The Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, along with Acupuncturists Without Borders, will offer free, walk-in trauma- and stress-recovery treatments today from 1 to 5 p.m.
The treatments are intended to help anyone in the community who has suffered in the aftermath of the Jan. 8 shootings.
The 30- to 45-minute community-style acupuncture treatments will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis by volunteers using five tiny one-time-use needles inserted in the outer part of each ear. People who are treated typically feel a tiny pinch when the needles go in, but proponents say that quickly subsides and gives way to deep relaxation.
Acupuncturists Without Borders provides trauma-recovery services nationally and internationally using ear acupuncture as well as other protocols.
The groups has offered its services to people affected by Hurricane Katrina, the Iowa floods, the California wildfires and the Boulder, Colo., wildfires, as well as traumatized populations in Nepal, Ecuador, Mongolia and Haiti.
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The event will be at the Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 4646 E. Fort Lowell Road.
For more information about Acupuncturists Without Borders, go online to www.acwb.info
