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

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

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