Acupuncture for pain management -- According to recent statistics, more than one-third of Americans suffer from some kind of chronic pain -- pain which can prevent the body from healing and from effectively fighting disease and which may thereby diminish the overall quality of life. At the same time, medication often prescribed for pain may be extremely costly and involve severe side effects. Yet in fact pain can be effectively treated and managed: acupuncture, recognized by the World Health Organization for its ability to treat chronic illness and manage pain, is very effective in treating musculo-skeletal and neurologic pain -- such as arthritis, neuralgia, sciatica, back pain, stiff neck, tendonitis, headache and migraine -- as well as gastrointestinal and gynecological pain. Traditional forms of Asian medicine, including acupuncture and herbology, have constituted the primary modalities of health care in China for the last 5000 years because by correcting underlying bioenergetic imbalances and helping to restore the body's natural balance and strengthening the immune system, they effectively target the roots of illness -- and do so with virtually no side effects.

Natural, effective and drug free treatments for women's and men’s problems – Chinese medicine (which includes acupuncture, moxibustion and Chinese herbs) has been used for centuries to cope with many sensitive issues in women’s health. By restoring energetic and metabolic balance (homeostasis), nourishing the blood and smoothing the flow of energy, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) helps women to regulate their menstrual cycle and eliminate pre-menstrual symptoms; by restoring essential endocrine functions and regulating the secretion of hormones, improving the blood flow (circulation), and nourishing the uterus, TCM can help women who have difficulty in conceiving or in maintaining a pregnancy; by regulating body metabolism and strengthening overall health – especially by balancing the Yin and Yang, and also regulating hormone secretions, we help women to get through menopause as smoothly as possible.
When you come to see us, we can help with your PMS, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, polymenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, or metromenorrhea.
If you wish to see us for infertility, we can help regulate the menstrual cycle and hormone levels, improve the function of the ovaries, enhance your body’s response to IVF and ART procedures, alleviate stress, promote relaxation, and advise in creating a balanced environment, including diet, in which life may flourish anew.
Together with their partners, we also treat men in coping with fertility issues -- through promoting the function of the male reproductive system, regulating the hormone levels, increasing the number, quality and mobility of the sperm, increasing libido, reversing premature ejaculation, nocturnal emissions and erectile dysfunctions.
For pregnant women, we treat morning sickness, vomiting and nausea, and support the maintenance of pregnancy, prevent miscarriage.
For menopause, and peri-menopausal syndrome, we can very effectively treat the hot flashes, insomnia, irritability, mood swings and weakness, and foster less extreme swings from heavy to blocked menstrual bleeding.

Acupuncture for musicians -- When we sit down to enjoy music or go to a concert hall to spend quality time, many of us have some sense of how much work the musicians have done to create this phenomenon of musical composition and performance, to develop such sophisticated technical skills, and to provide us with such great treasures for the enrichment of our lives. Having years of experience myself as a musician and teacher, I know that in the course of preparation some three-fourths of instrumentalists come to suffer from different types and degrees of practice-related ailments. Many musicians do not at first notice the development, gradually -- from years of practice and from the sheer difficulties of required performance techniques or grueling rehearsals -- of tense postures, tendonitis, severe tightening of individual muscles or of whole muscle networks in the shoulders, arms or wrists, and down into the lower back, which can lead eventually to pain, whether mild or excruciating, that will in turn contribute to increasing stage fright and other syndromes of physical and psychological discomfort.
Therefore, we need to work on both the physical and psychological aspects: on the purely physical side, these include the muscles, tendons, and joints. We work to relax the tightened muscles and muscle networks and to alleviate the pain, with the goal of giving the muscles a chance to repair and to absorb healthy nourishment.
Inasmuch as acupuncture affects the brain and the central and peripheral nervous systems -- stimulating the secretion of endorphins and encephalins and of norepinephrine and acetylcholine -- it can by these means also help to promote a relaxed, positive and highly alert psychological state; such a state in turn fosters more rapid bodily repair, reduction of pain and a sense of well-being in daily life, thereby helping a musician once again to function at his/her best under the stress of public performance.