Doctorate-Trained · Licensed Acupuncturist
Pain & Orthopedics
Acupuncture for back, neck & joint pain in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Pain & Orthopedics
Neck Pain
01
Neck pain — whether from posture, tension, or old injury — responds well to acupuncture, particularly with sustained benefit over time rather than just in-the-moment relief. Treatment targets the muscles and connective tissue around the cervical spine to ease both pain intensity and stiffness.
Back Pain
02
Low back pain is one of the best-studied conditions in acupuncture research. Treatment reduces muscle tension along the spine, improves local blood flow, and calms the nerve irritation that keeps chronic back pain in a loop.
Shoulder Pain
03
Shoulder pain — from rotator cuff strain, frozen shoulder, or overuse — responds to acupuncture through improved circulation to the joint and a reduction in the muscular guarding that often makes shoulder injuries worse over time.
Migraines & Headaches
04
Migraine and tension headache prevention is one of acupuncture's most well-established uses, with research supporting it as comparable to preventive medication for some patients — without the side effects. Treatment focuses on regulating the nervous system pathways involved in headache onset, not just chasing pain after it starts.
Sciatica
05
Sciatica — pain radiating from the lower back down the leg — often stems from nerve compression or irritation. Acupuncture reduces the local inflammation contributing to nerve irritation and eases the muscular tension that frequently accompanies it.
Hip Pain
06
Hip pain, particularly from osteoarthritis or overuse, responds to acupuncture through the same anti-inflammatory and circulatory mechanisms that make it effective for other joint conditions. It's often used alongside physical therapy rather than as a stand-alone fix.
Knee Pain
07
Knee pain — especially from osteoarthritis — is one of the most heavily researched conditions in acupuncture, with clinical trials consistently showing meaningful pain relief and improved function compared to standard care.
Wrist Pain
08
Wrist pain has a wide range of causes, and the evidence for acupuncture is more mixed here than in other areas — it's worth saying so directly. For tennis-elbow-adjacent tendon issues, results are encouraging; for nerve-compression conditions like carpal tunnel, the research is still thin. I treat wrist pain based on its underlying cause rather than a single generic protocol.
Tennis Elbow
09
Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) responds to acupuncture in the short term, with some techniques showing benefit that holds up over the longer term as well. It's frequently used alongside targeted strengthening work rather than in isolation.
For long-standing pain — the kind that's outlasted its original cause — acupuncture works on the way the nervous system processes and amplifies pain signals over time, not just the original site of injury. This is where some of the strongest, largest-scale research in all of acupuncture exists.
Chronic Pain
10
Citations
Neck Pain
01
"Durable Effect of Acupuncture for Chronic Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (2024)
Back Pain / Shoulder Pain / Chronic Pain (umbrella)
02
Vickers AJ, et al. "Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis." JAMA Internal Medicine. 2012.
PMID: 22965186
Migraines & Headaches
03
Linde K, et al. "Acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016.
PMID: 27351677
Sciatica
04
Zhang Z, et al. "The efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy for sciatica: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials." Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2023.
Knee Pain
05
Manheimer E, Linde K, Lao L, Bouter LM, Berman BM. "Meta-analysis: Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis of the Knee." Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007.
PMID: 17577006
Wrist Pain / Tennis Elbow
06
"Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Lateral Epicondylitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials"
PMID: 32318130
Visit
Phone
929-376-9584
Studio Location
141 S 5th Street, Office West, #5
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours
Monday - 10 pm - 7 pm
Tuesday - 10 am - 7 pm
Wednesday - 10 am - 7 pm
Thursday - 10 am - 7 pm
Friday - 9:30 am - 5 pm
Saturday - Closed
Sunday 11 am - 4 pm