O'S MARTIAL ARTS- How it All Relates to his Traumatic Injury and Wellness Practice.

Although many practitioners of Acupuncture in the west may start a career in the field due to need for self discovery, O's totally missed 60's and did not really have that much tofu in his lifetime.    He is not a vegetarian, in fact he contributed to the slaughter of a lot of chickens in his amateur body building days, eating up to twelve chicken breasts a day along with healthy serving of broccoli.  Although he loves the environment, he does not necessarily hug trees everyday.

His first interests in Acupuncture comes from his need to fix his own injuries he has accumulated for over thirty year of athletic training and from his need to take his knowledge of Martial Arts to the next level by learning the intricacies of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  Learning to heal is the right path for the Martial Artist, because Healing Arts (The Yin) and Martial Arts (The Yang) are part of one another.  All martial artists who seek the highest level of learning, sooner or later travel this road.

O's is extreme proponent of non-violence.  However in his current clinical practice, he appreciates the experience he has gained through hundreds of injuries he has received from the martial arts; All of which he has treated successfully on himself using methods of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine. 

He also appreciates all the self experimentation he has conducted on his body with diet and exercise as he trained athletics at all levels - Becoming a speeding bullet through cardiovascular exercise at 4% Body Fat weighing 153 pounds as seen on this picture or becoming a 230 pound beef cow squatting 405 and benching 315 as an amateur body builder training with weights at 10% body fat, at times totally looking like comic book character  "The Hulk" as seen on the picture below.

O's has also experimented with being a couch potato when he feels like it, eating cheese cake when it is time and enjoying getting fat, and not eating the cheese cake when he is cycling his training through out the calendar year.  Although he has appeared in fitness shows, newspapers etc, he does not necessarily look like a fitness guy in regular life unless he needs to.  When he needs to, it's just matter of days, weeks or months of precision - all depending on what he wants to accomplish.  He believes in healthy lifestyle but not necessarily the healthy life style presented in the media.  When he talks to his clients about wellness, it is about being well and feeling well.

When a client comes in after a traumatic injury, O's gets to hear a lot of "Wow, how did you know that is exactly where it hurts?  It all gets even weirder when O's tells the client next five spots and the type of sensations they are most likely feeling.   O's can do this simply because there is nothing like first hand experience.....

Do you want to go to a healthcare practitioner who just reads about how you feel or someone who knows exactly how you feel and has fixed his own injuries?  Do you want to listen to someone who just talks about health, diet and nutrition or listen to someone who actually knows how to use the knowledge on himself?