Classical Five-Element Acupuncture (CF-EA) is a style of acupuncture that was brought over to the western world from the east by the late Professor J.R. Worsley, D.Ac.  This style is unique in that it assesses and directly treats the cause of disease so that nature can heal.  Pain and other symptoms are considered to be distress signals that something is going wrong.  Symptomatic approaches that suppress the symptom can be harmful.  They can drive disease in deeper and create more problems in the long run.  Learning how to prevent illness and live in accordance with natural laws is another goal of CF-EA.  In this system of medicine, everyone has a primary element that is out of balance.  This weakest link in the chain is called the Causative Factor (CF).  The five elements are fire, earth, metal, water, and wood.  Also, there are three levels of disease (body, mind, and spirit) and various energetic blocks that can occur.  Most people are affected at the deepest level of the spirit and this approach can have an amazing impact on rebuilding your spiritual stores so that you can be at cause in your life.  By directly treating the cause of disease, this style not only benefits the spirit, but also eases the mind and eliminates symptoms of the body.

Active Release Techniques (ART) is a soft tissue release therapy (meaning that it can be applied to muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves) that was created by P. Michael Leahy.  Basically, the idea behind this approach is to apply a vectored acupressure (pressure to the depth of the tissue to be affected and following its fibers) while shortening to lengthening the structure (this last part can be done actively by the patient).  This applied functional anatomy technique has an amazing impact on breaking up adhesions and eliminating pain and inflammation.  Also, it restores blood flow and nerve condivity as well as increasing mobility and flexibility.

Nutritional Services includes nutritional assessment and possible recommendations of retailed nutritional supplementation and Chinese herbal medicine. 

Motor Points are non-acupuncture points that have been found to equate to the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) or where the nerve innervates the muscle.  By needling a motor point, the muscle that was treated often gets a twitch response and becomes reconnected to the central nervous system (CNS).  This muscle balancing technique can help against both muscle atrophy (weakness) and spasm (rigidity).  Matt Callison helped pioneer this technique.

Huatoujiaji points are also non-acupuncture meridian local points that are located off the spine and can have an affect dermatomaly in the treatment of muscle weakness, nerve pain and numbness, especially benefiting the upper and lower extremity (tingling, weakness and nerve pain in the arms or legs).

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