I would like to introduce our new massage therapist Adria Ross.  She is actually more then a massage therapist.  She is an HHP (Holistic Health Practitioner).  That’s a lot more training then just a massage therapist.
Adria has been trained in a wide variety of modalities from Deep Tissue to Reiki, as well as Fertility Massage.  [...]

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There has been a number of stories about acupuncture being used by Olympic athletes.    Indeed for the first time acupuncture is being offered at Olympic Village.
Tony Smith, the Canadian Gymnastics Team coast decided to try it for chronic lower back pain, after nothing else she had tried helped, and was “amazed” at the results.  She is [...]

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So what exactly is in those little needles that I stick into people?  This is actually a really common question patients ask me.  People want to know what can be making them feel so relaxed, or be making their pain go away.
Well there is no medicine, or even herbs in, or on an acupuncture needle.  [...]

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A long time ago, before I became an acupuncturist, a co-worker’s husband related an amazing story to me about his experience with acupuncture.  After being plagued for years with low back pain, he had amazing results after just one treatment from an acupuncturist back on Long Island.  He said was playing tennis later that week without [...]

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With all the buzz about the US Open in San Diego right now, I thought I’d write a short post on how acupuncture can  help Golfers get out of pain and play better.  Pretty much everything I say for golfers applies to tennis players too.
Golfer’s Elbow is an acute, or chronic inflammation of the tendons [...]

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Headaches are one of the top pain complaint seen in our office, right up there with low back and neck pain. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can provide a powerful natural solution for many types of headaches, including chronic migraines.
There are three main types of headaches for which people seek out alternative medicine. All [...]

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Australian researchers, conducting a study with nearly 3,500 women in several countries compared the effectiveness of Chinese herbal medicine to other therapies, and a placebo in relieving menstrual cramps.  Menstrual pain effects half of all women, and an even larger percentage of teenage girls.
The lead author Xiaoshu Zhu from the Centre for Complementary Medicine Research [...]

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