Calm Community Acupuncture

Can Acupuncture really help with pain? Chronic pain is the most common thing that I see in my Acupuncture practice. I get phone messages about it, emails, and direct questions daily about whether or not acupuncture can help with knee pain, back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, ankle pain, and even “all over” pain. The short answer is, yes, of course Acupuncture can relieve your pain, I see its success every day, but there is more to the story if we are talking about long term

Are you deficient in magnesium? If you are suffering from any of the following symptoms, you may not be getting enough of an important mineral, magnesium. Anxiety and panic attacks High blood pressure Insomnia Chronic head aches and migraines Fatigue Depression PMS, infertility and severe menstrual cramps Fibromyalgia Chronic muscle pain Osteoporosis Asthma Reynaud’s Syndrome Chronic constipation Restless Leg Syndrome Some studies show that an estimated 80% of Americans are n

I’m so serious when I tell you that our weight loss program WORKS. We’ve just completed another 6 week session and one amazing lady lost 20 lbs! More importantly though, each of the others in the group either changed dramatically, changed perspective, lost weight or, at the least, they’re feeling transformed. What’s changed for the better! Now that we’ve had 3 full groups of people, we have learned so much! We’ve tweaked a few things here and there and even come up with a con

Have you heard about our life changing weight loss program? The success of this program is exceeding our expectations, in just 6 weeks, we’ve had people losing up to 15 lbs, in this recent group! This weight loss program isn’t another gimmick, it’s not a magic bullet, it’s hypnosis and acupuncture together, designed to change your relationship with food, designed to access your subconscious mind to create REAL change, and we help you clarify what you should be doing to achiev

We have just completed our very first Virtual Gastric Band program, utilizing hypno-puncture for weight loss! This program exceeded our expectations and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome! Naturally, we’re ready to start another program and we’re looking for 6 people who want to be a part of something revolutionary in the weight loss field. We are offering a 6 week intensive program that incorporates acupuncture and hypnosis for weight loss. Gary Urso is our clinical hyp

Does Acupuncture work? Is it good for back pain? What about knee pain? What else do you treat? Do you think you could help me with trigeminal neuralgia pain? I’ve heard Acupuncture is good for infertility! Can you help me lose weight? This is a day, well an hour, in my life. I get emails, voice mails, text messages, you name it. It seems that after over 40 years of acupuncture being practiced in the US, millions of treatments, there are still so many Americans who feel like a

When I started Calm Community Acupuncture, over 5 years ago, the very first thing that I found difficult to treat was weight loss. People come in to get acupuncture for knee pain, back pain, diabetic neuropathy, sleep apnea, all disorders that could improve, if the patient could only lose weight. One acupuncture treatment helps to curb cravings for sweets, helps promote relaxation and even boosts metabolism, but if the patient can’t control the diet, the weight loss isn’t sus

When I started acupuncture school, there was no such thing as community style acupuncture and if there was, I certainly wasn’t shown it in school. We were only taught private setting acupuncture. I found that private business model, the one we were taught in school, to be unsustainable for me and for my patients.  I knew they needed more acupuncture, 2 or 3 times a week, but I also knew their story, and I knew that they couldn’t afford 3 treatments per week for $75 each. As f

Why don’t more Americans use Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine as a therapeutic modality for pain and other disorders? Is it fear of the needles? Lack of evidence? Maybe it’s just too foreign a concept for most of us. I found myself inspired to write again yesterday, for the first time in over a year. The inspiration came while I was listening to some friends talk about their health issues. I was at a party and I was listening in on two runners discussing their knee pain. They

I heard a representative on a Humana commercial say  “Our Doctors have the best percentages of properly diagnosing disease, that means, we do a better job of keeping you healthy.” Let’s think about this for a moment because it is to become my message to you on this blog over and over again. Read that quote again and really think about it. Does properly diagnosing disease keep you “healthy?” Is it your insurance companies job to keep you “healthy?” Is it your Doctors job to ke

I have had one cold and one flu like virus every year for the past 14 years, possible longer, but those are years that I can map out. I can remember the exact moment when the sore throat hit and the fever started, for the past 14 years. Last year, I was at the Nutcracker with my Mom and my daughters and was FREEZING COLD, when I got home and could not get warm, I KNEW. One reason that I remember it so well is that I feel so good the rest of the year, that one virus that knock

I think I’ve posted the story before about my first ever acupuncture treatment. Read my story HERE.  After years of being abused by Western Docs, Acupuncture made me feel AMAZING, really amazing. It calms me to this day, the minute the needles go in, I feel heavy and deeply relaxed. There are endless articles on google about how acupuncture doesn’t work, or that there isn’t any research to prove it, or that it’s just placebo. That’s just total craziness, I know it is because

Happy Sunday Calm Chatters! I’m super motivated right now to get all of these thoughts about Acupuncture out of my head and into this blog post! I admit, I’m sick of it, I hear it 10-20 times a week, “does acupuncture work? does acupuncture hurt? what does it feel like? Unfortunately, after 10 years in practice, I’m becoming desensitized. I’ve repeated my answers so many times and I’m so convinced of my thoughts on the subject and so successful in my practice that I don’t fee