AB ACUPUNCTURE
Upper West Side · New York City
Filling the gaps between
aspirin and surgery
Not woo. Real science.
I work with pain, migraines, and persistent symptoms you've been managing, working around, or simply putting up with for too long.
Choose an appointment or a free 15-minute consultation.
What Brings You In?
PAIN THAT KEEPS COMING BACK
Back, neck, shoulder, hip and joint pain. Old injuries. The knee that's technically “fine” but has opinions about stairs. The things you've learned to work around instead of actually feeling better.
MIGRAINES & HEADACHES
When headaches are frequent, unpredictable, hormonal—or triggered by seemingly everything. The goal isn't just getting through the next one. It's having them take up less space in your life.
MIDLIFE & MENOPAUSE
Sleep changes, hot flashes, brain fog, fatigue, new aches and pains—and the strange assortment of things that can start showing up at the same time.
SLEEP, STRESS & DIGESTION
When you're tired but can't sleep, your digestion has become temperamental, or your nervous system seems to have forgotten how to turn the volume down.
CHRONIC & COMPLEX SYMPTOMS
Persistent problems that don't fit neatly into one box—or that have a perfectly good diagnosis but still don't have a particularly satisfying solution.
WHY ACUPUNCTURE?
Your symptoms are information.
The question is what they're telling us.
Pain has a job. It’s one of the ways your brain protects you—an alarm designed to get your attention when it perceives a threat.
Sometimes that alarm is responding exactly as it should. Something is injured, irritated, or under strain, and it hurts for a reason.
But sometimes the alarm keeps sounding after the original danger has passed. Or it becomes so sensitive that things that are actually safe begin setting it off. The pain is still completely real. The question becomes: what is the system protecting you from now?
I think about other persistent symptoms in much the same way: not as something to dismiss or simply put up with, but as information worth paying attention to. Changes in sleep, digestion, energy, stress, and how your body is functioning can all help us understand the larger picture.
That’s why I don’t treat from a single playbook. I combine traditional acupuncture with motor point acupuncture, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, photobiomodulation, and other techniques when appropriate.
I’m looking not only at where you’re experiencing symptoms, but at what changed, what keeps aggravating them, and what may be keeping your system stuck in the same pattern.
The goal isn’t simply to quiet the signal. It’s to understand why it’s there—and choose the right way to respond to it.
And sometimes acupuncture isn’t the answer.
Good integrative medicine means knowing when Western medicine is the right medicine. If something about your symptoms or history tells me you need a physician, imaging, physical therapy, or another kind of care, I’ll tell you.
I’m not interested in making acupuncture the answer to every question. I’m interested in figuring out what makes sense for you.
Meet Annalisa
Acupuncture taught me to pay attention to my body.
I first tried acupuncture almost 20 years ago, and what stayed with me was how differently I began to understand my own health. I started noticing connections I'd never thought much about before—especially between digestion and sleep, what I ate and how I felt, and how one part of the body could affect another.
That curiosity eventually led me to acupuncture school, and it still shapes the way I practice today. Over the years, I've become equally interested in the traditional theories behind acupuncture and in what modern research is teaching us about the brain, pain, and the nervous system.
I don't see those as competing explanations. Together, they inform how I think about symptoms, choose points, and decide which approach makes sense for the person in front of me.
My training includes traditional acupuncture, orthopedic and motor point acupuncture, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, photobiomodulation, and advanced certification in MSK Oncology Acupuncture.
Annalisa Brown, L.Ac. holds a Master of Science in Acupuncture, is nationally board-certified and licensed to practice acupuncture in New York State, with more than 3,000 hours of clinical training.
HOURS
Located at W72 Wellness
118 W. 72nd St. Ground Floor Rear
NY, NY 10023
Seeing Patients Exclusively on:
Tuesday: 11am-7pm
Wednesday: 11am-7pm
Thursday: 11am-7pm