by Dr. Melissa Carr | Apr 21, 2017 | Acupuncture, Allergies, brain health, depression, headache, mental health, migraine, Sleep, Stress
I don’t get the Starbucks Unicorn drink craze. It doesn’t look edible, it’s full of junk, and it contains a whopping 59g of sugar! It’s not just the calories. That’s almost 15 tsp of sugar. Inflammatory sugar. I get that it’s...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 24, 2017 | Acupuncture, Allergies, Biopuncture, depression, immune boosting, immune system, injury, Sports
You wouldn’t know it to look outside (the picture to the right is from last year), but spring is finally here—well, technically at least. And after Vancouver’s unusually long cold snap, many are anxious to shake off the dark dreariness of winter. If you’re...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 3, 2017 | Acupuncture, Back Pain, In the News
Have back pain? You are not alone. Most of us have experienced back pain at one time or another. Not surprisingly, it’s one of the most common issues that send scores of people to see the doctor every year. But if you’re primed for walking out of the clinic with a...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 2, 2017 | Acupuncture, Health Book Summary and Review, Traditional Chinese Medicine
There’s so much going on in this book, The Spark in the Machine, that I feel I need to bite-size it. And it starts with one of the best chapters I’ve ever read in non-fiction. That’s because it is non-fiction, but reads like fiction. The author caught his thumb in a...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 23, 2016 | Acupuncture, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, mental health, Stress
“I don’t think I was asleep, but I don’t feel like I was ‘here’,” he said when I came back into the treatment room. This is a common theme for people getting acupuncture—though they do often sleep too. So, “where” was he? In a meditative zone. That’s right. You can...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 26, 2016 | Acupuncture, injury, neuropathic pain, Pain
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome–TOS, for short When it first began with shoulder and upper back, I thought it was just muscular tension from leaning over the computer or patients as I’m doing acupuncture. But as the initial pain resolved and the throbbing pain...
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