Is Acupuncture for Me?

A Powerful Ancient Medicine for Today

Acupuncture is a proven method of medical treatment originated in China over 5,000 years ago. It involves stimulating vital energy points in the human body with fine, hair-thin needles to balance and harmonize the flow of Qi (pronounced "pain but also promotes the wellness of a healthy person. chee") or "life energy" which flows through the body along pathways called meridians from head to toe. By restoring the balance of Qi in the body, acupuncture not only heals disease...

What Can Acupuncture Treat?

Acupuncture has a mental/emotional connection because it works on your physical pain as well as the emotional, including treating stress and sleep disturbances. It can treat disorders of the bones, muscles, and joints, nervous system, emotional and psychological, gastrointestinal, gynecological, immune, hormonal, pregnancy, respiratory, sleep, stress, urogenital and more. Contact us for a consultation and to create a treatment plan that is unique to your needs.

Why Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a safe, non-invasive, natural way to treat pain and other symptoms caused by hundreds of chronic illnesses and injuries. Acupuncture is less invasive than other forms of treatment as no medicine is injected into the body. Acupuncture helps the body heal itself.  Acupuncture does not interfere with other medical treatments that you may be receiving. In fact, acupuncture may have maximum benefits when used in conjunction with other forms of care such as physical therapy or western medicine. 

Acupuncture Points

 There are 14 major energy-channel meridians on the body, with hundreds of points located along each meridian where acupuncture needles are inserted.

These include some 360 different points on the hands, arms, feet, head, back and over the major organs. By inserting needles lightly into certain points on the body, the chi flow can be tapped and the patient’s energy can be rebalanced.

Acupuncture points tend to be located where nerves enter a muscle, the midpoint of a muscle, or at a point where muscle joins with bone.

Acupuncture Meridians

Some of the major acupuncture meridians include:

• Lung Meridian

• Large Intestine Meridian

• Stomach Meridian

• Spleen Meridian

• Heart Meridian

• Small Intestine Meridian

• Urinary Bladder Meridian

• Kidney Meridian

• Liver Meridian

The World Health Organization’s Report on Acupuncture

The World Health Organization (WHO) published an official report listing 31 symptoms, conditions and diseases that have been shown in controlled trials to be treated effectively by Acupuncture. The following is a list of conditions shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by Acupuncture:

• Low back pain

• Infertility

• PMS

• Neck pain

• Sciatica

• Tennis elbow

• Knee pain

• Peri-arthritis of the shoulder

• Sprains

• Facial pain

• TMJ

• Headache

• Dental pain

• Acute and chronic gastritis

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Induction of labor

• Breech birth presentation

• Morning sickness

• Nausea and vomiting

• Postoperative pain

• Stroke

• Essential hypertension

• Primary hypotension

• Renal colic

• Leucopenia

• Radiation/chemo reactions

• Allergic rhinitis

• Hay fever

• Biliary colic

• Depression

• Acute bacillary dysentery

• Primary dysmenorrhea

• Acute epigastralgia

• Peptic ulcer

The U.S Department of Health and Human Services states that:

“… promising results have emerged showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, and in postoperative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, in which acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment.” (https://consensus.nih.gov/1997/1997Acupuncture107html.htm)