3 Essential Back Stretches

Back stretches and exercises are a helpful in addition to acupuncture for back pain. These back stretches are an easy and helpful addition to help reduce chronic back pain.

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Relieve Back Pain with Acupuncture

Acupuncture relieves chronic back pain and back muscle pain by relieving muscle tightness, decreasing inflammation, and releasing natural pain killers.

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Recommending Acupuncture for Back Pain

Acupuncture has long been praised by patients and clinicians alike for its ability to treat back pain. Although the clinical research is unclear, many scholars and scientists are receommending acupuncture for back pain relief.

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Exercises for Opening the Shoulder, Neck, and Rotator Cuff

Acupuncture is remarkably effective at treating shoulder pain, neck pain, and rotator cuff injuries. I treat these issues with great success. I recommend these simple stretches as part of my approach to treatment and post therapy maintenance. A Wooden Hinge Gets No Worms There is a saying in Chinese medicine, “A wooden hinge gets no [...]

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Acupuncture for Interstitial Cystitis

I often treat women and men for the symptoms from interstitial cystitis (IC) or painful bladder syndrome (PBS) with very good results. I think this is because TCM has been treating syndromes with painful and frequent urination for thousands of years. So there has been significant amount clinical experience and scholarship about these conditions. What [...]

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Acupuncture Meridians that Treat Headaches

One way that acupuncture and acupressure work for reducing migraines and headaches is by treating pain along specific acupuncture channels (also called meridians). Different meridians go to different parts of the head, and you have to choose the correct one to be effective. Click here to read some background on acupuncture channels and points. Headache [...]

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Acupressure for a Kid with a Headache

Last week I was over the in laws’ place in Queens for dinner. It was hot and humid. After we cleared the plates, when the thunder and lighting started booming, my nephew, Jacob, suddenly got a headache. The pain was dull throughout the right side of his head, with an intense pain in the middle [...]

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Heat Illness: A Balance of Yin and Yang

In New York City we have already had a number of heat advisories this July. It is important to stay cool and hydrated to avoid getting heat stroke or exhaustion. Symptoms of chronic illness often flare up during heat waves. This can occur due to the extra stress on the body from the weather, but [...]

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We’re Having a Heat Wave

Here in NYC, we’re having a heat wave. It is important to stay cool and hydrated. Here are a few of my favorite posts with tips from the Chinese Medicine cabinet to stay healthy in the summer. Cooling Summertime Tea Summerime Eight Treasure Tea Chinese Medicinal Recipes for Summer This weather can also exacerbate chronic [...]

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How Acupuncture Works to Relieve Pain

For years, much of acupuncture research has focused on the release of opiates and other pain relieving chemicals in the brain. In practice, acupuncturists often choose points that are close to the painful area. However, the research on the brain does not answer how this technique, needling close to the area of pain, works to [...]

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