Using Acupuncture on Marines in War
Channel: Devil Dog
Date: 2013-12-17

Navy Lt. Orlando Cabrera has spent the last two years incorporating acupuncture into his bag of medical treatments for service members in the military. Cabrera spent the last several months using acupuncture to help service members deployed to Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, where he treats everything from anxiety to battlefield related trauma. Cabrera said he is a physician first, and uses traditional medicine whenever it is most appropriate. However, he has seen the success of acupuncture on his patients, and he has experienced it's effects first hand.

Read the entire article and photos here:  http://www.dvidshub.net/news/118246/pins-and-needles-navy-doctor-branches-out-with-deployment-medicine#.Uq8GH2RDvDg

This video is from the Department of Defense and as such is in the public domain. Any copying, editing or reproduction is authorized and encouraged.