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Welcome to Wellness Pacific Coast and Wellness Pacific Coast.com, my name is Traver H. Boehm, Licensed Acupuncturist, CrossFit Affliate Owner/Coach and Wellness Coach.

After moving to California freshly out of Boston College,  I still couldn’t quite shake that nagging question that burdens all Philosophy majors, “What is my true calling and how can I live it?”  After an extraordinary work situation took me out of the country and onto a boat for 6 months, upon which I had ample time to reflect without any form of media distraction – I knew very quickly that upon returning that I wanted to dedicate the rest of my life to empowering people to live their healthiest, most vibrant lives possible.

I took a deep breath and enrolled in the masters degree program at Yo-San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a 4-year intensive course in acupuncture and herbal medicine. Halfway through the program, while looking for a way to cross-train in preparation for mixed martial arts fights, I discovered CrossFit Los Angeles, Andy Petranek and his team of world-class coaches.  Seeing the results that I and a whole host of others were achieving I knew that CrossFit was one of the means to achieve my original goal and I began to study CrossFit and physical training with the same intensity that I had with studying medicine.

After 2 years of TCM school unfortunately I still truly had no idea in which direction to take my future practice.  It wasn’t until I was 6 weeks away from a professional mixed martial arts fight and had the misfortune of having my ACL torn during a training session that the answer became clear.  An Orthopedist did a cursory, 2-minute examination of my knee, told me simply to quit doing what I love to do and gave me a prescription for Vicodin – both of which I happily ignored.

Then something very interesting happened. After two and a half weeks, with three acupuncture treatments per week, I went from not being able to put any pressure on my leg without experiencing excruciating pain – to training at full speed again (albeit with a brace) and winning that fight. This is when the light bulb went off and I knew that I wanted to make pain management and injury rehabilitation my specialties.

Today I consider myself to be extremely blessed.  For the longest time I had struggled with the question of which of the two very different sides of my life would I have to choose to pursue as a career.  It wasn’t until very recently that the answer of “both” became not merely the right choice but the only choice.  Before truly being an effective counsel for people on the full actualization of their lives, I had to be willing to do so myself.  What you see on this website, experience at CrossFit Pacific Coast, feel in my treatment rooms, hear in your coaching calls, and see in your seminars is the sum of every aspect of my life – all put into one.   Enjoy your health, and please protect it at all costs!

Be Well,

Traver H. Boehm L.Ac, Dipl. O.M.