The proper balance and smooth flow of Qi — circulating energy — is critical to our health. Qi naturally flows through our bodies along meridian channels. When Qi becomes blocked or stagnated, it can cause pain and other uncomfortable symptoms. Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine offers acupuncture treatment to open the blocked energy channels, facilitate the flow of Qi and establish patients’ energetic balances.
What Is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture uses small needles strategically placed on your body’s pressure points. This holistic form of medicine can help stimulate your central nervous system and your body’s natural healing abilities, promoting physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Conditions We Can Treat With Acupuncture
Yang Institute emphasizes the importance of whole-body health. Using acupuncture for pain management, we have helped many individuals gain relief from symptoms and conditions, such as:
- Chronic pain: Acupuncture opens blocked meridians and moves the stagnated flow of Qi and blood, promoting fast chronic pain relief. It also stimulates the production of endorphins, the chemicals produced naturally by the nervous system to cope with pain or stress.
- Sports injuries: Acupuncture treatment helps relieve pain and facilitates the recovery of sports injuries, such as muscle sprain, ligament tears and bone fractures. It also improves blood circulation and reduces inflammation to boost tissue repair and support rehabilitation.
- Stress and anxiety: Use acupuncture to relax muscles, move Qi and blood and stimulate calming neurotransmitters, melting away physical and mental stress. This treatment effectively removes the obstruction of energy channels caused by emotional distress and makes one feel relaxed.
- Digestive disorders: Chinese medicine has long recognized that the health of the digestive organs affects the body and brain. The gallbladder, stomach, spleen and intestine connect with the brain through the blood vessels, nerve systems and energetic channels known as meridians.
- Hormonal imbalances: Women experience dramatic hormonal changes and energy depletion due to menstruation, giving birth and responsibilities at work and home. Yang Institute’s experts help women restore lost energy, regain balance and maintain mental and physical wellness. Our acupuncture services can even help increase the success rate of natural conception and assist fertility treatments such as IVF.
- Cancer: Chemotherapy and radiation further deplete and disturb one’s flow of energy. Yang Institute’s specialists use acupuncture to help elevate symptoms such as pain, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, insomnia and anxiety.
- Lyme disease: If not diagnosed and treated promptly, Lyme disease could evolve into a chronic condition that may affect many aspects of a patient’s health. While the use of antibiotics is debated in the medical community, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine continue to be effective in relieving the symptoms, improving the immune system and restoring the patient’s mental and physical functions.
- Arthritis: Regular wear and tear can cause joints to become painful and stiff, leading to arthritis. Many patients turn to acupuncture to reduce their redness and swelling and increase their range of motion.
- Obesity: Clinical observation and experimental research found that acupuncture can be a helpful complementary method for weight loss. Acupuncture aids in weight control because it helps increase metabolism, reduce appetite and lower stress, which usually leads to excessive eating.
- Smoking: Acupuncture reduces the taste of tobacco and the desire to smoke. Yang Institute’s Smoking Cessation Program combines acupuncture with auricular acupuncture and herbal medicine to help patients reduce or quit smoking.
Our Comprehensive Chinese Medicine Services
Chinese Herbal Medicine Based on our comprehensive Chinese medicine evaluation, strategically formulated herbal remedies supplement the body’s deficient energy (Qi), remove the stagnation of Qi and blood, remove toxins and restore the body’s energetic homeostasis. Chinese medicine acupuncture is an energetic agent that treats both acute and chronic illnesses, promotes overall health and helps one age gracefully.
Acupressure Acupressure is a manual treatment that uses the same diagnosis and points as acupuncture, except it involves gentle but firm pressure from the hands. Many confuse acupressure with a massage, but acupressure purely uses steady, direct pressure on specific points without oils or focus on muscles.
Moxibustion Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine practice that involves burning mugwort leaves on acupuncture points. It helps stimulate blood and energy flow and maintain general health. Yang Institute’s acupuncturists may use moxibustion for people suffering from a cold, stagnant condition or Qi deficiency.
Cupping Cupping helps to stimulate the flow of blood and energy, break up obstructions and create a channel for toxins to be extracted from the patient’s body. Many athletes use cupping before competitions to increase their circulation and loosen tension.
Facial Acupuncture Facial rejuvenation acupuncture is similar to traditional acupuncture and involves placing thin needles on specific points on the face to restore Qi and balance. These punctures can encourage collagen production, improve acne and reduce inflammation.
Learn More from Dr. Yang
In the book Facing East, Dr. Jingduan Yang, a fifth-generation Chinese medicine practitioner and a respected authority in integrative medicine, joins forces with style icon and wellness advocate Norma Kamali to reveal ancient healing secrets adapted for the modern age. Those healing secrets help preserve, maintain, and restore vitality, health, and beauty in all its forms.
“Facing East looks to the past for a vision of the future, drawing on ancient knowledge to devise simple strategies to allow you to stay you, vibrant and healthy.”
– Andrew Weil, M.D.
I’m so amazed! After only 12 sessions, a chronic lower back pain I had for a few years is 90% better. I came with this pain in my upper right thigh, resulting from exercise. The practitioner put the pins (acupuncture needles) around my navel. I felt like electricity moved to this spot on my thigh and I NEVER ever felt the thigh pain again. My Practitioner knows her stuff. The best part is when the session is done, I am so relaxed!
A. Harper