Feel Better in Your Body, Your Mind and Your Life
Pain, stress, and disconnection don’t just affect the body — they ripple through every layer of life. When your system is overwhelmed, your energy, mood, digestion, hormones, and sense of self all feel out of balance. You deserve care that sees the whole picture — not just the symptoms — and helps you reconnect with your body in a way that feels safe, supported, and deeply restorative.
Fast, effective treatment to relieve pain and restore natural movement.
If pain is limiting how you move, work, or live, you’re in the right place. Orthopedic dry needling targets the exact muscles, trigger points, and movement patterns causing your discomfort — helping you feel relief faster and move with confidence again.
My approach blends orthopedic dry needling, gentle manual therapy, and nervous‑system calming techniques to address both the source of your pain and the patterns that keep it returning. It’s modern, evidence‑informed care — delivered with the whole person in mind.
A gentle, effective approach to pelvic pain, core dysfunction, and deep muscular imbalance.
Pelvic floor dysfunction affects far more than the pelvis — it influences digestion, posture, breathing, sexual function, urinary health, and the entire core system. Many people live with symptoms for years without realizing the pelvic floor is the missing link.
This approach blends pelvic floor dry needling, abdominal wall therapy, myofascial release, and nervous‑system regulation to restore balance, reduce pain, and help you feel supported from your center outward.
Restore balance, reduce inflammation, and reconnect with your body’s natural rhythm.
Digestive and hormonal health are deeply interconnected. When one system becomes imbalanced, the other often follows — leading to symptoms like bloating, irregular cycles, fatigue, mood changes, abdominal discomfort, inflammation, and fertility challenges.
My approach blends acupuncture, dry needling, abdominal therapy, herbal medicine, and nervous‑system regulation to support the gut–brain–hormone axis and help you feel grounded, energized, and well again.
Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture
Healing the Face, Neck & Spirit- from the Inside Out
Powerfully treat body, brain, mind, head, and face condition
Specialized Tuning Fork Acupuncture is Sound Healing from a tuning fork that creates vibrations you can hear and feel when placed on or above the body. Along with acupuncture needles sound induces a self-healing response, releases fluid build-up, congestion, benefits nerves, releases muscle tension, and improves circulation.
So that you can sleep, think clearly, feel energized, look and feel better about yourself from the inside out!
I like to call this treatment AromaTune. It is tuning fork aromatherapy acupuncture healing at its finest!
A Practitioner Guided by Curiosity, Compassion, and the Science of Natural Healing
My path to becoming a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine began long before I ever touched a needle. In college, while studying Biology, I took a course in medical botany that opened a door I didn’t know existed. I became fascinated by herbal medicine, nutrition, and the healing properties of plants.
Searching for herbology programs led me to Pacific College of Oriental Medicine — and to the realization that herbal medicine was inseparable from acupuncture. I didn’t know much about acupuncture at the time, but I was intrigued enough to schedule my first treatment.
That appointment changed the course of my life.
The acupuncturist asked thoughtful questions about my stress, digestion, pain, and overall well‑being — things no doctor had ever connected before. She examined my tongue, felt my pulse, and explained my pattern diagnosis: Liver Qi stagnation and Spleen‑Pancreas Qi deficiency.
Then she placed a single needle on the top of my foot.
I felt a surge of energy travel straight to my eye — a sensation so immediate and undeniable that I sat up and said, “What was that?” She smiled and explained that the Liver channel opens to the eyes.
In that moment, something clicked. I knew I had found my calling.
I enrolled in acupuncture school shortly after, completed my Master’s degree in 1999, traveled to China for advanced clinical training, and opened my private practice in 2000. I later earned my Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine to deepen my understanding of integrative care.
We’re here to help you feel better, faster. Serving Poway, Rancho Bernardo, and North County for over 25 years. If you have questions or you’re ready to take the next step, I’m here to help.
Call or Text (858) 613-0792
email Dr. Michele directly: michele@acupuncturecenterinc.com
Book online with Dr. Michele Arnold Book Online
for Massage Therapy with Robert Meeks, HHP.
Hours:
Acupuncture, Dry Needling, Herbal Medicine
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Massage Therapy: Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30am. -5:00 pm.
Weekends and evenings by request.
Website: www.acupuncturecenterinc.com
