Bring Your Lab Test Results When You Come In For Treatment

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  When you have xrays, mris, or blood work done at your m.d.'s office, retain a copy and bring the test results when you come in for your acupuncture treatment.  I am trained in both Eastern and Western medicine and evaluation of your blood work gives me great insight into your treatment program and illness.

Acupuncture Treatment For Traumatic Sports Injuries To Knees

Traumatic sports injuries to the knee may be significant precursor events to early onset of posttraumatic osteoarthritis. A MRI is an integral tool to identify structural injuries to articular cartilage and cartilage degeneration.  Acupuncture therapy has long been used to treat traumatic sports injuries for both the professional and amateur athlete.  Elimination of pain, increase in range of motion, and reparation to minor tears of articular cartilage and other connective tissues are common treatments in my clinic.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  got bad knees?  Want to participate in your favorite sport without pain?  Want to perform better?  Call or email the office today and make an appointment.   Join the hundreds who have regained their quality of life and their favorite sport by having acupuncture therapy.
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Columbus and The GPS

I never really understood the celebration of Columbus Day.  The Stock Market is open, schools are closed.  Some businesses are open, some are not.  Throughout my prior career, I never had Columbus Day off, so it was never a big deal, but always left much for contemplation.
Columbus was a Genoese (there was no unified Italy for another 300+ years or so) who believed in the concept of a 'global' world, not a flat and linear earth.  It wasn't the Genoese who funded his first journey to the Indies, it was under the Spanish flag he sailed.  He didn't sail with veritable seaman, but prisoners and Sephardic Jews (remember, the Inquisition was alive and well then) - all who were given a choice to either rot in jail or take their chances to sail off the edge of the world with Columbus.  Columbus, like Moses was lost - let's face it.  Moses wandered throughout the desert for 40 years and Christophe just went the wrong way; he made a left out of port instead of a right.  Columbus certainly didn't end up in India, but found a wild, beautiful continent full of natural resources he named the "New World".  It was Amerigo Vespucci who figured out the real American deal....I've always wondered why we don't celebrate Vespucci Day....we did name the land after him...hmmmmm.
The bottom line here is this:  Columbus and all his peers used the tools available at the time:  a compass, a ruler, the stars.  I think these guys had guts and did pretty well for themselves (forget Moses - he was just lost!).  Just imagine if the explorers had a GPS?

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Quite often, I hear people 'poo-poo' modern medicine because they want to be 'natural'or criticize Chinese Medicine because it's 'foreign' to them.  Today, we have the tools available to detect diseases before they make us suffer, we have diagnostics and certain drugs that help cure us.  We also have Chinese Medicine which has been around for over 3,000 years and has been used worldwide integratively with allopathic medicine to ensure the best possible treatment to our patient population without harmful side effects.  Quite often, new patients come to my office because although they have had MRIs, xrays and diagnoses, they still have had no relief  from symptoms with surgical or pharmaceutical care.  Examining diagnostic imaging gives me the tools I need to treat my patients effectively and efficiently with outstanding results.  So, be smart!  Take advantage of all the tools available to you - acupuncture, xrays, nutritional counseling, yoga, exercise, and don't forget FUN - for your best health care regime.
There will be no blog this upcoming Monday.  I'm declaring it "Kelley's Day" and taking the day off for some self celebration.  And as a friend just reminded me for all you pasta eaters out there...macaroni originates from China.  It's as old and sustainable as Chinese Medicine.