What should I do during acupuncture?
Lately, when someone asks what they should do during acupuncture treatment, I’ve been suggesting Daydream! which is to say, allow yourself to drift into wordless states. If you can. There are other options.
About the Clinic
Lyme
We know it can be risky for someone to identify themselves as having chronic or late-stage Lyme disease. We believe our Lyme patients.
How often should I get acupuncture?
Sometimes people try acupuncture and are disappointed because it didn’t work for them. In many of these cases, they were only able to come in…
On distal needling, aka “Finding the switches”
People ask us all the time why we’re not putting needles into where it hurts. (“You know it’s my knee that’s sore, not my elbow, right?”) This is a totally fair question! The answer is that we use distal acupuncture: placing needles away from the site we’re treating instead of close to it. Distal points are below the knee, below the elbow, on the head and at the ears. It’s a safe, efficient and very effective way of practising that’s been used for thousands of years.
What Should I Be Feeling During Acupuncture?
“What does it feel like?” That’s one of the most common questions we hear from people new to acupuncture. We respond by assuring people that most folks relax pretty quickly, and many people even fall asleep. But that’s not the only thing that happens. A wide range of experiences during acupuncture are considered normal.
Crying and Community Acupuncture: Tears in the Treatment Room
Not only is it fine with us when patient cry during treatment, we also tend to see it as a good thing when someone gets the physical & emotional release of tears along with the acupuncture, for a few reasons …
Community Acupuncture and the Question of Weight Loss
People often ask us if acupuncture can help with weight loss. That’s a loaded question!
Trauma-Informed Care & Community Acupuncture
Given how widespread trauma is in our society, we know that many of our patients have trauma histories, whether or not they discuss it with us. Guelph Community Acupuncture is designed to be safer for people with current and/or past traumas.
Mental Health Stigma & Community Acupuncture
by Stef Cordes and Lisa Baird Mental health challenges affect many of us. As many as 1 in 5 Canadians have been given a diagnosis…
Do people really sleep?
We hear this a lot. For some, the idea of strangers sleeping in the same room together is exceptionally weird. But the answer is Yes,…
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