The Acupuncture Allentown Story...

How acupuncture and alternative therapies changed my life.

By Warren Miles - Acupuncture Allentown

I have a rather interesting history. Born with club feet, I had a series of casts as an infant and
wore braces nightly until I was 6. This created an imbalance throughout my myofascial system,
which prompted me to start doing yoga at age 14 and continued well into my twenties.

At the age of 20 I was involved in a motorcycle accident. In my mid 20’s I owned and oper-
ated several Dominoes Pizza franchises, but by my late twenties my chronic low back pain led to
acute low back pain.

I had time and money with an excellent health plan that

I personally chose for myself. I went to many different
Chiropractors, several osteopaths, physical therapists,
several orthopedic surgeons, massage therapists, and
others. I was desperately looking for a way to relieve
my pain.

For two years it was chronic with many acute episodes.

I could not ski (my lifelong passion.) In addition to pain
killers, the only other option my health plan would cover
was surgery.

I put it off for over two years, and when I finally decided
to go through with it to remove protruding disc mate-
rial, the disc re-herniated three months later.

The surgeons (and my excellent health plan) provide and recommend epidural injection, fusion
and more pain medications.

I was in pretty low spirits when a friend, through a social networking club mentioned Rolfing. I
was immediately intrigued and started my series with Kevin Frank at his Holderness NH studio in
January of 1992.

My sessions were dramatic and transformative, to the degree that I started studying human
anatomy, physiology and kinesiology (the study of human movement) to get prepared for the
rigorous training at the Rolf Institute.

I moved to Boulder Colorado and began studying and preparing for entry to the Rolf institute
in the fall of 92’. While living in Boulder, I discovered a
whole new world of effective and efficient bodywork,
movement therapies, and acupuncture not known to
western medicine.

In between classes at the Institute I would get acu-

puncture treatments, attend Pilates instruction, and
visit the many different bodywork practitioners in the
area.

I moved back to the east coast in the summer of 1994

and started my Rolfing practice in Allentown. I also
continued my Pilates training with Master teacher Karen Carlson in
Allentown for several years. Karen gets the credit (with my diligent practice) in completely rid-
ding me of my low back pain.

Not long after, I started teaching these fundamentals of Pilates to my patients, acquiring the
complete Pilates equipment to get people to properly achieve the rigors of the Pilates mat rou-
tine.

Now operating at peak condition from my work, I returned to my outdoor active lifestyle that
was taken away from me in my twenties. I returned to
skiing and took up snowboarding, returned to mountain
biking and standup jet skiing.

Whiplash from a rear end crash and a broken fibula

from snowboarding, led me to the Gyrotonic training in
late 1999.

Not one to sit on my laurels, I decided to study in New

York City at Tri-State College of
Acupuncture where ‘hands on’ acupuncture styles is
the main curriculum. It was evident that Acupuncture
would meld well with my knowledge of anatomy, kinesi-
ology and bodywork (Rolfing,) as well as my Pilates and Gyrotonic® movement therapy.

Tri-State College of Acupuncture has a reputation for being among the best acupuncture
schools in the country because needling is taught and practiced in the first of three years of
study while other schools don’t start needling till the last year.

In addition, I was exposed to Janet Travell’s trigger-point work, which is a highly successful
western therapy that was developed here in the USA. This therapy was essential in relieving my
chronic neck pain from the whiplash I had suffered earlier.

I am also trained in Kiiko Matsumoto’s Japanese style acupuncture which is known for treat-
ing many western lifestyle diseases such as blood sugar imbalance, adrenal overload, hormonal
imbalance, hypertension and structural imbalances.

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