A treatment for vision related disorders such as macular degeneration, diabetes, glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa.

I received definite improvement in both my eyes. It’s been three years and my eyes have stabilized. That’s important that they don’t get any worse.
Grady Brown, Jr. Hickory Creek, Texas

These are actual letters written by patients treated with MicroAcupuncture™. Many of them are willing to share with others about their experiences. If you would like to talk with any of our "willing" patients, please contact us and we will provide you with their contact information.

Testimonials are in chronological order.

Mildred Milsak

April 24, 2007

Before I started coming to the Arkansas Therapy Center I brought my husband to have eye treatments. After he died I went for an eye exam and was told I was at the beginning of macular degeneration and he said for me to eat green veggies. Other than that I would go blind in a few years as there was no known cure. I told him I knew where to go for help and he rolled back on his stool and told me again to accept that I would go blind. I went home and called for an appointment to see Dr. Otte located in Hot Springs Village shopping center. I started treatments in 1998 and now I am treated by Dr. Ryan.

Once a year I go in for a “tune up” and I have great eye sight including 20/20 vision and no eye glasses. Twice I have gone in for an eye exam and I was told my vision was 20/20 and there were no problems. When I told them the story they were surprised and never heard of a treatment being available.

Elaine Pinkerton
Longview, TX

February 2, 2006

I would like for anyone with macular degeneration to know about the Arkansas Therapy Center. In 1999, at the age of 59, I was diagnosed with MD and was told there was nothing that could be done. Basically, I was told to go home and go blind. The same week, one of our local TV stations had a special on the Arkansas Therapy Center and the great results that they were getting with eye treatments. I called the next day. What a wonderful thing that acupuncture can help your eyes. Dr. Per Otte started treating me in 1999. I go back to Arkansas for a week or two each year.

Dr Lizbeth Ryan has been doing treatments at the clinic since 2003. As always, when someone new takes over you wonder if the treatment will be the same. My results get better all the time. I don’t think there is a cure for MD, but this will prolong my eyesight and has already done so for 5 years. My eyesight is actually getting better. Thank you Dr. Ryan for continuing in Dr. Otte’s clinic. I feel secure and confident that my eyes are in good hands.

Sometimes I feel like I’m on a soap box, referring people to the clinic that I meet or who call me about MD. But what great news I get from these people, some who could not read are now reading and using there computer keyboard again. Some are driving again. And some are thrilled at being able to watch TV and read road signs. I continue to tell all that I meet about the clinic and Dr. Ryan.

What a great clinic with nice caring people, and you meet people from all over the US and some from other countries. It’s a great feeling to see so many of us with MD with smiles on our faces and hope in our hearts. It’s wonderful to know you don’t have to sit and wait to go blind. I have a family history of MD. My Grandmother and one of my uncles were blind. With the help of Dr. Ryan we can win. I feel that my eye care is in very good hands.

Richard Slinde
Northbrook, Illinois
10/5/2005

Dear Dr. Ryan,
Just a note to say thanks for all that you have done for me. Your knowledge and experience on macular degeneration and related eye disorders is encyclopedic. My eye condition with angioid streaks has been put into a stable state, due to your acupuncture treatments on me. I know this because I have just returned from my appointment with the head of ophthalmology at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. He has just informed me that my eyes have changed little to none in the last few years. I attribute this to your treatment and vitamins. Thank you once again for all that you do for me.

Dudley Bland
Age 47
Lambert, Mississippi
2/1/2005

When I first went to the Arkansas Therapy Center I was legally blind. January 1, 2004, I was handling dynamite and by doing so I got a large charge of nitro glycerine. It went through the skin and caused the blood vessels in the eyes to rupture. After the hemorrhage, in March of 2004, I came to the Arkansas Therapy Center. My sister’s boss, who had eye problems related to MS, had gone to the clinic and recommended it to me. It took a few weeks to get over my skepticism, but I knew I had nothing to lose. I asked Dr. Mayo in Oxford, MS, whether he thought it was a good idea to go to Arkansas and he told me that since they have been doing acupuncture for over 2000 years there’s got to be something to it.

After a week of treatments, I was able to drive part of the way home. I couldn’t believe it could work that fast. I kept improving for three weeks. I went to my regular eye doctor and with my glasses I was seeing at 20/30 in the right eye. I couldn’t believe it was that good.

About 7 to 8 years ago I had a hemorrhage in the left eye and the doctors removed the vitreous jelly and put in a silicone oil implant. It’s still there. Then the doctors did cataract surgery and put the wrong implant in. After that first trip to Arkansas, there was some improvement in that eye as well.
There are a lot of people that are very skeptical about the treatment working. I have seen people give that old horse grin in disbelief. I have seen people roll their eyes. Every time I see this I thank God and Dr. Ryan that I can see. If these people don’t believe and choose not to see that is their choice and privilege. I am just proud I can see.

In that first week of treatment, the scan on Wednesday showed some improvement but on Thursday I was in the hotel room when I began to see the writing scroll across the bottom of the TV screen. I picked up the Bible. I could read the top page of the Book of the Bible. This was the first thing I was able to read in 3 months. I was so excited.

When I returned for my second visit 10 months later the staff did a visual field scan on my first day. The scan looked so good that Dr. Ryan insisted that I retake the scan because she thought I might have been trigger happy. The second scan showed the same level of improvement as the first.

Larue Barnes
Clebourne Texas

August, 2004

What is this treatment? My husband, E. J., and I went to Hot Springs Village to find out. He has dry macular degeneration in one eye, and although not yet disabled, we were eager to maintain his current vision or to improve it. His sister, Elizabeth Hewlett, heard Mrs. Ledbetter share her good news at church.

The Arkansas Therapy Center is located on Highway 7 North just outside Hot Springs Village, 15 minutes from Hot Springs and one hour from Little Rock. The place looks much like any other business in a strip mall. Our accommodations were across the parking lot in the Village Inn.
Patients meet with Lizbeth A. Ryan, a doctor of oriental medicine, and chief Micro Acupuncturist ™ there. After testing, a visual field scan is recorded on computer and interpreted. E. J. explained, “Dr. Ryan was surprised that my eyes were not worse than they were when she learned I had been diagnosed with macular degeneration eight years ago. I told her I had been taking intravenous chelation treatments and antioxidant vitamins on the advice of Dr. Joe Martin, and she advised me to continue both.”

Next, he entered a room filled with daybeds. He took his shoes and socks off and I watched as within seconds, Dr. Ryan picked up slender pin-like needles and quickly popped them into shallow acupuncture points located on the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet. One was added in each temple and one in the center of his forehead. That was it. He admitted the needles stung at first, but there was no pain. Soon the stinging stopped. He lay there for 20 minutes; then Dr. Ryan removed the needles.

He came back two hours later for the same thing, and then had another treatment in the afternoon. With only a total of an hour’s treatment each day there is plenty of time to vacation in the Hot Springs area.

After the treatments the next day I drove a cart for E. J. to play golf at a nearby country club. He was amazed that he could see better without his glasses than with them. He was able to track the golf ball 250 yards with no difficulty. His visual scan on Wednesday showed marked improvement.

On Wednesday, August 12, (the third day of treatment) he learned that Micro Acupuncture ™ could also possibly help the arthritic pain in his hip. He asked for that, and 18 additional needles in different places in his hands and feet were used while he had the treatment for his eyes.

Since then, six weeks later, he says he has been entirely free of pain in his hip. There is still slight stiffness after he has been seated for some time, but this soon subsides. Dr. Ryan also recommended copper bracelets, which he has worn faithfully since that time.

Thel Breedlove
January, 2004

I’m sure I am one of the many thousands that have been told they have Macular Degeneration. What a terrible shock. My ophthalmologist put me through many tests. End results, I was told I was losing my eyesight and there was nothing medically that could be done.

My sister-in-law, knowing my diagnosis, saw a presentation on TV given by Dr. Otte discussing Macular Degeneration and an acupuncture treatment he had developed that could possibly save my sight.

I was skeptical at first, but later proven very wrong.

My first screening was in April, 1999. This confirmed that I had severe Macular Degeneration. After the first series of treatments, my vision improved significantly. I have been returning every 12 to 18 months for continued therapy, and my vision has been stabilized for the past two years.

I now sit on our back deck watching the golfers and following that little white ball to the green, some 150 yards away.

Thanks to you Dr. Otte, I now drive, watch TV, read, and play cards. In short, I lead a normal life.

Thel Breedlove
Georgetown, Texas

Ruth Ledbetter
Joshua, Texas

I believe that if something doesn’t work you need to stop doing it. Search for a better way. Don’t close your mind to new ideas. If somebody tells me there is nothing they can do to help my eyes, that I will be blind---I have to explore every other option out there for myself. I took a gamble and went to Arkansas. It paid off. If my eyes stay like they are now---that’s all I need. I know my macular degeneration will not be cured. But my vision has drastically improved and it is staying there. That’s what matters .I tell people about this and some are afraid to try. I just can’t understand that attitude.

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