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…
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Increase Fertility with Acupuncture: Articles
Acupuncture is an effective way for couples to boost their fertility. Because acupuncture helps to balance the entire body’s systems, other therapies such as IUI and IVF are more likely to be effective. Lifestyle solutions…
Boost Immunity with Acupuncture and Supplements This Flu Season
An estimated 30,000 Americans die each year from the flu. Most of these people are elderly, the very young, and the immunocompromised. One of the issues for the elderly is that their body’s ability to…
Chronic fatigue syndrome and acupuncture
Chronic fatigue syndrome is characterized by severe disabling fatigue and other symptoms such as musculoskeletal pain, impaired concentration, headaches, chronic pain, insomnia, depression. While the causes are not well understood, treatment in allopathic medicine approaches include…
How TDP Infrared Lamps Work to Speed Healing
I love using my TDP lamp in almost any treatment. TDP lamps are used in acupuncture offices to keep the patient warm and to promote healing of local areas. The TDP Lamp has been proven to…
Acupuncture Stops Pain via Brain Pathways
Study reinforces hypothesis that acupuncture influences brain chemistry. Read more at: http://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/771-hypothalamusgb34
Why Don’t Doctors Take a Lifestyle History … (but your OMD will!!)
Diagnostic clues can often come from a patient’s medical history. In my acupuncture practice I take a thorough medical history. In fact, most L.Ac.s and OMDs put aside 90 minutes to 2 hours for a…
Dr. Lanier’s view on recent story: 100s of gold needles left in South Korean woman’s knees
Every month or so a new story attempting to debunk acupuncture makes the rounds on the Internet. I saw this story in an obscure journal yesterday, now it’s in the Daily Mail, a UK publication.…
New Research Reveals Acupuncture Unlocks Frozen Shoulder Pain
In my practice, many patients have experienced relief from shoulder pain that has plagued them for years. Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, can not only be a very painful condition, the limitation in…
New CT Scans Reveal Acupuncture Points
Recent research shows the reality of acupuncture points on the body using CT scans – a series of X-rays used to create cross-sectional images of acupuncture points. They show up because they “have a higher…