The latest pro-athlete in the news to receive acupuncture is Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic.  He was treated over the weekend for a swollen knee, in preparation for Euro 2008 this week.  I think we're approaching the day when it won't be news that an athlete is getting acupuncture, since nowadays it seems more common than not.  I think it should only be news if a player ISN'T getting acupuncture for a sports injury!

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008/06/15/euro-ibrahimovic-sweden.html

At an American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago recently, new research was presented on acupuncture for head and neck cancer patients.  The study was done at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.   Seventy post-radiation patients were divided into two groups - one group had standard treatments and the other group had standard treatments plus acupuncture.  In the group which had acupuncture, 39% of patients reported improvements in pain and mobility.  In the group without acupuncture, only 7% reported improvements.  In my opinion, this is the direction medicine should be going - the integration of Western and Eastern approaches.  There's no reason why we can't take the best that each has to offer and have the best of both worlds.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNewsMolt/idUKN3140082420080531