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Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the practice of inserting extremely fine filiform needles into the skin. Acupuncture needles are nothing like the hypodermics used to inject medicines or draw blood; instead these are very small, flexible needles about the width of a human hair and are single-use, sterile, stainless steel. While relatively new to the US (available in this country only as recently as 1972), acupuncture is the oldest continuously practiced medical system in the world.

Acupuncture is part of a complete system of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that originated in China 2,000 to 5,000 years ago. Outside of China, TCM has been practiced for about 200 years.

So, while new to us, acupuncture has a long recorded history of efficiency and is used by nearly one third of the world’s population as a primary health care system and by countless others as an adjunctive treatment.

The fundamental principles of acupuncture are to treat the person as an integrated whole in body, mind, and spirit – everything is connected! One of the strengths of TCM is its focus on pattern based medicine that treats the root cause of illness and disease, not just the symptoms. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) acupuncture is an effective treatment for the following conditions:

Addictions
Arthritis
Back Pain
Carpal Tunnel
Chemotherapy Nausea
Depression
Digestive Problems (ulcers, nausea, gastritis, IBS)
Ear Problems( ringing, earaches)
Fibromyalgia
Headaches
Infections, cold, flu
Insomnia
Menstrual & Female Disorders
Muscle/Joint Pain (tendonitis, bursitis, sprains)
Post-operative Pain/Dental Pain
Sinusitis
Skin Disorders
Stroke Rehabilitation
Urinary Problems

For more information on sports medicine acupuncture, Japanese style acupuncture and electro-acupuncture please see the links to the left.