One of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effect is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted medical procedures used for the same conditions."
1997 National Institute of Health Consensus Development Conference

  Acupuncture is helpful for many concerns including those of the body, mind, and spirit.  It has been found effective for severe chronic conditions even when pinpointing the cause has been difficult to determine.  Those who receive ongoing treatment for maintenance and the promotion of good health have reported that they:tend to get sick less often and recover more quickly

• have improved stamina and vitality
• experience more peace in their lives
• are better managers of their own health
• see reductions in long-term health care costs and tend to visit physicians less often
• enjoy deepened and more harmonious relationships with others

Benefits of Treatment

This is a different experience than most medical providers - you are not spending the majority of your hour(s) waiting for 5 minutes with the practitioner.     You will be the center of attention as we ask questions and consider the type of treatment that would best help you in your life, with your own goals and concerns, in a highly individual way. Many people find the level of care and deep listening to be very healing, even before we start any kind of needle treatment. 

The benefit of the course of treatment can be life-changing, even if you don't have any physical concerns. Acupuncture affects a person on all levels - body, mind/emotion, and spirit. In my own experience, in all of my several years of acupuncture, most of my treatments have been on the spirit level, in dealing with the grief of losing my mother and her long illness. 

What can acupuncture treat? (click here)

You do not have to have symptoms or be sick to benefit from acupuncture.   Acupuncture has a calming and relaxing effect on the body, mind, and spirit.  If you are suffering from mania, worry, grief, fear, or anger, consider making an appointment to allow balancing and calming these emotions, which can produce disease in the body if unchecked over time.

If  you do experience pain or  chronic illness, consider acupuncture as a complementary treatment to your physician's medical care.     There is a lot of research that shows that acupuncture is effective for various ailments.  Click here to see some links to research that has been done. 

Acupuncture can treat any condition that makes you feel off-balance or unwell, because what it does best of all is rebalance you and stimulates your own healing processes.
Acupuncture is the most cost-effective way to feel better.
In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the following symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:

• low back pain
• neck pain
• sciatica
• tennis elbow
• knee pain
• periarthritis of the shoulder
• sprains
• facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
• headache
• dental pain
• tempromandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
• rheumatoid arthritis
• induction of labor
• correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
• morning sickness
• nausea and vomiting
• postoperative pain
• stroke
• essential hypertension
• primary hypotension
• renal colic
• leucopenia
• adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
• allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
• biliary colic
• depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
• acute bacillary dysentery
• primary dysmenorrhea
• acute epigastralgia
• peptic ulcer
• acute and chronic gastritis

Acupuncture helps more ailments than listed above; these are just the ones that someone has run a controlled trial for.  Please make an appointment if you are sick or in pain or want to reduce stress. Acupuncture is good for all of that.
Here is a short list of common conditions that can be treated successfully with acupuncture:

• Pain, whether chronic or acute
• Injuries
• Chronic conditions, from arthritis to chronic fatigue to IBS
  
• PMS, heavy or irregular periods, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), Menopausal symptoms
  
• PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
  
• Side effects of chemotherapy and radiation
• Infertility  (both male and female)
  
• Addiction
  
• Weight loss
• Skin conditions (including eczema and hives)
  
• Headaches, migraines
• Stress and any stress-related conditions
• Back pain, knee pain, hip pain, neck pain or shoulder pain, and tennis elbow.
  

In Five-Element acupuncture, we treat on the energetic level, allowing us to treat:

• Depression
• Grief
• Mania
• Fear
• Anger

See  research and testimonials to read about many conditions that respond to acupuncture.