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Advances in Postacute Rehabilitation After Childhood-Required Brain Injury: A Focus on Cognitive, Behavioral and Social Domains was published in the September 2006 American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

It’s only August 26th and believe it or not.. I am almost ready to put my boat up on blocks. You believe it? I know Sept. and Oct. are the best months to boat in, but with the pace of my household.. I am afraid I have time for little else. Don’t get me wrong, I love love love this boat, but as soon as my wedding anniversary hits (yesterday) I feel like calling summer quits. I’m even looking at the fall crafts and halloween accesories at Michaels Crafts! Am I pushing it? I have my pumpkin candles already burning on our kitchen table. I usually do that until the end of Sept?! It was a long summer and I’m ready to settle into school, homework, karate, football, musical instruments and all that childhood has to torture me with. I’ll keep you posted~
Out to enjoy the east coast Indian Summer!

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Researchers at the University of Tasmania have identified a particular protein in the brain which is vital to the growth and repair of damaged nervous system cells.

After completing my education in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I returned home to central NY faced with the decision of where to set up my acupuncture practice. My husband, who had been quite busy running our family orchard business and waiting patiently for my return, suggested that I use some space behind the apple grading room and run my practice on the farm. I definitely knew that that was not the serene and professional image that I was going for! “Aw, c’mon”, he said. “You can call it your apple-puncture clinic, and we can have a new slogan – “come in for a prick and a peck!” My husband has a weird sense of humor. But, “a prick and a peck” does prompt me to think about the differences between the philosophies of western and eastern medicine. As a member of the NY Apple Association, they provided us with a display poster for our farm stand. It proclaims the nutritional value of the apple. Did you know that the apple contains 85 calories, has no fat or cholesterol, is low...

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Out of everything that I have learned in my study of Chinese medicine, I think the theory behind auricular acupuncture is the most fascinating. The Chinese have used points on the ear to treat disease in the body for thousands of years. But as recently as the 1950’s, Dr. Paul Nogier of France, did his own mapping of the body on the ear based on the theory of superimposing an inverted fetus over the structure of the ear. Using this somatotopic representation, the ear lobe represents the head, the feet are towards the top of the ear and the body is in between. The outer edge of the ear (the helix curve) corresponds to the back of the “baby” as it lies inverted in the womb. Once you see this image taking form, you will see that the raised ridge on the ear (the antihelix) represents the spinal vertebrae. All of the internal organs are located in the innermost part of the ear. The heart and lungs are in the lower depression (the inferior cavum concha) and the intestines, kidney and...

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