Acupuncture Service
Acupuncture is an age-old modality that uses hair-like, solid, stainless-steel, disposable needles that are inserted into specific points in the body. These points are neural nodes which stimulate the central and peripheral nervous systems to treat chronic and acute pain, musculoskeletal issues, digestive disorders and other chronic ailments. Acupuncture elicits the body’s innate healing ability to ease pain, promote circulation and guide the body back to homeostasis.
Although the effects of acupuncture tend to be cumulative, the number of visits to adequately treat a particular ailment will vary depending on: the length of time you’ve had the problem; the severity of the ailment; and your body’s response to the initial 3 or 4 visits.
Acupuncture offers a time-tested, very reliable modality for acute & chronic pain relief. Additionally, the World Heath Organization recognized acupuncture to be an effective treatment for several disorders and health issues. Their 2003 study lists the following:
DISEASES, SYMPTOMS, & CONDITIONS
for which acupuncture has been proved, through controlled trials, to be an effective treatment:
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression
Dysentery (acute bacillary)
Dysmenorrhea (primary)
Epigastralgia (acute: in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain 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
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow
DISEASES, SYMPTOMS, & CONDITIONS
for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:
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
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury (closed)
Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin-dependent)
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis
Eye pain
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour pain
Lactation deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction
Meniere disease
Neuralgia (post-herpetic)
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis (chronic)
Pruritus
Radicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine
Schizophrenia
Sjogren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis (chronic)
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)