How is APM Different?
The most common style of acupuncture practiced in North America today, known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (or TCM) acupuncture, is a modern form of acupuncture developed in the People’s Republic of China to practice acupuncture, along with herbal therapies, according to principles of TCM internal medicine. In contrast, APM draws from the best of classical acupuncture and modern Western physical medicine to result in a hands-on practice focused on a persons own unique holding pattern. The aim is not a Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment based on TCM, but rather a physical medicine evaluation and treatment based on the client’s actual lived experience of illness or distress. In APM, clients are evaluated and treatment is begun on the table, with a hands-on communication established between client and practitioner that is quite unique and profound. In this physical encounter, years of chronic constrictions can yield in relatively few sessions, and the client will make far greater s
