Balanced Being Acupuncture

The use of acupuncture therapy for our furry dog babies is becoming more widely accepted in the Western world as an acceptable form of treatment for a myriad of canine ailments. Joint mobility, muscle tension, and osteoarthritis are a few of the conditions commonly treated with the acupuncture method.

Acupuncture treats a few different things. Like...

Adrenal Fatigue / Adrenal Insufficiency | Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy | Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) | Allergies, Environmental and Food |
Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) | Acne vulgaris | Alcohol dependence and detoxification | Angina | Ankle Pain | Anxiety | Autoimmune Disorders | Asthma
Back Pain | Biliary colic | Bell’s palsy | Bronchial asthma | Bursitis | Cancer pain | Cancer Treatment Support | Cardiac neurosis | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation | Cholelithiasis | Competition Stress Syndrome | Chronic Fatigue | Congestive Heart Failure | Constipation | Craniocerebral injury, closed | Cystitis | Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) | Dermatitis | Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependentDysentery, acute bacillary | Diarrhea, acute or chronic | Digestive Complaints | Dysmenorrhoea, primary | Earache | Eczema | Edema, generalized or local | Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) Epidemic haemorrhagic fever | Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) | Erectile Dysfunction (ED) | Eye pain due to subconjunctival | Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) | Facial spasm | Female infertility | Female urethral syndrome | Fibromyalgia and fasciitis | Food Allergies | Foot Pain | Frequent Urination | Frozen Shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) | Gastrokinetic disturbance | Gouty arthritis | Hives | Hypertension, essential | Hypotension, primary |Hyperlipaemia | Hypo-ovarianism | Hypothyroid | Hyperthyroid | Induction of labor | Insomnia | Joint Pain | Kidney Pain | Kidney Disease | Knee pain | Labor pain | Lactation, deficiency | Leukopenia | Low back pain | Low Libido | Malposition of fetus, correction of | Morning sickness | Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic | Ménière disease | Migraine Headache | Menopause | Nausea and vomiting | Neck pain | Nephritis | Neuralgia, post-herpetic | Neuropathy | Neurodermatitis | Numbness and Tingling | Obesity | O***m, co***ne and he**in dependence | Osteoarthritis | Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) | Palpitations | Periarthritis of shoulder | Postoperative pain | Pain due to endoscopic examination | Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans | Plantar Fascitis | Polycystic o***y syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome) | Postextubation in children | Postoperative convalescence | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) | Prostatitis, chronic | Pruritus| Psoriasis
Renal colic | Rheumatoid arthritis | Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome | Raynaud syndrome, primary | Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection | Reflex sympathetic dystrophy | Restless Leg Syndrome | Retention of urine | Sciatica | Sprain | Stroke | Schizophrenia | Shoulder Pain | Sialism, drug-induced | Sinusitis / Sinus Pain / Sinus Infection | Sjögren syndrome | Sore throat (including tonsillitis) | Spine pain, acute | Stiff neck | Stress | Tendonitis | Tennis elbow | Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction | Tietze syndrome | To***co dependence | Smoking Cessation | Tourette syndrome | Ulcerative colitis, chronic | Urolithiasis | Urinary Tract Infection, chronic | Vascular dementia | Weight Gain | Whooping cough (pertussis)

After reviewing the existing body of knowledge, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed acupuncture needles from the category of "experimental medical devices." The FDA now regulates acupuncture needles, just as it does other devices such as surgical scalpels and hypodermic syringes, under good manufacturing practices and single-use standards of sterility.

Many clinical studies support acupuncture’s ability to relieve osteoarthritis pain, particularly in the knee. One study of 18,000 patients found acupuncture to be helpful for many pain conditions, including knee osteoarthritis.

An acupuncture procedure is highly specialized. No two patients are treated alike. Just like no two people are alike. We work to treat you, not a situation.

Across the country, doctors are striving to avoid prescribing medication, particularly opioids, for chronic pain. Research shows acupuncture to be a cost-effective way to treat pain with very little risk for the patient.

Some people respond quickly to acupuncture, like within a few treatments. Others people might need 8-10 treatments. Acupuncture’s effects are cumulative, building with each treatment, so we will assess the effects after you complete a full series of treatments.

During an acupuncture treatment, endorphins are released. Endorphins are natural painkillers and it literally means 'self-produced morphine.'