The Acupuncture Profession Is Being Hijacked By FAKE Acupuncturist In South Dakota. The Public Needs To Be Informed and Real Acupuncturist Need To Be Supported Since They Are The BEST Providers of Acupuncture In South Dakota!

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The disturbing fact is that there are other standards for those calling themselves "Acupuncturists" or utilizing forms of "Acupuncture" here in South Dakota:

• Chiropractors (D.C.s)- need only 100 hours of training, review 25 case histories and no examination to legally perform "acupuncture" in South Dakota.

• Medical Doctors (M.D.s) and Doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.s) have no minimum training requirements to do "acupuncture" in this state. They call themselves "Medical Acupuncturist"

Ask your acupuncturist if they have passed the nationally recognized certifying examinations in acupuncture and graduated from a minimum of a three to four year full-time acupuncture program (over 3,300 hours) to ensure you are being treated by a properly trained practitioner. 

Acupuncture has nothing to do with chiropractic. 

Do not believe your chiropractor even when they show you their fancy acupuncture diploma since it is not adequate or recognized training.  It is a "crash course" training program and the diploma was designed to be deceptive and fool the public into thinking their chiropractor has completed the appropriate training in acupuncture.  Don't be fooled by the fake and fancy looking diploma.

For more information about professional standards and licensing requirements for acupuncturists, contact the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at 1-866-455-7999 or www.aaaom.org.

The mission of the Acupuncture Society of South Dakota is to educate the public about the practice of acupuncture by fake practitioners in South Dakota and to support the community of properly trained South Dakota acupuncturist and their clinics as they serve the people of South Dakota with the best acupuncture care.

In order to better understand the warped perspective of the chiropractic profession and how it thinks.  This then demonstrates how this disturbing profession would think they have the right to invade the professional turf of REAL acupuncturists.  We encourage as many people as possible in South Dakota to read this book. 

There is a new book critical of chiropractic: Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament. The author, Preston Long, DC, PhD, is a chiropractor who says he made a big mistake when he chose chiropractic as a career. He has written an intriguing book explaining his mistake and the experiences that resulted from it during 3 decades as a chiropractor and a critic of chiropractic.

Chiropractic encourages self-delusion, and those who break free of delusion have two choices: to fight or run. Preston Long chose to fight, to keep the baby and throw out the bathwater polluted with pseudoscience and quackery, to try to practice rationally and ethically, and to try to reform chiropractic from within. He soon learned that it was next to impossible for a chiropractor to make a living with a science-based, ethical practice. He eventually found his niche and put his knowledge of chiropractic to good use. He evaluates chiropractic cases for disability and fraud, has worked with the FBI, and has testified at over 200 trials. He has written two previous books, The Naked Chiropractor (2002) and The P.R.E.S.T.O.N. Protocol for Back Pain (2006). This new book tells the story of his life and exposes the delusions and misbehaviors of his chiropractic colleagues.

He reveals “20 things most chiropractors won’t tell you”:

1. Chiropractic is not based on science
2. Chiropractors promise too much
3. Their education is vastly inferior to that of medical doctors
4. Their legitimate scope is very narrow
5. Little of what they do has been studied
6. It’s best to get diagnosed elsewhere
7. They offer lots of unnecessary services
8. “Cracking” the back doesn’t mean much
9. If the first few visits don’t help, more treatment probably won’t help
10. They take too many x-rays
11. Research on spinal manipulation doesn’t reflect what happens in chiropractic offices
12. Neck manipulation is potentially dangerous
13. Most chiropractors don’t know much about nutrition
14. If they sell vitamins, they charge too much for them
15. They have no business treating young children
16. The fact that patients swear by them doesn’t mean they are actually being helped
17. Insurance companies don’t want to pay for chiropractic care
18. Lots of chiropractors do really strange things
19. Don’t expect chiropractic licensing boards to protect you
20. The media rarely look at what they do wrong.

The first time I read this list, there was no number 19. I wondered if 19 was the one thing nochiropractor will tell you, not even Preston Long. Turns out it was just an inadvertent omission that was corrected in subsequent copies.

He started to realize his mistake during his first classes in chiropractic school. He wondered why he hadn’t learned about those displaced bones and all the devastating health problems they cause during his undergraduate studies in anatomy, physiology, and biology. He noticed that his teachers never mentioned how hormones help regulate the human body. Despite glaring doubts about this profession, he stayed, simply because he had no other place to go. He has lots of stories to tell about his first adjustment, the cheating he observed, and the inconsistencies in what he was taught.

He covers the history of chiropractic, the imaginary subluxation, the studies evaluating the efficacy of spinal manipulation, the economic abuse of patients, the reasons you should never sign a contract for chiropractic care, the risk of stroke with neck manipulation (with tragic patient stories), insurance frauds and injury mills, upcoding visits, regulatory abuses, and unethical practices of chiropractic boards.

As a practicing chiropractor, he observed many kinds of misconduct among his peers, from cynical marketing techniques to defrauding insurance companies. Intruding on the professional turf of South Dakota's REAL acupuncturists and the South Dakota acupuncture profession could also be added to that list.