Acupuncture and Cold Laser Therapy Blog

Peripheral Neuropathy is a condition that leads to weakness, numbness, and pain in the hands and feet. The severity can vary from mild...

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Reduce wrinkles with acupuncture. Why does our face look "older" as we age? There are lots of reasons. Smoking cigarettes, poor diet,...

Acupuncture improves stress, anxiety, and panic disorders. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the elections are almost...

Sooner or later, every woman will go through this. Some welcome it, others dread it as the inevitable sign of “getting” old. I’m talking...

Most of my patients seek out acupuncture for things like pain or injuries. While we can make massive improvements in these areas, we can...

Acupuncture is famous for reducing pain. Countless studies both on animals AND humans have proven that acupuncture’s action in reducing...

Migraine Headaches can be debilitating and leave sufferers bedridden with pain, dizziness, and nausea for days at a time. Several...

The question I am asked most often is "How Does Acupuncture Really Work". The easy answer is "It depends". On what? Well, on how you see...

Here in Arizona, our brief winter has already transitioned to spring.  Of course, along with our spring season comes allergies.  Sinus...

Most of us have already or will experience back pain at some time in our lives. There’s many reasons we feel back pain. Explanations can...

How many of you struggle with “aging knees”? Osteoarthritis of the knees results in swelling and pain in the knees due to the roughening...

Tendon-based injuries often occur in sports. Rotator cuff injury, knee damage, neck and back strain, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, and...

In these winter months, it seems no matter where we go, there’s someone coughing or sneezing around us. Aside from the evolving risk of...

When my patients finish treatments at my clinic, they often express how RELAXED they feel after the session. So what is really going on...

After severe injuries, many patients suffer not only bone, ligament, cartilage, and muscle damage, but also nerve damage. For the moment, we’ll talk about peripheral nerves. Whether these nerves are crushed or even cut, they WILL grow back. The problem is that they grow back VERY SLOWLY (on average, 1 inch per month). The overall sensations of nerve recovery are NOT a smooth journey. The feelings during nerve healing range from numbness to burning, itching, pain, and throbbin

In recent years, red light therapy has become increasingly popular. In fact, there are several red light therapy centers springing up across the Phoenix area. ​ What is Red Light Therapy? ​ Red light therapy is a variation on the term "Low-Level Laser" or "Cold Laser" therapy. When you hear "Red Light" therapy, it implies that the device uses LEDs (light-emitting diodes) rather than actual lasers. LED's, while they may be a specific color or wavelength, lack the unique proper

The story of the two wolves. This (from what I understand) is a Cherokee story. It goes something like this: One day, an old Cherokee man sits down with his grandson to teach him about life. “A fight is going on inside of me,” he says to the boy. “It’s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil – he is full of rage, jealousy, arrogance, greed, sorrow, regret, lies, laziness, and self-pity.” He continues, “The other is good – he is filled with love, joy, peace, generosit

When people say they have shoulder pain, it can mean many different things. Today we're talking about that specific pain JUST under the shoulder blade. It can radiate up to your neck or down the length of your back. Some describe it as feeling like an ice-pick being stabbed just under your shoulder blade. In some cases, it can lead to constriction of the brachial plexus, which is a cluster of nerves on the side of the neck that ultimately travel down the arm and fingers. Dama

If you’re active, you're going to have shoulder pain sooner or later. The reasons that give the shoulder joint so much mobility also leave it vulnerable to soft tissue injury. A large number of ligaments and tendons are used to hold our upper arm (humerus) in the shoulder socket. The shoulder socket is made up of both the shoulder blade and the collarbone. Any injury in one or more of these ligaments can leave us in considerable pain. Through overuse, impact trauma, and over-