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Most Recent Update: March 30th, 2022 Patient Guidelines Masks are optional. As a courtesy, all of our staff will remain masked to protect the most vulnerable of our patients. If you are displaying symptoms, our staff may ask [...]
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Our team of providers are some of the best and most experienced Acupuncturists in New York City. We are committed to delivering the highest quality care, tailored to each individual’s needs. Our providers specialize in [...]
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If your experience with working from home has been anything like mine, I spend a good amount of the day preparing food, making food, eating food, cleaning up after food, and then thinking about what to do before that whole cycle h [...]
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We at Evolve are committed to your individual health as well as the health of our greater community. In order to effectively care for both, we are suspending our in-office care and focusing on Virtual Visits. We feel this platform [...]
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Our contribution to the community over the last year includes over 3000 patient visits at Evolve and hundreds more during our Community Acupuncture Benefit events. These benefit events have raised hundreds of dollars for our partn [...]
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It's about that time of year that we start to gather, be it gathering the harvest of the year, gathering our energy as we move into the Yin months, or gathering together with friends and loved ones in gratitude. Here at Evolve, [...]
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Fasting, the practice of abstaining from eating or drinking for an extended period of time, is not a new concept — it has been in practice for about as long as civilization has existed. In modern times, it has been associated mo [...]
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According to WebMD, the most common side effects of a multi-billion dollar, cholesterol lowering, statin medication are joint pain, diarrhea, indigestion, “pain,” throat irritability, and urinary tract infections. The list o [...]
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10 years ago, Frank and Nini began a friendship rooted in Chinese medicine and philanthropy. Years later, that friendship blossomed into a loving partnership, and in 2014 the world met their son, Xavier. Frank and Nini turned t [...]
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Patients often come into my clinic inquiring whether acupuncture can help weight loss, and the go-to response I’ve come to develop is: “Can water put out fire?” It isn’t to sound arrogant or offer some professionally irres [...]
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After freshman year of college my Probation Officer issued me a final warning: If one more marijuana test came back positive I’d be “in violation” and imprisoned. I thought I would never quit weed, nor would I be able to i [...]
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There is more to cleaning than just the merit of cleanliness. Even if we’re not talking squeaky, shiny clean, the process of cleaning up can have a profound effect on your mental health and cognitive performance. There is eviden [...]
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In downward dog – the default “reset” yoga pose – we press “kidney 1,” the wood point on acupuncture’s water channel, and “heart 8,” the fire point on its fire channel – into the earth, concurrently using the f [...]
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If you begin googling, “does acupuncture…” you won’t make it past the first “u” before Google characteristically injects by finishing: “Does acupuncture hurt?” What I’ve come to realize is what people are real [...]
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Spring is when life blossoms and lushness returns to our surroundings. At the dawn of spring, as nature awakens from the cold, dormant slumber of winter, we, too, feel awakened and revitalized. In a sense, the world is reborn, [...]
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In a systematic review of surveys completed by cancer patients in the journal Hematology/oncology Clinics of North America, use of TCM therapies during treatment ranged from 2.6-100% in every one of the observed studies. Since man [...]
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Last month, we hosted – for the first time ever – a seminar in Chinese Medicine and Oncology at the Columbia Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital. This two-day course, led by the esteemed Drs. Katherine Taromina a [...]
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Despite being a fairly self aware person, life has always presented situations where I have found myself thinking: who is this person and why am I acting this way? For example, why would I become uncomfortably tongue tied in inter [...]
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[caption id="attachment_674" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Central Park in the Spring[/caption] “Heaven begins to generate warm energy and Earth begins to develop, so that everything flourishes… The spring possesses the w [...]
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At Evolve Health + Wellness we offer one-on-one treatments in a private setting, but acupuncture clinics can operate in many different ways. One type of clinic model is called Community Style Acupuncture, where treatments are admi [...]
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Thank you to everyone who has participated in our Benefit for Nepal – donors, practitioners, and volunteers. Together, we have been able to raise enough money to shelter over 100 people in the remote village of Ghiling from [...]
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Before we had a location, we had an idea: to build a clinic that would serve not only as the home of our practice, but also as a space to elevate and transform education about East Asian medicine for both professionals and the gen [...]