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The Air Force surgeon general is starting a pilot program in March to teach "battlefield acupuncture" to 32 Air Force doctors who will deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan by 2010.Col. Richard Niemtzow, an Air Force physician for 28 years, started practicing acupuncture in 1994. He designed the battlefield acupuncture treatments to help airmen deal with physical and mental pain inside the war zone. The treatments even include needles barely a centimeter long so they won't fall out when airmen wear their Kevlar helmets.
Acupuncture helped troops deal with traumatic injuries such as burns and severed limbs as well as post-traumatic stress disorder and general aches and pains, he said. Niemtzow said he is eager to train more doctors and get them to the war zone to see if his battlefield acupuncture treatments continue to work.
