What is Accupuncture?
Oriental medicine, including acupuncture and Oriental herbal medicine, has been developed and refined by physicians over thousands of years.
This holistic approach to health care views each person uniquely. Disease and pain are seen as imbalances in the flow of vital energy, and can be corrected through acupuncture, Oriental herbal medicine, proper nutrition and exercises.
Japanese acupuncture is safe, painless, and effective. It encourages your body’s natural ability to heal. The goal of treatment is to eliminate or alleviate symptoms, treat the underlying cause and improve quality of life.
Does Acupuncture Work?
Acupuncture is recognized by the National Institute of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO). Following is the WHO’s partial list of symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled studies to be treated effectively by acupuncture.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Stroke
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Acute and Chronic Gastritis
- Depression
- Low Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Sciatica
- Tennis Elbow
- Knee Pain
- Frozen Shoulder
- Sprains
- Post Operative Pain
- Facial Pain
- Headaches
- Dental Pain
- Dysmenorrhea
- TMJ Dysfunction
- Adverse Reactions to Radiation or Chemotherapy
- Allergic Rhinitis, including Hay Fever
- Acute Epigastralgia Peptic Ulcer
Your Healing Path
To best understand the benefits of acupuncture it helpful to understand that this holistic approach to healing travels through three phases.
Relief of Symptoms
Most people discover acupuncture while seeking quick relief from pain and other symptoms.
The initial goal of the treatment is to promote quick recovery. The effect of the treatment builds up with each additional visit.
Frequent follow-up visits over the next few weeks or months may be necessary to further reduce symptoms.
Deeper Continuing Healing
As your condition improves, the visits become spaced out accordingly.
The goal of the treatment shifts to maintaining improvement you achieved and strengthening the foundation.
It is also a good time to work on underlying imbalances which triggered your initial symptoms.
If the underlying problems are corrected, it is less likely to have recurrence of symptoms.
It is common for people to assume they are cured and end their treatment early this period.
Ceasing treatment during this time often results in missing a great opportunity for deeper healing.
Health and Well Being Maintenance
Your maintenance visits eventually become monthly, every few months, or even seasonal.
Emphasis has moved from fixing ailments to maintaining wellness which is the root of healing.
Visits are preventative in nature, much the same as routine dental checkups.
Herbs, cupping, meditation, light exercise or Qi Gong may be combined with acupuncture to aid in healing during you travel along the healing path, in order for you to reach a healthy, vital existence.
An acupuncture lifestyle, combined with regular exercise and other healthy habits can keep you looking and feeling your best.
