ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. A key component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain. Increasingly, it is being used for overall wellness, including stress management.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force to flow through pathways in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.

Treatment of acupuncture include the following:

  • low back pain
  • neck pain
  • osteoarthritis (OA)
  • knee pain
  • headache
  • migraine
  • nausea
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • fatigue
  • tendinopathy