Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a sophisticated approach to healing which has developed over a period of more than 3000 years, and is based on ancient Chinese medical texts. Treatment in Chinese medicine is centered on the individual rather than the disease. The medical practitioner evaluates your symptoms, and translates them into a clinical picture of you as a whole person. In traditional Chinese medicine, the mental, emotional, and physical are closely related; thus the entire person is taken into account, both in diagnosis and treatment. Disease is typically viewed as a disorder and disharmony, and the corresponding treatment is directed toward balancing and harmonizing.

Diagnosis is made through interviews, visual inspection, palpatation of the wrists, local areas of tenderness, and at acupuncture points.

Once a working diagnosis has been detected, a plan of treatment is formulated by Dr. Gorman, and may include acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, and/or Chinese massage.