Welcome to Dao Integrated Health! Here are a few guidelines to help you choose the best treatment. If your insurance covers acupuncture, you will be a "Insurance" patient. You can choose between "Self Pay" treatments if you don't have insurance. Based on your practitioner, your intake might be conducted Virtually or In person. If you're meeting online, try to have a quiet, well-lit space to speak freely. Virtual appointments will be conducted through our HIPPA-compliant EMR platform. If we meet you virtually, log on early for a tech check. On a computer, use Chrome as your browser. On a smart device, download the Jane Meetings App. It would be helpful to us if you send in a well-lit, focused picture of your tongue for our files. We're looking forward to seeing you!

If you are wanting to utilize Insurance and have Acupuncture benefits you can submit our Super-bill for reimbursement. Acupuncture treatment appointments will be billed directly to Insurance if you have coverage.

This initial appointment is a self pay appointment of $160.

Functional Medicine is an approach to health care that takes into account all components of the human body and how it is affected by its environment over time.

Functional Medicine helps the clinician to identify the root cause of the dysfunction at the most basic chemical/elemental level of the human body and targets that imbalance for improving the patients health. Chronic disease usually starts by the declining function in one or more of the body’s
systems (or functions). Functional Medicine aims at restoring health by reversing (and/or substantially improving) the specific aspect of the body that is not functioning properly and is contributing to the disease. Each patient has a unique, complex and interwoven set of environmental and lifestyle factors that affects the functioning of their systems differently and can either help or hinder good health.

The Functional Medicine practitioner obtains and evaluates clinical information that leads to individualized, patient-centered and science-based therapies. For over more than 30 years, the tools, practices, and concepts of Functional Medicine have evolved considerably. This is due to the large amount of evidence that these factors, in deed, are the common pathways to diseases; and that the role of diet, stress, physical activity

Acupuncture:
Acupuncture is a treatment that uses very thin steel needles inserted into your skin to stimulate specific points throughout your body. The goal of acupuncture is to relieve a health condition or symptom, such as pain. The practice comes from traditional Chinese medicine. Scientific studies have confirmed its effectiveness. Many people seek Acupuncture for conditions ranging from Pain to Hot Flashes.

Acupuncture Add Ons:
Cupping & Gua Sha:
Many athletes utilize Cupping and Gua Sha to relieve muscle spasms. Cupping’s detoxifying effect on the skin and circulatory systems is significant because cupping removes toxins and improves blood flow through the veins and arteries similar to the stimulation received with Massage.

Acupuncture with Electric Stimulation is similar to the use of TENS unit many patients have utilized for pain relief and relaxation of tight and knotted muscles. E-Stim is often used for Upper and Lower back pain. It can also be utitlized for assisting with many neurological dysfunctions per the numerous studies on the subject.

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort, a small, spongy herb, to facilitate healing. Moxibustion has been used throughout Asia for thousands of years; in fact, the actual Chinese character for acupuncture, translated literally, means "acupuncture-moxibustion." The purpose of moxibustion, as with most forms of traditional Chinese medicine, is to strengthen the blood, stimulate the flow of qi, and maintain general health. -Acupuncture Today

Dao Integrated Health focuses our treatments on:
1) Chronic and Acute pain conditions
2) Auto-Immune conditions, with emphasis on: Thyroid diseases, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Migraine headaches
3) Genetic Pain Conditions: Ehler's Danlos Syndromes, hEDS, Hyper-mobility Syndrome
4) Digestive dysfunctions,
5) Respiratory and Sinus conditions,
6) Anxiety, Depression, PTSD
7) Stress Management & Insomnia
8) Women's Health: PMS & Hot Flashes

Initial appointments are self pay appointments of $160. If you are wanting to utilize Insurance and have Acupuncture benefits you can submit our Super-bill for reimbursement. Acupuncture treatment appointments will be billed directly to Insurance if you have coverage.

Functional Medicine is an approach to health care that takes into account all components of the human body and how it is affected by its environment over time.

Functional Medicine helps the clinician to identify the root cause of the dysfunction at the most basic chemical/elemental level of the human body and targets that imbalance for improving the patients health. Chronic disease usually starts by the declining function in one or more of the body’s
systems (or functions). Functional Medicine aims at restoring health by reversing (and/or substantially improving) the specific aspect of the body that is not functioning properly and is contributing to the disease. Each patient has a unique, complex and interwoven set of environmental and lifestyle factors that affects the functioning of their systems differently and can either help or hinder good health.

The Functional Medicine practitioner obtains and evaluates clinical information that leads to individualized, patient-centered and science-based therapies. For over more than 30 years, the tools, practices, and concepts of Functional Medicine have evolved considerably. This is due to the large amount of evidence that these factors, in deed, are the common pathways to diseases; and that the role of diet, stress, physical activity

Cupping is used to relieve back and neck pain, stiff muscles, improve anxiety, fatigue, migraines, rheumatism, high blood pressure, improve the digestive system and even reduce cellulite through improved metabolism and bowel function. Many athletes utilize cupping to relieve muscle spasms. Cupping’s detoxifying effect on the skin and circulatory systems is significant because cupping removes toxins and improves blood flow through the veins and arteries.

During your appointment there will be a review of your conditions in conjuction with the state of your organ systems. A formula will be chosen and provided that day or ordered to your speciic needs.

Chinese herbology has the oldest continuous written history of any medical system on Earth. The “Shen Nong Ben Cao” (the Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica) was the first known Chinese herbal encyclopedia, dating from about 2700 BC, listed 365 medicinal plants and their uses.

Chinese herbal medicine continues to develop to meet modern diseases that arise. Modern physicians rely on Chinese herbs to treat an array of clinical conditions ranging from headaches, allergies, colds and flu, digestive disorders, gynecological and dermatological conditions, trauma, as well as chronic diseases . Whereas conventional medicine uses drug therapy to treat pain and disease at the expense of other organ systems, Chinese medicine employs classical and modern herbal formulas to address both internal and external health conditions.

Distance or remote healings use energy that can take place across any distance that is sent to a recipient since energy can be sent via thought, emotion, and intention. The healing energy directed has intentions to heal so it will positively affect the recipient. The distance can be small or vast. Stretching beyond the limits of time and space, distance healing sends energy healing to reach you no matter where you are. Distance healing comes in many forms but what they have in common is their ability to be completed over any distance.
I activate acupuncture points remotely in you as though you were at my office on the table. Many people express they feel tingling sensations at the points I am working. Pain is greatly reduced, a sense of calmness and peace that is lasting days to weeks depending on the person.