Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture is an ancient alternative medicine philosophy that has been perfected over hundreds of years of practice. It employs a variety of techniques involving insertion and manipulation of very thin needles on the body's surface, acupressure, warming techniques like infrared, and the diagnosis of tongue, skin, eyes and sometimes hara (abdominal area).
Acupuncture is based on the premise that bodily functions are regulated by the flow of energy throughout the body, called Qi ( "Chee" ). Qi's balance greatly influences the mental, physical, spiritual and emotional part of the self. Disruption of this flow is believed to be responsible for the rise of symptoms and disease. Acupuncture treatment focuses on correcting imbalances in the flow of Qi by stimulation of specific anatomical areas under the skin called acupuncture points. These acupuncture points are connected by channels known as meridians. Acupuncture is used to encourage natural healing, improve energy, reduce or relieve pain and improve function of affected areas of the body.
Our Registered Acupuncturists are trained in:
Acupuncture is based on the premise that bodily functions are regulated by the flow of energy throughout the body, called Qi ( "Chee" ). Qi's balance greatly influences the mental, physical, spiritual and emotional part of the self. Disruption of this flow is believed to be responsible for the rise of symptoms and disease. Acupuncture treatment focuses on correcting imbalances in the flow of Qi by stimulation of specific anatomical areas under the skin called acupuncture points. These acupuncture points are connected by channels known as meridians. Acupuncture is used to encourage natural healing, improve energy, reduce or relieve pain and improve function of affected areas of the body.
Our Registered Acupuncturists are trained in:
- Orthopedic Acupuncture
- Chinese Style Acupuncture
- Cupping Therapy
- Five Element Acupuncture
- Facial Rejuvenation/Cosmetic Acupuncture
- Gua Sha Therapy
- Tui Na Massage and Acupressure
- Herbal Medicine
What to Expect: Initial Consultation & Treatment
An initial consultation includes an in depth health history review, taking the pulse on both arms and inspection of the tongue. Based on the results of this assessment, acupuncture treatment is highly individualized and treatment focus will vary depending on your treatment goals and expectations.
Follow up treatments are typically shorter in length and will follow a treatment plan determined by your needs and therapeutic goals.
Follow up treatments are typically shorter in length and will follow a treatment plan determined by your needs and therapeutic goals.
About Cupping Therapy
Cupping Therapy became a wider topic in the world as Olympic top swimmer Michael Phelps, and other Olympians have been seen with round, purple marks across their bodies in Rio 2016.
What is it : Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction.
Benefits: Cupping therapy offers several advantages including aiding in promoting blood flow and increase blood circulation to muscles and tissue, supplies oxygen to cells, loosens knots, and can release and drain excess fluids and toxins.
Contraindications: if you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip cupping.
What is it : Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction.
- Helps with pain, inflammation, blood flow, detoxification, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep-tissue massage.
- Increases blood flow. Blood flow is the body’s way of naturally healing. Increased blood flow can be beneficial to jump start or restart a blunted healing response.
Benefits: Cupping therapy offers several advantages including aiding in promoting blood flow and increase blood circulation to muscles and tissue, supplies oxygen to cells, loosens knots, and can release and drain excess fluids and toxins.
Contraindications: if you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip cupping.
About Gua Sha Therapy
What is it: Gua sha is a natural, alternative therapy that involves scraping your skin along meridian channels with a massage tool (Jade or other energy stones…) to improve your circulation.
Benefits: Gua sha reduces inflammation, good for chronic pain, muscle and joint pain, such as arthritis and fibromyalgia. It also creates immediate relief from stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting.
Contraindications: if you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip Gua Sha
Benefits: Gua sha reduces inflammation, good for chronic pain, muscle and joint pain, such as arthritis and fibromyalgia. It also creates immediate relief from stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting.
Contraindications: if you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip Gua Sha
Tui Na Massage and Acupressure
What is it: Tui Na is a form of Chinese massage therapy often used in conjunction with acupressure and/or acupuncture, cupping, Chinese herbalism, and qigong. The practitioner may brush, knead, roll, press, and rub the body, meridians/channels, and acupuncture points to get the energy moving in the meridians and the muscles. Dong uses trigger point release, deep tissue massage and acupressure in these treatments.
Benefits: good for acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions as meridians/channels and acupuncture points are connected to internal organ disorders. An eXcellent alternative to seeing an RMT.
Benefits: good for acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions as meridians/channels and acupuncture points are connected to internal organ disorders. An eXcellent alternative to seeing an RMT.
Self Care Consultations
Tailor made teaching of acupressure, message, body-movement, herbal/food therapy… according to client’s individual constitution/condition.
Acupuncture for musculoskeletal pain and trigger points
"Myofascial pain is characterized by localized, hypersensitive spots in palpable taut bands of muscle fibers (myofascial trigger points). These trigger points may be due to muscle overload from trauma or repetitive activities that cause abnormal stress on specific muscle groups. Clinically, patients complain of tenderness, headaches, restricted movement, and muscle stiffness and weakness.
Acupuncture is an increasingly utilized treatment option for myofascial pain in the United States. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine use by Americans, an estimated 3.1 million adults and 150,000 children had used acupuncture in the previous year. Between the 2002 and 2007 NHIS, acupuncture use among adults increased by 0.3% (approximately 1 million people). In 1996, the United States Federal Drug Agency also promoted acupuncture needles from the investigational and experimental medical device category to the regular medical-device category, and the following year the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus statement on acupuncture supported the treatment efficacy of acupuncture for conditions such as pain and nausea.3 Despite this increased recognition of acupuncture as a treatment for pain, much evidence for its effectiveness comes from poorly designed studies with inadequate controls and blinding procedures."
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894813/
"Over 90 % of trigger points coincide anatomically with acupuncture points treated for musculoskeletal pain relief. The clinical correspondence of trigger points and acupuncture points in terms of the local pain indication is 70 to 80 % [12, 45]. Muscles affected by pain referral from trigger points and the paths of acupuncture meridians have an over 80 % overlap rate [13]. These investigations suggest that the modern approach to myofascial pain and the 2000 years old system of meridians describe an identical pain mechanism [13, 32, 53].
-http://www.eswt.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Gleitz_Hornig_Triggerpunkte_EN_02-2012.pdf
Acupuncture is an increasingly utilized treatment option for myofascial pain in the United States. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine use by Americans, an estimated 3.1 million adults and 150,000 children had used acupuncture in the previous year. Between the 2002 and 2007 NHIS, acupuncture use among adults increased by 0.3% (approximately 1 million people). In 1996, the United States Federal Drug Agency also promoted acupuncture needles from the investigational and experimental medical device category to the regular medical-device category, and the following year the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus statement on acupuncture supported the treatment efficacy of acupuncture for conditions such as pain and nausea.3 Despite this increased recognition of acupuncture as a treatment for pain, much evidence for its effectiveness comes from poorly designed studies with inadequate controls and blinding procedures."
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894813/
"Over 90 % of trigger points coincide anatomically with acupuncture points treated for musculoskeletal pain relief. The clinical correspondence of trigger points and acupuncture points in terms of the local pain indication is 70 to 80 % [12, 45]. Muscles affected by pain referral from trigger points and the paths of acupuncture meridians have an over 80 % overlap rate [13]. These investigations suggest that the modern approach to myofascial pain and the 2000 years old system of meridians describe an identical pain mechanism [13, 32, 53].
-http://www.eswt.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Gleitz_Hornig_Triggerpunkte_EN_02-2012.pdf
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