Mayflower Acupuncture uses a combination of approaches designed to comprehensively treat patients. Our approaches respect and complement conventional western medical treatment. Emphasis is placed on physical complaints but with a keen appreciation of the client's emotional and mental states. Underlying this approach is the assumption that illness and discomfort often have roots that go deeper than the physical and that attitudes and lifestyle have a profound effect on physical health. Mayflower Acupuncture’s medical director, Steve Paine, OMD, L.Ac. (Doctor of Oriental Medicine [Hong Kong], licensed acupuncturist) is an appointed member of the State of Connecticut Worker's Compensation Medical Advisory Panel. He is president of the National Guild of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Guild 62, OPEIU, AFL-CIO (www.ngaom.org) which is dedicated to providing medical consumers with the highest quality professionally licensed acupuncture and herbal treatment in the United States. Steve Paine, OMD, earned a BA in sociology from Union College, Schenectady, New York. He began his acupuncture training in 1983 at California Acupuncture College and then trained at Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica, California prior to a California Board of Acupuncture approved tutorial program with distinguished practitioners in southern California. He completed the World Health Organization (WHO) affiliated China Ministry of Health Advanced Acupuncture Training Program at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, and received his Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree from the Postgraduate Institute of Oriental Medicine in Hong Kong in 1988. He began his practice with Dr. Mosaraf Ali, noted medical doctor and integrative specialist from 1988 to 1990 in Hong Kong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaraf_Ali) and moved his practice to Honolulu, Hawaii from 1990 to 1995, where he served a term as President of the Hawaii Acupuncture Association. He practiced in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2010 and has been practicing in Simsbury, Connecticut since 2010. He lives with his wife, Cheryl and his children Shanti, Jaira and Everett in Granby, Connecticut.