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Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and The Wellness Center at the LAC + USC Historic General Hospital recently joined forces to extend care to the residents of Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. The agreement will place Yo San University student interns at TWC’s facility, housed in the…

On March 4th and 5th the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) held a successful first annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Attended by representatives from 21 of 24 state association members and four of approximately 14 non-voting state associations, as well as representatives of ACAOM, CCAOM, NCCAOM, and invited guests,…

The Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine (JTS) was founded in 1998 by Sean Christian Marshall in Sugar Grove, North Carolina, a small community near Boone in the state’s westernmost mountains. Early in its life, JTS aligned with Cove Creek Preservation and Development (CCP&D), a community based non-profit, toward…

I’ve written previously about allowing a patient to tell you their story – about taking the time to listen and engage all the aspects of their case history, the injury in question, and the related issues. Most patients come in with legitimate complaints and seeking your help – but you…

Individuals may view the concept of debt differently. The ability to eliminate debt may prove to be daunting due to the lack of understanding the true and final costs of borrowing and not setting goals on how best to approach the task of its elimination.

Everywhere you turn, practices are facing tremendous disruptive pressure to join the digital world. The real issue is how practitioners are dealing with this change. Transforming your practice from offline to online is a huge shift for most seasoned practitioners. For those in business prior to the Internet, the very…

How many enjoyed the movie, “A Late Quartet” about a world famous string quartet? Remember when the cellist-founder attends a movement class for his encroaching Parksinsons? The therapist tells the group that Parkinsons tends to “shrink everything,” steps, movement and so on. She then flings open her arms and advises…

Pharmacokinetics is the study of the actions of drugs in the body over a period of time. Key elements in the kinetic process include the extent and rate of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion.

When I see Facebook videos about babies and small animal pets, I have no hesitation to click “like.” These are two Facebook cuties, before which people would have their hearts melted down, especially those new parents. Some find the interaction between these two cuties is even more appealing. With the…

I have been teaching NCCAOM preparation courses for the past six years. I would like to share some tips on how you can pass the NCCAOM licensing exam on your first try, based on my teaching experience. I hope that you can benefit from the following tips.

When I was first learning about five phase theory, during an independent study class in college, I was also taking a microbiology course. Over the course of the semester, I was increasingly mesmerized by the elegance of each approach to understanding health and disease. It also seemed that these two…

Alex Feng, OMD, PhD, LAc, reached out to me after reading the Acupuncture Today article I edited about Integrative Medicine in a Hong Kong hospital (“A Model of Integrative Medicine,” January 2016). He wished to share some information with the AOM community about his integrative clinical rotation at Highland Hospital…

In late October 2015, I had the opportunity to join the Japan 6 tour of acupuncture masters. This tour, the sixth to be offered, was organized by Stephen Brown, Jeffrey Dann, and Heather Suzuki and sponsored by the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College (AIMC) in Berkeley.

When I started my practice in the eighties, one of the main reasons people visited acupuncturists and herbalists was for fatigue. This included Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The first time I heard the term “Fibromyalgia” was several years later, although many of the patients experiencing chronic fatigue also had musculoskeletal pain…

Q: How or when or do I use unspecified and other diagnosis codes in ICD10? I am confused when it comes to using codes that state unspecified. I see there are three codes for extremity pain codes. There is a code for right, left and unspecified. I have heard from…

A “bucket list” is a list of things to accomplish, experience, etc., before you die. We can’t tell you what to fill that bucket list with; after all, it’s entirely personal. What we can do is provide you with suggestions for how to stay healthy long enough to complete your…

You might be asking, invested in what? And, how much should I invest? What is meant by investing? Our first thought is usually investing money in the stocks and bond market. We most commonly think about investing in the future, but what about the present? What about investing in right…

In our field, names have been a contentious topic of discussion the last several years. We may agree that it is best to remove the term “Oriental” from our vernacular, but few agree on what should take its place. In the July 2010 issue of Acupuncture Today, Dr. William Morris,…

ICD (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) is a numbered list of codes managed by the World Health Organization (WHO), for Western Diseases, Symptoms and Medical Conditions, designed to measure mortality and morbidity data. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has yet to be officially given ICD codes for…

Physicist William Thompson, better known as Lord Kelvin, introduced a new way to measure temperature in 1848. Although the existence of an “absolute zero” was widely accepted in the scientific circles of his time, Lord Kelvin was the first to calculate the mathematical formula for the scale that bears his…