Lt. Col. Kenji Takado, a Pentagon flight medicine clinic flight surgeon, assists attendees during a battlefield acupuncture class on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 21, 2017. Battlefield acupuncture emerged in the early 2000s as a way to give quick pain relief treatment to troops in combat environments, and has since made its way into non-combat applications.

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