The World Health Organization of the United Nations recently advocated acupuncture as a safe, cost-effective means of health maintenance, as well as of treating over one hundred medical conditions, including:

What Are the Types of Treatments?
Trreatment with acupuncture needles is the most commonly used technique. However, acupuncture may include other forms of treatment such as electro-acupuncture, moxibustion (a form of heat therapy, herbal prescriptions and diet. Chinese pharmacology is used to nurture and to invigorate the body through tissue- and blood-specific herbs.

What Are the Benefits?
Since acupuncture promotes the body’s natural healing ability, most conditions can be corrected or improved. Also, acupuncture is a comprehensive system of preventive health care and health maintenance. The effectiveness of acupuncture extends far beyond the conceptions that it is only useful for chronic pain management or as an analgesic.

How Does Acupuncture Feel?
Prior to their first treatment, many people do not believe that acupuncture can be painless. Different sensations such as warmth or pressure may be felt, but the energetic sensation differs from pain. People often comment that the feeling is unfamiliar but pleasant and relaxing. Acupuncture needles are very fine, about the size of a thick hair; they are solid and nothing is injected through them. Over the centuries, refined needle insertion techniques have been developed which enable the skilled acupuncture practitioner to place a needle under the skin with little or no sensation. Only disposable needles are used.
In some cases it is not necessary to use needles at all. The Stimflex 400 treats without needles on acupuncture points on the outer ear that correspond to all parts of the body. The results are often excellent for all types of health problems. It is especially suited to those sensitive to needles, and to children.

Is Acupuncture For You?
First you will need a comprehensive evaluation. We will review your medical history and give you a traditional Chinese diagnosis and nutritional evaluation. This ancient art and science can reveal the primary cause of your health problem. Electronic instruments that detect imbalances in the bioenergetic system (acupuncture meridians and energy fields) may also be integrated into your evaluation.

Do Most People Respond?
Most people improve after the first or second treatment and many comment that they feel relaxed and peaceful. Many acute problems only need a few treatments, whereas chronic and severe illnesses will usually require more treatments. My goal is to get you well and to help you stay well as quickly as possible.

To make an appointment for acupuncture please call Ronald Cruickshank at (617) 547-4133.