Monday – Friday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Towson, Maryland · 7600 Osler Drive, Suite 303
Most acupuncture offices close before you finish work. I see patients weekday evenings until 7:00 PM and Saturday afternoons — because the people who need relief most are usually the ones who can't take a Tuesday morning off.
My practice is built around musculoskeletal pain and women's health. If you have tried physical therapy or chiropractic and plateaued, or you would rather not add another medication, acupuncture is a reasonable next step.
Chronic and recurrent pain, sciatica, stiffness that returns after every flare-up. Acupuncture is recommended as a first-line non-drug treatment for low back pain in the 2017 American College of Physicians guideline.
Osteoarthritis, rotator cuff and tendon pain, post-surgical residual pain, and myofascial pain that has not resolved with conservative care.
Frequent tension headaches and migraine — used alongside your current management, or as an alternative to daily preventive medication.
Painful periods, menstrual irregularity, menopausal hot flashes and night sweats, and pregnancy-related low back and pelvic pain.
Chemotherapy-induced, diabetic, and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy — for symptom burden, numbness, and the sleep disruption that comes with it.
Insomnia, tension-pattern symptoms, fatigue, and supportive care during cancer treatment — nausea, fatigue, and joint pain from aromatase inhibitors.
I am a Maryland-licensed acupuncturist practicing in Towson. My focus is pain — the kind that has lasted long enough that you have already tried several things, and the kind that shapes how you sleep, work, and move.
I practice inside a medical office building across from UM St. Joseph Medical Center, alongside physicians in pain management, internal medicine, gynecology, and chiropractic. That is deliberate. Acupuncture works best as part of your care rather than apart from it, and I send written notes back to any physician who refers you.
I will tell you honestly whether I think acupuncture can help you. We agree on a trial period — usually four to six visits — and then we talk frankly about whether it is working. If it is not, I will say so and help you find what might.
Acupuncture is part of East Asian medicine, a clinical tradition developed over roughly two thousand years across China, Korea, and Japan. Very thin sterile needles are placed at specific points on the body and left in place, usually for twenty to thirty minutes.
The traditional explanation describes qi — the body's functional activity — moving along pathways called meridians, and treatment as restoring flow where it has become obstructed. That language is old, but it encodes careful clinical observation, and it still guides where the needles go.
The modern explanation is complementary rather than competing. Needling appears to modulate pain signaling in the nervous system, alter local blood flow, and influence the release of the body's own analgesic and anti-inflammatory compounds. Both descriptions point at the same practice.
Most people find it far more comfortable than expected. The needles are roughly the width of a human hair — nothing like a hypodermic needle. Many patients fall asleep during treatment.
About sixty minutes. I take a history, examine the area, and explain plainly whether I think acupuncture is likely to help — and what would tell us it is not.
Needles are placed and left in for twenty to thirty minutes while you rest. Wear loose clothing. Come having eaten something.
Most conditions need a short series rather than one visit. We set a trial of four to six, reassess honestly, and stop if it is not working.
Osler Professional Center, directly across from UM St. Joseph Medical Center. Free parking on site.
By appointment. Evening and Saturday times fill first — call ahead when you can.
I send a written note after the initial visit and again at reassessment. Call directly or have your staff call, and I will contact the patient the same day.