Many clients at my San Diego acupuncture clinic tell me they have recommended acupuncture to their friends and family members, but they won't try it, because they believe acupuncture (needles specifically) will hurt. Because of this fear, many people who can use acupuncture are afraid to try it, when actually an acupuncture treatment is not a Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture Articles: Why the Warrior mentality Keeps men off the treatment Table
Why is it so difficult to get hubby to get a check up, treat a medical issue, seek treatment for stress or mental health? What is it about men that cause them to blatantly ignore dire health warning like hypertension, and keep on keeping on? Why would any sane human insist on laying down some hardwood flooring in the middle of a major sciatica Continue Reading
Acupuncture San Diego: Preparing for IVF with Acupuncture-What you need to know
If your like a lot of people who see me at my San Diego office, you are seeking acupuncture to assist with the success of your IVF cyle. Perhaps you just heard about fertility acupuncture, and are wondering if it is too late at this point, or it can still help. Here is how acupuncture can benefit you: Fortunately. acupuncture can help at a number Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture: Monthly Acupuncture Treatments
While not ideal for acute situations, such as sudden back pain, or for a new patient, a monthly, routine acupuncture treatment has a myriad of health benefits. I have a number of patients who come in to my San Diego Clinic for monthly treatments for many years now. Why is monthly acupuncture so beneficial? After seeing a patient on a weekly basis, Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture: Can Acupuncture Help With Stress and Insomnia?
Stress is epidemic in modern society. It is the root of a host of disorders from irritable bowl syndrome, insomnia to hypertension and many more. In my San Diego Acupuncture office I see stress playing a major complicating factor in everything from fertility to pain issues. Here are some of the ways acupuncture can help: Stress mobilizes the Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture Fertility: Three Dietary Tips That Can Boost Your Fertility
The patients of my San Diego acupuncture clinic who are seeking treatment for fertility problems often ask me "what can I change about my diet that can improve my chances to successfully become pregnant?" I want to share three major tips Traditional Chinese Medicine has to offer women trying to conceive. And yes, men can benfit from these as Continue Reading
San Diego Acupunture: Golfer’s Elbow
As a follow up to an older post about tennis elbow, another recent patient of mine came in to my San Diego Acupuncture clinic with his wife for fertility boosting prior to an IVF cycle. In the process, I first helped get rid of his nagging, golf-related upper back pain. We then focused a few teratments on his golfer's elbow (inner elbow pain). All Continue Reading
Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture
We are now offering facial rejuvenation acupuncture treatments at our San Diego office. My associate Heidi Brockmyre L.Ac. is a Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist specializing in facial rejuvenation. She is a co-founder of Forever Young Aculift Skin Care System™. With the help of two experienced estheticians, she developed products that combine Continue Reading
Acupuncture at the Olympics
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 now Continue Reading
What’s in an Acupuncture Needle?
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. In fact, the needles we use are so skinny it would Continue Reading