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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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

Unfortunately, figuring out whether an acupuncturist is licensed is not as easy as it looks. Although the most common degree designation for an acupuncturist is LAc, some states use different titles ...

Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, ...

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 ...

Post-COVID-19 syndrome often includes persistent symptoms after the acute phase of the infection, such as loss of taste and smell. Photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) has shown promise in treating ...

The Small Business Association’s Vermont district office recently announced the Vermont Small Business Person of the Year for 2024: Dr. Kerry Boyle, a doctor of acupuncture and the owner of ...