{"id":234012,"date":"2020-04-23T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/?p=234012"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:55:03","slug":"can-acupuncture-help-with-copd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/can-acupuncture-help-with-copd\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Acupuncture Help With COPD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/conditions\/copd\">Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease<\/a><span>\u00a0is an incurable condition that develops over time because of damage to the lungs. For many patients, this damage is the result of many years of cigarette smoking or exposure to other airborne irritants. Western medicine currently offers no cure, but the condition can generally be well managed with medications,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/best-hospitals\/rankings\/rehabilitation\">pulmonary rehabilitation<\/a><span>, oxygen therapy and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-care\/patient-advice\/articles\/2017-05-19\/what-are-the-surgical-treatments-for-copd\">surgery<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-care\/patient-advice\/articles\/2017-04-06\/what-are-the-current-treatment-standards-for-copd\">standard treatments for COPD<\/a>, you may be considering pursuing acupuncture or another holistic treatment to help manage your COPD and its symptoms, or perhaps your doctor has recommended that you try a complementary treatment.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; column_structure=&#8221;2_5,3_5&#8243;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; type=&#8221;2_5&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Oswald|||on|||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#0c71c3&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;right&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; type=&#8221;3_5&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.3&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span>By\u00a0<\/span><span><span class=\"Span-aabx0k-0 eYSguz\" size=\"3\"><a class=\"Anchor-s1mkgztv-0 jUurly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/topics\/author\/elaine-k-howley\" letter-spacing=\"0.6\" prefix=\"\\00ab\\00a0\">Elaine K. Howley<\/a><\/span><\/span><span>, Contributor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/usnews.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"31\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234016 alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-care\/patient-advice\/articles\/2017-08-04\/can-acupuncture-help-with-copd<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease\u00a0is an incurable condition that develops over time because of damage to the lungs. For many patients, this damage is the result of many years of cigarette smoking or exposure to other airborne irritants. Western medicine currently offers no cure, but the condition can generally be well managed with medications,\u00a0pulmonary rehabilitation, oxygen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[42,44,43,41,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234017,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234012\/revisions\/234017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234012"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southbaylo.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=234012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}