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Learn about how acupuncture and dry needling can help with everything from back pain, to physical symptoms of stress, and sports injuries.
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Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Pain and Mental Health
A recent 2024 study showed that acupuncture effectively reduces pain and improves mental health, including anxiety, depression, fatigue, and sleep quality
Acupuncture Shows Promise in Treating Combat-Related PTSD
Explore recent research that shows how acupuncture may reduce combat-related PTSD symptoms, offering holistic management and care.
10 Reasons to Try Acupuncture in 2024
Most people in the U.S. seek acupuncture treatments for pain related conditions, but it can also help with the symptoms associated with many other health issues. Here are 10 reasons you should consider giving acupuncture a try this year, with links to research and some of our previous blog posts.
Acupuncture for Depression
Learn what causes depression, signs to look out for and how to lift your mood and reduce stress naturally through acupuncture.
5 Reasons Acupuncture Helps with Holiday Stress
Acupuncture can help you manage increased stress and anxiety around the holidays. Read more to find out 5 reasons that you should get acupuncture during the holiday season.
Acupuncture for Anxiety
How to calm the nervous system and reduce anxiety. Learn what causes anxiety, common triggers and how acupuncture effectively relieves anxiety symptoms.
Acupuncture for PTSD and Trauma
Living through a traumatic event can leave lasting effects on our mental and physical well-being. That’s because experiencing traumatic events affects our nervous system and our perception of the world. This can lead to predicable physical symptoms along with residual feelings of anxiety, anger, fear, and depression. Acupuncture has been shown to relieve the physical symptoms of stress as well as calm down an overactive nervous system to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression.
Qi Gong for Stress and Anxiety
Qi Gong is a gentle moving meditation that offers simple and practical self-care for your mind and body. I have found Qi Gong to be extremely helpful in dealing with the escalated levels of fear and anxiety all around us during the escalating COVID-19 health crisis.
5 Things You Can Do Amid The Coronavirus Panic
As an acupuncturist, I feel that providing a safe, calm, and stress-free environment is paramount in times of extreme stress and difficulty. Here are 5 things you can do to help manage any acute or chronic stress and anxiety you may be feeling.
Acupuncture for Stress
Acupuncture can be helpful in relieving stress and anxiety and is a common reason people seek acupuncture treatments. Learn more the physical symptoms and how acupuncture can help.
Acupuncture and the Nervous System
Acupuncture can help balance the nervous system to alleviate physical symptoms associated with stress. These symptoms can range from things like back pain, heart palpitations, digestive issues, pelvic issues, all the way to skin disorders and allergies, just to name a few.
Deep Breathing and the Vagus Nerve
Deep breathing helps activate the vagus nerve and gets us out of the sympathetic dominant “fight or flight response” associated with chronic stress and stress related disorders.