I recently came across a great article about how the Army is utilizing unconventional treatments such as acupuncture and massage therapy when it comes to caring for soldiers and their pain. They are realizing that pain has both an emotional component as well as a psychological component. Acupuncture works to treat not just the symptom of pain, but also balance the mind, body and spirit as a whole. The army isn’t going to stop prescribing pain medicine altogether, but rather look at other methods and alternative treatments. Changing a culture and turning skeptics into believers will take time but this is a step in the right direction and the military is a great place to bring about such change! To read the whole article, click here.