For the years you want to feel like yourself.
These are the years you worked so hard to enjoy.
Most active women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies have already cycled through the conventional answers to chronic pain — daily NSAIDs, cortisone injections, the orthopedist who suggested surgery, the friend who suggested giving up tennis. Some of those work. All of them ask the body to pay something — gut lining, kidney function, cartilage health, cognitive sharpness, time. And none of them ask the more useful question first: why is this body in pain, and what is the inflammation actually responding to?
Active Aging Pain Relief starts there. Acupuncture, point injection therapy, and Eastern bodywork — applied to the specific pattern, used as the whole answer or alongside the conventional path. For most patients, what follows is the result they came in hoping was possible: back on the court, the boat, the beach walk — without the trade-offs.
Acupunture
Dr. Daniele works in the Balance Method — a sophisticated distal-needling system developed by Dr. Richard Tan that addresses pain in one part of the body by treating points on another, often producing measurable relief inside a single session. She trained directly with Dr. Tan and with Dr. Brad Whisnant, two of the field's most rigorous teachers in pain-focused acupuncture.
AcuPoint Injection Therapy
For more chronic or stubborn patterns, Daniele layers in point injection — delivering homeopathic or herbal solutions at specific points for a deeper, longer-lasting effect than needling alone. It is an advanced certified technique that not every acupuncturist offers, and it is often what changes the picture for patients who have plateaued on other approaches.
Eastern Bodywork
Acupressure, tui na, cupping, and gua sha — manual therapies grounded in the same diagnostic lens as the needling, used to release the muscular and fascial patterns that hold pain in place between sessions. Cupping in particular is one of the most immediately relieving treatments most patients have ever experienced, especially for the back, shoulder, and neck patterns common in tennis, golf, sailing, and desk-bound years. Daniele's three decades as a Licensed Massage Therapist mean the bodywork integrates seamlessly with the rest of the protocol — diagnostic, not generic, and not an add-on but part of the same clinical thinking.