Acupuncture and Other Services

Chronic pain significantly reduces the quality of life of an individual.  From debilitating headaches and migraines, dull and constant low back pain, stiff neck, knee degeneration and arthritis, to carpal tunnel and plantar fasciitis - acupuncture can help.   Most pain is caused by stagnation, or a build-up of cellular waste material, within the metabolic pathways (or channels) surrounding various tissues.  Acupuncture reduces pain by opening and regulating these channels to promote the body's natural ability to heal itself. 

In this day and age, stress factors are at an all-time high and stress-related illnesses, such as: IBS, high blood pressure and heart disease, nausea, anxiety, etc, are becoming more and more prevalent.  Chronic stress causes an imbalance in our autonomic nervous system by constantly triggering our fight-or-flight response leaving us in a constantly excited state.  Acupuncture can help down-regulate this over-stimulation by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, or the body's rest-and-digest response.

Insomnia and restless sleep are huge contributors to fatigue, lack of motivation, trouble concentrating, and an inability to heal.  By improving our quality of rest, we can begin improving our quality of life. More often than not, trouble falling asleep and staying asleep is due to an inability to wind down at the end of the day.  For better sleep, a combination of acupuncture and qigong breathing techniques can be used to calm and center yourself before bedtime, helping to reduce the number of restless nights waiting to fall asleep.

You can't optimize health and wellness without addressing diet and digestion.  Our bodies run off the nutrients we get from food, so if we aren't eating right or if our bodies aren't digesting the food properly, our ability to heal ourselves becomes compromised.  While a proper diet has more to do with the individual, acupuncture can help improve digestion by regulating appetite, increasing peristalsis, and stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system.

Anxiety is becoming more and more pervasive in today's culture.  With so much information is being thrown at us through social media and the news it can be hard not to worry about the world around us.  Anxiety is typically caused by overthinking and over worrying.  This constant over stimulation of mind inhibits our ability to ground and center ourselves in our bodies.  Acupuncture can help reduce anxiety by calming the mind and re-integrating it with the body.

Loss of motivation can be a multifaceted problem that can be caused by one or a combination of problems already discussed.  In choosing to incorporate acupuncture for your health and wellness, you have already taken the first steps to increase your motivation!  By addressing what you feel are the major contributors to your loss of motivation are, eg. anxiety, stress, fatigue, etc; acupuncture will help you to rediscover your natural drive.