by urban-acupuncture | Jun 11, 2018 | Acupuncture Columbus
Jake Holler is a multidisciplinary artist from Columbus, Ohio. His practices interweave oral histories, duration of time, screen printing, graphic design, existentialism, history, social justice, performance and film. He received his BFA in 2012 from Columbus College of Art and Design with a focus in art history and traditional oil painting techniques. As a part time job, Jake works as an Art Handler, but after hours he can be found nesting in his studio space at Corrugate Collective, located on 5th Ave.
Jake is invested in artist-driven arts spaces. In 2014, he and close friends founded MINT Collective. Mint Collective shut its doors in 2017, but it still exists as a mobile arts collective which works collaboratively with similar-minded spaces to disrupt conventional normatively through arts discourse. He moved to Corrugate Contemporary in 2017, using his skills as an art handler to improve the gallery, and program art shows.
Jake’s paintings can be seen at the upscale boutiques, Kiln, and The Sunroom. His newest work, Blue Chair: Furniture paintings for furnished houses has been on display at Kiln since early April. When he has free time, it goes to skateboarding, which he has been doing since the 7th grade, and going on long walks around Wayne County with his best bud, Gertrude, his wrinkly old Boston Terrier.
In 2016 and 2017 he was awarded resource grants through GCAC for his project, PZPS (Public Zoning Public Space), and Blue Chair: furniture paintings for furnished houses.
by urban-acupuncture | Jun 6, 2018 | Acupuncture
Anxiety and depression treatments
With the fast-paced lifestyle habits of the day, people often ignore their health to survive the rat race. As the years go by, the effects of these unhealthy habits accumulate and they end up falling prey to stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Popping pills – anti-depressants, anxiety medication, sleeping pills and the like – was once seen as the quick fix solution for this malady.
Treating the symptoms doesn’t eliminate the disease. It only suppresses the illness for a while till a time where it can resurface. In addition, the chemicals pumped into the body often have serious side effects. Once people started realizing this fact, they started looking for remedies. That was how they came across acupuncture.
Acupuncture and how it works
The art of acupuncture is an ancient Asian medical practice that originated in China centuries ago. Nurtured and perfected over the years, it is now of the most effective ways to cure the mind and body alike through holistic self-healing.
How is it done? Fine needles, as thin as hair strands, are pierced into certain pressure points, called acupoints, on the skin. According to the traditional Chinese medical practices, these points are located on the meridians along which Qi, or life force circulates in the body. Ailments, both mental and physical, are caused when the delicate balance of this energy is disturbed.
By placing the needles at the correct locations any obstructions or imbalances in this can be remedies and mental and emotional health can be restored. Though it is hard to translate this process into Western medical terms, Qi may just be a metaphor for the chemical or metabolic functions of the body. Whatever that be, acupuncture taps into the body’s own immune, hormone and neurological mechanisms, and promotes well being by helping the body heal itself.
Each acupuncture session lasts for ten to thirty minutes and a number of such sittings may be necessary for complete recovery. Patients can gather further information about the process by visiting our website http://acupunctureofcolumbus.com. Consulting the experts at our Columbus, OH clinic will help patients gain a better understanding regarding how acupuncture can help them recover from anxiety or depression.
The benefits of acupuncture
Several researchers have studied the efficacy of acupuncture in treating anxiety. As expected, patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder were found to show remarkable improvement with this treatment. In fact, in some cases, patients who were not responding even to therapy or anxiety medication reported a considerable reduction in their anxiety levels after undergoing a course of acupuncture. They had taken only ten such treatments, each session being thirty minutes long, over a span of three months.
Acupuncture addresses the root cause of the problem rather than just the symptoms. It has no side effects, and under a certified and expert acupuncturist, it is a risk-free and pain-free experience. Unlike several other anxiety and depression treatments, acupuncture delivers results that justify the investment. In addition, it offers a safe alternative to patients who had till then had no option but to seek refuge in chemicals, some of which are even hazardous to their wellbeing in the long run.
Contact Us For More Information
For more information about how acupuncture, massage therapy and other alternative healing treatments can help you, please contact the Urban Acupuncture Center Board Certified Licensed Acupuncturist’s team at Indianola Ave, Clintonville (614) 725-2488 | Main St, Westerville (614) 426-4406 or click here. Taking new patients in and around greater Columbus, Ohio.
by urban-acupuncture | Jun 1, 2018 | Acupuncture
Treatment for Tension Headaches
Today, stress is almost an integral part of our lives. But do you suffer from intermittent or frequent headaches when stressed out? Does it feel like your head is under pressure? You may be suffering from tension headaches. But worry not, acupuncture can help.
Tension headaches and why they occur
Tension headache is a relatively common phenomenon that plagues nearly three-quarters of the world’s population. Also called stress headache, myogenic headache or muscle contraction headache, it is characterized by the following traits:
- The pain is mild to moderate, without any accompanying feeling of nausea. Though not as debilitating as migraine headaches, it can be fairly unpleasant.
- The frequency of attacks may vary from patient to patient; it may be chronic, frequent episodic or come only once in a while.
- It is a bilateral pain, meaning it is present equally on both sides of the head. Patients report a feeling as if their head is pressed by a vice or as if a tight band is stretched around their head. Tenderness and tightness is felt in the area behind the eyes, forehead, temples, back of the head, neck and sometimes even in the shoulders.
- The dull aching sensation can last anywhere from half an hour to a few days at a time.
- It generally does not get worse while engaging in physical activity. But light or loud sounds may be difficult to tolerate.
Tension headache is primary, in the sense that it is a disorder in itself rather than the symptom of any underlying condition. Though conclusive reasons are yet to be established, it is said to be due to muscle tension or contraction in the neck and head area. As the name suggests, it is primarily precipitated by stress.
Acupuncture to treat tension headache
Not understanding the true nature of these pains, many people try to suppress tension headaches by taking over-the-counter or even prescribed pain-killers, muscle relaxants and even anti-depressants. But the indiscriminate ingestion of chemicals that may even have long-term side-effects, is not necessarily the right treatment approach. There is an alternative safer and more holistic cure available.
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese art of curing ailments by tapping into the body’s own resources and enabling self-healing. Using hair-thin needles to gently pierce specific points in the skin, acupuncture triggers the release of the body’s natural pain relief and calming hormones. It also empowers the brain and helps the body better deal with stress. Visit http://acupunctureofcolumbus.com and book a consultation with the best acupuncturists in the field at our Columbus, OH clinic to understand more about how this wonderful mechanism works.
In addition, the special pattern of placement of the acupuncture needles sends a signal to the brain through the nervous system to boost the flow of blood into the muscles suffering from spasms. The increased blood flow helps the head and neck muscles relax and this eases the pain. Acupuncture treats the cause rather than the symptoms, which is why it is a safe, side-effect free and effective cure from the painful grips of tension headaches.
For more information about how acupuncture and other treatments can help you, please contact the Urban Acupuncture Center Board Certified Licensed Acupuncturist’s team at Indianola Ave, Clintonville (614) 725-2488 | Main St, Westerville (614) 426-4406 or click here. Taking new patients in and around greater Columbus, Ohio.
