Links to Community Acupuncture clinics around Seattle. Our network is growing!

■ The Pin Cushion on Capitol Hill
■ Communi-chi on Beacon Hill
■ Community Acupuncture Project of Columbia City
■ Shoreline Community Acupuncture
■ Grassroots Community Acupuncture in Fremont
■ Green Point Acupuncture in Queen Anne
■ Community Acupuncture Studio in Olympia
■ Peoples Acupuncture in Bellevue

Other links about Community Acupuncture and acupuncture in general

■ The Community Acupuncture Network Website
■ Google Map of all Community Acupuncture Clinics in the USA
■ Working Class Acupuncture (the first Community Acupuncture clinic)
■ The World Health Organization Report on Acupuncture Effectiveness:
■ National Institutes of Health Acupuncture Page

Important links to other healthcare organizations

■ At the North Sea, our primary purpose is to provide effective and affordable acupuncture for you. Our secondary goal is to help you find affordable health care for other types of medicine. To that end, we want you to know about NeedyMeds.Org. NeedyMeds is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or health care costs. The information at NeedyMeds is available anonymously and free of charge.

NeedyMeds is a great resource for finding and applying to Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), for knowledge about the costs associated with specific diseases or conditions, for information about Government Programs at the state and federal levels that assist low-income residents, and a source of discount drug cards.

When you need affordable acupuncture, please think of us. When you need other low-cost care, please check out NeedyMeds. They are an absolute wealth of knowledge and guidance.

■ Mesothelioma Center: Acupuncture has been linked to alleviating the nausea associated with chemotherapy and the pain incurred from the constant surgeries that cancer patients undergo. The Mesothelioma Center provides what you need to know about asbestos exposure and offers the most current and comprehensive information of mesothelioma symptoms and mesothelioma chemotherapy They have a complete list of doctors, cancer center, and alternative treatment facilities in the US.

■ Mesothelioma.com is another excellent website for mesothelioma information. Malignant mesothelioma is the most serious of all asbestos-related diseases. Although uncommon, mesothelioma is no longer considered rare. Like the Mesothelioma Center, Mesothelioma.com has an excellent list of mainstream and alternative care practitioners, including acupuncturists, who provide effective care.

■ National Headache Foundation: A small but increasing number of US physicians have found acupuncture to be a useful part of their practice, despite the inability to explain in terms acceptable to their colleagues how they obtained favorable results by this method of treatment. Thus every day in the United States and elsewhere, thousands of patients are being treated with acupuncture for a variety of issues and reporting favorable results.

■ Arthritis Foundation: It’s been about 2,000 years in the making, but acupuncture may now be propelled into the mainstream. New research shows that the two most common forms of arthritis – rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis – are among the conditions treated with acupuncture.