According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, the percentage of adult low back pain (LBP) patients with one or more insurance claims filed for acupuncture increased from 0.9% as of 2010 to 1.6% ...

Safety concerns remain a significant barrier to appropriate referral from oncology teams, to use by acupuncturists and to ...

As Chinese medicine practitioners, we know that traditional Chinese medicine offers a unique, holistic approach to PCOS. This opens up enormous opportunities for our profession to fill the gap and ...

The Extraordinary Vessels are organized according to depth significance. The Qiao Vessels are seen as the more superficial or postnatal. Interestingly, they don’t contain (or require?) “opening” ...

No one is arguing that someone should get acupuncture instead of going to the emergency room when an appendix bursts, but countless people suffering from conditions dismissed as incurable or ...

“Ah, visualize it, and the stiffness and pain implied,” I advised. “Work initially in a chair. First of all, stroke down her ...

Dr. Amanda Archuleta is a nationally certified, New Mexico-licensed acupuncturist and board-certified herbalist. She attained her doctorate in acupuncture and oriental medicine from Five Branches ...

Brandon Hoffman is the market development executive for the American Acupuncture Council (AAC). He graduated from Arizona State University with a BA in Business and received a certificate in ...

Chinese medicine is quite complex and can be difficult for some people to comprehend. This is because TCM is based, at least ...

Emotions act as a warning sign to the practitioner, indicating what organs may be involved in a patient’s pattern of imbalance. One of my main treatment goals when working with these patients is to ...

Traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized. In Chinese medicine, if the body is not able to come back to homeostasis after a ...

Feeling the temperature begin to change in the fall, even if ever so slightly in the intensely warm climate of Texas, always reminds me of how the human body is intimately connected to our environment ...