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Your healing journey starts here. Schedule a Visit Today Using the Link Below! Your healing journey starts at Acupuncture Wellness.

Our acupuncture, massage, Chinese herbal therapy, and more are designed to support your body’s natural ability to heal and restore balance. Our office is a haven for patients who are struggling with pain, looking for new solutions, or simply want to refocus their energies. We'll take the time to learn about your needs and find a solution that works for you -- no one-size-fits-all treatments here. Though we specialize in the treatment of chronic pain, we're proud to help with everything from fertility issues to allergies. Visit our office, relax, and let's work together to get you feeling your best.

11/04/2026

Wrist, hand and thumb pain

You dropped your phone on your face again. Your thumb just gave out mid-scroll.

Or you woke at 3 a.m. shaking your hand out. Or you can't open a jar. Or texting has started to hurt and you've begun typing with one finger like your dad.

Here's the thing almost nobody tells you: the problem usually isn't in your wrist.

Carpal tunnel. Thumb pain. Trigger finger. That numbness in two fingers and not the others.

Most of it originates upstream in the forearm and around the elbow. Those muscles run down into your hand as long tendons. When the muscle up top is chronically tight from a mouse, a phone, a steering wheel, a pair of scissors, a needle — it pulls. And the pull lands where the tendon ends. In your wrist. In your thumb. In one finger.

That's exactly why a wrist brace helps a little and never fixes it. You're splinting where it hurts, not where it's coming from.

What my patients describe:
● Numbness or tingling that wakes you at night
● Shaking your hand out to get the feeling back
● Dropping things
● An ache at the base of the thumb after texting or gripping
● A finger that catches, locks, then pops
● All of it worse in cold weather

Here's the part I love. In Chinese Medicine, the Lung channel runs down the arm and ends at the thumb. The Large Intestine channel ends at the index finger. Both travel straight through the forearm and elbow on the way.

Those are the two organs of fall. Which is exactly why this flares up right now, and exactly where we treat it.

We work the forearm and the elbow, not just the wrist. That's where the change actually comes from.

If your hands have started failing you at small things, let's treat the real source. Book a free 15 minute consultation using the link in my bio.

11/03/2026

My fall self-care, the unglamorous version.

Nothing here is aesthetic. There's no bath. I am not going to tell you about a candle.

I cover the back of my neck. Scarf, collar up, something. In Chinese Medicine there's a spot at the base of the skull where wind and cold get in — it's literally called the wind gate — and it's how an enormous number of colds start. This is the most old fashioned thing I do and it works.

My grandmother was right.

I go outside in the morning. Not for exercise. For light. Ten minutes, tea in hand, no phone.

Morning light sets the cortisol rhythm that decides whether you sleep that night. Highest return on this entire list and it costs nothing.

Socks. Immediately. Cold feet in fall is how I end up run down by Thursday. I know how that sounds. I don't care.

I stop scheduling things after dark. As the light goes, my evening capacity goes with it. I used to fight that every year and lose. Now I just move things earlier. Fall asks you to contract, and arguing with it is expensive.

I eat something warm before I leave the house. Not a smoothie. Something cooked. Cold breakfast in cold weather makes my digestion sluggish all day and I feel it by 2pm. I let myself be less productive. Hardest one, and it isn't a self-care tip — it's an accounting correction. My output drops in November. It does every single year. I've stopped treating that as a failure and started planning around it.

None of this is impressive. That's sort of the point. The things that actually hold a body together in this season are boring, physical and small.

Pick one. Not all six. One thing done consistently beats an ambitious list you abandon by the 15th.

What's your unglamorous one? Tell me in the comments.

And if you're doing all the right things and still going down every fall, that's a capacity problem, and capacity is what I treat. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

11/02/2026

Graduating from care

I don't want to see you every week for the rest of your life.

I want to say that plainly, because people come in braced for a sales pitch, and some of them have had one somewhere else.

The goal is you not needing me. That's the entire job.

Here's how it usually goes.

We work intensively for about three months. Weekly, sometimes twice weekly at the start.

This is where the actual pattern changes — not symptom management, the underlying thing.

Then you step down. Monthly, or seasonally, or you stop altogether. It depends on what we were treating and what your life is doing.

And then something comes up. Some small stupid symptom that keeps talking to you. A flare after a hard month. Something new entirely. You come back in — and here's the part that matters: we are not starting over. We have a foundation. I know your pattern and your history, and things that took twelve sessions the first time frequently take three.

That's what graduating actually looks like. Not never seeing me again. Having a practitioner who knows your system, and coming in when you need to, from a place of health instead of crisis.I love it when a patient graduates. It means we both did our jobs.

And I love it when they come back two years later for something completely different, because it means the relationship worked.

What I want you to leave with isn't a dependency. It's a body that functions, and a toolbox that stays yours — what you learned about your own patterns, what your early warning signs are, what to do when you feel it starting.

Nobody can take that back.

If you're ready to actually solve the thing instead of managing it, let's start. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

11/01/2026

Hair loss and acne scarring

You've been counting hairs in the drain. You've started parting it differently. You know exactly how it looks under overhead lighting.

Nobody talks about this one, and they should, because hair loss in women is extremely common and extremely under-treated.

When it shows up: postpartum. Perimenopause. After a significant illness. After rapid weight loss. After a brutal year. Thyroid issues, low iron. All of those are patterns, and all of them are treatable.

Microneedling on the scalp works the same way it works on skin. Controlled micro-injury triggers a repair response: circulation to the follicle, new collagen around it, better absorption of anything topical you're already using. Follicles that have gone dormant can be prompted back into a growth phase.

It works alongside minoxidil if you're using it. It works alongside whatever your dermatologist has you on. I'm not asking you to stop anything.Same technology,
different job on the face: acne scarring. Ice pick scars, rolling scars, uneven
texture left over from years you'd rather not revisit. Microneedling rebuilds collagen in the depressed tissue and levels the surface gradually. It's one of the few things that genuinely changes scarring instead of covering it.

Both take a series and both take patience. Scalp work is usually monthly for six months. Hair grows slowly, so you'll see it before you can feel it happening. Facial scarring is 6 sessions, once a month.

Here's why I do this alongside acupuncture: hair and skin are downstream. They suffer when circulation is poor, when you're depleted, when hormones have shifted. Treating the follicle without treating the system is exactly why so many people stall out. I do both at once.

Let’s get you feeling better about how you look. Book a free 15 minute consultation using the link in my bio.

10/30/2026

PCOS (now PMOS) and the weight that won't move

You've been told to lose weight to fix your hormones. And that your hormones are why you can't lose weight.

Nobody has ever explained how you're supposed to get out of that.

Here's the loop, and it's real: insulin resistance drives androgen production. High androgens disrupt ovulation. Disrupted ovulation makes insulin resistance worse.

Around and around, and every entry point looks blocked from the inside.

So the advice you keep getting — eat less, move more — isn't wrong exactly. It's aimed at the wrong part of the machine. You are not failing at willpower. Your body is running a metabolic pattern that makes storing fat easy and releasing it very hard.

What my patients describe:
● Weight that sits around the middle specifically
● Periods far apart, absent, or unpredictable● Acne along the jawline
● Hair where you don't want it, thinning where you do
● Exhaustion after eating
● Cravings that feel chemical rather than emotional

The place to intervene is insulin sensitivity. That's the hinge the whole thing turns on.
Acupuncture has real research behind it for improving insulin sensitivity and restoring ovulation in PCOS — it's one of the better-studied applications of this medicine.

What we're doing: improving how your body handles blood sugar, reducing inflammation, and getting ovulation back. When you ovulate, hormones regulate.

When hormones regulate, the metabolic picture starts to shift.

And to be direct: I'm not going to talk to you about weight loss. I'm going to treat the pattern underneath it and let your body do what it does when it's working properly.

If you've been stuck in that loop, let's find the way in. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

10/30/2026

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10/29/2026

Back pain

You don't call it back pain anymore. You call it "my back." Like a relative with opinions.
You've adjusted around it. You get up differently. You don't lift the thing. There's a chair you can sit in and several you can't.

Here's what I want to push back on: "it's just getting older," and "I have a bad back."
Both of those are descriptions of a situation, not diagnoses. And both quietly conclude that nothing is going to change.

What my patients describe:
● Worse in the morning, or worse by evening — the pattern tells me a lot
● Worse in cold and damp, so fall lights it right back up
● One side. Always the same side.
● Radiating into the hip, the glute, down the leg
● Spasm that grabs you with no warning
● MRI findings that don't quite match how much it actually hurts

That last one is worth sitting with. Imaging shows structure. It doesn't show pain. Plenty of people have disc findings and no symptoms at all, and plenty of people hurt badly with perfectly clean imaging.

What acupuncture does: releases the muscles in spasm, brings circulation into tissue that's been guarded and tight for months, and calms the nerve irritation driving the whole thing.

For most back pain we start at twice a week for two or three weeks. It moves faster than people expect it to.

You don't have a bad back. You have a back with a problem nobody's solved yet. Book a free 15 minute consult using the link in my bio.

10/28/2026

What's worth keeping

Fall is the season of letting go, and everybody stops there. But letting go is only half of it, and honestly it's the less interesting half.

The point of releasing something is to find out what's left. What you actually want to keep.

What's worth your finite resources.

That's the real work of this season, and it isn't philosophical. It's physical.

Here's what I mean. Every day, your body performs discernment thousands of times without consulting you. Your lungs take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Your gut absorbs nutrients and passes the rest. Your immune system decides, continuously, what is you and what isn't.

Keep what's valuable. Release what isn't. That's a physiological function running constantly, in every system you have.

In Chinese Medicine, that discernment is Metal, and it's the gift of this season — the ability to recognize what's genuinely worth something and let the rest fall away. The way a tree drops leaves without any sense of loss, because the leaves were never the point.

So the question I'd sit with this month isn't what you should let go of. Everyone is asking that one.

It's: what did you keep, and did you actually choose it?

Some of what you're carrying you picked up on purpose. Some of it you inherited, or absorbed,

or accepted at a moment when you had no room to think about it. Both feel identical from the inside.

And when a body loses this capacity, when the discernment function is depleted, you get someone who can't tell the difference anymore. Everything gets taken in.

Everything gets kept.

Nothing gets released. That's not a moral condition. It's a physiological one, and it looks like exhaustion, congestion, holding on, and a life full of things nobody actually chose.

You have a whole season for this. Use it.

And if the letting-go part isn't happening no matter how much clarity you've got, that's physiology, and physiology is what I treat. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation

10/27/2026

How we know it's working

The thing nobody tells you about getting better is that you often don't notice it happening.

Symptoms rarely announce their departure. They just show up less, and then one day you realize you haven't thought about it in a while.

That's a real problem, because if you can't tell it's working, you'll quit before it finishes.

So here's what I track, and what I want you tracking too.Duration of relief, not depth of relief. How long does it hold between visits? That's the number that matters. A treatment that makes you feel amazing for four hours means less than one that
gives you three easier days.

Frequency and intensity, separately. Headaches four times a month instead of twelve is progress even if they're the same intensity. So is same-frequency-but-half-as-bad.

People miss this because they're only watching for "gone."

The things you started doing again. Back to the walk? Sleeping on that side? Wearing the shoes? Recovery shows up in your behavior before it shows up in how you describe your pain.

The stuff you didn't come in about. Bowels, sleep, appetite, mood, energy. When these shift, the underlying pattern is changing. This is often my earliest evidence, usually arriving before your main complaint moves at all.

Your baseline on a bad day. Everybody has flares. What matters is whether your bad days are less bad than they used to be, and whether you come out of them faster.

Here's my honest request: write down where you are right now. A few lines is enough.

Because in six weeks you will not remember accurately. I have watched hundreds of people forget how bad it was and then undersell their own progress to me.

We check in on this at every visit. It isn't small talk. It's how I decide what to do next.

Let's get your baseline down and get started. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute
consultation

10/26/2026

The rage is a symptom

You lost it over a dish in the sink. A tone of voice. A question asked at the wrong moment.

And then you sat in the car afterward thinking: what is wrong with thing is wrong with you as a person. Something is wrong with your capacity. Those are
completely different diagnoses.

Rage is what a system does when it has no margin left. Not when it's angry — when it's out of room. Every input lands at full volume because there's nothing left to absorb the impact.

You've probably noticed it isn't proportional to what's happening. That's the tell.

Proportional anger is information about a situation. Disproportionate rage is information about your reserves.

What's usually underneath it:
● Sleep that hasn't been right in months
● Hormonal shifts, especially the luteal phase and perimenopause
● Blood sugar swinging all day long
● Inflammation
● Being needed constantly with no break in it
● Something you're carrying that you've decided not to look at

That last one is very seasonal. Fall brings things up. When grief has nowhere to go, it frequently comes out sideways as irritability because irritation is a far more socially acceptable emotion than sorrow.

I say this to a lot of patients: you are not an angry person. You are a depleted person who has run out of buffer.

Depletion responds to treatment. Character flaws don't. This is the better diagnosis.
If you've been snapping and then hating yourself for it, come in.

Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

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575 E Big Beaver Road, #130
Troy, MI
48083

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