I admit it, I was a complete skeptic and believed that acupuncture was more psychosomatic, Chinese…read morevoodoo, than real medicine. That was until I injured my C-7 from years of surfing and bad posture. X-rays and MRI revealed a narrowing and pinched nerve at the base of my neck and as a result I was experiencing significant pain, numbness, weakness, and tingling running past my shoulder blade, down the back of my arm, all the way to my index finger. So much so that I could not sleep due to the constant pain. My first plan of attack was traditional Western medicine, but that didn't help and the prescribed PT actually made things worst!
A strange thing happens when you are in constant pain and have exhausted all options, you get desperate and are willing to trying anything for relief. Fortunately for me, a very respected doctor friend of my recommended that I see Cory since he helped him and different members of his family with various ailments and injuries.
After my very first treatment the reduction in pain was significant, near miraculous, and now I am a believer! The needles are so thin you almost can't feel them, the mild electrical pluses that Cory uses to stimulate and bring healing chi/blood into injured areas, the surround sound and vibrations of healing music, the use of heat lamps, and the 30-minute Chinese healing massage to cap off each treatment is in a word OUTSTANDING. All this for less than $1 a minute, only $70 for a 1.5-hour session! I have paid much more for far less at the new, trendy places.
Cory is the real deal, a local boy who was trained in China, decades of experience, very knowledgeable, passionate, and most important genuinely caring. He spends unrushed, quality time diagnosing your issue, explaining what he going to do before he does it, and gives you stretches and exercises to heal the issue at the source. Although I no longer need treatment, I still go just to nurture myself.
TIPS:
* Come with an open mind, this approach is VERY different from western medicine. It's much warmer, slower paced, sensory and wholistic. Here you are a person, not an ailment. Don't judge the approach, judge the results.
* Don't come expecting a bright, white, yuppy spa; Cory's studio is humble, rustic, with warm, darker lighting.
* Look for the older, grey colored, low rise 4-story apartment building near the corner of Wilder Ave and Keeaumoku Street. While headed up Keeaumoku, just past Wilder Ave, it's the second building on Diamond Head side of the street. A stone's throw from Makiki Park & Library, if your throwing toward the mountains.
* Free parking is on the ground level, under the building. You can park in stalls #9 or #10, the last two stalls on the left. Take the stairs to the second floor and when you're on the second floor, look for the one light that's on right next to the door of his studio - room 205.
* Appointment ONLY - Call (808) 220-0934 or email asianhorizonsllc@gmail.com
