Category Archives: Acupuncture

Better Acupuncture

Electroacupuncture Initiates Cartilage Healing in Knee Arthritis By Dr. Andrew Godenick ND L.Ac You know the drill – wake up every day, desperately shaking off the sleepy brain fog, all the while pushing through stiff, achey joints.  While morning brain fog is a topic for another day, joint stiffness in the morning, aka “rusty gate


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Acupuncture For COVID-19 related Loss of Smell

By Hitomi Asano L.Ac Loss of smell is one of the most prevalent symptoms in people diagnosed with COVID-19. A recent study (Lechien et al. 2021) published in January 2021 showed that 85.9% of patients with a mild form of COVID-19 experienced loss of smell (olfactory dysfunction). 54.3% of the patients in the study recovered


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Better Acupuncture

Nourishing Stew for SoothingPainful Muscles & Tendons By Dr. Andrew Godenick ND L.Ac A very simple Chinese Medicine stew to benefit the muscles and tendons contains ingredients that may be purchased in the Asian food aisle of finer grocery stores almost anywhere. The stew is excellent for the treatment of tendinitis and muscle cramping but


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The power we give to dis-ease in our lives

Many forms of natural medicine consider a dis-ease of normal health within the body the beginning of the disease process. It is believed that most people encounter many minor forms of dis-ease before disease takes hold of us.  We tend to ignore these little nudges from our body in lieu of our overburdened mental noise.


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Better Acupuncture

Why eating a standard american diet is risky and nutritional supplements are necessary – Part I By Dr. Andrew Godenick ND L.Ac As a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, I have found that the great majority of my patients with chronic health concerns, that do not respond well to acupuncture (even when they are committed to


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Acupuncture Fun Facts

Personalized medicine refined over thousands of years. By Dr. Andrew Godenick ND L.Ac More and more people are searching for ways to combat illness, relieve pain and heal themselves without drugs or medications. It’s quite fascinating how acupuncture has become widely recognized for treating a multitude of physical as well as mental ailments. The following


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Maintain healthy immunity with Acupuncture

Its been four months since we’ve been told to shelter in place. Now, many of us are attempting to resume our lives, or at least, enjoy our summer. Some are attempting to cautiously widen their bubble, others are back to life as usual.  But in the back of our minds we wonder, and even fear


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Acupuncture is Preventative Medicine

Receiving acupuncture in a regular manner, is a means of health maintenance.  Like brushing and floss your teeth to prevent cavities, the earliest recordings of the application of acupuncture was to head off health problems before they occur, while allowing the mind, body and spirit to remain peaceful and harmonious.  The accumulation of daily stress


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Acupuncture and Immunity

Acupuncture for over 3000 years has been used for all types of issues, from relieving back pain to treating stroke. As the years advanced, a protocol becomes needed especially in todays age of evidence based practice, thus although there are 3000 years of acupuncture clinical treatments in treating and boosting the immune system, we have


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Pulse Diagnosis & Hemodynamics

Examining the pulse at the wrist is a common practice among acupuncturists and other healthcare providers. Modern medicine acknowledges the radial artery (major artery in the arm) to carry vital information, such as heartbeat, blood pressure, arterial stiffness and aging, pointing to significant factors that affect changes in radial pulse pressure obesity, hardening of your


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