Benefits of Acupuncture to Medicine and Care

Many authors like David Alimi, Thomas Burgoon, Chin Chan, Tomás Dawid, Silvia Elenkova, Francisco Lozano, Hedi Luxenburger, Carlo Moiraghi, Chun Lee Oei-Tan, Petja Piehler, Paola Poli, Patrick Sautreuil, Karin Stockert, Konstantina Theodoratou and Marcia Yamamura (ICMART – International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques) made a contribution to this book.
All the authors of this book are medical doctors, colleagues who have worked together for many years in ICMART, the International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques, in a beneficial exchange of experiences, practices and how they apply Medical Acupuncture in their own various environments. ICMART was founded in 1983 in Vienna and now represents over 80 medical member organizations, with more than 50,000 individual doctors. In this book, the authors present a selection of the wide variety in medical acupuncture applications, and its purpose is also to advance its further insertion into integrated healthcare systems.