Pain-Free Living • Holistic Skin Radiance

Expert Orthopedic Acupuncture, Cosmetic Acupuncture
& Microneedling in Oakland, CA

"Thoughtful medicine for lasting vitality and renewed confidence"

Welcome!

You work hard to stay active and feel your best, but pain and tension can sometimes hold you back. You want to feel confident in your skin, yet the mirror may not always reflect the vitality you feel inside.

At Red Bird Acupuncture, we understand that true well-being is about more than just managing pain, it’s about moving with ease, radiating confidence, and feeling at home in your body. Our holistic, expert care is designed to restore comfort, enhance your natural glow, and support you in thriving at every stage of life.

Our Signature Facial Acupuncture and Skin Radiance Services effectively address your skin concerns, such as fine lines, wrinkles, loss of firmness, and hyperpigmentation. Services include cosmetic acupuncture, AcuGlow™ (a combination of facial gua sha, facial cupping, and body acupuncture), microneedling, nano needling, and LED light therapy. These treatments naturally enhance your skin's tone, restore your natural glow, while promoting overall health. Our holistic medicine approach offers you a time-honored, effective alternative to harsh chemicals and invasive procedures.

If pain has been limiting your daily activities, advanced orthopedic acupuncture techniques address both acute and chronic musculoskeletal and joint pain conditions, including back pain, neck pain, and shoulder pain. Sports injuries and movement limitations are treated through methods such as dry needling, trigger point needling, electrical stimulation, cupping, and gua sha. Our goal is to help you reclaim an active, pain-free life.

We offer you specialized care for menopausal symptoms, sleep issues, digestive health, and stress relief. Our acupuncture treatments and custom herbal medicine are based on thousands of years of wisdom from Chinese Medicine. This knowledge guides our diagnosis and helps us address both your immediate concerns and their underlying causes.

Your unique lifestyle and health goals inform our personalized treatments, which we thoughtfully adapt at each visit. With years of experience serving discerning clients in Oakland, CA, we provide skilled, compassionate care to help you achieve optimal wellness, allowing you to live your daily life with ease, confidence, and freedom.

Are you ready to experience the difference expert acupuncture treatments can make? Contact us to schedule your appointment. We look forward to welcoming you to our clinic.

Our Services

Explore minimally invasive Chinese medicine treatments at Red Bird Acupuncture to smooth wrinkles, plump skin, and achieve a youthful glow.

If you have an acute injury or chronic pain, Red Bird Acupuncture can help you heal. Learn how acupuncture can help you return to your favorite activities more quickly.

Acupuncture can speed surgical recovery. Red Bird Acupuncture helps prepare you for surgery and supports healing afterward.

Acupuncture and herbal medicine effectively ease menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, mood swings, and low libido. Elizabeth has helped many patients improve these and other menopause-related issues.

Micro-acupuncture is an acupuncture method that may significantly improve the vision of patients who suffer from genetic or degenerative vision loss. Contact Red Bird Acupuncture to discover how micro-acupuncture can halt vision loss and restore your vision.

Chinese herbal formulas have healed for 2000+ years. At Red Bird Acupuncture, we tailor formulas to your unique health needs, acute or chronic. Discover how personalized herbs can restore your health.

Gua sha is an ancient treatment that gently scrapes the skin with a smooth tool to release blockages causing pain. It’s effective and feels great! Contact Red Bird Acupuncture to learn how gua sha can improve your health.

Plastic suction cups are placed on the body to treat painful areas. Patients often report feeling relief from tight, stiff, aching muscles and an increased range of motion after a cupping session. Discover how a simple, noninvasive technique can help you feel better fast.

Red Bird Programs

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for adults 40+ dealing with fatigue, insomnia, restless sleep, night waking, stress overload who want deeper rest and their energy back.

A 12‑visit cosmetic acupuncture (facial acupuncture) series that also treats one focused pain area each time. This program is for active adults 40+ who want natural facial rejuvenation and real orthopedic support in the same 75‑minute visit.

A structured treatment option for people with degenerative vision loss who have been told their sight is unlikely to improve.

Focused acupuncture for active adults 45+ with knee, hip, shoulder, or low back pain who want to keep moving with more comfort and confidence.

Testimonials

I’d give six stars if that were available. Elizabeth Howe is such a skilled and compassionate practitioner. Luckily, I found her a couple of months ago, and the improvements in my health and well-being have been amazing. Due to some major and unusual stressors, I was experiencing severe back and breathing problems, and they have both improved remarkably. I’m continuing my care with her so we can work on other unresolved health concerns. I have hope again. Thank you, Elizabeth.
— Sharon F.
Since I started treatments with Dr. Howe, my recovery is now next level. I felt the difference almost immediately. She specializes in orthopedic acupuncture, which focuses on joints and muscles (Which is exactly what I needed). Every treatment is different and customized, and every time I leave, I feel better. She also specializes in cosmetic acupuncture and holistic approaches to aging. I haven’t received any of these treatments yet, but I’m excited that I found someone who I can trust when I’m ready.
— Sarah B.
Elizabeth has been a vital part of caring for my body. She is an attentive, kind, and informative practitioner. I found Elizabeth when I was in an intense body crisis and she has helped me rest back into a better, more regulated state! So grateful for your work and wisdom. Thank you Elizabeth!
— Kata P.

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