Treating TMJ pain with Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine
What is TMJ Pain? TMJ pain can be anywhere from distracting to debilitating. TMJ stands for temporomandibular joints, referring to the anatomical structures that...
Dry Needling is Acupuncture
There is a common misconception that dry needling is fundamentally different from acupuncture, that while dry needling treats pain, acupuncture works on supposedly...
About Acupuncture
Eastern medicine is a term to describe systems of medicine that developed over thousands of years throughout China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Eastern medicine...
Acupuncture Tools
Balancing the Body Without Needles Chinese medicine is most well known for acupuncture, using very thin, flexible needles inserted at specific points on the body to...
About Gua sha Tools
Gua sha is a versatile technique for relieving pain and resolving restrictions in the myofascia. Gua sha has its roots in ancient medicine and is still used today by...
Scar Therapy with Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine
What is a Scar? A scar is fibrous connective tissue that patches up an area of skin or muscle that has been injured in some way either from a burn, cut, infection, or...
Styles of Cupping
Cupping as Medicine Cupping is a healing modality with ancient roots that is still widely practiced today. Traditionally cupping was used to treat disease by pulling...
About Scraping Therapies
Gua Sha, Graston, IASTM. There is sometimes confusion about the different types of scraping therapies and what kind of practitioner can use them. These are all...
The Heart in Chinese Medicine
The Emperor "The Heart is the emperor, the supreme controller. The Heart is the fire at the center of our being, from which the spirit radiates." -Neijing Suwen (Yellow...
Gua Sha
Gua sha is a traditional healing technique used for thousands of years, and is still a part of formal Chinese Medicine training today. Gua sha alleviates pain,...
About Cupping
Cupping is an ancient practice used almost universally in traditional healing arts. It is still practiced today in many forms of holistic medicine. Cupping uses...
Acupuncture Needles
Acupuncture needles are hair-thin, flexible, and designed to glide into points that are empty of nerve, bone, organs, and vessels, but full of potential vitality and...
Moxibustion Heat Therapy
The Chinese character for acupuncture, zhenjiu, means "acupuncture-moxibustion". Moxibustion provides penetrating warmth, pain relief, and increased circulation. Both...