Checkout Our New Kirkland Clinic
Seattle Acupuncture Associates is in a new clinic in Kirkland, WA. 11411 NE 124th Street, Suite 230 Kirkland, WA 98034 We look forward to seeing you there !
Read MoreWhat’s new? Acupuncture on the Weekend!
Jim Blair is now treating on Saturdays in the Kenmore Clinic ! Seattle Acupuncture Associates Located inside: Lake Washington Physical Therapy Kenmore Location 6704 NE 181st St Suite 101 Kenmore, WA 98028
Read MoreCheckout Our Seattle Clinic
We are in our new Seattle location. 509 Olive Way Suite 618 (Floor 6) Seattle, WA 98101 We look forward to seeing you there ! 206-622-0246 (T) 206-624-0766 (F)
Read MoreAcupuncture and “Waffling” Natural Recovery
These rules govern how we sit in space, how we move, how we protect ourselves and how we recover from injury and illness. These rules are known as tensegrity. When you injure or strain your low back your muscles, which are an active part of this system, begin to adjust to compensate and protect you.…
Read MoreAcupuncture at SAA
Thus, we ought to consider how our form originates. Remarkably, our bodies continuously self-assemble from within. This amazing feat so often admired in embryogenesis never stops throughout our lives. While this system is quite robust, the structural balance can be compromised by imbalanced use or by overwhelming traumatic force. In a healthy, unrestricted system structural…
Read MoreReferring a Patient to SAA
At Seattle Acupuncture Associates (SAA) we value the quality of communication and collaboration with our patient referral network. As a referring provider to SAA, you can expect consistent communication from the treating acupuncturist. At a patient’s first visit it is helpful to have the last contact note and any imaging reports available. After our first…
Read MoreThe Medicine of Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a 2,500 year old medical procedure which augments each individual’s capacity to move toward greater health and vitality. Practitioners work with the body’s innate self-assembling tendencies to optimize structural balance—’self-assembly’ refers to the coordinated set of processes by which a body organizes itself. An example of this is biotensegrity: biological systems like our…
Read MoreLeading Edge Acupuncture
For centuries acupuncture has been treating neurologic and musculoskeletal disorders. The meridian system of acupuncture corresponds to tissue planes throughout the body. This model clarifies the connections between individual tissues of the body and the structural balance of the whole. When an acupuncturist speaks to you about balance they are referring to this structural balance…
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