More than just the needles…Miro Westmaas wants to make acupuncture a more accessible treatment option

Miro Westmaas at work

By his own admission, Miro Westmaas’s earliest encounter with the ancient, oriental healing practice of acupuncture came about on account of his own personal need for physical, psychological and spiritual healing, resulting from what he says were unwise lifestyle options.

“I was searching for solutions to some of my own problems,” Westmaas told Stabroek Business, when asked to account for his encounter with acupuncture and his decision to make the pursuit of oriental medicine a longer-term goal.

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