Newest Face at Manhattan Sports Acupuncture!

Meet My New Assistant Rachel Casiano LAc

I am thrilled to introduce you to my new Assistant, Rachel. She will be working on Tuesday and Fridays, helping me with logistics and administration. Thanks to her help, I am now able to see more people on the days she works - which means more opportunities for you to get in for your treatments!

Please join me in extending a warm welcome to the newest member of Manhattan Sports Acupuncture!

Before her training in acupuncture, Rachel worked as a health educator and patient navigator in HIV services at a community health clinic and did outreach on a mobile testing van. Primarily serving queer and trans sex workers and transient people, this experience solidified her view that centering the health needs of the most marginalized people means better care for everyone.

​She learned about acupuncture while volunteering with syringe exchange programs in upper Manhattan and the Bronx and seeing how acupuncture was used for detox, PTSD, and stress. The history of radical/collective uses of acupuncture, harm reduction philosophy, and her witness to the opioid epidemic in her hometown inspired her to pursue learning acupuncture. All these influences continue to guide her practice. She received her Master of Science in Acupuncture and classical Chinese herbal medicine from Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and has worked in several community acupuncture settings since then, including Brooklyn Open Acupuncture and Third Root, and a syringe exchange program in the Bronx