Lynn Jaffee

Not long ago I was at a networking event, where I was asked who my ideal patient was. My immediate answer was that I love to treat stressed out workers. I find them ideal only in that I see a lot of them in my acupuncture practice, and I am able to help almost all of them. In the wake of the recessi...
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Youve had a long day and youre tired. You get into bed ready for eight hours of blissful, uninterrupted sleep. But as soon as your head makes contact with the pillow, your mind comes alive. And not just alive, but its racing like you just had a triple shot of espresso. You start rehashing the day, t...
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From time to time I see patients who are suffering from gout. More often than not, they will come in with pain, redness, and swelling at the base of their big toe. Occasionally, Ill see someone with gout in another joint, but the common denominator is that theyre in painbig time. So what exactly is ...
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Are you a chronic worrier I treat a lot of people with emotional conditions, so I tend to see a lot of patients in my acupuncture clinic who describe themselves as worriers. They are anxious and worry about almost anything. Often patients will describe their worry as a constant loop of concern that ...
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As an acupuncturist, my job is to tailor the Chinese healing traditions of thousands of years to fit the health concerns and lifestyle of modern Americans. I work with a medicine that was originally developed to treat things like infections, malaria, and fevers that could easily kill the patient if ...
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