.d.)
What is being done to open new doors for the acupuncture program
There has been the development of mechanistic models for acupuncture effects further as the field has now being taken seriously. The effects of the acupuncture needles having stimulation on the body nervous system, tissue and muscles is said to be a primary focus among the many different developments occurring in the field of health care and those that have been predicted for the future too. The future of acupuncture hence stands to be prominent and bright as a lot of research is now being carried out in this area to have more and more developments. The future also lies in iterative testing, expanding, manual stimulation, electric stimulation etc. that are the talk of the health care physicians when they talk about its future as related to being deeply set in the field of physiology. (Altern, 2008) More and more licensing efforts can be predicted as well.
With respect to how new doors are being opened for acupuncture in future, the following come to mind
Research Like mentioned above there are many EBMs or evidence based medicine related research initiatives to be taken in the future since this stands to be a promising field. There will be changes to this EBM so that technicians who are not that well trained can manage front line medical care as well. Research products are predicted to be created by China and within ten years it can be predicted that it will be able to compete with the U.S. strong hold in the health care or science industry. (Morris, 2010)
Lower costs driving growth Acupuncture generally lowers costs since hospital stays are shortened and there are not any very expensive drugs or medicines that are used in combination as part of the acupuncture therapy. However, in future it is expected that the system of reimbursement will change so that there is profit generated from acupuncture activities in hospitals too. (Morris, 2010)
Evolving business models The importance of occupational medicine will greatly increase in the eyes of even those companies like Whole Foods, Apple etc. This is to suggest that more and more people will notice its advancements and take charge. (Morris, 2010)
Education It is expected that in ten to twenty years, more and more acupuncturists will have doctoral titles and easy upgrade paths in their careers. Also, due to more advancement in research and education in this field there will be collaborations with the health care industry on the whole like pharmacists, therapists, health professionals etc. (Morris, 2010)
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