Calm Community Acupuncture

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