A TCM consultation is required to ensure the correct treatment path is followed and to ensure the best results. In TCM the mind, body and spirit are not viewed as separate, but are understood as interconnected structures that coordinate the body functioning. The consultation will focus on every aspect of your health and lifestyle by explaining appropriate nutritional recommendations, introduction of effective supplements, lifestyle changes, sleep hygiene and recommending the appropriate course of treatment with integrated interventions of regenerative procedures.
Comprehensive Initial Consultation Plus First Treatment
Duration: 90 minutes
Components: After an initial consultation, treatment choice is performed according to your preference and the doctor’s suggestion
Acupuncture helps to relieve symptoms and signs of many health issues, or simply increase your sense of well-being and relaxation. The insertion of fine needles into strategic points of the body can help to resolve pain, improve sleep, digestive function, and sense of well-being depending on your treatment concern. Addressing the whole being, not just focusing on the symptoms Dr. Fabio will investigate and treat the root-cause in order to achieve an individual sustainable state of well-being. This treatment always begins with a consultation that covers a comprehensive health history, lifestyle, and current symptomatology, to identify and support your personal wellness goals. Dr. Fabio will formulate a tailored treatment plan that approaches your health holistically and integrate the treatment with all the other modalities offered. Treatment may include Guasha, moxibustion, Celluma, Tui Na, and cupping to enhance the benefits. and success.
TCM Treatments
Acupuncture
Duration: 60 minutes
Components: Insertion of fine needles into strategic points of the body.
After the initial consultation where Dr. Fabio will formulate a tailored treatment plan, subsequent acupuncture treatments will increasingly benefit your health and well-being in a cumulative way.
Auricular acupuncture
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: Application of needles, magnets, tiny seeds, or crystals, treating the outer ear. Points exist on the ear just like in the body acupuncture system. They can be detected either by a painlike sensitivity, or with equipment for differential electrical detection. Auricular acupuncture is useful for stress management, post-traumatic stress, pain management, internal organ balance, mental and emotional balance plus more.
Gua Sha
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: Use of a smooth-edged tool to gently target areas of your body.
Using gua sha promotes the flow of qi through the body, while helping to ensure a better blood supply and proper nerve conduction so everything moves through your body as it should. If you don’t have a smooth flow of blood and energy throughout the body, it can manifest as muscle knots, soreness, weakness, or pain. Acupuncture used along with gua sha helps promote movement of blood supply through the tissues in a healthy way that supports homeostasis.
Gua sha is used in specific location of the body, where there is inflammation or stagnant energy (qi) to help improve circulation and promote healing.
Gua sha has many benefits and can help relieve several health conditions. Gua sha is good for musculoskeletal problems, like tightness in the shoulders, legs and back. It can also help alleviate tension headaches, migraines, neck pain or swellings. Gua sha can even help with anxiety, fatigue, insomnia and perimenopausal symptoms when used with acupuncture.
Cupping
Duration: Fire cupping – 45 mins, Stationary Cupping – 30 min
Components: Application of cupping tools on strategic points and meridian pathways of the body.
Outcome: Originally used for lung conditions like bronchitis and pneumonia, now widely used for pain relief and musculoskeletal injuries, such as strains, sprains, back injuries, promote muscle relaxation, detox, immune system stimulation and to relieve inflammation. The practice of Cupping improves the blood flow through the tissues to promote healing within the body. It involves creating suction on the skin using a glass, ceramic, bamboo, or plastic cup. Negative pressure is created in the cup either by applying a flame to the cup to remove oxygen before placing it on the skin or by attaching a suction device to the cup after it is placed on the skin. The suction created encourages blood flow and this increased circulation promotes healing and reduce pain. Immediate benefits can be felt immediately after cupping.
Due to the vacuum action of the cups, marks may appear on the skin, this is beneficial and does not produce irritation. The mark typically clears within 3-7 days.
Moxibustion
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: TCM therapy that uses wormwood (Artemisia Chinensis) in forms of sticks or cones which are ignited and placed on or close to the skin, or used to heat acupuncture needles.
Outcome: It can be combined with traditional acupuncture to treat all kinds of conditions, such as nerve pain, tight muscles, fertility and boost immunity Recent research has found that the burning point of this worm- wood actually creates infrared energy that can be channeled by the practitioner through key points of the body and into the meridians
Moxibustion means ‘burning herb’ and is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy it is commonly used to enhance the effect of traditional acupuncture by warming, nourishing and moving qi while increasing circulation.
Qi Gong
Duration: 60 minutes
Components: literally means “life-energy cultivation”, is a system of synchronized body-posture with movement, breathing, and meditation. Qi Gong can be applied to so many different aspects of life.
used for the purpose of improving health with a curative and preventing action. Beneficial for developing co-ordination, balance, flexibility, and cardiovascular and neurological health, amongst other things.
Qi Gong knowledge and skills can be also applied for one’s own spiritual development, and its pursuit of internal power is applied in all forms of martial-arts training
Outcome: Promotes good mental, physical and spiritual health
Qi gong is an ancient Chinese healing practice which cultivates the energy and strength of nature into one’s body to promote better mental, physical, and spiritual health.
A gentle form of exercise with a strong therapeutic effect synchronizing breath with movement and stillness meditation to bring balance to the mind and body. Both group and private classes are available
Electro-Acupuncture
Duration: 60 minutes
Components: Electrodes of microcurrent applied to specific acupuncture points
Outcome: Returns optimal balance to the body
Electro acupuncture is a modern version of acupuncture, blending the usage of gentle current and fine needles to enhance the benefits of this traditional therapeutic treatment.
Acutonics
Duration: 60 minutes
Components: Sound and vibrational therapy using the Acutonics tool. This is a unique, energy-based, non-invasive approach rooted in Oriental medicine. Acutonics incorporates the use of precision-calibrated medical grade tuning forks, applied on or over specific acupuncture points, to access the body’s meridian and chakra energy systems. The sound waves of the forks vibrate and travel deeply into the body along energy pathways that have been proven to impact both the soma and the psyche. Their rich resonance and vibration connect with and supports the body’s natural frequencies, stimulates and balances, the body’s physical and subtle energy field, promotes wellness, deep inner harmony and a sense of well-being, harmonic attunement and homeostasis.
Outcome: Creates a profound sense of well-being
BioMat
The core of the Richway BioMat technology is a combination of far infrared rays, negative ion and the conductive properties of amethyst channels. These three powerful health stimulators are combined in a safe and natural way. The BioMat is a United States FDA approved medical device:
- Soothes and relaxes
- Supports the immune system
- Improves sleep (if associated with pain relief)
- Reduced inflammation (where applied)
- Increased tissue oxygen (due to increased circulation where applied)
- Provides such muscle relaxation that you may sleep better,
- Provides relief from minor muscle pain and minor spasms, sprains , strains, and joint pain associated with arthritis
- Reduces stress and fatigue
