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Inside Tracker: What Your Insides Say About Your Reality & Potential

Inside Tracker: What Your Insides Say About Your Reality & Potential

Have you ever heard the saying “you are what you eat?” It couldn’t be truer. Everything that we put in our mouths becomes a building block of who we are today and in the future. And each of us is completely different - Inside Tracker is a tool we can use to better understand how to optimize our bodies for best results.

What is Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture?

What is Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture?

Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture bridges the knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC), the networks of the meridians and the functions of the acupuncture points, with the knowledge and understanding of the nervous system. Combining these two frameworks, helps to bring a new lens through which to view bringing healing and balance to our bodies.

Supplements to Elevate Athletic Performance

Supplements to Elevate Athletic Performance

Keeping one’s body at peak performance can be a full-time job.  Building a routine that incorporates high-quality supplements can be critically helpful in supporting our immune system, mental clarity, physical performance, and overall energy levels.

Needle Stimulation in Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture

Needle Stimulation in Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture

Neuro Enhancing Acupuncture bridges the knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC), the networks of the meridians and the functions of the acupuncture points, with the knowledge of the nervous system. Combining these two frameworks helps provide a new lens through which to view bringing healing and balance to our bodies.

Sports Acupuncture for the Minnesota Vikings

Sports Acupuncture for the Minnesota Vikings

Working as the sports acupuncturist for the Minnesota Vikings demands that I am always on. For the next “hopefully” seven months (ahem Super Bowl 54), I will spend countless hours with the players, working my hardest to keep them healthy and performing their best. I will pull out all the JADA tricks I know; including sports acupuncture, cupping, electro-acupuncture, scraping, massage and stretching.

Four Benefits of receiving a Massage after Acupuncture

Four Benefits of receiving a Massage after Acupuncture

The benefits of receiving an acupuncture or massage session alone are greatly amplified when combined, especially for for athletes and movement enthusiasts. Whether you are experiencing acute injury, chronic pain, stress, anxiety, depression or even a sluggish immune system, acupuncture and massage are a perfect combo to help restore health and optimal function.

Injury Recovery Using Traditional Chinese Medicine

Injury Recovery Using Traditional Chinese Medicine

Injuries also provide an opportunity to turn inward, realign, and listen deeply to our bodies.  Chinese Medicine has incredible insight into what kind of injuries and lifestyle factors can contribute to our deeper imbalances. At JADA, we are here to help you understand the bigger story that surrounds your injury and provide tangible steps for you in your recovery process to overcome it.

The Yin & Yang of Recovery

The Yin & Yang of Recovery

Our recovery is an important part of our training that is often overlooked. It is where we integrate our experience, and where we replenish our system so we can rise to the next occasion with new vigor and depth. In our preparation, we build. In our execution, we push. In our recovery, we replenish. Recovery  is our time to replenish, heal and rejuvenate. It is our time to integrate and strengthen our abilities with a new depth.

Acupuncture Drunk

Acupuncture Drunk

After laying in a serene room on a warm bed with soothing music and a foot warmer, you lazily roll over and get dressed. A delicious feeling of peace, fogginess, and calm washes over you. Your eyes are glazed and at half-mast. You stumble out of the room while your acupuncturists smiles and giggles mentioning you are “acupuncture drunk.”

Sports Acupncture for Injury Prevention

Sports Acupncture for Injury Prevention

One of the most heartbreaking events to happen in an athlete’s world is injury! Athletes and active people prefer to continue through many, if not most, injuries because working out is so much more than a way to burn calories and lose weight! It is a physical, emotional and spiritual release. It is a way to find peace, ease and balance. It is a way to feel in control in an out of control world. Telling an active person that they need to take time off to recover is like cutting off their lifeline.

Acupuncture Improves Athletic Performance

Acupuncture Improves Athletic Performance

Athletes of all levels ponder the question: how do I improve my performance? Answer: Acupuncture. Thousands of years old, this effective and proven Chinese treatment has been praised for its medicinal properties of healing and recovery.

NFL and NBA athletes, professional tennis players and dancers, and elite triathletes swear by the results of this time-tested therapy