We had a fabulous time this past weekend in Nashville attending the POCAfest. It’s a semi-annual affair to allow community acupuncture enthusiasts to come share, reflect and empower the work we do. The meeting is unique for a number of reasons but one major one is that not only do acupuncturists go but so do … Continue reading
This past weekend Louisville Community Acupuncture had the amazing opportunity to support community on the airwaves. ARTxFM is a community supported radio station that has been operating in an online capacity for a few years now and has just made the HUGE leap to the FM dial. If you’re not quite sure what community radio … Continue reading
If you start typing “Black Friday” into google now it will probably start showing you results for things like “DEALS” or “Ads” or “chaos”. And you can find millions of photos like the one below. And apparently it’s not enough for shoppers to compete against themselves for the goods anymore, now they are having the … Continue reading
We are starting to dip into the Chinese pharmacopeia here at Louisville Community Acupuncture and one of our first main thrusts is to use herbs to make tendon soaks for soft tissue injuries. For just a quick explanation, Chinese herbal prescribing more often than not utilizes formulations of herbs as opposed to the more Western … Continue reading
We recently had our first “negative” review on Yelp. (We will not get into a discussion of Yelp’s limitations here.) It was one of those lazy, three line reviews. Where you almost wonder more what the person’s impetus for writing the review was rather than what the person actually said. But their concluding line was … Continue reading
A couple of patients pointed out to me that the Courier-Journal ran an article on dry needling last Friday. As a board member of the Kentucky State Acupuncture Association I felt it was in our profession’s best interest to reply to the article with a letter to the editor. So I want to use this … Continue reading
The original purpose of a New Year’s resolution was to pay off your debts in the old year and reclaim the new year fresh. At the start of the 21st century 40% of Americans were doing something just like that, shedding the old and in with the new. There are similarities over the years or … Continue reading