Holistic Health & Healing uses natural means such as acupuncture and massage and advises on correct diet and lifestyle. The saying prevention is better than cure is a way of saying that it is easier to prevent an illness than to treat it. Treatments can be costly, life-changing and sometimes damaging. Therefore, it is often
I was recently asked, what made me want to do acupuncture and massage? I am specialised in five different types of massage. In order of training, therapeutic massage, tuina (Chinese massage), manual lymphatic massage (MLD), sports and remedial massage and most recent, myofascial release. My entire family had acupuncture for aches and pains. Having experienced
Acupuncture and Massage helps the transition into Spring…the spring in the step! The transition from the recuperative, long and hopefully rested and hibernated winter can bring out the ready to go, geared up spring in our step once spring is upon us. It seems the case in the last few weeks. There are more smiling
Reflecting on the year just gone, I had received quite a few comments/remarks about the benefits of acupuncture from patients and would like to share some with you here. Here is a brief, but not exhaustive list of what acupuncture can do: Decrease stress levels Improve immune function Promotes youthful appearance Provides pain relief Improves
Acupuncture during pregnancy can help with several conditions with which some pregnant women suffer, such as morning sickness, fatigue, heartburn, constipation, and gestational diabetes, back pain, ligament pain, premature cervical ripening, preeclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension.) As acupuncturists we are trained to know which acupuncture points are helpful during pregnancy and which points should be avoided. There
This week’s acupuncture blog is inspired by a testimonial received from a patient following a recent accident abroad: “I had travelled to London on vacation several days after an automobile accident involving me as a passenger. I had been of several minds whether to cancel the trip altogether as I had injured my foot, right
My blog for this week is about acupuncture for tennis elbow. You don’t have to play tennis to suffer from tennis elbow that I can tell you for sure! I have treated various different age groups with this condition in the last 12 years of practice. Tennis elbow is considered an overload injury, and it
Acupuncture for headaches is a bit unknown for people but it is great for pain relief and is well known for it. People always associate needles to help pain of various sorts. I shall focus on headaches this week, as I treated a lot of them last week! They say there is a pill for every
Benefits of massage are too many. I routinely ask my patients as to why they need a massage and reason they come for repeats. Below is a list of the most common reasons, along with some research which I have found to back these up. 1. We are not really designed for sitting Massage counteracts
Acupuncture for backache and fertility is not a commonly known. At Holistic Health & Healing we are pleased to be of help for a vast number of conditions, the most common being aches and pains and to assist fertility. Acupuncture as a natural pill-less treatment is known to be of great benefit for pain relief
