Acupuncture in Ottawa

Acupuncture is a time-tested therapy for healing which has been practiced in China for thousands of years. The basic theory of Acupuncture Ottawa is that the healthy wellbeing of our body is established by the free flow of ‘Qi’ (Energy) through the channels under the skin. When the free flow of ‘Qi’ is obstructed, pain and illness start and the body is out of balance. An acupuncture therapist inserts very fine sterilized disposable needles at various points along the channels. No pain is involved in the use of needles and they are left there to achieve various stimulations and therapeutic effects. Once the free flow of ‘Qi’ is maintained through therapeutic effects, the body regains balance and the illness is resolved.

What Can Acupuncture Treat?

Medical Acupuncture is a therapeutic technique that cannot be separated from the applications for which it is used, treating specific health dysfunctions. Medical Acupuncture is a precise peripheral nerve stimulation technique, in which fine solid needles (acupuncture needles) are inserted into anatomically defined neurofunctional sites, and stimulated manually or with electricity for the therapeutic purpose of modulating abnormal activity of the nervous system and/or the endocrine, exocrine and immune systems, in pain syndromes, functional problems, and any diseases in which these modulatory mechanisms are available. Neuromodulation occurs through neurological and neurohumoral mechanisms at multiple levels, namely: peripheral nerves, spinal cord, brain stem, brain and cerebellum.

Acupuncture Ottawa can successfully treat various body ailments by analysing basic cause and how it has affected the body. Physiotherapy Ottawa enables to choose the most appropriate treatment for each patient. Chiropractor treats patients as individuals and it has been the core principles of acupuncture too. Acupuncture enables the body to rebalance in conditions such as infertility, stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic fatigue, bloating, constipation and all types of digestive disorders, menstrual disorders, pregnancy discomforts, pains on neck, shoulder, knee, hip and lower back, sports injuries, migraines, eczema and other skin disorders, asthma and many more.

What is Medical Acupuncture used for and how can it help?

Medical Acupuncture is used for musculoskeletal pain and movement disorders, sports injuries, functional problems, problems of dysregulation, headaches, stress-related disorders, chronic pain, and act.

Medical Acupuncture is mechanism-based, not disease-based. Therapeutic goals and treatment targets are selected based on the identified neurological dysfunctions contributing to the clinical presentation of the symptoms. Sometimes Contemporary Medical Acupuncture treatments result in transient amelioration or disappearance of the symptoms, and other times results in permanent resolution of the dysfunction, especially when dysregulation of the nervous system was the underlying pathophysiological mechanism.