Dana’s Journey from Anxiety + Illness to Peace + Wellness

Dana’s Journey from Anxiety + Illness to Peace + Wellness

Throughout her life, Dana had suffered from anxiety, headaches, severe menstrual cramps and indigestion. With the added pressures of motherhood and marriage and substance abuse, she worried that she was near the snapping point. Like many patients with these patterns, Dana had chosen acupuncture because she didn’t want to go on medication again. Learn more about her healing journey!

Acupuncturists Without Borders

Acupuncturists Without Borders

Acupuncture Without Borders, protocol consists of several acupuncture techniques that utilize auricular or ear acupuncture that stimulates the regions of the brain to create more neurotransmitters that are very effective for coping with pain, stress, fatigue and trauma that are inevitable for people who have seen their homes destroyed, loved ones killed or injured, and cultures and traditions uprooted.

Suffering from PESD = Post Election Stress Disorder? Actions we can take!

Suffering from PESD = Post Election Stress Disorder? Actions we can take!

We have many patients complaining of stressful symptoms related to the upcoming election! The non-stop media coverage, our own social media fixations, and the nasty and divisive tone of this campaign have been like no other. We’re glad when we can help our patients with relaxing acupuncture treatments. Contact us for more stress relieving treatments.

Joe’s Healing Story on Aging + Optimal Health

Joe’s Healing Story on Aging + Optimal Health

Our patient, Joe has been an acupuncture patient for almost 20 years and I have helped him with many health concerns over the years. Joe originally came for acupuncture when he was 50years old for low back pain from various injuries. He responded very well to acupuncture and he became a loyal patient and benefited from treatment for his digestive problems including reflux, sinus problems, sleep disorders and other health issues. Read more...

Laurie's Conception Journey • Meditation, Yoga + Acupuncture for Pregnancy

Laurie's Conception Journey • Meditation, Yoga + Acupuncture for Pregnancy

Anxiety and stress have become a common part of many daily lives. This results in many illnesses and symptoms such as disturbed sleep, poor appetite, and unhappiness. Often this feeling of anxiety is new so the question is: how does this happen? During my many years of practice as an acupuncturist and practitioner or Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Acupuncture Center of New Jersey in Morristown, New Jersey I have learned that the stress of trying to get pregnant becomes a major cause for anxiety.  Stress increases as a couple tries to achieve pregnancy and the longer the wait higher the stress.

Lucy's Fertility Success Story with Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs + Nutritional Supplements

Lucy's Fertility Success Story with Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs + Nutritional Supplements

At the Acupuncture Center of NJ, we support women to increase chances for a natural conception. I met with Lucy and after a lengthy intake and examination, including the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnostic methods of feeling the pulse, looking at the tongue, palpating acupuncture meridians and assessing her emotional state I understood that Lucy needed nourishment for her Yin or essence,  support for her vital energy or Qi, and more free movement of her blood. In acupuncture and TCM practice these substances are essential to promote follicular development or fertile eggs.

Acupuncture Skeptic to A True Believer

Acupuncture Skeptic to A True Believer

Upon meeting John, I was bombarded with his extreme disdain for having to be here with me, but even more extreme was his skepticism about acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine. To John it was such a far out, hard to grasp medicine that really put him outside of his comfort zone. But he came, he was here, and as I began to talk to him I realized that he was very eager to put an end to his discomfort from restless leg syndrome.

Carmela's Weight Loss Breakthrough

Carmela's Weight Loss Breakthrough

At that point, her husband told me that they just came from a visit with her physician, who told her that she needed to lose more weight.  Well, the problem was they have already made lots of healthy food choices over the last year, and she had lost about 30 lbs in total already.  Now her weight simply plateaued and it had become difficult to shed more pounds. They didn't know what else to do.

Back Pain Relief • Julie's Healing Story

Back Pain Relief • Julie's Healing Story

Julie was referred to the Acupuncture Center of New Jersey by a coworker who had great success from her treatments. She had very good health insurance so her treatments were 100% covered! Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal causing difficulty walking, balance issues, crippling leg and low back pain, and numbness in the legs and feet. Julie had been suffering for years with the above mentioned symptoms, and often times would have to stay home from her job as a teacher because standing on her feet all day was near impossible. From the moment she stepped off of the table of her very first acupuncture treatment she felt a difference.

Boy Overcomes Chronic Migraines • ACNJ Healing Story

Boy Overcomes Chronic Migraines • ACNJ Healing Story

A recent patient of mine exemplifies the power of acupuncture for children. Kenny (not his real name), a 10 year old boy, experienced frequent migraine headaches every day for 4 months when he initially came for acupuncture. He was missing school regularly and was unable to participate in his favorite sports, forgoing soccer and baseball practices and games.

Michael Phelps Brings The GOLD with Ancient Acupuncture Healing Cupping to Rio

Michael Phelps Brings The GOLD with Ancient Acupuncture Healing Cupping to Rio

Cupping works on soft-tissue injuries to the muscles and joints that are often caused by over working the muscles during heavy training. Cupping in Chinese is translated as ba guan, because it is administered by using an open flame inside a glass, plastic or bamboo cup to create a vacuum.

Jeff's Recovery from Diabetes • Acupuncture Healing Journey

Jeff's Recovery from Diabetes • Acupuncture Healing Journey

We are so gratified to have patients like Jeff who come to us for acupuncture for a wide range of chronic health problems. They often turn to acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine because they have become unsatisfied with conventional medicine and are looking for alternative medicine for a more holistic approach. Read more about Jeff's healing journey to living with less pain and suffering. 

The Mind Muddler - a Multitasking Illusion

The Mind Muddler - a Multitasking Illusion

Multitasking has been shown to undermine the ability for single focus attentiveness. It leads to feelings of stress and anxiety thereby diminishing satisfaction and joyfulness. Instead of increasing productivity multitasking increases the time it takes to complete tasks and reduces the quality of work accomplished, all while providing the illusion that doing more gets more done.

A Natural Foods Journey from Illness to Wellness

A Natural Foods Journey from Illness to Wellness

The root cause of my husband’s issues stemmed from an extremely permeable gut that had allowed horrible toxins to leech into his bloodstream and brain. It took a solid year for him to be healed full of moments of doubts and struggle, but at the end of that year I saw a visible shift in my husband.

Avoiding Sports injuries for a Healthy + Active Summer

Avoiding Sports injuries for a Healthy + Active Summer

Acupuncture is great for treating and preventing common muscle and joint injuries that occur from over-use or over-strain. Here at the Acupuncture Center of New Jersey we utilize several traditional acupuncture techniques to support our patients.

Meditation: A Beginner’s Story

Meditation: A Beginner’s Story

I have been contemplating doing meditation for years. Yes I said years!  Patients of mine do it, friends do it, yet I have been resistant to trying it for fear of not being good at it. I have a slight fear of failure and sometimes it holds me back from trying new things. Well, up until recently that is. Something finally came over me and  I decided that I really and truly have nothing to lose here.

"The Emperor of All Maladies" + Acupuncture

"The Emperor of All Maladies" + Acupuncture

Over the years I’ve treated many patients who have received a diagnosis of cancer and have turned to natural, holistic healing methods. Most have done so in conjunction with conventional medical treatment: drugs, radiation, surgery, etc.

Battlefield Acupuncture for Everyone

Battlefield Acupuncture for Everyone

The reduction of symptoms for these other disorders can be more gradual than for pain, the treatment is basically identical for all of them. Using very subtle electric stimulation to the ear points in addition to the needles often enhances and speeds up reduction of the psychological afflictions.