Journal
Patient education & practice notes
Articles are educational and medically reviewed when noted. They are not personalized diagnosis or treatment advice.
Hand & Wrist
Trigger Thumb: Why Your Thumb Locks and Resolution with Electroacupuncture
If your thumb catches, clicks, or gets stuck/lock when you bend it, and you have to pop it straight with your other hand, you may have trigger thumb. It is common, it is frustrating, and in many cases it responds well to hands-on care without surgery.
TMJ
Ready to Unclench?
Is weakening your jaw muscles with Botox the only solution?
Pain & Movement
Walking Between a Rock and a Sharp Place
That sharp morning step does not have to be the rest of the season. Sports-medicine acupuncture looks past the heel to the muscle chain that keeps plantar fasciitis from settling — and the research is clearer than “wait it out.”
Studio Notes
When a Practice Becomes More Than One Thing
When a practice outgrows the structure built to hold it, the honest question is not what to add next — but what the practice is becoming. Here is how Ming Acupuncture and The Regenerative Studio became two sister sciences with separate thresholds.
Studio Notes
Sister Sciences, Separate Thresholds: The Journey to Ming Acupuncture
There are practices we discover, and practices we return to. For Federica Mingotti, Ming Acupuncture is a return to the medicine that first taught her to see the body as a living system — with The Regenerative Studio as its sister science.
Practitioner
Meet Federica Mingotti, L.Ac.
Federica Mingotti is a nationally board-certified and Virginia-licensed acupuncturist at Ming Acupuncture—integrating Chinese medicine, herbalism, and bodywork for pain, pelvic health, digestion, and long-term vitality.