Acupuncture is a type of ancient Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years, and works with over 2,000 pressure points and energy meridians in your body. As you probably know, acupuncture uses disposable needles as thin as a strand of hair placed just below the skin to stimulate these points on your body. Treatments are usually painless. At worst, patients have reported tingling, heaviness, or a slight burning sensation where certain needles are positioned.

Dr. Tan comes from a long line of doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine. An eighth-generation acupuncturist, Dr. Tan's training started at age 5, when he began studying martial arts and qigong, practices that awaken one's inner chi or subtle energy.

Throughout the many thousand year history of Traditional Chinese Medicine only a doctor with inner cultivation has been viewed as able to heal patients. Dr. Tan's rare background combines a mastery of China s ancient healing and martial arts along with in-depth training in modern Western medicine.

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