My passion for acupuncture came about after a sports injury that left me in excruciating pain that was not letting up even after six weeks! I seeked the advice of an orthopedic surgeon believing I must’ve really screwed things up this time since no improvement in pain or functionality after quite a while (6 weeks), and he advised me that the type of injury to my shoulder that I was experiencing did not need surgery and that it was going to take some time to heal. He recommended I take Advil for the pain and let time take care of things. At the time I was working in an immunology laboratory and ironically our goal was to understand and provide solutions for peoples health problems, specifically auto-immune related health issue, and now here I was needing some help myself and the only thing available to me was a drug which brought with it stomach upset, liver toxicity, and was basically a coverup for the pain until the body healed itself.