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Gearing up for Cold and Flu Season with Acupuncture and Herbs

Most people happen upon Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine because of pain. Western Medicine seems to accept now that Pain can be treated using Acupuncture.  It is how a large percentage of people make the decision to try Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine. But Acupuncture and Herbal medicine treats so much more than pain. I very often hear feedback from patients whose pain I am treating that they are noticing all of these additional health benefits since starting treatment with me. In today's post I will be discussing Colds and the Flu. Colds, both Summer Colds and Winter Colds, are one of those great side effects my patients report experiencing much less frequently. People who their immunity seems to falter slightly as the seasons change notice if they start to experience that slight scratchiness in their throat, or a little running of the nose, don't seem to be as seriously affected by the change of seasons once they are being treated on a regular basis. The happens because

Acupuncture and Insurance

Acupuncture and Insurance by Stephanie Huth-lipnicki, LAc I wanted to help de-mystify Acupuncture and Insurance, because hey, it can be confusing. There are many companies who do cover Acupuncture, and there are many who still do not. We will always check to see if Acupuncture is a covered benefit through your policy. To do this we typically make a copy of your insurance card as well as your date of birth. So, let me try and help to make things clear with how insurance and Acupuncture coverage works. ·       IS ACUPUNCTURE A COVERED BENEFIT: The ideal answer we love to hear is yes it is a covered benefit. Sometimes, the answers we hear are things like, yes, but only for anesthesia – definitely not the favored answer. We have yet to meet the physician who allows us to come into their surgery to perform Acupuncture for the purpose of anesthesia. If the answer is no, don’t feel jilted. Only 1% of insurance companies nationwide currently cover Acupuncture at all. ·

Cookie Cutter Massages

In 1991 when I started my career as a Massage Therapist, one of the biggest battles I seemed to fight was certain stigmas that came with being a Massage Therapist. Most often I was faced, at the age of 17, with people who would ask if I was a Masseuse a term that had over time started to denote someone who did a little something extra out of the realm of Massage. Or people flat out asking did I give that little something extra at the end of the Massage. Or being put on the spot when I was out somewhere to give spot treatments to someone's neck or shoulders. Over the years of practicing, honing my skills, continuing my education,  learning advanced Massage Therapy techniques, eventually studying skin care, and then much later of course moving on to study Traditional Chinese Medicine,  I set myself apart as practitioner by having the ability to focus on specific conditions that people came to me were battling. I became an expert at helping people manage and alleviate multiple back