Hello
My name is Dr. Wheatley Posey, Licensed Acupuncturist and Functional Chinese Medicine Physician.
With a strong focus on patient care, my approach to sustainable medicine is based upon the principle of spending real time with each patient -- thats "first of all."
Secondly, creating a strong foundation 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 baseline, and then optimize wellness that is not only sustainable, but enjoyable. Empowering patients to take charge of their health by extended appointments in order to educate their own health knowledge, and allow ample time developing a real understanding of everyone who walks into my care.
Hippocrates said, ''It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.' And that pillar of thought continues to fortify each of my treatments today.
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 enraptured in only the italians can do, talking at a tremendous decibel, cooking more food than a county of restaurants. 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. My bone, his bone, his Osso. “Tonifying,” the bones in Chinese Medicine is to strengthen our very Essence. Leaning into ancestral power and sharing the gifts of his Western world with those of Appalachia – sure, it was strange sometimes, like biscuits and meatballs. But mostly it was perfect –
OSSO Acupuncture and Functional Medicine
My grandfather, Rudy Pelle, was an Italian immigrant, brought from Sicily to Asheville nearly a century ago. It would be a betrayal to his gigantic spirit to measure it with words here, but I will say this: his entrepreneurial proficiency coupled with a tireless work ethic and infectious humor, allowed him to charitably give back to the community he found himself in, and at the heart of it all, he mended folks together. He made them feel like they belonged.
He rooted down like a Banyan tree – unconventional and everywhere. People wanted to be around him, he just made you feel like somebody, like you could do anything, and you believed him too – because he really did do just that: from buying 100 pounds of ribs for a gathering of 5 people to sponsoring Paul Newman in racing, the proverbial sky was never the limit – indeed, Rudy was the universe itself.
So as I started to consider opening my own practice, oscillating between the consumption of courage and creation of it, the spirit of my Papa arrived in every corner. His throaty, Italian-American voice, his impossibly ginormous sweatpants, his strength, his elbows, his calloused fingers and furrowed brow if he thought there was a chance you might be hungry – how wild to be Rudy. This affable, Sicilian boy in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, rooting down, trusting his bones. My bones, my Osso.
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.