ANDRE SHIH
TCM & ACUPUNCTURE

Female patient in her early 50s, who works at a supermarket. She carries item in and out of the freezer all the time. She complained of shoulder and neck being very painful and heavy. Upon further examination, she had trouble sleeping, and was very difficult to sweat. All the food she ate would have a sour taste to it. When I was checking her abdomen, I found the area around her left rib was hurting and very sensitive to pressure. Her pulse was very deep. Generally, when some

Female, late 30s, complained of neck and shoulder pain along gallbladder meridian for 3 days. I took her pulse and found imbalance in the liver. So I used the acu-points on her liver and gallbladder meridian on her feet, ankles and lower legs. Pain was gone after the treatment. Nothing fancy. #instantpainrelief #neckpain #shoulderpain #acupuncture

I was in a car accident on my way to meet my wife for lunch on new year's eve. Snow started just shortly before noon in Burnaby, and it wasn't just a little snow. The snow flakes were huge and it was accumulating fast. I'd been seeing patients all morning and the last appointment finished at 2:00pm. I was driving on Kingsway just before Boundary Road heading west. I've been driving carefully because the new snow on the road hasn't been plowed. I was waiting for a red light to