Pain & Injury
Acupuncture is used to assist in the management of chronic or acute pain, and can help you with your body’s natural healing process following injury, or a trauma.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. A key component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain. Increasingly, it is being used for overall wellness, including stress management.
Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of blood, energy or life force, that flow through pathways (Channels) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these channels, which assists in the balancing of the body’s movement and function.
Myofascia Cupping:
Traditional Chinese cupping is used to assist in:
- alleviating tight and sore muscles,
- Moves lymph fluid through the body and bolsters the body’s immune system, • Breaks up adhesion and scarring after surgery or trauma, softens the muscles tissues making them pliable and help reduce pain,
- Benefiting those suffering from respitory ailments such as colds, asthma, allergies and bronchitis.
• Acts in a way that opens the skins pores, which help stimulate the flow of Blood, balances and realigns the flow of Qi by breaking up obstructions and creates an avenue for toxins to be drawn out of the body.
Electro Accupuncture:
Electro acupuncture is similar to acupuncture, a widely practiced form of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Acupuncture involves the use of thin needles to stimulate specific pressure points linked to unwanted symptoms. Some mild electric current passes between the acupuncture needles during treatment. This current generally applies more stimulation to specific acupoints, rather than needle twirling or other hand manipulation techniques a qualified acupuncturist might use.
Electro acupuncture is used to assist in the treatment of a range of symptoms, health issues & management of:
- Neurological disorders,
- chronic and acute pain
- Stress
- Helps with soft tissue damage, in promoting flow of Blood by bringing warmth to the muscles or area.
- Is used in the treatment of Sports injuries or muscle
“Electro-Acupuncture stimulation increases hypothalamic functional connectivity and triggers the release of Mesenchymal stem cells into the blood stream, promoting new or replacing various types of tissues within the body after injury or chronic illness” (Salazar, Richardson, Beli & Ripsch, 2020. Electro acupuncture promotes CNS-dependant release of Mesenchymal stem cells)