Liver Cheese Stagnation

Woman meditating

Liver Qi stagnation, resulting from stress, could be the root cause of a lot of your symptoms.

Why Inflammation Matters

Back Pain

Short term inflammation is how your body recovers from an injury and is essential to your health. Long-term inflammation must be addressed by identifying what is continuing to create it and giving the body the resources it needs to address it.

What is Dry Needling?

Female athlete

Dry needling is a form of acupuncture that is not for everybody or every condition, but when used appropriately can be very effective at producing fast results

Acupuncture for Sports Injury in Austin, TX

Man stretching on track sports medicine

Acupuncture, and the full scope of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that an acupuncturist utilizes, is a full system of medicine that views the individual as a holistic unit. Because of this, we treat the whole athlete and are able to more effectively help the recovery process and prevent injuries in the first place compared to many single modalities.

Acupuncture for Arthritis!

Hands holding cup of tea

May is Arthritis Awareness Month in the US, so it seems like the perfect time to dive into a topic that I get asked about a lot. More specifically, I usually don’t even get asked a question, but instead get some version of a statement such as: “I have a lot of knee pain, but I’ve had x-rays and they’ve confirmed that I have arthritis, so there’s really nothing that can be done unless I have surgery…”

What is Cupping Therapy?

Woman treated for stress relief with cupping

By now you’ve probably seen the marks. Athletes, celebrities and probably some of your friends are sporting circular marks on their backs and shoulders that make it look like they got into a fight with a vacuum cleaner. Those marks are from cupping therapy, and are different from typical bruises in important ways. Typically, bruises occur […]