Event created by Scott Adams
Event details
Saturday, February 18, 11AM
Meeting Room 1, Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz
The featured speaker at this meeting will be acupuncturist
Cindy Laprocina, MTCM, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac., who will discuss
how acupuncture can help celiacs. (see below for more details).
After the presentation, we will have a potluck lunch and an
opportunity for dialog with Cindy. Please bring a gluten-free
potluck lunch item to share, along with the recipe or a list of
ingredients (as usual, this is optional for those too sick to
cook or who are unfamiliar with the diet). This meeting is
open to all who are interested in the topic. For directions
or more information, contact Pam Newbury at 831-423-6904
or pknewbury@earthlink.net.
Topic: "Acupuncture for Celiacs: Increase Your Vital Energy"
Acupuncture can help people with celiac disease to improve
functional energy and vitality. By tapping into your body's
innate healing energy, you can experience better digestion
and absorption, greater functional energy, and a healthier
emotional state. Acupuncture has anti-inflammatory,
hormone-regulating, adrenal-building, and stress-reduction
effects.
Cindy Laprocina, MTCM, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. earned her Masters
of Traditional Chinese Medicine degree from Five Branches
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, CA.
She is licensed to practice acupuncture by both the California
State Acupuncture Board and the National Certification
Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
In addition, Cindy studied integrated (East/West) sports medicine
at Five Branches Institute, treating patients with orthopedic
injuries in the school's Sports Medicine Clinic. Cindy also
received certification as a Medical Qi Gong Practitioner, an
intensive two-year program in which she participated while
earning her MTCM. In June 2004, Cindy visited Hangzhou,
China for an internship at Zhejiang Universityof TCM. After
earning her Bachelor's Degree in exercise physiology and
athletic training from San Francisco State University in 1993,
Cindy assisted some of the Bay Area's best physical therapists
in the rehabilitation of professional, collegiate, and recreational
athletes for many years. She also worked with amputee and
stroke patients in a San Francisco hospital. She now practices
a unique form of integrated holistic medicine, blending the best
of Chinese and Western biomedicine.