Acupuncture & Physical Therapy Clinic

Acupuncture

 Introduction

Chinese medicine is a system of diagnosis and healthcare approaches that has evolved over the last 3,000 years. The Chinese approach to understanding the human body is unique. It is based on the holistic concept of the universe outlined in the spiritual insights of Daoism, and it has produced a highly sophisticated set of practices designed to cure illness and to maintain health and well-being.

These practices include acupuncture, herbal remedies, diet, meditation and both static and moving exercises; although they appear very different in approach,they all share underlying sets of assumptions about the nature of the human body and it's place in the universe.

The last twenty years or so have seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of a whole range of therapies that have the origin well outside the accepted boundaries of Western Scientific thought. The derivatives of Chinese Medicine - particularly acupuncture, herbal remedies, and Qigong exercises have been among the most notable and they now enjoy a growing respect, not only from patients who have experienced their benefits at first hand but also from the medical fraternity in the West, who were initially extremely skeptical.

Despite the therapeutic benefits, however it is likely that patients will, at some point in the process, ask themselves the question ...

"How does this work?"

It is only common sense to wonder why the insertion of fine needles into a variety of points in the body - often bearing no obvious relationship to the actual problem - can have such a dramatic effect. Any patient wrestling with the problem of trying to consume a herbal mixture that would do justice to the witches of Macbeth must, at times, question what is going on!

Many hundreds of practitioners who experience for themselves the benefits of Chinese "soft exercises" - Taiji, Qigong and so on or find themselves wondering how these therapies differ from Western Oriented Aerobic exercises, yet, in all cases, the proof is there in terms of symptomatic relief and improved health & well-being. Often a more balanced view of life in general is a result of practicing those therapies.

So, .....

What is this body of knowledge that is having such an impact throughout the Western World?

How does it differ from the system we have grown up with?

What does it have to offer us?

Make an appointment to see me, and I will do my best to help you!