Sign up and be the first to receive your monthly invitations for Acupuncture Today online editions. Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The eight extraordinary meridians, pathways of energy (qi), run deep within our bodies, and supply the 12 regular meridians with qi and blood, supporting our DNA or genetic heritage. They have no ...

As a practicing acupuncturist, I find that I continually wonder how a few well-placed needles can have such transformative results in my patients. Over the past 10 years I have read explanations that ...