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		<title>What Is Dry Needling? A Beginner’s Guide for Acupuncture Patients in Los Angeles</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’ve tried acupuncture for tension, stress, or pain and found it helpful, you might be wondering about dry needling, especially if you’re dealing with stubborn muscle knots that just&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dry Needling vs Acupuncture for Neck Pain: A Santa Monica Specialist’s Guide</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve all been there, staring at a laptop or a phone for hours until your neck locks up into a stiff, painful mess. When neck pain becomes a daily headache,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strategies for Better Health</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I sometimes encounter patients with troublesome health conditions that want to try changing &#8220;one thing&#8221; and see if it works. In my practice, this &#8220;one thing&#8221; is usually adding a&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scientific Research on Acupuncture</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The scientific evidence for acupuncture is growing at an incredible rate. As stated by the organization Evidence Based Acupuncture (EBA): “Research into acupuncture as a medical treatment has grown exponentially in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chinese Medicine is Physical Medicine (Not Energy Medicine)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 21:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I must admit, when I first learned about this magical, invisible &#8220;Qi&#8221; I was intrigued and excited. And then I was told that Qi travels throughout the human body inside&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ear Acupuncture for Weight Loss, Insomnia &#038; Addiction Recovery</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ear acupuncture has a large body of scientific evidence backing its effectiveness [1][2]. This clinically proven treatment approach is an efficient method for treating a wide number of conditions including&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2016 05:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dry Needling is an therapeutic technique that was developed by Dr Janet Travell and recently popularized by Acupuncturists and Physical Therapists in Australia, Canada and the US. In California, only&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trigger Point Dry-Needling for Body Pain</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In many cases, body pain is due to shortened muscles. When muscles are overused or overstressed they can develop areas of tension called trigger points. A trigger point may be&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Acupuncture Works &#8211; The Science Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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