Acupuncture is fast becoming a popular method for treating everything from skin conditions to acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries via the controlling and directing of body energy, or “qi” (pronounced “chee”).   Acupuncture focuses on the principle that there is a two way communication between the skin and all organs and tissues of the body.  Pain and dysfunction can be brought on by stagnation of qi, deficiency of qi, and meridian imbalance from side to side.  Meridians are the channels through which qi flows.  By stimulating these points, the progress of the condition can not only be arrested, but even reversed.  This can help to bring the patient back to normal health.  Like with Chiropractic, Acupuncture does not treat any specific symptom or disease.  Acupuncture treats the underlying dysfunction of energy flow, which may be manifesting as you symptoms.  Once this is achieved, the body heals itself.

Although the practice of acupuncture is almost 5000 years old, it has only been consistently practiced in the United States since the 1970’s.  It wasn’t until 1997 that the National Institute of Health endorsed the practice of acupuncture. 

Today, acupuncture is becoming very widespread, with the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsing acupuncture as effective treatment for a wide gambit of ailments, including:

• Headaches

• Sciatica

• Allergies

• Hypertension

• Depression

• Induction of childbirth and correction of malposition of a fetus

• Pain in the epigasrtrum, face, neck, tennis elbow, knees, low back, teeth

• Dysmenorrhea

• Strokes

• Sprains

• Arthritis