Veterans
News from the NADA Trainer Community
We wanted to share with you the very sad news that Michigan trainer, Tyrone Chatman, passed away in March from cancer. Tyrone became a trainer in the 1990s in Detroit, and brought NADA services to the Michigan Veterans Foundation (MVF), of which he was the CEO. MVF...
Veterans Integrative Pain Center PBS Video
 Brilliant 3-min coverage of NADA at the Veterans Integrative Pain Center at the McGuire VA Medical Center. The NADA section of the video starts at 8:24. Nice interview, Mark Farrington! (Mark Farrington is a NADA trainer in...
Serving Veterans and Their Families in Maine
by Marie Arnberg Maine has more veterans per capita than most other states – and it also has a high number of veterans’ acupuncture clinics. The Portland Veterans’ Acupuncture Clinic (PVAC) started in 2008,...
Spotlight on ADS Success: Pain Clinic at a Veterans’ Hospital
For three years, Mark Farrington has provided NADA, qi-gong, mindfulness meditation, biofeedback and psychotherapy at The Veterans Integrative Pain Center at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. The focus of the clinic is training...
Health for Heros
A Veteran of the Iraq and Afganistan Conflicts talks about his healing with Acupuncture and NADA through the VA Veteran's Choice Program. Evan Shepherd Reiff L.Ac. - NADA 2016 Video Contest
Veteran’s Integrative Pain (VIP) Center: A program for high risk patients on chronic opioids
Hunter Holmes McGuire VA | Richmond, VA Maggie Roma ANP-BC | Clinic Administrative Coordinator Objectives: Acknowledge the scope of the opioid epidemic and understand how we got here Present a solution to problem: A Stepped Care Approach Introduce the...
Making the Case for Veterans
by Jan Young, DNSc Read full document (PDF)
Veteran’s Affairs Evidence Based Guidelines for PTSD
Clinical Practice Guideline For Management of Posttramatic Stress published by the Dept. of Veteran's Affairs (VA) /US Department of Defense (DoD). This evidence base manual includes a section on acupuncture, pp 176, assigning a "Good" quality of evidence to...
Grassroots Colorado Program Enters 2nd Year Serving Local Veterans
by Sarah Meier What began as a humble, once-a-week NADA clinic in the basement of Durango, Colorado’s Veterans of Foreign Wars—where veterans themselves arrived early to help set up—has expanded to three...
Military Needs Can be Partially Filled by Acupuncture
Employee Use and Perceived Benefit of a CAM Wellness Clinic a Major Military Hospital Alaine Duncan, Janet Liechty, Cathy Miller, Gail Chinoy, & Richard Ricciardi May 15, 2011 link to full document (.pdf) Plenary Session II_Military Needs Can Be Partially...