About Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the oldest continuously practiced medical system in the world.
Acupuncture Helps
- Relax muscles
- Reduce inflammation
- Promote blood flow necessary for healing
- Balance hormone function
- Regulate the immune system
- Stabilize the mood
- Reduce the body’s stress response
- Regulate internal body function
- Restore the body’s natural balance
Common Benefits of Regular Acupuncture
- Pain relief
- Faster healing time
- Stress relief
- Increased energy, circulation, mobility
- Better sleep
- Regained normal body function
Advantages of Acupuncture
- Safe—there are no side-effects
- Effective—it is a cumulative therapy that yields incremental change over time
- Natural—it stimulates the body’s own healing capacity, so there is no potential for addiction or interference with any other medical interventions
- Non-invasive—the experience is painless and relaxing
The 3 Phases of Health Care
RELIEF–>CORRECTION–>MAINTENENCE
RELIEF
- Relief is the reduction of symptoms such as pain, inflammation, and limited motion.
- The importance of the relief phase is to have you feel better as quickly as possible.
CORRECTION
- Correction is the restoration of normal healthful body function.
- The goal of this stage of care is to facilitate the body’s natural abilities to heal and stabilize itself.
- A large percentage of healing takes place during this phase.
MAINTENANCE
- Maintenance and expansion of the progress and health achieved
- The value of this phase is to maintain the progress you have achieved to support ongoing healing and to help prevent future health problems.
Conditions Treated
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the treatment of over 43 common conditions including:
- Orthopedic Conditions:low back, neck and joint pain, arthritis, headaches, migraines, neuralgia.
- Nervous System Disorders:insomnia, dizziness, vertigo, peripheral neuropathy, Bell’s palsy, post-stroke syndrome.
- Gastrointestinal Disorders, such as indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, acid reflux, food allergies, gastrointestinal weakness, and gastritis
- Circulatory Disorders: hypertension, angina pectoris, cold hands and feet.
- Emotional and Psychological Disorders: stress, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks.
- Addictions: such as alcohol and nicotine.
- Respiratory Disorders: common cold, coughs, sinusitis, asthma, allergies, and bronchitis
- Gynecological Disorders: painful periods, irregular periods, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), infertility.
- Uro-genital Disorders: stress incontinence, urinary tract infections, interstitial cystitis, and night-time urination.
Introduced to the U.S. in 1972, acupuncture has been the main therapy for illness in China for over 2000 years, withstanding both time and politics. The ancient sophistication of understanding how humans function internally is mind boggling when you consider that we, in the West, had not understood blood circulation until William Harvey described it in 1628. Not only were the processes of the internal organs understood by Chinese physicians, they also had very keen insights into the relationship of each organ to human emotions; something that we are just beginning to appreciate in Western medicine.
Acupuncture today offers treatment for many of the elusive gray zone illnesses. In Western diagnosis you are either sick or well. (“Sick” is defined as abnormal lab tests!) For those in the gray area of feeling unwell or having illnesses for which they can only take medication, but never cure, acupuncture may provide the answer.
Effectively, treatments are straight forward. The virtually painless insertion of fine needles through the skin into the muscle layers signals the autonomic nervous system to recalibrate itself. Stimulating the autonomic nervous system promotes a more balanced relationship between the internal organs and allows the body to function according to its own natural design. Sometimes symptoms that seem unrelated often disappear.
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