You may have noticed, particularly on your first visit, when you come in for acupuncture you are bombarded with a plethora of Q’s from your acupuncturist. It may seem as though we are quite nosey, asking all sorts of questions from the minutiae of your bowel movements to quantity and quality of your sleep. So…..WHY? Why the multitude of queries? The short answer: it helps us figure out how to treat you. The long answer: in Traditional Chinese Medicine, instead of making a “diagnosis” like in Western Medicine, an acupuncturist is taking all of those questions, along with taking [...]