Applepuncture

01/09/2026

✍🏼Case study:
Following a motor vehicle accident, this patient presented with PTSD symptoms, cervical whiplash, chronic migraines, and persistent neck and shoulder pain, along with signs of autonomic nervous system dysregulation and musculoskeletal compensation.

Treatment consisted of acupuncture + cupping 1–2 times per week over approximately 9 weeks. Care focused on nervous system regulation, reduction of migraine activity, restoration of cervical range of motion, and release of myofascial restriction in the neck, jaw, and upper back.

Outcomes included:
• Significant reduction in migraine frequency and intensity
• Increased cervical range of motion
• Decreased pain and inflammation
• Improved nervous system regulation with less anxiety and hypervigilance
• Greater sense of calm, clarity, safety, and overall bodily centeredness

This case highlights how trauma recovery often requires addressing neurological and musculoskeletal systems simultaneously.

12/31/2025

Touch is where medicine begins. 🫶🏼

Beyond the learned in the pages of a book, Acupuncture requires listening with the hands, sensing tone, temperature, resistance, and ease in the patient. Over years of working with bodies, something subtle changes: the points begin to reveal themselves. Not as abstractions, but as living places that can be felt.

Bedside manner is not an “extra.”
It is a necessary part of the treatment.

How a practitioner enters the room, how they place their hands, how they attune to the nervous system—these things matter. Touch can calm, invite trust, and signal safety. In that state, the body becomes receptive to change.

12/26/2025

12/22/2025

🎄✨ Psst… a little winter secret from the hedgerow ✨🎄

If you’re still wandering the snowy paths for a last-minute Christmas gift, do not fret, dear human…

With a soft tap of magic (and a click or two), an Applepuncture gift card can appear like a ribboned blessing, just in time.

No wrapping paper. No rushing. Just warmth, rest, and a gentle tending of the body when the festivities quiet down. Give the true gift of rest— paper as well as eGift cards available! Www.applepuncture.com

🎁✨

12/22/2025

A patient made this painting for me using my logo, in the Japanese Enso tradition — a single brushstroke expressing presence, wholeness, and imperfection.

The characters reference trust and family.
This practice feels like both to me… a place that grounds me, just as I hope it offers grounding to others.

I’m deeply moved by this gift, and by the relationships that grow quietly through this work.

12/13/2025

Winter can be beautiful — and also heavy.
Shorter days, colder weather, less sunlight, and more time indoors can quietly amplify anxiety, low mood, fatigue, and emotional stagnation for many people.

From an acupuncture perspective, winter is a time when the body naturally turns inward. When we’re already sensitive, overworked, or depleted, this inward pull can tip into depression, worry, rumination, or feeling “stuck.”

✨ How acupuncture can support mental health in winter:
• Regulates the nervous system and calms stress responses
• Supports sleep and circadian rhythm disruption
• Improves circulation and energy flow when the body feels sluggish
• Helps process emotions that feel stuck or heavy
• Nourishes the systems most taxed during winter (Kidney + Heart in Chinese medicine)

Acupuncture doesn’t force happiness — it gently creates the conditions for balance, resilience, and steadiness, even during the darker months.

If winter feels harder than it “should,” you’re not alone. Your body may just be asking for deeper support. 🤍

12/10/2025

Cozy Winter Acupuncture ❄️✨

Come hibernate with us! Winter is the body’s season of rest, restoration, and rebuilding. Acupuncture supports this natural rhythm and helps you stay warm, steady, and resilient (especially on our heated treatment tables 😉).

How Acupuncture Helps in Winter:

• Boosts immunity + reduces winter colds
• Improves circulation + warms cold hands/feet
• Supports deeper, more restful sleep
• Lifts mood + eases winter blues
• Nourishes Kidney energy (vitality, hormones, libido)
• Relieves stiffness + cold-weather pain
• Supports digestion when metabolism slows

12/09/2025

✨ Holiday Wellness Packages Are Here ✨
A little seasonal nourishment goes a long way — especially during the busiest, most emotionally-charged time of year.
At Applepuncture, we created four special offerings designed to melt tension, restore clarity, and help you feel held through winter.

🎁 Holiday Packages Include:
• Deeply restorative acupuncture
• Seasonal bodywork
• Facial rejuvenation acupuncture
• Special holiday pricing + savings

Whether you need grounding, glow, or total-body renewal, these sessions were crafted to support your whole system.

Book for yourself or gift to someone you love.
Available through December 31.
*For your convenience, payments can be made via Venmo at .

12/04/2025

Herbal Therapy at Applepuncture

At Applepuncture, our acupuncturist and herbalist Luciana prescribes classical TCM herbal formulas tailored to your unique pattern—not just your symptoms. We use high-quality patent formulas that are U.S.–grown, thoroughly tested for purity, and produced under strict safety and quality standards. They’re consistent, safe, and easy to take.

Modern research has examined many of these herbs through a scientific lens, revealing measurable effects on immune function, digestion, inflammation, stress response, and circulation—beautifully aligning with their traditional uses.

What makes TCM herbal therapy unique is its individualized approach. Luciana selects formulas based on the root pattern beneath your symptoms, meaning two people with the same complaint may receive different herbal support.

11/25/2025

✨ 🍎 Holiday season = busy minds + buzzing nerves.
Shopping, family dynamics, travel, work deadlines, gift lists… it’s a lot.
Many of us start to feel it in our bodies — tight shoulders, shallow breath, anxious thoughts, interrupted sleep.

Acupuncture is my favorite ways to help the nervous system downshift.
Each needle signals the body to relax — moving us from “fight or flight” into “rest and restore.” The breath deepens.The heart rate slows. The mind softens.
Suddenly, the body remembers:
I am safe. I can exhale.

If you’re craving a moment of calm (or a Power Nap) amid the rush, this is your reminder that you don’t need to push through the season on empty.
Give yourself the gift of regulation— a reset that supports your mood, immunity, digestion, and sleep.

🕯️✨
📍 Applepuncture, New Hope
🗓️ Book a treatment and feel the shift.

11/10/2025

✨ Gratitude for the Body Giveaway ✨

This Thanksgiving season, we want to celebrate our bodies and the quiet, constant work they do to carry us through life.

To join the Gratitude Circle:
🍎Comment below with one thing you’re thankful for about your body.
💛 That’s it!

Applepuncture will choose one person on Thanksgiving Day to receive a small body gratitude gift — a cozy little surprise from Applepuncture to support your well-being this season.

— Kristin + Lu @ Applepuncture