Eastern Medical Center

About

Teresa Shen, L.Ac, Dipl. O.M., is a fourth generation practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine with a masters from Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. She is presently Chief Physician and Lead Physician at Eastern Medical Center who was founded by her father in 1982. She is continuing her father's legacy today. Her passion and desire to heal people in a natural way has led her to become such a success in her field, and winner of the Pleasanton's Reader's Choice Award and featured in Diablo Magazine in Women’s Best Of the Bay Area. Shen actively pursues healing modalities which have a high benefit to her clients, including CranioSacral Therapy. She loves to combine this winning combination of soft tissue work of CranioSacral and the stimulation of acupuncture points to get the body to heal itself. Shen finds tremendous success in this method, and her clients love it too!

My Skills

Eastern Medical Center is a full-service natural family health care clinic bringing 5,000 years of traditional Chinese healing methods to the East Bay, including acupuncture, acupressure, cupping, moxibustion, gua sha, herbal treatment and including more modern therapies such as CranioSacral Therapy. Collectively, Shen’s team has expertise in several modalities, including acupuncture, acupressure, craniosacral therapy, Reiki, lymphatic massage, ART (Active Release Therapy), Life Coaching and more. Though the disciplines differ, they all have a similar goal — to promote and support each patient’s restorative abilities. “We’re basically helping to activate the body’s own healing energy,” Shen says. Patients come to Eastern Medical Center for a wide variety of reasons. Some wish to alleviate pain from chronic ailments such as migraine headaches or digestive and endocrine issues or to heal more quickly from broken bones and other injuries. Some seek relief from back, neck, knee and joint pain. Others seek prevention of hereditary illnesses such as strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. For just about any ailment, Shen says, Chinese medicine can help in some way. “We’ve seen some fantastic results,” she says, “Even with people who’ve tried everything, including injections, surgery or even multiple surgeries.” Area doctors are taking notice and are now referring patients to the Center for complementary care. “Eastern and Western medicine are not rivals,” Shen says. “Each has its own role.” Even when patients experience positive outcomes, they’re often surprised by the Eastern approach. “It’s not like conventional medicine,” Shen explains. “If someone comes in with an ankle injury, treatment may call for needles in other parts of the body, such as the wrist. Certain energy channels have a stronger affinity to getting more interaction with certain organs. Everything’s connected and everything works together, so if an ailment affects one thing, it may affect another.”