The Acupuncture Studio
FERTILITY I PREGNANCY I WOMENS HEALTH
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Menopause can be treated in a multitude of ways but while hormone treatments are popular, not every woman wants to take a prescription medication. Instead, some women will look to alternative treatments to improve women's health. One such treatment is acupuncture, which can help many different health issues, including menopause. If you are looking for a natural treatment that has a low propensity for side-effects, then acupuncture might be worth consideration.
Acupuncture has long been known for its pain-relieving characteristics. It can, however, also treat hormonal problems at virtually every stage in a woman's life. For women who are experiencing the menopausal transition, this is welcome news. Not only can acupuncture handle their menstrual problems and pregnancy challenges during their younger years, but it can later provide relief from menopause symptoms. While the research around acupuncture is not conclusive and is still somewhat controversial in terms of the effectiveness of acupuncture, many people and professionals in medicine support the use of acupuncture.
Some women find an improved sense of well-being after an acupuncture treatment. Others feel quite sleepy and find that acupuncture helps to ease their insomnia that has been occurring as part of their menopause symptoms. Still other women notice that their hot flushes are improved. Although the idea of needles can be intimidating, most women will find the treatment to be relaxing rather than painful or distressing.
Acupuncture has long been known for its pain-relieving characteristics. It can, however, also treat hormonal problems at virtually every stage in a woman's life. For women who are experiencing the menopausal transition, this is welcome news. Not only can acupuncture handle their menstrual problems and pregnancy challenges during their younger years, but it can later provide relief from menopause symptoms. While the research around acupuncture is not conclusive and is still somewhat controversial in terms of the effectiveness of acupuncture, many people and professionals in medicine support the use of acupuncture.
Some women find an improved sense of well-being after an acupuncture treatment. Others feel quite sleepy and find that acupuncture helps to ease their insomnia that has been occurring as part of their menopause symptoms. Still other women notice that their hot flushes are improved. Although the idea of needles can be intimidating, most women will find the treatment to be relaxing rather than painful or distressing.
Ease the symptoms of menopause
Acupuncture for menopause is helpful for:
• hot flushes
• night sweats
• irritability
• insomnia
• vaginal dryness
• mood swings
• depression
• headaches
• treating symptoms due to tamoxifen treatment
Menopause is a right of passage that can have a very strong impact on how a woman is feeling about herself and her life. We have a healthy respect for how important it is to move forward into this new phase of life with the strongest sense of self confidence possible. The symptoms and emotional swings at this time can be tremendously distracting and have an unhealthy over-ride in a woman's life. We strongly advocate the balancing power of acupuncture treatment at this special time.
• hot flushes
• night sweats
• irritability
• insomnia
• vaginal dryness
• mood swings
• depression
• headaches
• treating symptoms due to tamoxifen treatment
Menopause is a right of passage that can have a very strong impact on how a woman is feeling about herself and her life. We have a healthy respect for how important it is to move forward into this new phase of life with the strongest sense of self confidence possible. The symptoms and emotional swings at this time can be tremendously distracting and have an unhealthy over-ride in a woman's life. We strongly advocate the balancing power of acupuncture treatment at this special time.
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Although hormonal approaches are an important and beneficial treatment for some women, others do not like this common treatment that is dominant in Western medicine. HRT comes with a range of side-effects including an increased risk of stroke and certain cancers. Still, acupuncture has not been evaluated in the same stringent and detailed way that HRT has been assessed, which makes it difficult to compare the two treatments. At the same time, if you are quite sure that HRT is not right for you, whether those reasons are personal ones or related to risk factors explained by your doctor, then acupuncture does offer the potential for relief – with a low profile of side-effects on women's health, if any.
What Makes Acupuncture a Different Menopause Treatment for Women's Health?
As mentioned, acupuncture is based on the Chinese model of medicine and is quite different from Western medicine. Rather than approaching menopause as a disease that needs to be 'fixed,' acupuncture in China focuses on regulating the body and restoring balance. In China, the premise is that by doing so, menopause symptoms can gradually be eased and healed.
Menopause & Weight Gain
Alongside hot flushes, mood swings and forgetfulness (just to name a few symptoms), it is more than likely that the hormonal changes of menopause has brought with it an increase in your weight and body shape.
With your waist expanding, layers of fat being stored around your midriff and clothes no longer fitting, have you got to the stage where you are in despair and wonder when it is all going to end?
If you have encountered any of the following menopause-related problems, then our Weight Loss Programme could be just what you are looking for:
- Your previous methods of losing weight are no longer effective
- Your weight seems un-related to what you eat or how much you exercise
- Your diet has not changed but your weight is increasing alongside a change in body shape
- You are finding the added weight around your midriff very uncomfortable
- In the past you could eat what you wanted, but this is no longer the case
- You have always had a weight problem that the menopause has compounded
You may have been told that your weight gain and change in body shape is “just a matter of your age” and that nothing really can be done about it. However, the Weight Loss Programme has shown to be very effective with this distressing problem. Clients are delighted time after time with their weight loss, improved health, and being able to wear clothes they thought they would never be able to get back into.
"I first saw Cheryl back in the spring of 2011. I was experiencing intense anxiety as a result of menopause. According to recent blood tests, my hormone levels had plummeted and I was as jumpy as a flea! Suddenly, my lifelong claustrophic tendencies overtook my daily life and my days (and nights!) seemed filled with "incidents" of claustrophia. I have never liked needles at any stage of life so trying acupuncture attests to the low point at which I had arrived!
In Cheryl I found a very professional, calm, and caring individual. She is a good listener and had useful, constructive suggestions, even beyond acupuncture. When it came to the needles, on the first day, Cheryl had to mop the sweat from the palms of my hands! But from that first session onwards (my initial course was 6 sessions) I began to feel some sort of balance return to my life. A sense of calm and a sense of control were restored. My sleep improved quite dramatically too. I am greatly indebted to Cheryl, and so is my family!"
Ann...Blackburn
In Cheryl I found a very professional, calm, and caring individual. She is a good listener and had useful, constructive suggestions, even beyond acupuncture. When it came to the needles, on the first day, Cheryl had to mop the sweat from the palms of my hands! But from that first session onwards (my initial course was 6 sessions) I began to feel some sort of balance return to my life. A sense of calm and a sense of control were restored. My sleep improved quite dramatically too. I am greatly indebted to Cheryl, and so is my family!"
Ann...Blackburn
Jean, age 52 presented to me with daily hot flushes, irritability and night sweats. She was experiencing approximately five hot flushes a day lasting between 30 seconds and a minute. At night her sleep was disturbed and she woke with night sweats that soaked the bed linen.
After only one acupuncture session, the hot flushes and night sweats had ceased and her sleep undisturbed. On her second session, she had not experienced night sweats or hot flushes for 13 days.
The Acupuncture Studio offers a range of natural fertility treatments.
Natural methods for infertile couples. Preparation for conception and pregnancy.
Natural fertility methods. Contraception advice. Fertility problem.
Holistic approach for family planning. Acupuncture for fertility and pregnancy.
Reflexology for fertility and pregnancy.
Nutritional therapy. Western Herbal Medicine. Fertility awareness.
Preconception care. Healthy babies. Better pregnancy.
Reproductive health treatments. Menopausal problems. Post natal care.
IVF/ICSI treatment and support. Same sex couples.
Menstrual problems. Postnatal depression. Male infertility.
Based Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
