Acupuncture care for your health

Individual healthcare for you

One of the strengths of acupuncture and chinese medicine is the ability to individualize your treatment plan. As your health improves and evolves, we are able to adjust your sessions to accomodate these improvements.
In our experience, there is no one-size-fits-all protocol that suits everybody. We spend time talking with you; to understand your overall health.
We enquire about your:
food habits
exercise
stress
sleep
digestion
energy levels
in order to work out a personalised treatment plan for you.
Our amazing practitioners are passionate about helping you to achieve your health and well-being goals; to revitalise your heart, mind, body and spirit.

Acupuncture for chronic disease support

Chronic disease support Research

Acupuncture is effective for reducing symptoms of flare ups that occur with many chronic diseases. Chinese medicine treatment may be able to assist with:

management of pain, stress and fatigue related to some autoimmune disorders, in consuiltation with other treating health practitioenrs
management of pain, fatigue and nausea related to many chronic disease
chronic pain related to depression by managing the underlying chronic pain

acupuncture for chronic constipation:

A 2018 network- meta-analysis found that acupuncture was effective for treating chronic constipation and had fewer side-effects when compared to coventional care (medication).
[Zhu L, Ma Y, Deng X. Comparison of acupuncture and other drugs for chronic constipation: A network meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 2018;13:e0196128.]

Acupuncture for fibromyalgia pain relief: A 2009 study investigating the mechanisms of acupuncture pain relief looked at the brain’s processing of pain via endogenous pain receptors. The human body has its own system of natural pain relief. The body produces natural pain relief chemicals, some are a natural opiod chemical; these chemicals bind to their receptors in order to achieve natural pain relief. Fibromyalgia sufferers have reduced receptors for mu-opiod receptors. Since there are less pain reducing receptors available for the natural pain relief chemicals to adhere/attach to; fibromyalgia suffers experience increased sensitivity to pain. Acupuncture was shown to increase the availblities of these receptors to the natural pain relief chemicals; allowing increased binding potential in the short-term and long-term. These same effects were not seen in sham acupuncture. This means that acupuncture can help some people who use pain medications to maintain or even reduce their dosages of pain medications as it allows more receptors to be available to elicit the same pain relief response, instead of the usual case where people need to increase pain medications due to an acclimitsising or resistance effect of their medications. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757074/pdf/nihms122574.pdf]

Acupuncture for digestive issues: (more info to be added)

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How does acupuncture support the body?

Acupuncture has a calming effect on the nervous system:

engages the parasympathetic nervous system to ease your body into a rest-relax-rejuvenation state of being.
signals the body to release endorphins which are the body’s own ‘feel-good’ chemicals
[Ribeiro SC, Kennedy SE, Smith YR, Stohler CS, Zubieta JK. Interface of physical and emotional stress regulation through the endogenous opioid system and μ-opioid receptors. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 2005;1264-1280]
endorphins play an important role in regulation of emotional stress responses
[Harbach H, Moll B, Boedeker RH, et al. Minimal immunoreactive plasma β-endorphin and decrease of cortisol at standard analgesia or different acupuncture techniques. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 2007; 24:370-6
Agelink MW, Sanner D, Eich H, Pach J, Bertling R, Lemmer W, Klieser E, Lehmann E. Does acupuncture influence the cardiac autonomic nervous system in patients with minor depression or anxiety disorders? Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie. 2003;71:141-9 19.
Rickels K, Rynn M. Pharmacotherapy of generalized anxiety disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 2002;63:Suppl 9-16 20.
Generoso MB, Trevizol AP, Kasper S, Cho HJ, Cordeiro Q, Shiozawa P. Pregabiln for generalized anxiety disorder: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. 2017;32:49-55

Acupuncture improves Heart Rate Variability (HRV). HRV is simply a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. This variation is controlled by the automonic nervous system (ANS).The ANS is subdivided into two large components, the sympathetic (fight-flight-freeze) state and the parasympathetic nervous system (rest-relax-rejuvenation) state. HRV is an interesting and noninvasive way to identify any Autonomic Nervous system (ANS) imbalances. When the body is in ‘a fight-flight-freeze mode’, the variation between heartbeats is low. When the body is in a ‘rest-relax-rejuvenation’ state, the variation between heartbeats is high. So, the healthier your ANS is, the faster you are able to switch gears which is reflected in a high HRV. Your body shows more resilience and flexibility; and may be associated with better cardiovascular fitness. Research has shown a relationship between low HRV and worsening depression or anxiety. It is fascinating to see how HRV improves as you incorporate more mindfulness, meditation, sleep, and physical activity into your life.

[https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heart-rate-variability-new-way-track-well-2017112212789, accessed 21/9/21]

Acupuncture improves the body’s ability to cope with stress by improving HRV
[Chung, J. W. Y., Yan, V. C. M., & Zhang, H. (2014). Effect of Acupuncture on Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2014(5), 1–19. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2982.2008.01164.x]