Providing Natural Relief & Total Wellness Since 300 BC
Acupuncture is a complete drugless system of natural healing. It helps activate and cultivate the body’s Self-Healing abilities to promote optimal health potential and total wellness.
Our Specialty
Our Method
Gentle Comfortable Effective Needling Made to Order, Just For You
Our method is based on a very gentle style of acupuncture involving the use of thinner needles and a shallower needle insertion. These powerful treatments are very relaxing and comfortable, and deliver highly effective and consistent results.
Health as expanded consciousness
We view health as a vehicle for expanded consciousness. Our method values the process of helping you discover and cultivate your life’s puzzle piece so that you may be the best version of you. We incorporate a very highly specialized style of acupuncture aimed at balancing the body’s energy centers, cultivating discernment, and clearing blockages to help you reach your highest potential.
Our Tools
We Only Use the Finest Acupuncture Needles for Gentle and Stress Free Acupuncture
There are many different types of acupuncture needles and they are not all the same. We only use the Seirin brand of acupuncture needles, the finest, smoothest, safest and most advanced acupuncture needles available in the world. Made only from the highest quality surgical grade stainless steel, Seirin acupuncture needles are the global standard for safe, high quality, painless acupuncture therapy.
There’s More to Acupuncture Than Just Needling— A Lot More!
Acupuncture involves more than just the insertion of needles into specific areas of the skin to treat different types of pain. Acupuncture is merely one branch of a complete holistic medicine system called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a modern term commonly used to describe the various traditional naturopathic medical theories, techniques, and methods that originated in ancient China, and have since been used over millennia in the East Asian region of the world. On its own, TCM is a complete system of medicine that is rooted in holistic and functional principles and concepts of natural medicine.
TCM IN MODERN TIMES
For some time now TCM has been incorporated into mainstream healthcare throughout Europe and North America, making up the core of what has been called Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Many of the primary holistic and functional principles of TCM have also been used as the foundation for emerging models of healthcare in the West, such as integrative medicine and functional medicine.
CORE PRINCIPLES OF TCM
- TCM fosters a patient-centered approach where the patient is educated and encouraged to become responsible for their own health and wellbeing.
- TCM emphasizes understanding and improving the functional core of the human being as the starting point for intervention.
- TCM aims to restore balance to body systems by strengthening the fundamental processes that underlie them.
- TCM focuses on both the mind and the body as an integrated whole that must be balanced and harmonized for optimum health.
TCM IS PREVENTIVE
In TCM, treatments do not rely on a Western medical diagnosis. Using its own unique and complete system of diagnosis, TCM addresses health issues based on a root-and-branch diagnostic philosophy. Similar to a tree, the body is viewed as an interconnected unifying whole system that is in dynamic relationship to its natural environment. TCM not only takes into account the manifesting symptoms of disease (branch), but also identifies patterns of imbalance at the root of poor health. This allows acupuncturists to treat a person’s needs simultaneously using highly individualized and complete treatments geared towards prevention.
TCM and Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the most commonly used and well-known therapy of TCM. This is why TCM is often simply called acupuncture and TCM practitioners are known as acupuncturists. But in addition to acupuncture, acupuncturists also use a variety of treatment options to improve overall well-being. They also use diet and nutrition therapy, meditation instruction, herbal medicine, energy healing, massage and manual therapy (acupressure), cupping therapy, exercise and fitness therapy (qi gong, tai qi), and heat therapy (moxibustion). These all are part of the built-in benefits of receiving acupuncture and these actually serve to support the effects of acupuncture treatment.
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How Acupuncture Works
Acupuncture Heals From Within
Acupuncture facilitates natural recovery by activating a person’s own regenerative and protective self-healing response. It takes a holistic and functional whole mind-body approach to bring the body and mind into natural alignment. Acupuncture helps people naturally improve how they respond and adapt to any number of factors that challenge health and wellbeing. After treatment plans are complete, ongoing maintenance sessions are recommended to help achieve and maintain a healthier whole you.
Acupuncture is cumulative
Receiving acupuncture more frequently at the beginning of a course of treatment will typically help people feel better quicker (relief stage). As the condition improves, acupuncture treatments are usually spaced further apart (healing stage). By and large, in order to maintain and support effects, and to achieve personalized health and wellness goals, most people continue receiving regular acupuncture treatments on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis (wellness stage).
Conditions Treated With Acupuncture
Acupuncture may be used to help improve the body’s natural response and adaptation to a wide variety of conditions and symptoms that threaten balance and health. Pain, trauma and other health disorders closely linked to the inflammatory response, such as mental-emotional and physical stress, tend to respond well to acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture can also help improve joint range of motion, promote muscle relaxation, reduce inflammation and swelling, and regulate blood flow and lymphatic drainage. It can also help to enhance tissue and wound healing, normalize immune response, regulate hormones, promote homeostatic organ activity, improve memory, and regulate sleep.
Some evidence has shown that acupuncture may be effective for a wide variety of Western-defined disorders and diseases. Reports by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) indicate acupuncture can be used as effective treatment alone or in combination with conventional therapies in the treatment of many different types of health problems, including:
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Frequently Asked Questions- FAQS
Total visit time is between 60-90 minutes, with 20-75 minute acupuncture treatment time.
Everyone responds to acupuncture differently but in general the approach we use is so gentle and the acupuncture needles we use are so thin that most people won’t even be aware when the needles are inserted. If they feel anything at all, it may be a slight pinch at the site of needle insertion followed by a brief dull ache that dissipates within seconds. Other common sensations felt during treatment include slight tingling, subtle muscle twitching and spasms, heaviness, extreme relaxation, and warmth in the hands and feet.
Acupuncture itself is very safe. It rarely makes a condition worse and generally presents no severe adverse effects. However danger exists in the inappropriate application of the therapy by poorly trained and unskilled non-acupuncture therapists and physicians, many which do not receive the same instruction and training as licensed acupuncturists.
To ensure safety when receiving acupuncture, it is highly recommended to use a practitioner who has received proper education and schooling in acupuncture, and is certified and licensed to practice acupuncture by an official governing acupuncture board, agency, or organization.
We are an out of network healthcare provider and may accept some types of out of network PPO insurance policies that have acupuncture coverage components. However please note, due to the many inconsistencies, limitations, and restrictions encountered when trying to use insurance to help pay for acupuncture and related services, we generally will not bill insurance companies directly. More commonly we will provide you with the documents needed (ie superbill, receipt, etc) for you to process the claim directly with your insurance carrier.
If you have a PPO insurance policy with acupuncture benefits and plan to try and use it to pay for services received in our office, we encourage you to contact us first before making your appointment to begin the verification process and get prior authorization for using your insurance with our office.
Similar to other modern medical therapies, the placebo effect is in play to some degree. However you do not need to “believe” acupuncture works in order for it to actually help. There is decades of modern scientific evidence documenting the beneficial physiological effects of acupuncture on the immune system, endocrine system, nervous system, and the brain, and there is thousands of years of documented evidence showing the positive effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of a wide variety of poor health conditions.
Acupuncture works regardless of your religious beliefs or spiritual attunement. And acupuncture will not interfere with your religious practice.
In general, acupuncture will not minimize any treatment or medication you have used or will use. Recent studies suggest acupuncture may actually enhance the therapeutic effectiveness of other treatments and reduce some of their adverse reactions.
However because acupuncture and some herbal and nutritional supplements prescribed by acupuncturists can sometimes potentiate the effects of other treatments, it is advisable that you disclose all of your medical history to your acupuncturist, especially if you’re taking medication or are undergoing other types of treatment, or have recently undergone other treatments, so that any precautions can be made prior to treatment. For more information, send us a message.
Most adults looking for a natural approach to health and overall wellness are candidates for acupuncture. But acupuncture is not for everyone, and there are times when precautions must be made.
For example, people who are not eligible for acupuncture include those with hemophilia or contagious skin diseases. On the other hand, people on blood-thinning medication, or who tend to bruise easily, or who are pregnant, can receive acupuncture but should disclose their medical history to their acupuncturist prior to treatment so that certain precautions are made.
If you have a specific health condition and you’re not sure if acupuncture is right for you, the best way to find out is to request an appointment for an evaluation and consult.
