Flowing Wells, AZ Health and Fitness

For licensed acupuncturist Kym Kleiman, it’s not enough to merely cure the physical symptoms of a disease. Kym’s background in traditional Chinese medicine—an umbrella that includes holistic disciplines such as acupuncture, cupping, and Tui Na bodywork—has taught her the importance of healing’s spiritual element.

When asked to explain how her acupuncture treatments work, Kym sometimes calls upon the metaphor of a garden. Developed thousands of years ago by a Chinese civilization that took humans’ symmetry with nature for granted, acupuncture charts out the body’s most fertile points of energy. In this metaphor, the acupuncturist is the caretaker, or gardener; her bodywork techniques allow energy to flow more freely, and her needles gently aerate the back while intimidating crows that fly too near.

The second half of Liferoot Acupuncture and Healing Arts’ name also refers to the center’s massage-therapy services. Licensed therapists Marcella Arieta and Gunnar Carlson—like Kym, devotees of holistic healing—work to align the mind, body, and spirit with gentle strokes and firm pressures. Both therapists listen attentively to their clients before melting stress with hot stones or hurling knuckleballs at clumps of tension during sports massages. Fitness trainer Marisa Alcaraz stops sports injuries before they happen by holistically assessing each client’s condition and leading personal training sessions that match their abilities.

Jarrod Lash is the instructor, practitioner, and owner of Descending Dragon Health Center, a member school of the North American Tang Shou Tao Association (NATSTA). With the mission of preserving traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts, Jarrod uses his extensive studies and training to introduce these concepts to clients. He corrects bodily imbalances with jin shou tui na, one of world’s oldest known forms of bodywork—and uses acupuncture needles to both unblock energy pathways and joust with toothpicks. Having earned a fourth-degree black belt in kajukenbo, he demonstrates his martial-arts prowess by instructing students in the traditional forms of taiji quan, bagua zhang, and xingyi quan.

With hundreds of participating locations across the country, Right Dental Group represents a collection of oral-health-care professionals that delivers a variety of dental services. The collective places an emphasis on relationship building—meaning patients can confess their most egregious toffee-apple trespasses while receiving a teeth scrubbing delivered with precision and understanding. Each of the dentists has the ability to efficiently locate a cavity in a tooth-stack. Since Right Dental Group encompasses a wide range of offices and dentists, customers can schedule appointments online for any dental service—from routine cleanings and x-rays, to restorative crowns, Invisalign treatments, or cosmetic Zoom whitening—at the neighborhood location they prefer.

Doctor of Chiropractic H. Carol Sanders-Shochat of Sabino Canyon Chiropractic/AZ Spinal Decompression Center has been practicing since 1981 and learned how to use cold-laser technology, which has been highlighted on Dr. Oz, to relieve pain. Dr. Carol and her husband, Doctor of Chiropractic Wayne Shochat, also realign the back and neck with gentle chiropractic techniques, and the team of massage therapists knead knots out of muscles with a variety of massage modalities.

Master of acupuncture and oriental medicine Stephen Wolf operates under the premise that illness represents an imbalance in the body, and he attempts to correct those imbalances with holistic treatments culled from ancient Asia. Combining acupuncture with herbal medicine and Chinese bodywork, Stephen tunes the body by attempting to harmonize the internal energy traditionally known as chi. By freeing up the body’s flow of chi and preventing pro wrestlers from entering the office and shouting, Stephen helps patients overcome a range of emotional and physical ailments.

Dr. Laurance Silverman and Doctor of Chiropractic Marie Mendoza-Cipollo, with backgrounds in chiropractic, acupuncture, and Chinese medicine, prefer treatments that circumvent the need for drugs and surgery. They specialize in Zerona laser body contouring to eliminate fat without scalpels and tubes. Using FDA-approved cold-laser light, Zerona opens up fat cells, releasing their triglycerides, water, and sour-cream supplies while leaving skin and muscle unharmed. This results in shrunken fat cells and lost inches.