Mark: From Cripping Pain to 100% Better

In April 2003, Mark was in a motorcycle accident.

It left him with crippling pain in his back. The pain was excruciating. It went up and down his legs, up his spine, and into his back.

"It was very bad," Mark said.

He went to several doctors to try to get answers. The only thing they gave him was steroids and painkillers.

"They ended up making me worse to the point that I could not even walk, stand, or sit," Mark said.

The Turning Point

Mark went on the advice of his mother's friend to see Dr. Na.

He was skeptical at first. But he went.

The Treatment

Dr. Na gave him acupuncture and treated him with herbal medicine.

The Outcome

"It has made my life 100% better," Mark said.

He experienced noticeable relief after just one treatment.

Today, Mark is a firm believer in acupuncture. He would readily recommend it to anyone in pain.

The Crisis That Continues

Mark's story is not unique. It is happening to millions of Americans every day.

The painkiller epidemic is one of the worst public health disasters in American history. Every day, patients are prescribed opioids for pain. Some become addicted. Someoverdose. Some die. Countless others live in a fog—unable to work, unable to think clearly, unable to live fully.

Mark was one of the lucky ones. He found another way.

But how many never do? How many are never told there is another option? How many are left to choose between pain they cannot bear and drugs that destroy their lives?

Acupuncture has been repeatedly proven effective and safe for treating chronic pain. It is non-addictive. It has no serious side effects. And it is inexpensive compared to the long- term cost of opioid addiction—the hospitalizations, the lost jobs, the broken families, the lives lost.

This is what Dr. Na's system offers. Not a different way to manage symptoms. A different way to heal.

This is not a one-time result. This is the same protocol Dr. Na uses for patients with injuries, chronic pain, and medication side effects. Because the treatment follows a pattern, it can be taught. Because it can be taught, it can be passed on.

This is the system Dr. Na built. This is what she offers.

And it began with a patient who could not walk—and who found his way back.

On the streets of Japan

After the International Medical Congress in Japan

At the doctoral degree celebration with my supervisor Professor Shi Xuemin

With Professor Xu Ping

The State Journal-Register featured Dr. Na Zhai and Dr. Claude Fortin's collaboration.Our patient John Landers The newspaper headline read: "Acupuncture goes mainstream." China Health reports on the research findings of Dr. Zhai Na.