Acupuncture is at the heart of our practice. We take time to understand what brings you in, how you’ve been feeling, and what you hope to change.
Your acupuncture visit
Your practitioner carefully selects acupuncture points to suit your treatment needs, your body’s constitution, and how your energy is presenting that day. Each session is tailored to you, with adjustments as your needs evolve.
Traditional therapies, tailored to you
Your session may also include cupping, guasha, moxibustion, or heat therapy. Your practitioner will discuss which approaches fit your care.
A plan beyond the treatment room
We may recommend practical changes to nutrition, movement, rest, and daily routines. Your next steps should feel clear and manageable.
stimulate specific points on the body by inserting thin needles through the skin.
The specific points are on channels of energy that run in regular patterns throughout the body. These energy channels, also known as
meridians, are like rivers flowing through the body to irrigate and nourish tissue. An obstruction in the movement of these energy rivers is like a dam that backs up the flow in one part of the body and restricts it from the others. Thus, needling acupuncture points balances the meridians to allow equal nourishment to all tissues and unblocks obstructions to relieve pain.
The
modern scientific explanation says that needling the acupuncture points stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals in the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. These chemicals will either change the way someone experiences pain, or they will trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones which influence the body’s own internal healing system.
