Learn how Chinese medicine can benefit you in living a healthier and happier life.
That’s the old Chinese adage that first came to mind when I read a recent blog post on injuries. Traditional Chinese medicine has known for centuries that ice is detrimental to healing injured tissue, and now it seems that some western MD’s might be coming around to the same conclusion.
Ice is great at preserving things in a fixed state.
Ice is great for keeping my meat CSA fresh throughout the winter, but you’ll never find me icing my shoulder after one too many pull-ups.
Kobe Bryant does it. So does McKayla Moroney. Dee Dee Trotter even brought someone to London with her in order to continue her treatments during the Olympic games. What’s their secret to functioning at the professional athletic level? Acupuncture.
Once only thought of as a last resort for people with low back pain, people with conditions varying from autoimmune diseases to generalized anxiety are now turning to acupuncture for help. This is especially true for active individuals. Athletes of all levels are embracing the benefits that acupuncture produces: quicker recovery time after strenuous workouts, help healing from injuries, less anxiety during competitions, and the list goes on and on.
It may surprise you to know that if you visited two different acupuncturists for the same issue, you may receive two very different, and yet highly effective acupuncture treatments. You may be wondering, “How is this possible? Isn’t there only one way acupuncture can help to get rid of my headache?”
Actually, there are a plethora of ways acupuncture can calm a headache, reduce anxiety or heal digestive upset. This is because there are not just one, but many styles of acupuncture. I like explain to my patients how this is similar to there being many styles of painting, or different methods of cooking; differences that can come about from experimentation, practice and refinement of a skill. Each acupuncturist gravitates towards a particular style which they find effective for their patients, and thus we have many skilled acupuncturists who practice an assortment of styles in the U.S.
Energy medicine exists in traditions all over the world, and arguably, is one of the oldest forms of healing. While a single definition of energy medicine is hard to pin down, I think of energy medicine as a way to channel the power of the energy fields from the Earth, from the Universe, and from one’s own internal life force to balance and heal all aspects of mind, body, and spirit. This energy is limitless - and we each have the opportunity to access it, cultivate it, utilize it. At the most basic level, everything we do here at the clinic is a form of energy medicine! But today, I'm talking about Reiki, and breaking down a question we hear a lot... drum roll...
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