Dr. Richard Shwery, OMD, L.Ac

Dr. Richard Shwery, OMD, L.Ac, received his post-graduate Acupuncture education at the California Acupuncture College in Los Angeles. He graduated with a Diploma in Acupuncture in 1981, enabling him to sit for the Acupuncture Board exam and receive his primary care license to practice Acupuncture under the California Board of Medicine.

He was one of the few to further his academic studies, while teaching Acupuncture at the College, and received his Doctorate in Oriental Medicine from the California Acupuncture College in December, 1983.

Dr. Shwery is a founding faculty member of the Five Branches Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in California one of the premiere Acupuncture schools in the US. He also served for a period as its academic director, and taught Acupuncture and Supervised Clinical Practice courses to acupuncture students from 1984-1995.

He has taught professional seminars to Acupuncturists and Medical Doctors in NC, WV and CA, as well as college courses in Anatomy, Physiology and Nutrition.

Dr. Shwery is Board licensed to practice Acupuncture by the North Carolina Acupuncture Licensing Board, and also by the Acupuncture Board in California.

He is certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists and has previously served as President and Board Member of the NC Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

He is also certified as an Applied Kinesiologist, having completed a one-year post-graduate course in Applied Kinesiology in 1981.

Dr. Shwery has extensive background studying (and teaching) various styles of acupuncture, both here and abroad, each maintaining its own set of strengths. His unique contribution is in how skillfully he combines them into an integrated approach. He has a special affinity for the Japanese style, which uses feedback from specialized palpation techniques, and a relatively painless, thin-needle approach to treatment.

Dr. Shwery has broad experience with many difficult-to-treat health problems, and often achieves success even with conditions for which a definitive medical diagnosis cannot be established. Low back pain, neck, knee and shoulder pain, fatigue, migraine, arthritis, digestive disorders, fibromyalgia, stress and insomnia are particular specialties with which Dr. Shwery has extensive experience.