Community Care Fund

Adam's Story

Adam came to the Osher Center seeking acupuncture to control his high blood pressure and chronic pain caused by an accident seven years before. Medication was not effective, his cardiologist was out of ideas, and Adam was unemployed. The Community Care Fund gave Adam a chance to climb out of this hole. "I had always been active and involved with people around me," Adam recalled. "My health made me feel needy and useless. That's changing now, and I'm so grateful to the Community Care Fund."

Working with the Clinic's physicians, Adam adopted a new diet and nutrition plan. Then he began Tai Chi and acupuncture treatments by Joseph Acquah, LAc, OMD. "I had not had a good night's sleep in years, because of the pain," Adam said. "Acupuncture helped me sleep again. And my blood pressure is coming down because the people at the Osher Center look at my whole lifestyle. They helped me get my body in synch and break that downward spiral of pain and despair. They gave me another chance at my life." Last spring, after seven years of pain and isolation, Adam returned to work.

Community Care Fund

Adam's Story

Acupuncture helped me sleep again. And my blood pressure is coming down because the people at the Osher Center look at my whole lifestyle. They helped me get my body in synch and break that downward spiral of pain and despair.

--Adam, CCF Recipient

Acupuncture helped me sleep again. And my blood pressure is coming down because the people at the Osher Center look at my whole lifestyle.

They helped me get my body in synch and break that downward spiral of pain and despair.