Services
- Health Coach Consultant
- Health Prevention
- Acupuncture
- Fertility/Ob-Gyn
- Cancer Support
- Chronic Illness and Immune System
- Trauma and Muscular-Skeleton Pain
- Personal Injury
- Headache
Health Maintenance
It’s easier to stay healthy than to get well after you’re sick. Health maintenance services identify and correct any imbalance before becoming a major disease. By using the diagnostic techniques of Traditional Oriental Medicine such as pulse and tongue diagnosis and recognizing symptoms that will lead to serious illness later on, we can focus on correcting imbalances before they becomes a serious problem.
Health Coaching
As your health care consultant for First Line Therapy® I can assist you in achieving your health goals using a combination of nutritional support, dietary counseling, acupuncture, herbs, exercise recommendations and stress management techniques.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the tool to help rebalance the body’s chi, or energy. It has no side effects, is non-evasive and great for symptoms involving pain such as headaches, menstrual cramps, trauma and sports injuries, car accidents, sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries.
I use very thin stainless steel sterile disposable Japanese style needles. They are painless and very safe. As the energy in your body comes back into balance you’ll feel very relaxed. Many people meditate or fall asleep during their treatment.
Acupuncture is extremely helpful for stress management and mental and emotional problems such as irritability, mood swings, anxiety, depression, and the symptoms that can be caused by these emotional states such as:
- insomnia
- muscle tension
- headaches
- shortness of breath
- panic attacks
- lethargy
- feelings of general dis-ease.
Also gastrointestinal problems such as:
- irritable bowel syndrome
- diarrhea
- constipation
- abdominal cramps
- nausea
- colitis
Fertility/Ob-Gyn
Acupuncture is incredibly helpful for gynecological problems, infertility, irregular cycles, excessive bleeding, menopause and pre-menstrual symptoms. I’ve had incredible success with women who were told they had a one-in-three chance to conceive.
Cancer Support
I volunteer at the Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Medical Clinic which serves low income women with cancer. Acupuncture provides immediate comfort and is extremely helpful in treating the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Acupuncture helps support the good energy (“righteous chi”) of the body while undergoing radical treatments for cancer.
Chronic Illness and Immune System
Acupuncture is excellent at strengthening the (wei-chi) or the defensive energy of the body. This is helpful to prevent colds and flu by enhancing the immune system that is under stress due to chronic illness (such as auto-immune) and viral illnesses such as:
- limes disease,
- HIV,
- hepititus,
- fibromyalgia, and
- lupus, to name a few.
Trauma and Muscular-Skeleton Pain
Pain is a great motivator and the number one reason that people seek acupuncture treatment. TOM views trauma as a disruption of the normal flow of chi and blood. Therefore acupuncture reduces pain, swelling and bruising and helps restore the normal flow of chi and blood. This process decreases healing time and pain.
Acupuncture treats problems like arthritis, migraine headaches, joint pain and swelling. These pains are caused by cold, heat, dampness, or wetness that invade the body and cause the pain syndrome.
Acupuncture also treats:
- sprains and strains due to sports injuries and lifting injuries
- lower back pain from lifting and twisting
- whiplash trauma from auto accidents
- general muscle tension due to stress and poor posture and prolonged activities such as sitting at the computer
- repetitive stress injuries such as:
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- tennis elbow
- acute stiff necks
Allergy, Asthma, Colds and Flu
Acupuncture is especially effective for chronic upper respiratory track problems including allergy, sinus infections (acute and chronic) and asthma.
Headache
Excellent results for muscle tension headaches, migraines, sinus headaches.