The Tools I use

Here are just a handful of tools I use within clinic to help create a balanced indiviualised treatment approach to best address what you are coming in for and also the address what ever underling issues I find during our sessions. Support your mind, body and spirit.

Acupuncture Needles

In clinic I use only fine sterile disposable needles. Using a guide tube helps to insert the needle swiftly and my patients often remark they rarely feel them at all. Placed on acupuncture points relating to your presenting pattern of diagnosis, these fine needles have the amazing ability to restore balance. I choose to use needles that are in packs of 10 with one plastic guide tube to reduce waste. In my clinic you’ll see many of these tubes in bottles and glass jars waiting for a create up-cycled idea to come to mind.

Moxibustion

Moxa gives a lovely warmth and comfort to a treatment while enhancing the effect of the needles. The heat moxa gives has an infrared healing effect that is felt deep within encouraging the movement of stagnation (felt as pain) and/or helping to boost the natural warmth within. The smell of moxa is amazing and loved by many. When I was studying in London many years ago I was trusted by my mentors of 4 years to uses moxa on their patients. An experience I will be forever grateful for and forever remember.

Cupping

I choose to use glass Japanese style suction cupping. These offer a great way to release tight muscle tension, improve blood circulation, release stuck toxins and improve internal warmth in the body. The suction cups allow me to gauge the strength of the suction and reduced the intensity of bruising that can happen.

Chinese Herbal formulas

Chinese Medicine Herbal formulas are fantastic complimentary additions to using acupuncture for helping to bring us back into balance. Coming in either capsule or powdered form they are easy to take. At Embody Balance only high grade quality, TGA approved, herbal formulas are used.

Palpation

Palpation is a hands on way of discovering the imbalances in the body. Palpating the radial or wrist pulse for example can tell us a wealth of information on what is going on with the meridians. Palpating the abdomen is a form of diagnosis in Japanese acupuncture and palpating the acupuncture channels and points can give yet another lot of information which is so valuable to help form a treatment suitable only to you. I love discovering tension spots that help tell a story about what may be going on.