Hello
My name is Dr. Wheatley Posey, Licensed Acupuncturist and Functional Chinese Medicine Physician.
With a strong focus on patient care, my approach to healthcare is based upon the principle of spending real time with each patient -- Hippocrates said, "It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has." -- and that wisdom finances the foundation of my practice.
Secondly, creating a strong baseline of measurable data points from lab results, health history, tongue diagnosis, and extensive medical intake, lead the way toward treatment planning and prognosis.
By optimizing lifestyle changes, custom food choices, and thoughtful fitness routines, my priority with patients is to first find our benchmark, and then optimize wellness that is not only sustainable, but enjoyable. Empowering patients to take charge of their health by extended pre-session reviews, extended treatments, and overall extended care, it allows ample time for developing a real understanding of each patient who walks into my care.
Please reach out, if you have any questions! -- and I look forward to the opportunity of taking care of you.
Birth Story of OSSO
Leaping into private practice is like. Blind exploration.
In moments of uncertainty, I would meditate, and my Papa continued to center himself in my mind’s eye. Olive skin, big ol belly, hardy mustache and a smile with more personality than the lot of us. He was infectious, charitable, risky…. Extraordinary.
To know him was to be fortunate enough to experience his force in and of nature... talking at a tremendous decibel, cooking more food than a county of restaurants, sponsoring part of Paul Newman's racing career, and indeed, doing it all his way. He threw lassos ‘round the moon and lit up Asheville, leaving stars in his trail even still. So when the opportunity arose to walk in to the light, I took solace in knowing that through the unknown, I had arrived on the shoulders of Papa’s moonlight, trusting that the courage in his marrow, was interstitial in me.
Reflecting upon him made me consider what brought me to Chinese Medicine in the first place: I want to help folks belong… in their bodies, in their spirits, in their pain. Harmonizing body and spirit, Yin and Yang, East and West – mending the bones. Mending the village, dissipating dis-ease, balancing the line.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Kidney Channel is responsible for bone health. It is also responsible for Willpower and Courage. So here I am, starting my practice the only way I know how: through the courage of my village, my roots, my Papa, my “Osso,” in italian, bone.
This isn’t boutique wellness, this is bone-deep medicine. Best served together.
Welcome to my family. I am humbled to be here, branching out from the roots of Rudy, and I’m at your service – little bones and all.