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Acupuncture stimulates nerves under your skin and in your muscles, which causes your body to release a number of chemicals – including endorphins, which have a natural pain-numbing effect. The longer your course of acupuncture, the more long-lasting your pain relief is likely to be.

An acupuncture session typically lasts between 40 and 60 minutes, and during this time you’ll also receive a consultation. This is your chance to talk about your specific symptoms and your medical history. You’ll receive a full medical assessment before your acupuncture treatment begins, and a course of acupuncture treatment generally consists of ten sessions.

After your massage is complete, we will then finish off the treatment with heat therapy. A herbal heat pad will be placed on the treated area to aid in the soothing with the aim to minimize pain. This also dilates the blood vessels surrounding the painful area. Increased blood flow provides additional oxygen and nutrients to help heal the damaged muscle tissue. It also increases the flexibility (and decreasing painful stiffness) of soft tissues surrounding the injured area, including muscles and connective tissue. You can rest assured that you will leave feeling better and relaxed.

Cupping is thought to release tissues deep inside the body, relax tense muscles and ease stiffness. As blood flow increases within vessels and capillaries, Cupping allows people to enter a more relaxed state since it sedates the central nervous system. It can help lower most patients’ stress responses and therefore offers protection against anxiety and depression. Cupping is used to reduce herpes, cellulite, acne and skin inflammation. The fact that it tones and firms skin by improving blood flow and expanding capillaries.

 

Moxibustion is a form of heat therapy in which dried chinese herbs materials called “moxa” are burned on or very near the surface of the skin. The intention is to warm and invigorate the flow of “Qi” (energy) in the body and dispel certain pathogenic influences.