This is the million dollar question that I get everytime a new patients calls, and I am sure most acupuncturists do as well. It is a very good question and to be expected, as acupuncture is a mysterious, new treatment for most Americans. The answer is...it depends. What affects the number to treatments needed? Are there any ailments that can Continue Reading
How does acupuncture on your foot help your headache?
Patients always ask "why are you putting needles in my foot if my pain is on my head?" They also ask that when treating infertility. "What do those needles on my legs have to do my with my ovaries or uterus?" Trust me it does, but why you ask? Acupuncture employs a number of different needling methods. One of the most puzzling things to patients Continue Reading
Pain During Pregnancy of the Low Back and Pelvis
I recently had a case of pelvic/lower back pain during pregnancy at my San Diego office that had me wanting to write a post. This woman was having a difficult pregnancy, so even fairly late term she was coming in for acupuncture. The pain was making sitting and working very difficult, as well as walking. She needed to keep walking to help manage Continue Reading
Is Acupuncture Painful? – San Diego Acupuncture Video
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 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
Introducing our New Massage Therapist
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. She also does hot 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
Did you “try” acupuncture?
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 pain. I Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture: Can Acupuncture help Golfer’s Elbow and Tennis Elbow?
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 that attach to the inside of the elbow joint. Continue Reading