On Pins and Needles
Acupuncturist Kiya Hunter just wants to end the world’s suffering By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
A Based in the Scottsdale Airpark, Kiya Hunter just wants to “help people not be so miserable.” (Photo courtesy Kiya Hunter)
irpark-based Acupuncturist Kiya Hunter just wants to heal people. Hunter has been treating pain, autoimmune diseases and other hardto-treat cases since 2008, through either massage or acupuncture. She has a deep understanding of the brain-body connection and provides results. One of her patients, an 80-year-old marine, came in with a morphine drip attached to him. “His pain was an 8 out of 10—even with the morphine drip,” Hunter says. “After regular acupuncture, he was shaking his hips and twirling his cane. It sounds like something from a movie, I know. His peripheral
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artery disease went away. It was amazing.” Hunter says acupuncture has many benefits like stress reduction, an immune system boost and pain relief. A child came in with chronic mucus in the lungs from an infection and Hunter provided relief. “You never know what you’re going to get,” she says. Working in the health field was a longtime dream for Hunter. She wanted to be a doctor since she was 4, when she received a doctor’s kit. After high school, she went straight to massage school, so she could work parttime and “make good money while I got my bachelor’s degree in psychology.” “I did run my own massage business for a while,” says Hunter, who earned her master’s degree. “I had a child at the time.