Mobile Acupuncture of Scottsdale

03/02/2026

A little project written by Justin Johnson that I’m working on. Enjoying a nice fire on the patio.

12/16/2025

06/03/2025

Piper in her more majestic look helping me teach acupuncture at Sonoran University today.

02/18/2025

Struggling with Peripheral Neuropathy? Discover how acupuncture and red light therapy can make a difference in your life! Learn more about this effective treatment option for pain relief and improved sensation. Read the full article here: https://wix.to/ikq7t3S

Peripheral Neuropathy is a condition that leads to weakness, numbness, and pain in the hands and feet. The severity can vary from mild discomfort to complete debilitation and sleep loss.Common causes include:AlcoholismChemotherapyDiabetesTraumaAuto-immune diseasesMedications (Statins such as Lipitor...

02/18/2025

Struggling with Peripheral Neuropathy? Discover the benefits of acupuncture and red-light therapy in managing symptoms like weakness and numbness. Learn more about this innovative approach here:

Peripheral Neuropathy is a condition that leads to weakness, numbness, and pain in the hands and feet. The severity can vary from mild discomfort to complete debilitation and sleep loss. Common causes include:AlcoholismChemotherapyDiabetesTraumaAuto-immune diseasesMedications (Statins such as Lipito...

10/31/2024

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Acupuncture improves stress, anxiety, and panic disorders.Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the elections are almost here. For the past 6 months, the political ads, texts, and on-line discussions, battles, misinformation and confrontational vitriol have reached astronomical heights....

10/28/2024

Acupuncture Improves Shoulder Blade Pain

When people say they have shoulder pain, it can mean many different things. Today we're talking about that specific pain JUST under the shoulder blade. It can radiate up to your neck....or down the length of your back. Some describe it as feeling like an ice-pick being stabbed just under your shoulder blade. In some cases in can lead to constriction of the brachial plexus which is that cluster of nerves on the side of the neck that ultimately travel down the arm and fingers. Damage or dysfunction of these nerves can lead to tingling, pain or numbness in your hands. How do you stretch or help this area? A rigorous series of treatments using a combination of acupuncture, cupping therapy, and cold laser therapy can significantly improve the pain and restore feeling back into the hands. The combination of tools decrease pain, decrease inflammation, and speed up repair of damaged tissues. This specific condition is very common and comprises about 20 percent of my patient list. Whether the underlying cause of this pain is a herniated disc, turned rib, or strained ligament, our treatments can (at the very least), reduce the body's spasm and pain response and allow you to get on with your day!Give us call at Hidden Rhythm Acupuncture......

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10/13/2024

Quick pic from Jump 4 today. Stand Together tryout and training camp. Thanks awesome peeps!

10/04/2024

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Sooner or later, every woman will go through this. Some welcome it, others dread it as the inevitable sign of “getting” old. I’m talking about MENOPAUSE: The age (usually between 48-52 years) where the ovaries stop producing eggs and a woman no longer has a menstrual cycle. Estrogen is no long...

08/27/2024

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Most of my patients seek out acupuncture for things like pain or injuries. While we can make massive improvements in these areas, we can also help treat hormone balances. Specifically, acupuncture can help boost Testosterone. Numerous studies now exist showing that both regular and electro acupunctu...

08/20/2024

Met the neatest couple this morning at my acupuncture clinic!! Women came in for back pain... They both have grown up raising horses and then Siberian Huskies. Couple in their 80's. He was Marine who fought in Vietnam... joined when he was 17. Both worked as volunteers with local police after they retired. He asked about Ukraine sign in my window and I told him of Irene's advocacy and fund raising group she started after Russian invasion called Cactus and Tryzub. He removed his Marine cover and tipped his head to her and said "OUTSTANDING". I just thought it was very cool.

06/10/2024

Unlocking the Mystery: How Acupuncture Reduces Pain

Acupuncture is famous for reducing pain. Countless studies both on animals AND humans have proven that acupuncture’s action in reducing pain FAR outweighs any possible placebo effect. In our clinic we use it to to tackle ALL varieties of pain ranging from injury pain to migraines. So how does acupuncture REALLY work in to decrease pain? The two ways it does this is by 1) reducing inflammation…which we have covered in other posts… and 2) Inducing a flood of our natural pain killers in our body.

In our bodies we have a collection of natural pain-killers called ENDOGENOUS OPIOIDS. These are released in high-stress states to ultimately calm our nervous system to bring it back to a low-stress and balanced system. Specifically, there are 3 groups of natural peptides that we label as ENDOGENOUS OPIOIDS: Beta-endorphins, Enkaphilins, and Dynorphins. They are produced in various parts of the brain and serve to regulate pain, affect reward and stress responses, motivation, and even drug addiction. Acupuncture has been shown to stimulate the release of large amounts of these peptides. An interesting electro-acupuncture study from 2012 showed that different frequencies stimulated different amounts of opioid release.

Part of this same study confirmed that these opioids were indeed the reason for stopping pain by giving the patients NARCAN (Nalaxone) after the acupuncture treatment. This opioid blocker eliminated ALL pain relieving benefits of the acupuncture. Narcan is been in the news lately as the first response to stop overdoses from opioids like Fentanyl.

Acupuncture has a huge range of health benefits. The use of Narcan to counter the pain relieving benefits proves that acupuncture has a strong influence on our natural (endogenous) opioids.

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