Let’s build an understanding of your back pain.

H.C.

As a 70-something man with over 40 years of back problems, I didn’t have high hopes of ever finding a real solution. But a condition that I had been sort of managing (barely) for decades finally began to worsen enough that I ventured to think outside the box a little.

Listening to my story and looking me over, Tae decided that strengthening the hips would be the key to improving the back. It sounded a bit dubious, but after literally one session of probing and dry needling,my back began to improve; indeed, it began to feel like it rarely if ever had before.

Tae likes to repeat that “My goal is for you not to need me any more,” a worthy ambition that a cynic might see as an effective marketing device. In my case, it is becoming literally true. After a grand total of four meetings, where he supplied me with a growing array of regular exercises for self-maintenance, I feel I have achieved exactly the “reset” that I originally told him I was seeking. It’s been over two months now, and I have no intention of ever returning to Tae’s office—unless problems recur, in which case I will not hesitate to do so.

Each body is different, of course, but I can’t think of a health intervention in my entire life that has been quite so decidedly or immediately successful as this one; I owe Tae an enormous debt of gratitude.