Whether the patient pays cash and you give them a superbill or the patient sends the bill in to their insurance company, documentation is always required. Have you looked at your history / examination ...

According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, the percentage of adult low back pain (LBP) patients with one or more insurance claims filed for acupuncture increased from 0.9% as of 2010 to 1.6% ...

Safety concerns remain a significant barrier to appropriate referral from oncology teams, to use by acupuncturists and to ...

As Chinese medicine practitioners, we know that traditional Chinese medicine offers a unique, holistic approach to PCOS. This opens up enormous opportunities for our profession to fill the gap and ...

No one is arguing that someone should get acupuncture instead of going to the emergency room when an appendix bursts, but countless people suffering from conditions dismissed as incurable or ...

The Extraordinary Vessels are organized according to depth significance. The Qiao Vessels are seen as the more superficial or postnatal. Interestingly, they don’t contain (or require?) “opening” ...

“Ah, visualize it, and the stiffness and pain implied,” I advised. “Work initially in a chair. First of all, stroke down her ...

Chinese medicine is quite complex and can be difficult for some people to comprehend. This is because TCM is based, at least ...

Traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized. In Chinese medicine, if the body is not able to come back to homeostasis after a ...

When I was a young student of acupuncture, the channel system I was most intrigued with was the extraordinary vessels. Described as the foundation, I initially wanted to always treat with this channel ...

Herbal ingredients offer multiple mechanisms of action, resulting in multiple health benefits. There may be no greater example of this than curcumin. With so much information to choose from, it’s ...

In clinical trials, acupuncture has repeatedly been shown to be effective at treating conditions like low back pain, chronic pain, and migraine. Its herbal medicinals have been shown to have ...