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Welcome! Get to know Victoria BC’s practitioners of Japanese Acupuncture.
Experience Japanese-style Acupuncture
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is the medical practice of encouraging biological changes using sterile hair-thin needles. These biological changes can range from recovering from an acute injury, to resolving chronic pain to preventing health complications.
One session takes 30 to 60 minutes, and starts with palpating for tense muscles and fascia near where you feel the most pain, but also in the abdomen, neck, and back. Using five to ten needles, the goal is for noticeable tension release. With less tension comes improved circulation of neurotransmitters and neurohormones between the peripheral and central nervous system, changes felt physically and mentally. Heat affecting deeper tissues can also be applied for the same purposes.
Many people who get acupuncture say the needles are barely noticeable and describe the sessions as relaxing. Acupuncture has a much lower incidence of adverse effects compared to medications. This form of therapy also works synergistically with other modalities, including allopathic medicine.
Common Conditions
Acupuncture can help change a variety of health conditions that may or may not present with pain. Physiotherapists, chiropractors, and MDs are adding acupuncture to their skills, perhaps because it can be so effective. Studies have shown acupuncture can help with neurologic (headaches, post-stroke paralysis, insomnia), connective tissue (tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, sciatica), gynecological (infertility, prenatal and postpartum, menstrual and menopausal), gastroenteric (colitis, IBS, constipation), and mental health concerns (addictions, anxiety, depression).
A Registered Acupuncturist is the most extensively trained in the theories of acupuncture. With this knowledge they should be able to connect symptoms that may never have been explained as inter-related or as a sign of poor health. These are some common inter-related symptoms:
– skin problems + stiff shoulders + weak immunity
– fatigue + joint pain + menstrual irregularities
– cold hands and feet + low back pain
Alix Jean, Carmelle LeMaistre, and Kat Ao, Registered Acupuncturists
We use pain-free methods to end your cycles of aches and stresses. Our focus is to get your body to circulate blood, assimilate nutrients, and eliminate toxins. We consistently see great results using gentle and precise techniques based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Japanese Meridian Therapy, and Western medicine.
We are located in Victoria BC, specifically Alix in Langford, Carmelle in Fernwood, and Kat in Downtown Victoria.