When the prestigious Cleveland Clinic is on board for Oriental Medicine, the health conscious public and their doctors need to pay attention – particularly when they take it upon themselves to debunk myths about acupuncture.…
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Acupuncture and weight loss
People often ask me if acupuncture will help them to lose weight. While acupuncture itself will not cause unwanted pounds to drop from your body, regular acupuncture treatments help bring the body into balance and…
Ear acupuncture sedates anxiety
Feeling anxious? Who isn’t these days? Just watching the news can induce anxiety. Many of us have sleep issues, lie awake with our hearts pounding, and/or overreact to ordinary and predictable stressors in our daily…
Natural Awakenings Article by Anita Lanier – Try Acupuncture
From April 2014 Natural Awakenings Spring is time of renewal and change. As the weather grows warm and days grow longer, not only do we want to spend more time outside, the desire to renew…
Knee pain? Try acupuncture!
Knee pain can be a debilitating condition for many active adults. Sometimes pain is acute and caused by injuries to local tendons and ligaments, sometimes pain is chronic due to osteoarthritis that has developed over…
Finding muscles and joints you didn’t know you had?
As you return to hiking, softball, golf, running, and other activities this spring, are you stiff, sore, or aware of an old injury? Perhaps a rotator cuff tear, golfer’s elbow, Achilles tendon strain, or arthritic…
Choose a licensed Oriental Medicine Doctor for your acupuncture treatments
Recently some blurring of professional boundaries in the acupuncture profession has caused many Licensed Acupuncturists and Oriental Medicine Doctors concern – concern that should be shared by the public. For example, dry needling is the…
Studies Show Acupuncture Controls Pain
Recent research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concluded that acupuncture helped to control pain in patients participating in multiple high quality studies. These studies ranged from the US, UK, Germany,…
Acupuncture and Allergies
Each spring desert winds carry pollen, dust, and other irritants causing allergy sufferers here in the Las Vegas Valley to sneeze, cough, rub their eyes, and go through a lot of tissue blowing that runny…
Acupuncture Calms Anxiety Disorder – New Research
Acupuncture has many indications and a complete evaluation using tongue, pulse, and facial diagnosis will enable me to write a personalized treatment plan for your issues. Anxiety and its manifestations such as insomnia, palpitations and…