Do you suffer from headaches or migraines? Painful periods? Have you developed uncomfortable symptoms in your digestive system? Does your lower back ache for no good reason; perhaps one of a growing list of ‘ageing problems‘ in your bones and muscles, or was it something you strained in the gym or at work that doesn’t seem to be healing by itself?  Maybe you feel worn down by general anxiety or an undiagnosed malaise. Acupuncture might be the treatment you’ve been looking for.

You can call Tim for a FREE 15-minute consultation and find out if acupuncture treatments could help you on your path towards better health and well-being.

 

Many people first try acupuncture when they’ve run out of other options. They’ve been through the usual tried and tested channels to ‘fix’ themselves, but nothing has worked, or at least not without side effects (always read the small print), so with nothing left to lose, they ‘give acupuncture a try’ and are finally rewarded with results that often go above and beyond what they were looking for. Starting acupuncture treatment for IBS and discovering it ‘cures’ PTSD from a road accident is just one example (my own personal experience). Patients often report even less tangible effects, such as feeling more ‘together in themselves’. . . ‘clearer in their thinking’. . . having ‘higher spirits’ and feeling happier in general. Many positive changes that are difficult to quantify or directly attribute to acupuncture treatment are commonplace in the clinic, and this makes sense when you understand that (good) acupuncture treats the person, not the symptom → the person heals, the symptom disappears.

Acupuncture is a branch of traditional medicine that has been practised in China and the Far East for thousands of years. It has been developed, tested, researched and refined over this time into a treatment option accessed by increasing numbers of patients in the West. Without the benefit of modern scientific equipment, the first acupuncturists discovered many now-familiar aspects of biomedical science.

A growing body of evidence-based clinical research is discovering how the body responds to acupuncture and how it benefits a wide range of common health conditions.  Many people have acupuncture to relieve specific aches and pains such as osteoarthritis of the knee, TMJ pain, headaches and low back pain, or common health problems like an overactive bladder. Other people choose acupuncture when they can feel their bodily functions are out of balance but have no obvious Western medical diagnosis leading to Western medical treatment.  Many people have regular treatments simply because they find it beneficial and relaxing.

A traditional acupuncturist will focus on the patient as an individual, not just their specific illness because all symptoms are seen as part of an interconnected pattern.

Treatments involve the insertion of extremely fine needles into specific points which are said to affect the flow of your body’s ‘Qi’, or vital energy. In truth, the term ‘energy’ is rather simplistic in light of ongoing research and study that suggests what many practitioners already know: that inserting needles into the channels (or ‘meridians’) affects systemic change within the human body.