Before I went to acupuncture school I was a massage therapist for over a decade.  All those years working on tight muscles has helped me a lot when I see a patient with pain related to musculoskeletal or sports injuries in my acupuncture office.  To treat a patient like this

When I see a new patient I often learn that they have never had acupuncture before even though they may have tried any number of other avenues to alleviate painful and debilitating conditions that impair their quality of life.  I often wonder why this is and why they didn’t pursue

  It seems that most people know that acupuncture is good for treating pain of all kinds.  Many of my patients have pain relief as their primary goal when they first come to see me. It is only after these issues are resolved that we turn to treating other things

I was recently talking with a female patient of mine about her menstrual cycle.  Like many women she experiences a lot of unpleasant symptoms before and during her period: nausea, headaches, loose stools, irritability, painful cramping, heavy bleeding and clotting.  Because many of these symptoms are common for women I