Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a drug-free therapy with minimal side effects and is covered by most healthcare providers.
It is suitable for people of all ages, including pregnant women, teenagers, and children, and can be safely used alongside conventional medicine.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Acupuncture is one of the safest and longest-established forms of healthcare. Allana studied for three and a half years at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine obtaining a 2.1 BSc (Hons) in Acupuncture.
At Boost, Allana works collaboratively with conventional healthcare practitioners, using acupuncture to help patients manage the side effects of medication, support recovery, and promote a return to overall health and well-being.
What to expect during your Consultation?
Consultation
We'll have a chat covering your health, symptoms, any medication your currently taking and lifestyle.
Pulse Reading
Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncturist are trained to listen to your body through your pulses.
There are three positions on each wrist, relating to the organs in the body.
There are a number of different qualities we are listening for, also how strong or weak and how they flow from one position to another.
Tongue Reading
Your tongue is like a map of your body, I will be looking at the colour, any cracks, teeth marks, does it quiver and the coating.
Ask to take a look at your friends and families tongues and notice how different they are.
What to expect during your Treatment?
A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Acupuncturist has many tools at their disposal, not just needles. Depending on your symptoms and TCM diagnosis, a variety of techniques may be used during your treatment, and each will be explained to you before use.
Most acupuncture points are located on the lower legs and arms, which allows treatments to be delivered without the need to undress fully. We recommend wearing loose-fitting clothing so your lower legs can be easily accessed. If preferred, a towel can be placed over your lap, or some patients choose to wear a pair of shorts for comfort and convenience.
Fine Sterile
Single Use Needles
Acupuncture needles are extremely fine — as thin as a strand of hair — and are designed to gently part the skin. They're very different from injection needles, which are larger and hollow.
During your treatment, needles are typically retained for around 20 minutes.
Electro
Acupuncture
For chronic musculoskeletal conditions reducing pain through the release of endorphins and serotonin, promotes tissue healing and increasing blood flow.
A gentle treatment, feeling of warmth which increases blood flow and reducing inflammation.
Can be use for back, neck, shoulder, hip, arm, leg, elbow, wrist, hands and feet.
Smokless
Moxa Stick
Often used for joint pain, blood nourishing points or to warm cold patterns.
We light the moxa stick, hover over specific points to create a gentle heat.
Moving in a circular motion or pecking up and down.
Cupping
Massage
Often we use cupping to help reduce muscle tension, with immediate and lasting affect. The skin is drawn into the cups, increasing circulation into the muscles fibres.
Cupping is used for:
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Acute or chronic back pain
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Chronic shoulder stiffness
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Clearing trauma, from an old injury
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Asthma / Hay fever
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Common cold. Helps to prevent the cold going deeper into the body
Auricular Acupuncture
In acupuncture the ear is regarded as a mini map of the body. There are over two hundred acupuncture points on the outer ear alone, which correspond to different parts of the body.
Placing needles in these acupuncture points can help specific conditions directly corresponding to parts of the body.
Ear Magnets
Easily applied to the surface of the ear with adhesive tape, onto specific points. Gold or silver plated magnetic balls.
The magnets rest on the point, to stimulate the acupuncture point to continue the treatment.
Gua Sha
Direct method of stimulating the meridians. It's focus to move Qi & Blood, improving the micro circulation to the area being treated.
Using a Jade Gua-sha tool to gently brush over the skin, expelling Pathogenic Factors & bringing out colour onto the skin showing us the location of the problem. The darker the colour the better. the reaction.
Tui-Na
Massage
Tui-Na massage works along the Channel to balance the flow of Qi.
To help promote the smooth flow or to help Tonify Qi to strengthen certain areas.