Acupuncture

For thousands of years practitioners of acupuncture have been treating and preventing disease. Some of the many things that can be successfully treated with acupuncture include:

• Infertility
• Arthritis
• Headaches
• Repetitive motion injury
• Insomnia
• Pain
• Nausea
• Depression
• High blood pressure

Just to name a few!

Optimum health is achieved by balancing the whole life. A skilled licensed acupuncturist will coach patients how to eat well, how to cultivate and move energy (Qi) and how to recognize and eliminate lifestyle habits that sabotage good health.

The practice of acupuncture uses tiny, sterile, disposable needles which are gently inserted into various points on the body (acupoints) to balance the body's Qi (energy) in order to promote healing. There are many other modalities that a Chinese Medicine practitioner might employ for treatment including:

• Cupping therapy
• Chinese Massage (Tui-Na)
• Electrical acupuncture
• Moxibustion
• Medicinal herbs
• Auricular Therapy
• Yoga
• Gua Sha

Every patient responds differently to acupuncture. Some may feel immediate relief, others delayed relief, and for some, relief may require more than one treatment. Generally speaking, the effects of acupuncture are accumulative. Each treatment successively enhances the prior. Typically a significant change is obvious within 5-8 sessions and an acupuncture course is considered 8-12 sessions.