Dr. Tuesday Wasserman received her Master of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine in 2010, and her Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Health and Science  in 2017. Currently, she volunteers as chair of the insurance committee for the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, and chairs the Medicaid committee for the American Society of Acupuncturists. In addition to advocacy, she is passionate about creating jobs for acupuncturists and building bridges within the medical community; to that end, she has participated in education and lectures for continuing medical education, launched and continues to support the acupuncture team at the Birth Center of Boulder, and serves as the current program director for PCHS's transitional DACM department.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
Research supports the effectiveness of selecting the distal acupuncture points for the treatment of microtrauma and for relieving pain, particularly in cases of chronic shoulder pain. But to make the treatment results long-lasting, clinical experience and research suggest that instead of treating the most painful structure first, we identify the inhibited driver, restore reliable recruitment, confirm it with immediate re-testing, and only then address the painful area as a branch of a deeper pattern.
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The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.