The study entitled “Is There Any Difference in Human Pupillary Reaction When Different Acupuncture Points are Stimulated?” has been published in the March 2010 issue of Acupuncture in Medicine (BMJ Publications). The study evaluated the effect of different acupuncture points by measuring the changes in participants’ pupil size using infrared pupillography. The study’s findings contributed [...]

Tim H. Tanaka, Director A new study entitled “Is There Any Difference in Human Pupillary Reaction When Different Acupuncture Points Are Stimulated?” examined the effect of different acupuncture points by measuring the size of research participants’ pupils (the black central part of the eye) using infrared pupillography (Mori, Tanaka, et al.). Human pupils change in [...]

Sports Injury Therapy and Conditioning As summer approaches, more people are engaging in a variety of sports activities.  The sports injury and conditioning page on our website details the various benefits of acupuncture in preventing and treating injury, as well as enhancing performance.  Please visit http://www.pacificwellness.ca/sportinjury.html.

Did you know? Joanna Rogowska, RMT has been an established registered massage therapist at the Pacific Wellness for 10 years. Following the completion of the initial Shiatsu certification course in 2005 and certified reflexology in 2007, she entered the shiatsu diploma program at the Shiatsu Academy of Tokyo to advance her skill and master the [...]

This newly published textbook, Fundamental Workbook of Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Ishiyaku Publishers, Tokyo, 2009), is the finished product of a collaboration among acupuncture and Oriental medicine universities in Japan. It contains standardized procedures for safe and effective acupuncture treatment. The last chapter is devoted to a discussion on acupuncture mechanisms and scientific evidence. Standardized [...]

Acupuncture works better than drugs like aspirin to reduce the severity and frequency of chronic headaches, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.A review of studies involving nearly 4,000 patients with migraine, tension headache and other forms of chronic headache showed that that 62 percent of the acupuncture patients reported headache relief compared to 45 percent of [...]

Dr. Tanaka made two overseas trips during the last two months and presented his research papers at international conferences.From October 10th to 12th, 2008, Dr. Tanaka was in Budapest, Hungary for the ICMART XIII World Congress 2008: Medical Acupuncture – Science and Techniques Bridge between East-West. During the conference, he presented his research entitled, “Potentiating [...]

Here are some of the comments we received recently from our clients. We would like to express our special thanks for their comments and kind permission to display them. “After several sessions with Joanna, I feel so much more relaxed and peaceful than I ever thought I would be! Joanna is an extremely skilled, attentive, [...]

Tim H. Tanaka, Ph.D., D.Ac, RMT, RNCP, BCIAC Currently, each acupuncturist in North America may locate the same acupuncture points differently, depending on how and where they have been trained. The issue of these point discrepancies may be somewhat of a surprise not only for consumers but also for many acupuncturists and students. The “acupuncture [...]

Here are some of the comments we received recently from our clients. We would like to express our special thanks for their comments and kind permission to display them. I would like to let you know that I think that Leon is the best therapist. I’ve tried several different therapists at other locations and they [...]