Whether the patient pays cash and you give them a superbill or the patient sends the bill in to their insurance company, documentation is always required. Have you looked at your history / examination ...

According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, the percentage of adult low back pain (LBP) patients with one or more insurance claims filed for acupuncture increased from 0.9% as of 2010 to 1.6% ...

Safety concerns remain a significant barrier to appropriate referral from oncology teams, to use by acupuncturists and to ...

As Chinese medicine practitioners, we know that traditional Chinese medicine offers a unique, holistic approach to PCOS. This opens up enormous opportunities for our profession to fill the gap and ...

No one is arguing that someone should get acupuncture instead of going to the emergency room when an appendix bursts, but countless people suffering from conditions dismissed as incurable or ...

The Extraordinary Vessels are organized according to depth significance. The Qiao Vessels are seen as the more superficial or postnatal. Interestingly, they don’t contain (or require?) “opening” ...

“Ah, visualize it, and the stiffness and pain implied,” I advised. “Work initially in a chair. First of all, stroke down her ...

Unfortunately, figuring out whether an acupuncturist is licensed is not as easy as it looks. Although the most common degree designation for an acupuncturist is LAc, some states use different titles ...

Neck pain is a common condition — so common, in fact, that the expression "a pain in the neck" is an oft-used figure of speech in English. It can be mild enough so that it is a mere annoyance, or ...

In the mid-1970s, Michael Smith, a medical doctor at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx area of New York, modified an existing system of auricular acupuncture into a simple technique for the ...

The foot is one of the most complex parts of the body. It consists of 38 bones connected by numerous joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments, and is susceptible to many stresses. As a result, foot and ...

What is nausea? What causes it? Who suffers from it? Nausea is the sensation that leads a person to have the urge to vomit. Nausea may be caused by a variety of factors, including migraine headaches, ...