Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hamilton

A natural way to optimize your health & manage your pain

Are you tired of taking drugs for your debilitating pain or sick of the side effects painkillers are causing?

Has traditional medicine failed over and over again to alleviate the excruciating symptoms or chronic conditions you are being faced with?

It is time to visit Paradise Physio to improve your quality of life with the healing properties of Acupuncture. By choosing Acupuncture treatment, you are taking a huge step toward achieving a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

If you are looking to increase circulation, release endorphins to control pain and allow your body to heal itself more efficiently, you should get in touch with us to see how Acupuncture can benefit you.

How Acupuncture Works?

Acupuncture can be traced back at least three centuries as a traditional form of Chinese Medicine. The theory of Acupuncture is based on the idea that there are patterns of energy flow that are necessary and essential for optimal health. These patterns flow through medians throughout your entire body. When the energy flow is disrupted, disease is likely to occur.

At Paradise Physio, our acupuncturist can directly correct these imbalances by strategically inserting tiny needles into identifiable points close to the skin. These tiny needles are meant to influence the energy flow but are often combined with heat and pressure to resume the flow and balance in your body.

Administered by our wonderful and experienced acupuncturist, acupuncture can help activate the central nerve system flow in the brain, stimulate endorphins, and create an analgesic effect. Acupuncture has been shown to effectively treat nausea, vomiting, or even chemotherapy pain and post-operative dental pain.

Patients who receive ongoing acupuncture treatments from us are more likely to experience a healthier immune system, improved vitality and stamina, more harmonious relationships with others, and a significant reduction in long-term health care costs.

If you are tired of the pain and feel like you are out of options, don’t give up hope. Call Paradise Physio today to schedule your acupuncture appointment and start the process of living a well-balanced and pain free life.

Acupuncture Hamilton

Traditional Chinese Acupuncture

Is perhaps the most widely spread form of acupuncture, and is the original form of acupuncture from which others have been derived. That being said, there can be considerable variation in the techniques and methods applied within traditional acupuncture because of different schools of thought and approaches in different schools and regions.

Electroacupuncture

This method makes use of small amounts of electricity passed between two needles. This technique is also known as percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, most often abbreviated to PENS. While it may sound daunting, this practice is quite safe and has shown promise in some studies investigating its effectiveness.

Moxibustion

Involves the stimulation of acupuncture points through the burning of a herb called moxa near these points. Moxa is used in two ways, either directly on the skin or indirectly through a needle, garlic salt or ginger. Direct moxibuxtion is carried out with a smouldering cigar of moxa, which is used to warm the acupuncture point from a distance of one centimeter.

Ear Acupuncture

Auricular acupuncture is the stimulation of acupuncture points on the external ear surface for the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions in other areas of the body. The ear holds a microsystem of the body – maps of the body exist on the surface, or sensory cortex, of the brain. This same brain map is also projected onto different areas of the body, “microsystems”, and in particular precision, onto the ear.

Western Acupucture

Western medical acupuncture is a therapeutic modality involving the insertion of fine needles; it is an adaptation of Chinese acupuncture using current knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, and the principles of evidence based medicine.

Scalp Acupuncture

Scalp acupuncture is one of several specialized acupuncture techniques with a specific body location, taking its place alongside ear, nose, hand, foot, and wrist/ankle acupuncture. Although the scalp has numerous traditionally-identified acupuncture points along several of the major meridians (notably the stomach, bladder, gallbladder, triple burner, and governing vessel), modern scalp acupuncture differs from traditional acupuncture therapy.