In my professional opinion, acupuncture should not be used for open wounds, emergency situations that are life threatening and with people who are not able to consent for their own treatment.

Open wounds need to heal first, or the local area can be avoided while distal (points away from the local injury) can still be used. After a wound has been healed, we can work in the area to facilitate healing in a safe manner.

Emergency situations such as strokes, extremely high blood pressures, extreme blood sugar levels and major car accidents need to be stabilized at a hospital first! The condition needs to be deemed stabilized before acupuncture can be applied, but it can help  with recovery from such serious situations, once this has been established.

People who cannot consent for their own treatment are not applicable because they are not coherent and cannot give consent. This does not apply to children, as their caregivers are the ones who give consent for medical services.

With this being said, I have still given treatment to patients who could not speak but could nod their heads and consent to treatment.

There are other situations where acupuncture may not be applicable but they are rare and don’t happen very often.

Acupuncture as a whole is very safe and applicable in most medical situations.

If you would like to know if acupuncture would be applicable to your unique medical situation, we offer a Free Consultation, which would help answer your question. Click on this link to request a consultation.

 

Have you started any new hobbies to pass the time?

If so, what are you using your time to create?

Opening up our creativity and the right hemisphere of our brain can help us in more ways than 1!

I personally find that the more I create and use creativity, the better I am as a problem solver. I can think “outside of the box” easier when it comes to business or personal problems that I am trying to solve!

“Play” in adults is still very important.

We normally just encourage our children to use their imaginations and to create new things, but we are stifled as adults and are told to do things that are more “productive”.

New research is showing that utilizing our creativity and “playing” as adults can decrease our stress levels, increase our ability to learn new things, improves our relationships with others and helps us learn and develop new skills.

So, start that project that you have been wanting to start, paint, create, go on a bike ride, play a board game or put a puzzle together without feeling any guilt that you should be doing something-more productive!

If your health is what is preventing you from your hobbies or from starting a new hobby then click on this link to give our office a call! We can help you!

I am seeing an increase in back pain at my clinic these days, due to having people working from home and also from a decrease in physical movement.What I am seeing is people who are working from couches, beds and soft chairs which are not meant for long-term working conditions.

These soft areas don’t allow for support of the spine, pelvis and to maintain posture.

After sitting in these spots for hours on end, people are standing up and realizing that they now have lower back pain, hip pain or upper back and neck pain.

Sitting in this sort of posture for extended periods of time causes postural imbalances like Upper Crossed Syndrome which is a postural dysfunction of imbalanced muscles that can leads to distorted movement patterns.

This causes a “trickle down” effect onto t

he body that can cause various body pain that may seem unrelated but it really isn’t.Our body has muscle memory and if we sit in horrible postures for extended periods of time, our bodies remember this posture and keep us stuck in it, even after we are up and moving around.

It is something that you may not always notice right away but over time postural imbalances cause many other pain-related issues.

With acupuncture we work to correct the muscular imbalances, give corrective exercises for the imbalances and reduce pain as quickly as possible.

Click on this link to learn more about how we help people reduce pain, increase energy and how we help the body heal itself.

We work hard to help reduce body pain- in all different areas of the body- as fast as possible.By utilizing the body’s innate healing response, we can help guide your body to healing itself for you!

Instead of having to avoid certain movements, become reliant upon pain meds to get through the day, not sleep well because your pain keeps waking you up or not be able to do things around the house because your pain won’t allow you to…..

We work hard to encourage your body heal itself in order to harmonize various bodily systems together, to help you feel better, sleep better and get through life without as much suffering.

Your body doesn’t want to be in pain but it doesn’t always know how to fix the situation by itself.

This is where we come in!Our natural medicine allows us to act like a guide in order to help your body heal itself through natural, non-invasive means.

We create a treatment plan based on your medical needs and goals, work towards relieving your most pressing symptoms as soon as possible which may mean weekly or biweekly sessions, then we eventually move to maintenance sessions which occur once a month or once a season, depending on the situation.

Our goal is not to have you have to come to acupuncture forever and ever.

It is to help you heal as fast as possible and then maintain those results for a very long time.

Then you can send your friends and family to us to help them as well!

If you are in pain or know someone that is in pain who wants to feel better- click on this link to learn more about how we treat pain conditions.