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It’s a 5,000-year-old practice. “It has been practiced and recorded in all ancient medical textbooks in China.” Acupuncture is the insertion of very fine filiform needles that are inserted into very specific areas of the body to induce a therapeutic effect. Lee Health Acupuncture Physician Ashley Donato said her patients typically come in with complaints of back pain, neck pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, and vitality issues. “It does have the power to be a supportive care for so many other types of diseases and behavioral health issues as a non-pharmaceutical option.”
Insertion is painless as the needles are gently tapped into your skin. Donato said it can also help with people struggling with addiction. “Ear acupuncture is essentially neurological style acupuncture. Different points can release different neurochemicals. I can mimic the satisfaction of something that someone can be addicted to whether that’s food, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs,” said Donato.
It can also help with psychological conditions like anxiety, stress, and OCD. “Progress is defined by less pain, better sleep better digestion, feeling full of energy restored vitality, because these are all the good extras of acupuncture can do for the patient,” said Donato.
While the needles must stay in for at least a half hour, the results are long lasting. “Nothing can be stronger than an acupuncture needle treatment and that is because it induces five different systems of the body and the life of the acupuncture treatment doesn’t stop after the needle comes out it lasts for up to 72 hours,” said Donato. You can contact the Healthy Life Center Coconut Point to make an appointment.
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