Think of your most difficult patient – the one you try to motivate and work so hard with to develop a realistic treatment plan with achievable and measurable goals. Week after week, you see this ...

Laser therapeutic targeting can be traced back to ancient TCM practices, particularly via light, moxibustion, and acupuncture/acupressure. Low-level laser therapy can ...

As we move into the Year of the Snake, let’s embrace the snake’s deep-thinking nature and ask ourselves four important questions, all of which relate to a single journey: advocating for our medicine ...

Medication remains a mainstay treatment option, making nondrug alternatives critical to safer practices. New research suggests auricular acupuncture may be one such alternative; specifically needling ...

Arthritis literally means “joint inflammation.” Any movable joint in the body can be affected. The common syndrome between them is blood stagnation – sharp pain in a fixed site. Heat excess ...

Chronic GERD has now become the most common digestive complaint I see in my clinic. Chronic digestive issues such as GERD are always a nuanced mix of excess and deficiency, and such a nuanced ...

One of the questions I always ask new patients is, “Have you ever had acupuncture before?“ On many occasions, the response can be smug: “Yeah, I tried acupuncture ... once. It didn’t work.” As ...

A patient may be allowed 24 visits per year, but that visits must be medically necessary and for a covered condition for which acupuncture has been approved. When a patient has a plan with acupuncture ...

The popularity and the use of acupuncture for the treatment of animals in the United States is at its peak. Today, it is not uncommon for our patients to be four-legged dogs or cats seeking relief ...

Parkinson's disease is defined in Oriental medicine as a symptom of "convulsions" and falls under the liver-wind pattern, with a deficiency of body fluids and blood not nourishing the sinews and ...

The electromagnetic spectrum is a very significant component of the human energy system. It acts as the interface between the physical dimension and more subtle energy fields operating in the body.

Most Americans have some back discomfort in their lifetime. Back pain is most often caused by a muscle or ligament strain or spasm; a disk problem; spondylosis; or stenosis. Stress can also be a ...