When Helene Langevin was practicing medicine, many of her patients came to her for pain relief, and she had little to offer them. Curiosity led her to a nearby school for training in acupuncture.
A few years later, Langevin transitioned to full-time research and began to study how acupuncture needles react to connective tissue.
“I could feel with my hands that something was happening. I felt a resistance to the needle manipulation, and there was no explanation,” says Langevin, who’s now director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health.
