The famous psoas muscle
The Mighty Psoas: Is It Really That Important? Short answer: Absolutely, YES! ✅ 🤔 What Even Is the Psoas? Location, Location, Location: It's a deep-seated muscle that attaches to all your lumbar vertebrae 🦴 and runs down to connect to your hip 🦴. The Dynamic Duo: On...
Back Pain SOS: Your Stomach May Be the Culprit!
CLINICAL CASE: "It hurts between my shoulder blades." "I need my back to be cracked." "I need a massage where it hurts." Is this what you need, or is it the sensation your body is manifesting? 🤔 Treatments without clinical criteria and an approach focused on the underlying causes are...
Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Is it an Emotional Problem?
Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Is it an Emotional Problem? Many patients find themselves seeing different doctors for common symptoms. These can include heart palpitations, gastrointestinal discomfort, migraine headaches and various random aches, pains and fatigue. The patient then may leave the consultation without getting any type of...
Back to School, Back to Stress?
Why the start of the school year can feel harder than you expect — and what you can do about it. The start of a new school term can be an exciting time — fresh lesson plans, new students, and a renewed sense of purpose. But...
A dive into Evil dampness
During the humid rainy season, water droplets form on walls and clothes refuse to dry. This pervasive dampness creates an uncomfortable, sticky sensation throughout the body. In traditional Chinese medicine, when this natural moisture penetrates the body and disrupts internal metabolism, it becomes a pathogenic...
Stop Scrolling and Break Internet Addiction: Digital Minimalism
In a world where your attention is a commodified asset, it is more important than ever to be mindful of where that attention is being spent. On average, adults in developed countries spend 6 to 8 hours on average per day in front of screens. With...
The Benefits of Functional Medicine
Picture this: You're hanging out with your loved ones, having a good time, when suddenly the conversation shifts to health issues. Maybe Aunt Jane mentions her asthma, and before you know it, everyone's sharing stories about their medical conditions. Have you ever noticed how even though...
Your Defenses and You
We typically use “defensive” in colloquial speech to label certain sets of behaviors that get stirred up in other people, but we all use defenses unconsciously to ward off anxiety-provoking feelings that get stirred up in different contexts. It can be very difficult for an...
Understanding PCOS and the Healing Power of TCM
What is PCOS?Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the irregular appearance of multiple water-filled blisters in the ovaries and affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. It has been discovered in 1937 and is largely driven by an imbalance in reproductive hormones and endocrine metabolism disorders. One of the key factors is the elevated...
To the fore
Spring whispers silently! Now it’s in the best season in Shanghai again! Recently, we saw more and more people start running on the street, and at the same time, many Marathon events are open for registration. After the Chinese New Year holidays, lots of people...