OCTAVIA HAMILTON

Acupuncture

Acupuncture ALRESFORD

Improve pain, mobility and calm your nervous system.

I use acupuncture along side traditional physiotherapy techniques to optimise enhance healing. Using Western understanding and Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM meridians we aim to impact many systems to improve healing.

Some reasons to needle:

To cause local trauma and in turn inflammation and healing
Local analgesia – an opioid response
Myofascial and mechanical response- trigger pointing and impacting load on tissues
Segmental analgesia – working on the parasympathetic nervous system
Central and systemic effects – a more TCM approach

Typically physiotherapists use acupuncture to help with pain relief, to encourage tissue repair or for trigger point release, to treat a variety of different conditions and it is often used in conjunction with other techniques.

The treatment involves using small sterile needles placed just under the skin into the muscle. This can often not only be around the painful or injured area, but also at points further away which have specific properties such as to relieve pain.

Needles are usually positioned along ’meridians’ that relate to specific organs of the body and are recognised in Chinese medicine as having specific properties. By positioning needles in this way, your therapist will be able to increase or decrease the way hormones and pain-relieving chemicals behave in your body, this in turn helps to reduce pain, encourage healing and blood flow to tissue.

Treatment time is often only for a short period of time, starting from 10-15 minutes, but can be increased for up to 30 minutes. Point selection and treatment duration in acupuncture varies depending on each individual, as our bodies all react differently even though we may have the same problem.

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