How can acupuncture help me?
In this modern world we as adults are encouraged to push ourselves to work harder, play harder and get the most we can out of our time. However, this often leaves people feeling overstretched, stressed and run down. Acupuncture can help you reconfigure yourself, reconnect with your body and reboot your health.
Acupuncture can take many forms and can focus on many different areas of your health; from aches and pains, stress, lack of sleep, to chronic recurrent illnesses. By seeing the body as a complete ecosystem, where all the different process and parts should operate together, your acupuncturist works to bring together improved function across the whole mind and body.
People often seek acupuncture treatment for relief from acute and chronic pain, stress, poor sleep, headaches, digestive problems, and sports injuries.
The way in which we are feeling often shows on our faces – from bags and dark circles under the eyes, to an increasing number of wrinkles and drooping cheeks. By combining body, ear and facial acupuncture with cupping and gua sha improved health can be seen in the mirror.
Acupuncture works in tandem with other medical approaches by helping minimise the side effects of other treatments and medicines, such as nausea, dizziness, pain, swelling, numbness and fatigue. For example, patients undergoing chemotherapy, recovering from surgery, or managing chronic illnesses.
How is acupuncture different from other forms of medical treatment?
Acupuncture is more than just the needles. There many are other tools such as cupping, moxibustion, massage, acupressure, and breathing techniques that can be included in a treatment session.
People often seek acupuncture as they wish to try something more natural before turning to taking medications or surgical interventions. Acupuncture treats the person not the disease. It focuses towards boosting health and wellness not targeting individual illnesses.
Each treatment is tailored to meet your exact needs on that day. It can be both powerful and subtle according to what you need.
Often people wait and leave trying acupuncture as a last resort when nothing else has worked, but then wish they had tried it sooner.
If you would like to understand in more detail how acupuncture is regulated in Australia, the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (who are part of the nation wide regulation agency for all medical practitioners), has more information here.
Sports medicine acupuncture
Acute and chronic pain often arises from restriction in muscle patterns creating poor posture, abnormal pressure on joints and strains in the muscles themselves. This can lead to early joint issues, tendonitis, and repetitive strain injuries.
Whether your pain is recent or chronic, you don’t have to live with it.
Sports medicine acupuncture aims to relax and reactive muscles that have been tight for a very ling time. These misbehaving muscles can pull other structures out of place. Restoring length and elasticity to these muscles reduces pain, helps the body to move better and promotes our body’s own healing processes.
Australian are very active in many different sports – valuing their health and fitness with either individual or team sports. Becoming injured can have impact further than just the sprain or strain itself; missing out of exercise can have an impact on sleep and mood. Sports acupuncture can help you return back to training faster, achieve more in rehab and prevent recurrence of an injury.
Surgeons have begun to focus equally on prehab and rehab because they understand that getting your body in the best shape possible before a surgery can help improve your recovery afterwards. Sports acupuncture can help both before and after surgery in keep pain manageable, muscles functioning and help reduce inflammation giving you the best chance of a speedy recovery.
Nerve pain is very common as nerves can sometimes become restricted by either scar tissues, tight muscles and inflammation. This can feel like shooting pain, numbness or tingling, loss of balance, and the affected limb being heavy or hard to move. Using specific sports acupuncture techniques can help free the pathways of nerves to restore function and reduce thee symptoms.
Sports medicine acupuncture involves combining electro-acupuncture, dry needling, massage, Gua Sha and traditional acupuncture points following the meridians of the body. The allows your acupuncturist to combine modern understanding of anatomy with the ancient wisdom to treat you holistically.
Cosmetic acupuncture
We are all at the mercy of the aging process and its kindnesses are often most visible on our faces. This can be amplified by the stresses and strains of life.
The skin is the largest organ in the body and is influenced by how all our body systems are working. For example, dark circles under your eyes can be a sign of a good night out but are also a sign that your kidneys are working extra hard.
Whether your laughter lines have now changed from a giggle to a guffaw, your crows feet look like you might have been swooped, or your once cute dimples are now drooping; cosmetic acupuncture can address both the contours of the face and the underlying health imbalances.
Cosmetic acupuncture is a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating experience; a dual treatment of face and body together. A cosmetic acupuncture treatment involves assessing the whole body and using:
- traditional acupuncture points across the body to address the underlying issues in vital organs,
- fine facial needles to target problem areas in the face and neck,
- mini facial cupping and Gua Sha to stimulate the lymphatic system helping reduce puffiness and smooth fine wrinkles
You can read more in or clinical insights blog about how Zoe’s approach to acupuncture treatment is different.
Please book now with Zoe or contact our team for more information.
