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Acupuncture has been a major part of primary healthcare in China for the last 5,000 years and is the oldest continually practiced medical system in the world. While acupuncture is widely known to relieve pain, it is also helpful for many conditions in which pain is not primary, including a wide variety of chronic conditions.
Acupuncture literally means 'needle piercing," the practice of inserting very fine needles into the skin to stimulate specific anatomic points in the body (called acupoints or acupuncture points) to influence physiological functioning of the body for therapeutic purposes. Along with the usual method of puncturing the skin with the fine needles, the practitioners of acupuncture also use heat, pressure, friction, suction, or impulses of electromagnetic energy to stimulate the points. The acupoints (acupuncture points) are stimulated to balance the movement of energy (qi) in the body to restore health.
After completing a comprehensive evaluation, your practitioner will insert fine, sterilized needles into specific acupoints which will have a subtle yet profound effect in balancing your system. Your initial consultation and treatment will take 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Follow up appointments are 1 hour in length.
You should avoid caffeinated beverages, alcohol, strenuous exercise and/or heavy meals both before and after treatment. Plan your activities so that after your first few treatments you will have time to relax to allow for maximum benefit.
Endorsed by the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health, acupuncture has been shown to stimulate the immune system and the release of a variety of hormones that help the body to respond to injury and stress. It also has affects on the circulation, blood pressure, rhythm and stroke volume of the heart, secretion of the gastric acid, and production of red and white cells.
Unexplained infertility is sometimes nothing more than a woman’s body being out of balance due to emotional stressors or physiological imbalances. Working with a Western medical OBGYN or fertility clinics in conjunction with a Chinese medical practitioner usually achieves the most effective results. If a woman is experiencing infertility she should make changes in diet, activity level, and lifestyle to create an overall balance in the body. Acupuncture can help strengthen the body to avoid having a miscarriage or reduce the risk of a miscarriage.
In formal, traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that infertility may be caused by several different factors including: constitutional weakness, being overworked, excessive physical work (strenuous exercise and sports), excessive sexual activity at an early age, the invasion of a cold, poor nutrition and overall diet, or, a combination of these.
Infertility is defined by the World Health Organization as the inability to produce offspring in a woman who has been trying for two years.
Acupuncture can help alleviate many of the difficulties pregnant women face including morning sickness, abdominal pain, threatened or habitual miscarriage, edema, anxiety, dizziness, convulsions, feeling of suffocation, coughing, painful urination syndrome, retention of urine, and constipation.
Acupuncture can also improve conditions that affect both mother and child, including delayed labor, breech presentation, and the fetus not growing normally.
Acupuncture has been shown to help postnatal depression, abdominal pain after childbirth, Lochial retention, urination difficulty, sweating, constipation, hemorrhoids, fever, breast milk not flowing, the spontaneous flow of milk, collapse, and convulsions.
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Initial Consultation and Treatment $150
Treatment Only $75
Although we do not accept medical insurance for treatments, proper documentation is available upon request for clients to submit to their insurance provider. Please check with your insurance provider prior to your appointment. In addition, if your place of business provides wellness reimbursement, proper documentation may be provided at the time of service for personal submission to your business.
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