Blue Heron Acupuncture-People

Blue Heron Acupuncture-People Blue Heron Acupuncture is a general family practice providing high quality, individualized healthcare for a wide variety of health conditions.

I utilize acupuncture, Chinese herbs and nutritional counseling to promote health and wellness for patients of every age throughout all stages of life. Many people initially come to see me because they are experiencing distress or discomfort and are seeking immediate relief. While acupuncture is a very powerful tool for alleviating the symptoms of pain and illness, there is so much more that this

medicine can do. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complete system of health care widely used in many places throughout the world. TCM treats a large variety of acute and chronic conditions as well as helping with health maintenance and disease prevention. In fact, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) both endorse acupuncture as an effective treatment for many common health problems. I strongly believe that acupuncture and herbs should be an integral part of any individual’s plan for wellness because TCM not only addresses the symptoms of illness, but also the root imbalances that can cause disease in the first place. Ultimately, I view successful health care as a collaboration between patient and practitioner. At Blue Heron Acupuncture I will work with you to develop a personalized treatment plan that utilizes your body’s own natural capacity to heal itself. You will experience compassionate, effective care in a relaxing, supportive atmosphere that will help build and sustain your health and maximize your sense of well being and quality of life.

12/15/2025
12/13/2025

More and more I am seeing chiropractors and PTs offering what they call ‘dry needling’. This is unlicensed acupuncture, plain and simple. A form of orthopedic acupuncture where you are manipulating the muscles and trigger points to treat pain conditions. A ‘dry needle’ is simply that, a filiform acupuncture needle that does not contain any meds or injectable’s (dry). To become ‘a certified dry needler’ all one has to do is take a weekend course with a max Of 27 hours of study and then said dry needler somehow feels qualified to go out and begin inserting needles into their clients to treat their pain conditions, because let’s face it- ACUPUNCTURE in all forms works really well for the treatment of pain- After all it has been around for 1000s of years!

Please do your due diligence and if you are looking for pain relief find a licensed acupuncturist who practices orthopedic style acupuncture. This is far safer and can avoid a lot of undue harm as I have heard many stories of clients being injured or suffering pneumothoraxes (lung punctures) at the hands of unqualified professionals.

To become a licensed acupuncturist one must complete a 3 year master program, 1800 hours of clinical internship in needling techniques while treating patients and pass 3 board exams before you can be qualified enough to insert and manipulate needles in someone as a licensed health care provider.

Let me put it another way: I personally would never as a licensed acupuncturist take a weekend course in chiropractic and then go on to adjust people’s spines.
I wouldn’t take a weekend course in physical therapy techniques and believe it is in my scope of practice to assign rehab exercise programs to clients.
I personally went to school for nutrition before acupuncture school and I still do not feel qualified enough to write diet plans for clients and instead refer them to a licensed dietician since that is in THEIR scope of practice and what THEY do best.

On our website is a reference guide to consider. I guess part of the issue falls on us as licensed acupuncturists to better educate our clients and communities so here it is.

Be safe out there friends! ❤️

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12/13/2025

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More and more I am seeing chiropractors and PTs offering what they call ‘dry needling’. This is unlicensed acupuncture, plain and simple. A form of orthopedic acupuncture where you are manipulating the muscles and trigger points to treat pain conditions. A ‘dry needle’ is simply that, a filiform acupuncture needle that does not contain any meds or injectable’s (dry). To become ‘a certified dry needler’ all one has to do is take a weekend course with a max Of 27 hours of study and then said dry needler somehow feels qualified to go out and begin inserting needles into their clients to treat their pain conditions, because let’s face it- ACUPUNCTURE in all forms works really well for the treatment of pain- After all it has been around for 1000s of years!

Please do your due diligence and if you are looking for pain relief find a licensed acupuncturist who practices orthopedic style acupuncture. This is far safer and can avoid a lot of undue harm as I have heard many stories of clients being injured or suffering pneumothoraxes (lung punctures) at the hands of unqualified professionals.

To become a licensed acupuncturist one must complete a 3 year master program, 1800 hours of clinical internship in needling techniques while treating patients and pass 3 board exams before you can be qualified enough to insert and manipulate needles in someone as a licensed health care provider.

Let me put it another way: I personally would never as a licensed acupuncturist take a weekend course in chiropractic and then go on to adjust people’s spines.
I wouldn’t take a weekend course in physical therapy techniques and believe it is in my scope of practice to assign rehab exercise programs to clients.
I personally went to school for nutrition before acupuncture school and I still do not feel qualified enough to write diet plans for clients and instead refer them to a licensed dietician since that is in THEIR scope of practice and what THEY do best.

On our website is a reference guide to consider. I guess part of the issue falls on us as licensed acupuncturists to better educate our clients and communities so here it is.

Be safe out there friends! ❤️

Worth reading!
02/02/2023

Worth reading!

Once dry needling practitioners began using the same tools as acupuncture, the debate of what distinguished dry needling from acupuncture began to be more acute (from the Latin acus ‘needle’), so to speak. 

Studies show acupuncture is an effective non-pharmacologic treatment for pain!
06/21/2022

Studies show acupuncture is an effective non-pharmacologic treatment for pain!

The majority of reviews find acupuncture therapy to be an efficacious strategy for acute pain with potential to avoid and/or reduce opioid reliance. Future multi-center trials are needed to clarify the dosage and generalizability of acupuncture for acute pain in the ED. With an extremely low risk pr...

06/14/2022

There is a lot of confusion around acupuncture and dry needling. This article explains the difference and similarities of the two therapies.

True for all species!!
04/07/2022

True for all species!!

We are all about PEACE ☮️ and LOVE ❤️. (And education 📚).

Did you know Rest Ice Compression Elevation (RICE ) is a thing of the past in the newest research out there?

Research has shown that the ‘new’ approach to soft tissue injury management can be remembered through the acronym PEACE and LOVE (its actually not super new…the research has been out for some time…it’s just that change is hard and it tends to be slow when all of society was taught the same information. What was once the accepted norm, underwent reform, and now we need to re-educate ourselves in light of new information (metaphor not lost on me for larger matters in this world as well).

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The hardest part of this approach for me is that I actually love ice.
So I do still use ice as a pain reliever, but I’m doing it much less and I am not using it with the intent to reduce inflammation.
The other one that catches people off-guard when they read this list is to NOT take anti-inflammatory medications right after injury either. Basically, let it inflame and let your body do its thing. It’s better that way.


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