The reality is that most people come to try acupuncture as a last resort. They've either reached a breaking point of dealing with a chronic issue, or exhausted all other treatment options and have nowhere else to turn. Despite the fact that all other conventional methods haven't worked for these individuals, acupuncture CAN often help. Even cases that seem mysterious and downright weird through the lens of Western medicine often make perfect sense in Chinese medicine. In s

Guess what! I'm actually not anti-dairy. In fact, I eat dairy regularly. Yay- bring on the cheese! Kind of.. Let's start at the beginning, and think back to our evolutionary history with dairy. It's interesting to consider the time when humans realized that we could procure consistent food from animals in the form of butter, yogurt, and cheese. We were likely consuming dairy well before agriculture was established. What an amazing development to maintain a source of fat

What did you do this weekend? Would you be surprised if mine was filled with acupuncture? I suppose maybe not.. After a lovely day in the office treating on Saturday, I had the opportunity to learn from the amazing Kiiko Matsumoto on Sunday! Kiiko, a Master in her own right, has trained and worked with several Japanese style acupuncture Masters. She integrates anatomy & physiology, Chinese Classic texts, and Japanese acupuncture style into her own powerful form of acupunctu

For the record, I'm not anti-Western medicine/surgery/etc! I think we have made wonderful advancements in so many areas of medicine. That being said, there are many things for which mainstream treatment options shouldn't be the first line of defense! Carpal tunnel syndrome is definitely one of them. Not only does this often get misdiagnosed, but it also often gets treated with surgery. Surgery that may fix the cause of the carpal tunnel pain, but can result in more hand/wrist