The Practitioner Who Gets It Because She's Lived It

You've likely had the experience of seeing a provider who treats your injury like a problem to manage rather than a body to understand. Who talks at you instead of with you. Who sends you home with a generic exercise sheet and a follow-up in six weeks.

That's not what happens here.

Lindsey Pope is a former college athlete who came to acupuncture the way most athletes do, through injury. A bicycle crash introduced her to East Asian medicine not as a last resort, but as something that actually worked. What started as a patient experience became a decade-long obsession with understanding how the body moves, heals, and adapts under load.

I’m Lindsey, a licensed acupuncturist and functional nutritionist who helps people move with less pain and more confidence, whether in the gym, on the trail, or simply navigating everyday life.

She holds dual master’s degrees, one in East Asian Medicine from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine and one in Nutrition from National University of Natural Medicine, along with over 1,000 hours of mentorship in functional nutrition and advanced certifications in Toyohari Japanese meridian therapy. She is also pursuing certification in sports and orthopedic acupuncture. She has trained in both the U.S. and Japan.

What that means practically: she can assess how you move, identify what's breaking down upstream from your pain, treat the tissue directly, and build the nutritional foundation your recovery actually needs. Most practitioners do one of those things. Lindsey does all of them.

Sessions are 75 minutes or undivided attention. She is with you for every minute, assessing, treating, adjusting, and listening. That’s not how most clinics work, and it’s a deliberate choice. The kind of care that actually changes things takes time and attention.

Lindsey’s practice is built around active people, including athletes, movers, and those who refuse to let age or injury shrink their lives. She works with powerlifters and trail runners, weekend warriors and competitive athletes, people coming back from surgery, and people trying to make sure they never need it. Her practice is a particularly affirming space for women and LGBTQIA+ individuals who have felt dismissed or reduced by conventional medicine.