A clinic built on a rare training.
Shanghai Acupuncture Clinic opened its doors in 2001. Over the past 20+ years, thousands of patients across metro Atlanta have come through for acupuncture, cupping, Tui-Na, herbal medicine, and traditional Chinese care - and many have returned, year after year, with family and friends in tow.
The attending practitioner, Yusheng Qiao, is unusual in American acupuncture practice: he trained first as a Western medical doctor, then formally as an acupuncturist, then again as a Tui-Na practitioner. Seven years of combined study in Shanghai, followed by decades of clinical practice on two continents.
He graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Medicine, then spent five years as an infectious disease physician at the Shanghai Center for Disease Control. During those same years, he completed advanced studies at the Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture and Meridians in 1986, and at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Tui-Na.
What this means for patients is simple: when you describe a symptom, you're speaking to someone trained to read it through two very different medical lenses - and who has spent forty years learning when each lens is the right one to use.
