Glendale Hirano Acupuncture Clinic

countless of world-class performance artist refine and qualitatively take their craft to a higher level. As a grandmaster martial artist, his insight into the physics of the mind and movement, injuries and the creative source has demarcated him from the rest. Dr. Hirano divides his time between his clinics in Glendale clinic and West Hills. Providing family health care has been his love as well as treating many occupational injuries, trauma from auto accidents as well as acute and chronic medical conditions. In addition to this, our specializations in sports and performing arts medicine has been well celebrated by many professionals and amateurs from across the country and world. When you call, Nelia will answer all your questions regarding Hirano Acupuncture Clinic and our educational component, Energetics for Health, Inc. If you hadn’t met her yet, you will soon realize the kind and caring spirit who helps you with either setting appointments for the clinic or for seminar and lecture registrations. A mother of two, Nelia adds experience and insight in knowing the needs of others. Hirano Acupuncture Clinic is the ideal oasis for healing that our patients have come to love. Tatsuo Hirano is a doctor of Oriental Medicine (D.O.M.) and Licensed Acupuncturist (CA) earned his doctorate from SAMRA University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, after previously receiving two Acupuncture degrees, one from Quebec Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Montreal, Quebec and a doctor of acupuncture from BAAANA Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in New York City. Dr. Hirano did pioneering acupuncture clinical work in New York City at Lincoln Hospital in the seventies with the group that developed the public health acupuncture program for the treatment of narcotics addiction. That acupuncture therapeutic plan is now being employed in clinics and hospitals throughout the U.S. and the world. After this six-year study and clinical program, he returned to Los Angeles and served as clinical supervisor and Qi-Gong and Anmo-Tuina teacher at SAMRA University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. As a state certified instructor, Dr. Hirano also taught at the Tao Healing Arts Institute in Santa Monica and conducted seminars and lectures on various Oriental Medicine subjects including therapeutics for sports and performing arts injuries, which are among his practice specialties. Dr. Hirano is a California Acupuncture Board approved Continuing Education Provider (CEP 331), and his professional education seminars are also approved for Professional Development Activity credit by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) (Provider ACHB 077). He has also been involved in integrative medicine seminars with doctors at UCLA School of Medicine as well as projects relating Qi-Gong and new physics research with professors at UCI. Prior to his work in Oriental Medicine, Dr. Hirano served as a therapeutic residential program administrator and counselor, certified by the University of Southern California (U.S.C.) School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry and Rancho Los Amigos County Hospital. Although Dr. Hirano's martial arts started in 1960 with Judo, it wasn't until 1968 when he was first exposed to Ki/Qi training by his Shorinji-Kempo master, Reverend Yamamori of the Kongo Zen sect at Konko-kyo Buddhist Temple in East Los Angeles. In 1970, his training continued with Grandmaster Kam Yuen and later with Grandmaster So Bin Yuen, both of the Northern Shaolin Gong-fu method. Later he became a student of Soke Takayuki Kubota and earned the title “Kyoshi”, 7th Dan Black Belt of Gosoku-ryu Karate and is recognized in karate schools in over 60 countries. It was there he learned Soke's method of ki (Qi) development, “Mu ga Mushin no Do”. Dr. Hirano integrated Qi-Gong from martial arts and Chinese traditional medicine however it was by the genius of his sifu, Dr. Kam Yuen that revolutionized his energy work with modern physics. This was a catalyst to further advance and integrate it all to become the Shen-Gong he developed and practices today. Although medicine and martial arts may seem to be very contradictory activities, Dr. Hirano explains that "the opposing nature of the healing arts and martial arts represents the fundamental 'Yin-Yang' nature of life and becomes a means to develop a holistic understanding of self and the Universe in which we live." In fact, it was in this context that Dr. Hirano began to "comprehend the living dynamics of energy in relation to thoughts, emotions, spirituality and its physical expressions and manifestations." As a result, he is able to offer a unique skill in associating medical conditions to his patients' life experiences. His diagnosis of medical conditions reflects the relationship and interplay between the way that patients process their life experiences and the resulting physical manifestations and ailments. Dr. Hirano has extensive knowledge and experience in bone setting and the re-alignment of the body skeletal structure. His proprietary method of examination and treatment called, "Hirano Myo-Osteo Technique" (HMOT) ™ differentiates him from chiropractic and has taught this in his professional seminar, "Demystifying Pain." Besides traditional Chinese medicine and HMOT, Dr. Hirano integrates Qi and Shen-Gong therapeutics into many aspects of his clinical work. In his Hirano Shen-Gong (HSK) seminars, formally Modern Medical Qi-Gong, Dr. Hirano divides his teachings into three parts. The basic course includes his updated understanding of Qi and the basic techniques. His intermediate course concentrates on clinical applications, and the advanced course focuses on special chronic and advance degenerative conditions.