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WHAT ACUPUNCTURE & EASTERN MEDICINE CAN DO FOR YOU

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an ancient and vital holistic system of health and healing. It is based on principles of harmony and seeks to restore or maintain balance in every individual.

Commonly referred to as Eastern Medicine, TCM is a perfect complement to modern therapies. It offers an individualized approach based on one’s unique constitution, specific symptoms, and lifestyle. The beauty of TCM is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and that each solution is uniquely tailored to the individual. No two patients will see the same treatment.

TCM employs the ideas of moderation and prevention to work through personal challenges in an empowering, long-lasting way. Treatment may be used to moderate and relieve specific ailments such as acute pain or injuries. It may also be used as a preventative measure, and patients who receive regular sessions report experiencing a reduction in pain or inflammation, increased relaxation, and a heightened sense of well-being.

The beauty of Eastern Medicine is that treatment options are individually tailored to suit the unique needs of each person. Kelly offers a variety of methods and practices to design a holistic, overarching plan to help you relieve pain and improve your sense of well-being..

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the practice of inserting very thin filiform needles into the different tissues of the body, to help the body in its natural healing process. Acupuncture works in many different ways which we will discuss endlessly during your session.

Lifestyle Health Coaching

Kelly can also help with lifestyle protocols from Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic lifestyle protocols, weight loss, and exercise goals.

Cupping, & Guasha

These are physical forms working on the surface of the body to help change blood flow into regions of the body to promote healing. Tuina is a Chinese Medicine form of bodywork. Cupping uses different forms of cups creating mild suction on the surface of the body helping to create better blood flow to a region. Guasha uses scraping and brushing of the skin to promote healing.

Chinese Herbs

Herbal formulas can help in many ways. Kelly uses Classic Chinese herbal formulas, western herbal recommendations, and Ayurvedic herbal recommendations.

Acu-Point & Trigger-Point Injections

Acu-Point and Trigger Point Injection Therapy involves injection of sterile solutions into traditional acupuncture points. Traditionally, the use of Chinese Herbs were used for this type of therapy to enhance the overall effectiveness of the acupuncture treatment. Today, with the difficulty of getting FDA- approved herbal injectables, we use mostly sterile FDA- approved homeopathic solutions like arnica, traumeel, zeel, and others. The benefit of this therapy includes stronger stimulation to the acupoint with longer lasting results of up to 48 hours as the solution gets absorbed.

Advanced Dry Needling

Trigger-point dry needling is an invasive procedure where a fine needle or acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin and muscle. It is aimed at myofascial trigger points (MTrP) which are hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band. Trigger point dry needling can be carried out at superficial or deep tissue level.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the practice of inserting very thin filiform needles into the different tissues of the body, to help the body in its natural healing process. Acupuncture works in many different ways which we will discuss endlessly during your session.

Chinese Herbs

Herbal formulas can help in many ways. Kelly uses Classic Chinese herbal formulas, western herbal recommendations, and Ayurvedic herbal recommendations.

Lifestyle Health Coaching

Kelly can also help with lifestyle protocols from Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic lifestyle protocols, weight loss, and exercise goals.

Cupping, & Guasha

These are physical forms working on the surface of the body to help change blood flow into regions of the body to promote healing. Tuina is a Chinese Medicine form of bodywork. Cupping uses different forms of cups creating mild suction on the surface of the body helping to create better blood flow to a region. Guasha uses scraping and brushing of the skin to promote healing.

Acu-Point & Trigger-Point Injections

Acu-Point and Trigger Point Injection Therapy involves injection of sterile solutions into traditional acupuncture points. Traditionally, the use of Chinese Herbs were used for this type of therapy to enhance the overall effectiveness of the acupuncture treatment. Today, with the difficulty of getting FDA- approved herbal injectables, we use mostly sterile FDA- approved homeopathic solutions like arnica, traumeel, zeel, and others. The benefit of this therapy includes stronger stimulation to the acupoint with longer lasting results of up to 48 hours as the solution gets absorbed.

Advanced Dry Needling

Trigger-point dry needling is an invasive procedure where a fine needle or acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin and muscle. It is aimed at myofascial trigger points (MTrP) which are hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band. Trigger point dry needling can be carried out at superficial or deep tissue level.

WHAT CAN ACUPUNCTURE & EASTERN MEDICINE HELP WITH?

Clinical studies have shown Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine to be effective treatments for the following diseases, symptoms, or conditions.

Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labor
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow

Additional evidence has supported Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine as a therapeutic treatment for the following.

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
InsomniaLabour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Post-extubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced (excessive salivation)
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)

*List of conditions courtesy UC San Diego