American Acupuncture Project

Oriental medicine is a complete medical system that has been used to diagnose, treat and prevent illness for thousands of years. Acupuncture is a part of that system and refers to the insertion of small, sterile, hair-thin needles into specific points of the body. There are many techniques and styles of acupuncture.

If you only think of chiropractic care when you've hurt you're back you're missing an opportunity to keep the entire body healthy. While chiropractors are amazing at alleviating back or joint pain and other structural issues, resolving issues with the spine allows the mind and body to communicate effectively.

The herbal formulas that we prescribe were developed from their use as food over thousands of years. Just as we use spices like nutmeg, pepper, coriander or other ingredients in our food today, the explorers of herbal medicine realized that these ingredients have medicinal effects on the body.

We now have thousands of proven herbal formulas from which to choose when making recommendations for any specific condition and can often modify them to work for each unique patient.As a food, herbs and herbal formulas generally have mild, if any, negative side effects making them easier to manage as a component in any plan of care.

What we put in our body may be the most important aspect to establishing and experiencing perfect health. Our bodies are amazing gardens that take the fuel we give them to think, act, grow, live, laugh and play. We are able to explain where you might need to make changes in your diet and how those changes affect your health.

Acupuncture treats a wide range of conditions because it focuses on restoring function to organ systems, muscles and tissue while working directly with the nervous system. This means that acupuncture is highy effective when used to treat pain of any kind including back, neck, shoulder, muscluar and joint pains.