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1 Minute for Neck Pain Relief
Ask the Acupuncturist: Hey Everyone! It's your friendly Portland neighborhood Acupuncturists. Today we want to talk about working from home, ergonomics and neck pain. So many people are getting neck pain right now as they work from home….does that sound...
The Best Detox Diet
Ask The Acupuncturist: The Best Detox Diet Hey Everyone! Your friendly Portland neighborhood acupuncturists here! You know the old adage: "You are what you eat." The food we eat is one of the most important keys to living pain free, improving our mood, and...
Car Accidents and Rapid Injury Recovery
Ask The Acupuncturist Car Accidents and Rapid Injury Recovery Hey Everyone! It’s your friendly Portland neighborhood Acupuncturists. Did you know that acupuncture can help you with car accident recovery, healing from a sports injury, or recovering from a surgery?...
Acupuncture and Arthritis
Ask The Acupuncturist How Can Acupuncture Help with Arthritis? Hey Everyone! It's your friendly Portland neighborhood Acupuncturists. Today we want to talk about how acupuncture can help with arthritis. Portland winters are famous for cold and rain. A lot of people...
10 Ways to Stay Healthy In the Smoke
Ask The Acupuncturist: Forest Fire Smoke and Health Hey Everyone! It's your friendly Portland neighborhood Acupuncturists. Forest fires are everywhere on the west coast. The smoke is having a huge impact on people's health. Here in Portland, we can't see farther...
Acupuncture for Stress Relief
Ask The Acupuncturist How does Acupuncture help for Stress Relief? Hey Everyone! It's your friendly Portland neighborhood Acupuncturists. Honestly, I'm always trying to "Look on the bright side of life" (Monty Python reference intended). I can, and do count my...
Acupuncture: 7 Tips to Kick Colds and Flu
Hi Everyone! It’s your friendly Portland Neighborhood Acupuncturists here at the WellBridge Clinic. February is peak of Flu season and our mission is to make sure you stay healthy and recover quickly. Today our focus is on how nutrition, herbal medicine, and...
How Acupuncture Treats Concussion and Brain Injury
Your brain is a fascinating, complicated central processor made up of roughly 100 billion neurons! Traumatic brain injuries (TBI’s), commonly referred to as concussions, have gained increasing medical attention recently to quickly diagnose and treat patients and...
Concussions and Acupuncture – 7 Things You Can Do Right Now
Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can have long lasting effects on our mental, emotional, and physical health. You know that being on top of your game is crucial. Clarity of thought is the gift that keeps on giving. Who can afford that that brain fog...
Ten Days to Increased Energy
“Let thy medicine be thy food, and thy food thy medicine.” – Hippocrates 400 BC Chinese medicine and acupuncture recognize that our diet is the foundation of our health. Regardless of culture, the importance of diet upon health is the oldest wisdom. Acupuncture sees...
Acupuncture for Whiplash
Whiplash is a complicated and painful condition that should not be ignored. At The WellBridge Clinic we specialize in gentle, effective acupuncture treatments to get rid of that pain in the neck. If you have whiplash from a car accident or other injury, we recommend...
Acupuncture and Insomnia
Is your mind working overtime into the night? Maybe you wake up and can’t fall back a sleep? Prescription medications can knock you out but is your head in a fog the next day? You can have better sleep with acupuncture and Traditional East Asian Medicine. There are...
Acupuncture for Stress, Anxiety & Depression
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by emotion? Maybe its anxiety or depression. Difficult emotions are something that all people experience, but they don’t have to be a problem. The mind and body are intertwined. Chinese Medicine and acupuncture are based upon the...
5 Ways to Stay Healthy for Cold and Flu Season
It’s cold and flu season again! As an acupuncturist I’m always working to make sure that people are staying health and getting better quickly. Let me give you a couple quick tips to ensure you stay strong and energized. It is important to remember that bacteria and...
Acupuncture and Brain Signals
Acupuncture helps your body repair itself in many different ways. Right now scientific research is using acupuncture to better understand how the body is actually working. Let me give you an example of one way acupuncture works. People often wonder why an...
How Does Acupuncture Work?
Acupuncture and Electricity Have you ever been in pain? Probably, we all have. Maybe it was back pain, neck pain, headaches, or sciatica. Acupuncture is one of the best ways to help you get out of pain. There are many ways acupuncture helps to restore balance and...
What is Acupuncture
Does your body need a tune up? Have you ever been driving down the road and the Check Engine Light on the dashboard turned on? Did you ignore it? Did you rip the Check Engine Light from the dashboard? No, you go get it checked out. Symptoms are the body’s way of...
What Does Architecture Tell Us About Acupuncture?
Ever wonder how and why acupuncture works? Have you ever seen a building as it was going up? Picture a house or better yet, a tall building with cross beams. Just like in the body, these cross beams rely upon each other dynamically to support the entire building. That...
Acupuncture and Frozen Shoulder Pain
Do you have a frozen shoulder? Is it getting difficult to even put your clothes on? Frozen shoulders are the worst! Lucky for you acupuncture can help thaw out that frozen shoulder. Shoulder pain is very common and it’s so frustrating for people to have their doctor...
Low Back Pain and Acupuncture
Some of my favorite people are the most skeptical. I want to share “Henry’s” story with you. (I changed his name). Henry is 81 years old and he has been suffering with severe low back pain since his retirement almost 20 years ago. He thinks it all started in 1973...
Acupuncture for Headaches
Does pain from headaches haunt you? If you are reading this you probably know that headaches can last for hours, days or even weeks. Even the sound of children laughing can be torture. Headaches might be common, but they are not normal. Acupuncture offers an...
Stay in the game with acupuncture
Do you ski or snowboard? (if you don’t, then translate to your favorite sport) You keep your boards waxed and your edges sharp, right? Are you keeping your body tuned up? Don’t endure pain. Pain is your body’s way of communicating to you that it needs attention…a...
Allergy Relief With Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the perfect solution for long term allergy relief. Allergy treatment with acupuncture will include acupuncture, nutritional advice, herbal medicine, and moxabustion. Stuffy noses, itchy eyes, sinus headaches, and eczema can be a thing of the past. It is...