SPECIALITY CONDITIONS - ACUPUNCTURE & DRY NEEDLING SYRACUSE AND ONONDOGA COUNTY
We believe that no one should have to live with pain or chronic illness. Everyone should enjoy vibrant health and be able to do the things they love.
Conveniently located in Syracuse, NY, we offer customized treatment plans to help patients manage chronic pain, support injury recovery and even help elite athletes maximize sports performance.
We’re dedicated to helping you achieve the healthiest version of you possible.
I'm an athlete. I feel pretty good. Can you still help me?
Acupuncture & Dry Needling may increase strength and flexibility, correct muscle imbalances, improve millisecond reaction time and generally improve the adaptability of the body. Many professional athletes get routine treatments to maintain peak performance and reduce the risk of injury.
Are all acupuncturists the same?
Acupuncture & Dry Needling may increase strength and flexibility, correct muscle imbalances, improve millisecond reaction time and generally improve the adaptability of the body. Many professional athletes get routine treatments to maintain peak performance and reduce the risk of injury.
How is the Orthopedic Acupuncture Different?
Acupuncture & Dry Needling may increase strength and flexibility, correct muscle imbalances, improve millisecond reaction time and generally improve the adaptability of the body. Many professional athletes get routine treatments to maintain peak performance and reduce the risk of injury.
What should i do after my treatment?
Acupuncture & Dry Needling may increase strength and flexibility, correct muscle imbalances, improve millisecond reaction time and generally improve the adaptability of the body. Many professional athletes get routine treatments to maintain peak performance and reduce the risk of injury.
As a long-time athlete, I knew what I wanted to specialize in before I ever even applied to graduate school. I knew that I wanted to help people improve their performance and live healthy, active lives without pain. This led me to seek out the best continuing education sources that I could find and spend countless hours pouring over the scientific literature on orthopedic acupuncture while I was still a student at New York Chiropractic College. The goal was to hit the ground running, already specialized.
My studies and many teachers led me to blend trigger point dry needling with neurofunctional acupuncture and Chinese Herbs. I have found that this approach produces the best results for treating most types of pain and restoring musculoskeletal function. I have used this integrated style to successfully treat patients of all ages and walks of life, from children to grandparents, office workers, weekend warriors to high-level strength athletes and members of the AHL and NHL.
Neurofunctional acupuncture is a form of acupuncture that is based on our modern understanding of how the nervous system works. It utilizes very low intensity electric current along with the needles. The goal to promote self regulation of nervous system activity, restore proper joint and muscle movement, release natural pain-killing substances,and more.
This style is well suited for treating athletes and many other people who experience musculoskeletal problems and pain. Based on your history and a physical exam, we will determine which muscles are weak, which kinetic chains aren’t functioning properly and what else may be going on. The goal is to reduce your symptoms and restore normal pain-free movement.
There is also growing body of experimental evidence to suggest that this form of acupuncture can be used to release mesenchymal stem cells.
Dry needling is a style of acupuncture that has grown popular over the last couple of decades. It is the preferred style used by many professional athletes!
Unlike most other acupuncture techniques, Dry Needling is based on modern science and knowledge of how muscles, nerves and inflammation work. Dry Needling directly targets your muscles to relieve pain and improve function.
Trigger Points are sensitive spots in tight bands in your muscles. They usually form near where the nerve attaches. They cause predictable patterns of referred pain, weakness, limited range of motion and impaired joint function. They can also affect your coordination or balance, cause your muscle to tire quickly and recover more slowly after exercise. Normally, Trigger Points shouldn’t be there. Injury, stress, infections, arthritis, stress or overuse of your muscles can cause them to form.
Stimulation of a Trigger Point causes a “twitch response.” This “resets” the muscle. The tight band in your muscle relaxes and starts to work normally again. By resetting the muscle, Dry Needling relieves tension on tendons, pressure on nerves and – most importantly – reduces pain. It also releases natural pain killers, improves circulation and has been shown to reduce inflammation in trigger points.
Patients with many conditions may benefit. Some of the more common conditions include headaches; knee, back, shoulder or elbow pain; tendonitis/tendonosis; restricted range of motion; plantar fasciitis; frozen shoulder; whiplash injuries; and many others.
You can get started as soon as possible! No referral needed. Contact our Acupuncture Clinic in N. Syracuse, NY at 315-935-5700 to book an appointment. Now, if you’re looking for a soothing spa treatment with incense, flute music and laying there with a bunch of pins in you, this is not the treatment for you. However, if you’re looking to up your game, get out of pain and feel amazing, then you’ve come to the right place!
When you come in for your appointment, we may utilize manual therapies in addition to your acupuncture treatment.
Tuina
Tuina is a system of Chinese medical massage. Historically, it has been closely linked to martial arts and was passed down through apprenticeships. Think about it. The leader who could get his soldiers healthy again the fastest would be more likely to win the next battle. It’s not surprising, then, that tuina is one of Chinese Medicine’s most effective tools to help you recover from a wide variety of musculoskeletal injuries and trauma.
Tuina is not your typical relaxing massage; the aim is explicitly therapeutic. It uses active and passive stretching and soft tissue and joint mobilizations, and other techniques that are similar to western myofascial release. Like other sports medicine techniques we use, the goal is to restore normal, pain free movement.
Gua Sha
Gua Sha is a traditional form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization. It involves rubbing / scraping the skin with around-edged instrument. Usually, I use a specially cut piece of jade. Traditionally, it is thought to improve blood circulation in the muscle and other tissue.
It is also used to break up myofascial adhesions in the areas that we treat. Fascia is the “shrink wrap” around your muscles, blood vessels and other tissues. Normally, sheets of fascia slide smooth lyover one another. Injury, over training, inflammation or other causes can cause cross linkages and / or “scar tissue” to form,which prevent normal gliding and elasticity. Gua Sha, along with tuina can help to break up those adhesions and improve mobility. Usually, patients experience immediate improvement in stiffness, pain and movement following a treatment.