A1C is a blood test used to measure your average blood sugar over the past 3 months. It’s commonly used to diagnose diabetes or prediabetes and is the main test used for managing diabetes. High A1C levels are linked to complications with diabetes such as heart disease and nerve damage. It’s very important to know […]
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Many of you know I came to acupuncture out of desperation to heal an 18-month long coccyx injury. About three weeks ago, I fell down a flight of steps backwards on my butt. (Stupidly, I decided to sit at the landing at the top of the steps to wrap a gift and I forgot where
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I’m often asked if acupuncture “really works”. To some degree, I understand the skepticism. I was once a grave skeptic myself. On the other hand, things that don’t work or have no use don’t typically survive several millennia. The earliest published documentation of acupuncture dates back to approximately 100 B.C.E. in the Chinese text Huangdi Neijing,
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According to the CDC, Stroke kills about 140,000 Americans each year—that’s 1 out of every 20 deaths.Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Every 4 minutes, someone dies of stroke (2017). Acupuncture is a 3000 year-old medicine that works to stimulate specific points on the body with fine needles, massage, heat, herbs or other mechanism to
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