by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 28, 2021 | Acupuncture, Back Pain, Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Pain, workplace wellness
We’re now more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and many of us are feeling the neck and back pains of poor posture related to working from home, binge watching tv, assembling puzzles, or crafting. I can relate to that last one, as I found needle felting...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jul 15, 2020 | Acupuncture, Arthritis, Back Pain, depression, Detoxification, Digestion, energy, health care, Healthy Habits, Herbs and Supplements, holistic health, In the News, injury, mental health, Pain, Sleep, Stress, Supplements, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Now into our 5th month of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of us are in the best shape we’ve been in for awhile, making homemade healthy food, finding time to exercise and get outdoors, getting more and better sleep, and taking the opportunity to catch up on some...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 26, 2020 | acupressure, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, holistic health, Pain, Stress, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Because social distancing and self-isolation due to COVID-19 has been a couple of weeks already and is likely to last much longer, I know that many of you are wondering what you can do to manage your ongoing or acute health issues on your own at home. In this...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Apr 30, 2018 | Acupuncture, Arthritis, Back Pain, In the News, integrative medicine, neuropathic pain, Pain, pharmaceuticals
It’s still on the news regularly, and though the drug was initially supposed to be a solution for pain treatment, the opioid problem is showing little sign of slowing down. Opioid addiction and opioid overdose deaths are much more than statistics, but the numbers help...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Apr 10, 2018 | Acupuncture, holistic health, integrative medicine, Pain
I just completed a first draft for an article on Traditional Chinese Medicine and managing the opioid crisis for Integrative Practitioner, an online journal for integrative medicine practitioners. I sent my article to the editor, but because of an email I...
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...
