Tag Archives: pain

Early morning on a Midsummer day, my habitual response to a painful knee joint accelerated into excruciating pain. In shock and fear as I moved my foot a quarter of an inch, I felt intense sharp stabbing sensations in my right knee joint. Thus started a journey that included a suggestion for invasive surgery, incompetent and painful therapy, an option for a steroid shot that might or might not offer relief, and pain medications that potentially offered disastrous side effects... Read more »

I injured my back doing yard work.  I was in constant pain which worsened with normal activities like sitting, washing dishes, and bending or carrying things.  I tried the treatment my primary care doctor recommended for 3 months without any improvement, before moving on to acupuncture.  With Jon’s treatments, my pain improved within a few weeks from debilitating to just troubling. During that time, other things about how I felt improved such as mood, energy level, sleep, digestion, and so... Read more »

I highly recommend Jon as an acupuncturist, and for much more as well. For, although acupuncture is at the heart of Jon’s practice, he is as well a longtime student of many branches of Asian medicine, and if you go to him with a specific complaint, Jon will look at you as a whole person and will suggest a variety of treatments that he thinks are likely to deal with your specific complaint by way of improving your overall health.... Read more »