Versandra Kennebrew, a massage therapist, opened a community-based holistic health center that helps people suffering from obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other disorders by using acupuncture treatments, massage therapy and herbs to relieve pain. Dr. Herbert Smitherman Jr., associate chairman of the department of community medicine for WSU and Detroit Medical Center, said, \"I believe that noninvasive procedures have been very helpful to patients that I see,\" he says.