Before, During, and After Acupuncture: Tips for How to Feel Your Best

Before, During, and After Acupuncture: Tips for How to Feel Your Best

You’ve booked a new patient visit and are excited to begin treatment but you’ve never had acupuncture before and aren’t sure how to prepare. Or, maybe you’re several sessions into your treatment plan and wondering if you could be doing anything differently to benefit your care.

Winslett Carr, LAc, MAcOM offers her tips on what to do before, during, and after acupuncture treatment so you arrive prepared and leave with self-assurance that you’re extending the benefits of your treatment long after your visit.

Meet your massage therapist: Brent Luebbert, LMT

Meet your massage therapist: Brent Luebbert, LMT

Brent Luebbert, LMT (he/him) has been a core member of the Turning Pointe team for the last few years. If you’re just hearing about him now, it’s probably because he is usually booked!

His decade-long career as a professional dancer and the high demands on his body that comes with it, give him a deep knowledge and interest in pain and injury management. He enjoys helping active people move out of pain and recover from injury and treating those with longstanding issues and chronic pain. 

Brent walks us through how he started his massage therapy journey, the ways his dancing career and his massage practice have influenced each other, how he approaches complex cases, and more!

For the Gardeners: How to Stretch Before & After Your Day Outside

For the Gardeners: How to Stretch Before & After Your Day Outside

In addition to being one of our amazing LMTs, Molly-Grace Rea also operates a cut flower CSA out of her farm-home in Sherwood, OR so she’s no stranger to the work of tending a robustly growing garden throughout the summer. And if you’re a gardener yourself, you know we don’t use the word WORK lightly!

Though gardening is so rewarding and often gets us into the beneficial flow state (or, “in the zone” as some say), the day-in and day-out care for our chlorophylled kin can start to take a toll on our bodies if we’re not caring for ourselves as much as we care for our plants. Using her training and experience as a bodyworker, athlete, and professional gardener, Molly offers up some stretches that can help carry us through our gardens prolific summer months.

Mental & Emotional Health and Healing: TCM's Holistic Approach

Mental & Emotional Health and Healing: TCM's Holistic Approach

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), there is no separation between physical and mental health and well-being. Body pain or other symptoms we may tend to associate with our physical state, such as digestive issues, often indicate stagnancies or deficiencies that can further manifest as mental or emotional challenges. Erin Cranford, LAc, explains in more detail the connections between body and mind & recommends complimentary practices and books for your healing journey.

Consistency & Results: How a steady schedule of care really helped

Consistency & Results: How a steady schedule of care really helped

As someone with an injury, chronic pain, and other daily challenges, Allison (she/they), our Practice Manager here at Turning Pointe, shares some of the exciting, tangible impacts she’s experienced from coming to the clinic as a patient herself over the past few months.

Who turned up the heat?! Adding acupuncture to your perimenopause toolkit

Who turned up the heat?! Adding acupuncture to your perimenopause toolkit

Flushed face? Damp clothing? Feeling ready to strip down into your skivvies?

It’s hot in here — and no, we’re not talking about the unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been having in the PNW over the past few weeks. For many perimenopausal and menopausal people, it’s actually just… you! Well, you and one of the most commonly reported (and uncomfortable!) symptoms folks in these demographics wish to rid themselves of: HOT FLASHES. The good news is: acupuncture helps!