• My best patients are those that come to me via referrals from their MD or DO.  Our medicines compliment each other beautifully.   I am able to handle common cases of pain, common cold, stress & anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and  digestive issues that take up a lot of time in your office.  I am often able to resolve these cases without the need for opioids or over use of antibiotics. 

• The referral to me (and vice versa) makes these patients trust and respect their MD's even more and they remain long term loyal patients.

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You can also scroll down to the bottom of this page for a video on how acupuncture works in the way I speak to my patients about it.

• Annalisa specializes in sports injuries and chronic pain/fatigue syndromes from fibromyalgia & autoimmune conditions, stroke recovery as well as chronic symptoms from Lyme and other tick-borne infections.  She holds an additional certification from Memorial Sloan Kettering in oncology recovery care and has trained in pain relief, movement restoration and “dry needling” techniques.

• Annalisa holds a 4 year masters degree in acupuncture which includes both western and eastern medical classes, rigorous board exams and national certification in addition to state licensure.

• Earliest known text written 2,500 years ago (equivalent to the Hippocratic corpus)

• Evidence of this medicine being practiced go back 5,000 years

• Expansion, integration & evolution of the medicine

• How is this relevant today?

• A system of identifying and repairing patterns of imbalance in the body

• Balancing temperature & moisture

• Increasing circulation of blood and lymph

• Maintain homeostasis via the microbiome

• The elephant in the room!

• It’s not mystical, magical or other-worldly

• It is simply a word in a language which is conceptually different from our own

• Qi (“Chi”) is that which causes an action or function in the body. The energy by which our bodies, from our organs down to our DNA function.

• For example:

  • Gasotransmitters: Nitric Oxide, Hydrogen Sulfide & Carbon Monoxide

  • Nervous system interactions

  • ATP

• Acupuncture

• Herbal Therapy

• Nutrition

• Massage

• Meditative exercises (Qi Gong or Tai Qi)

• Additional modalities I employ:

• • LED-based low level light therapy

  • E-stim needling for muscle neuromodulation

  • Cupping/Guasha for soft tissue work