Acupuncture Free Day to Benefit Beverly Bootstraps

Below is an announcement for our Free Day Next Wednesday. I figured it may be a little lonely in the clinic as many people are traveling, so I am using the opportunity to double it as a fundraiser for Beverly Bootstraps. If your house is too crowded with relatives, send them over to me that day and I'll return them happy and relaxed.
-April

Coastal Acupuncture is kicking off the holiday season by offering complementary treatments to all NEW patients on Wednesday November 21st, 2012 during the community acupuncture clinic that runs from 2:00-6:00pm. The event also serves as a fundraising effort for benefit Beverly Bootstraps. Donations are kindly accepted, but not required to participate in the event.

Start the weekend off right by taking some time to relax and refresh before the hustle and bustle of the season begins. For further information please call 978-922-4111 or just walk in during the Wednesday event. Parking is available at the Beverly Farms Commuter Rail stop parking lot, directly adjacent to the clinic.
 

Plantar Fasciitis

In the past year I have seen a huge increase in patients with heel pain (I blame flip flops but that is another story). The best part is the look on somebody's face when they step down from the treatment table and realize the pain is gone. Here is some research for anyone interested.

Community Acupuncture Clinic

As most of you are aware I have been steadily adding community acupuncture shifts here at Coastal Acupuncture over the past year. For those of you who haven't popped in to experience it, an explanation of what it is can be read in this blog post.  What I have not done is articulate why I started the clinic, and why I'm in love with this method of treating people.

Acupuncture in this country has historically been done in a private room, one patient & one practitioner. That is mostly because it somehow got lumped into a "spa" type of treatment and followed the business model of massage therapists. This of course inflated the cost per treatment as the practitioner could only effectively treat one or two patients an hour.

As I was approaching my tenth year in business I reflected on what the major blockage was in getting people better. It mostly boiled down to time and money. People needed the ability to come multiple times a week in order to get better. The simplest way to fix that was to return to the roots of the medicine. In China treatments are administered in a group setting. That was all the proof I needed that the clinic could work.

Thus I started Walk in Wednesdays. That has expanded to additional days now so to avoid confusion I'll just call it community acupuncture, because that is what it is. I am providing acupuncture for you, my community. And I love every minute of it. In our busy day and age, watching a room full of people happily sleeping and healing together has helped me fall in love (again) with this medicine I practice.

I want to give a heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you for supporting me over the past ten years. It is an amazing  privilege to help ones own community lead healthy & happy lives.