Acupuncture is the art and practice of inserting very fine hair-like sterile acupuncture needles into the skin to stimulate acupuncture points to create a therapeutic healing response.

Acupuncture points are stimulated to encourage your body to come back to a place of balance, to help your body restore its health and prevent disease in the future.

Here at Dharma Health, with your consent Rebecca may use any of the following treatment methods during a consultation:

Acupuncture can produce many responses it can be relaxing, calming, soothing, or invigorating. The result will depend on why you came and what was done.

The big question will it hurt? Usually you will feel some pressure from the needle cover before the needle is inserted, insertion is most times painless! When the acupuncture point is stimulated it is common to feel a warm radiating sensation from the point.

First a detailed history is taken, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture is a holistic therapy unlike western medicine we do not segment the body, it is taken as a whole, it is all connected, so some questions may seem strange at the time, but are used to help diagnose what is happening in your body. We also like to look at your tongue and take your pulse.

A treatment plan is then made and explained, then with your consent of the methods to be used, we take the first step to finding a better you.

Most times you will be given homework to help build momentum to get you better quicker.

Good Question!

It would depend on why you came in, how broken you are when you start, and then on what you do to help yourself at home.

We need to build healing momentum at the start so treatments would usually be twice a week, as you show improvement, treatments get further apart. The more homework you do, the quicker this happens.

Once health is restored, maintenance program are usually recommend so that you never need end up in your initial state again, think of it like servicing a car, it breaks down less if you look after it.

The short answer EVERYTHING!

We are not saying we can cure cancer or diabetes or anything like that, but acupuncture is all about bringing the body back to a state of harmony and balance, therefore we can treat cause of anything reducing the symptoms to help restore health.

Science has finally began to recognise the power of Acupuncture with more and more studies being undertaken.