Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture
No two people are exactly alike.
We’ve all arrived here with and been through our share of adversity and ambition. A dozen people can walk into my office for the same reason, let’s say insomnia, and I would create a dozen different treatment plans, specified to the individual background and current needs of each patient. It’s a good thing that the body keeps a perfect inventory of every thought, feeling and experience.
Under the scope of Chinese Medicine are a number of gentle, non-invasive, and very effective therapies that we practice such as:
Acupuncture, Moxabustion, Dietary Therapy, Cupping, Gua Sha, Tui Na & Chinese Herbal Medicine.
(Find out more about these therapies below!)
Chinese medicine is designed to restore flow throughout the body by examining and prioritizing your body’s unique reaction and response quality to pathogens, to change, to life. The effectiveness of this medicine speaks to the holistic and preventative approaches at the heart of its foundation - it facilitates a very rich understanding of your health and accurately focuses in on the origin of disease over treating symptoms.
Idiopathic is a term unknown in our context. We focus on the response, rather than the pathogen. You, rather than your disease.
What Does Acupuncture Treat?
Acupuncture is a highly personalized medicine yet our scope of practice is very broad. We treat more than just muscle pain and indigestion. From allergies to asthma, migraines to menopause, Chinese Medicine is effective in getting to the root of your condition,
Here is an abbreviated list of common conditions/reasons to make an appointment with your acupuncturist:
Generalized & Localized Pain
Orthopedic Issues
Gastrointestinal & Digestive Disorders
Endocrine dysfunction & Hormonal Imbalance
Fertility & Reproductive Disorders
Dermatology & Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture
Circulatory Issues
Respiratory Disease & E.N.T.
Adjunct Therapies
Chinese medicine includes Acupuncture, as well as a host of other healing therapies, which are discussed & integrated into your treatment.
What are Some of the Benefits of Acupuncture?
Lowers Blood Sugar
Lowers Blood Pressure
Increases Circulation
Increases Natural Painkillers (endorphins & opioids)
Anti Inflammatory
I Specialize in Treating the Following Conditions:
Chronic, Inflammatory Disease & Autoimmune Conditions
Neurological Disorders, such as Lyme disease & associated co-infections
Musculoskeletal Disorders, Stress & Emotional Imbalance
East Meets West
The Acupuncture Groundswell
The history of Acupuncture includes more than 3,000 years of unremitting success in its practice of using needles to provide healthcare. And it’s a key component of Chinese Medicine. Contemporary Acupuncture practices use disposable, hair-thin, sterile, stainless steel needles.
Based on your precise diagnosis, a treatment plan is developed, which includes a point prescription using acupuncture points. Needles are then placed on these points along the entire body; specifically, on what are referred to as Acupuncture Channels or Meridians. These channels compose a dynamic system of physical and energetic fields that are interrelated in form and function. Similar to the way the tensegrity network of our fascia (connective tissue) functions to create a working body.
Acupuncture is the gentle insertion and stimulation of thin, disposable, and sterile needles at strategic points on the body. Acupuncture is considered a safe, noninvasive medical procedure. A Treatment generally includes anywhere from 5 to 25 needles that are retained for approximately 25 to 35 minutes. These factors, as well as the number of prescribed treatments, vary based on your current state of health and the duration of your health condition.
Chinese medicine helps cultivate an internal environment, so attuned to healthful patterns, that your body is no longer hospitable to chronic disease or dysfunction and prepared to protect you from standard biological pathogens.
Many people also suffer from medical conditions that have existed for a decade or so, and will expect to adjust treatment periods accordingly. The treatment period required for each person will be discussed at the initial appointment, as well as at any time you have questions, or feel we need to make an adjustment.