Remarkable Recovery from Hip Pain
78 year old woman comes into the clinic with chronic hip pain. She is also hard of hearing. She has been to a Chiropractor for a year and seen an orthopedist who prescribed pain control injections and sent her to physical therapy. So she has pursued the proper therapeutic modalities that one should in this […]
Acupuncture for Shoulder and Neck Pain In Stuart, Florida
Down here in the treasure coast area of Stuart and Port Saint Lucie (this are also includes North Palm Beach County like Hobe Sound and Jupiter), there are a lot reasons why shoulder and neck problems are the biggest reasons for people coming into Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture for treatment. Fr the younger crowd it […]
The Mission of Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture
Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture or TCCA is to provide low-cost medical care to the community of Martin, Saint Lucie and North Palm Beach County. The medical care we give is in the form of acupuncture, Chinese herbal therapies and natural medicine. If we can we will advise you on how to pursue conventional medical care […]
Acupuncture for PTSD
The use of acupuncture is an effective treatment in active-duty service members and can help entice reluctant patients to participate in conventional psychotherapies, according to experts in posttraumatic stress disorder. “By expanding the repertoire of therapeutic options, the use of complementary and alternative therapies such as acupuncture in the treatment of PTSD provides an element […]
New Study Finds Stomach and Heart Point Specificity
A new study confirms that acupuncture’s medical benefits are acupuncture point specific for its effective actions on the stomach, intestines and heart. Researchers discovered that needling acupuncture point CV12 increases HRV, heart rate variability, an important ability of the human heart to vary its rate in reaction to bodily demands. Needling CV12 did not affect […]
Acupuncture can help you quit smoking
Originally published at http://www.doctoroz.com By Jamie Starkey, LAc Over the weekend, I found myself at a social gathering in which there was a multitude of smokers. Typically, smokers congregate outside to light up, incredibly brave as they endure the bone-chilling temperatures that Clevelanders have all come to love. But at this social gathering, there was […]
A Chinese Art, in the Context of the West
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been in use for thousands of years. At your first evaluation, a practitioner will examine your tongue for clues like cracks and discolorations, take your pulse and ask numerous questions to determine what might be causing your symptoms. The practitioner will then insert fine needles at specific […]
Alternative therapies sometimes help, and almost always pay off 11/14/11
As hospitals elbow each other to attract patients, increasingly they’re hoping to tap into Americans’ interest in — and willingness to spend money on — complementary and alternative medical therapies such as acupuncture and massage. According to a recent survey by the American Hospital Association and the Samueli Institute, a nonprofit research group focusing on […]