Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine are systems of healing that go back thousands of years and have many billion patient success stories. It involves inserting incredibly thin sterile, single-use needles into the body at very specific places to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and stimulate your body’s own innate healing. Acupuncture theory believes these points follow pathways and meridians that run all over your entire body, which is why a point on your hand can treat pain in your neck. When these channels get blocked our body's nourishment and vitality are also blocked. By needling acupuncture points, we can clear these obstructions restoring the natural flow and bringing the body back into balance. While many people are scared to try a therapy that involves needles, most people don’t feel the needles, or may only feel a quick pinch as the needle goes through the skin. Once the needles are inserted, people often report feeling very relaxed or even euphoric, falling into a restorative sleep during their treatment.

Acupuncture is safe, effective, and a natural approach to managing pain and a broad range of symptoms and diseases. It is not uncommon for someone to come in for back pain, and over the course of their treatment report better sleep and digestion, in addition to resolved back pain. This is because we treat the whole person and not just their symptoms because everything is connected. Modern research has found that acupuncture promotes healing by improving blood circulation, reducing local inflammation, and relaxing tight muscles.  Acupuncture relieves pain by re-establishing communication between damaged tissues and the central nervous system.  By stimulating muscles and neurons acupuncture is able to re-establish proper balance, improve posture and reduce pain. It also affects your brain chemistry, improving our mood and stress by increasing serotonin and dopamine levels, our “happy” chemicals.

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