by urban-acupuncture | Dec 14, 2020 | Acupuncture, Massage
Virtual Acupressure Treatment
Balance is at the heart of your health and wellness. If your vital life energy, or qi, flows naturally and freely along your body’s meridians, your body is in balance and better able to resist illness and heal itself. When your qi becomes blocked, and doesn’t flow freely through the meridians, your body is out of balance, more susceptible to illness, and less capable of self-healing from disease and injury.
The goal of acupuncture and acupressure is to restore the flow of qi through the meridians and bring the body back into balance by stimulating specific points along the meridians. Acupressure utilizes very fine, sterile needles to stimulate those points. However, they can also be stimulated by pressure. This technique is called acupressure.
If you feel out of balance and in need of relaxation, but are either unable to visit our office or feel uncomfortable receiving in-office treatments during this time, self-applied acupressure can help!
Urban Acupuncture Center is now offering Telehealth for Acupressure. Using our safe and easy online portal, doxy.me, you can speak directly with a licensed acupuncturist who will guide you through a comfortable and effective acupressure self-massage routine designed to address your specific and unique health concerns.
Does Acupressure Self-Massage Really Work?
Yes, self-massage at specific acupressure points along the body’s meridians really does work to relax the muscles and bring the body back into balance!
During your telehealth consultation, our specialists will identify the correct acupressure points to massage and teach you the basic principles of acupuncture. Some tips to remember include:
- Be sure you are comfortable and relaxed before beginning self-massage. Closing your eyes and breathing slowly and deeply can help the effectiveness of the massage.
- Identify the specific acupressure point or points to massage, then use firm, deep pressure to stimulate that point.
- Stimulate that point for several minutes at a time by firmly moving your finger in a rotating or up-and-down movement across the acupressure point.
Your acupuncturist may also teach you specific breathing techniques and calming exercises to augment the effectiveness of the self-massage.
Acupressure is safe and can be repeated as often as you want throughout the day, as long as it is comfortable and does not cause pain. If you would benefit from acupressure in a hard-to-reach spot, a family member or close friend can perform the massage on you as well.
What to Expect from your Telehealth Consultation
Taking advantage of our Telehealth for Acupressure service is simple and easy.
The first step is to make an appointment for your consultation with one of our licensed specialists.
To utilize our telehealth platform—doxy.me—you will need a tablet, phone, computer, or other electronic device with an internet connection, camera, and microphone.
To check in before your appointment, simply follow these easy steps:
- Start your device and test out the microphone and camera and microphone to be sure they are working correctly.
- Enter the Urban Acupuncture Center doxy.me web address into your internet browser.
- When asked “Would you like to share camera and microphone with doxy.me?”, click “Allow”.
- Type your name where required and click “Check In”.
- Once your telehealth visit starts, you will be able to see and hear your practitioner quite normally.
During your telehealth acupressure consultation, your acupuncturist will ask questions about your overall health and specific concerns. After working with you to develop a customized acupressure plan, your acupuncturist will demonstrate and guide you through the proper acupressure techniques.
You should feel comfortable and safe discussing your health and concerns with your acupuncturists. And you should feel free to ask questions yourself! Acupressure self-massage will only work if you fully understand the techniques to use, so if you are unsure, ask! The more questions you ask, the more you will be able to ensure that you achieve your acupressure goals.
Contact Urban Acupuncture Center in Columbus, OH 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 | Dec 1, 2020 | Acupuncture Columbus
Herbal Medicine Treatments
You’ve probably heard people talking about taking herbs to help aspects of their health: ginko to boost memory, flaxseed to prevent high cholesterol, or Echinacea to prevent colds, for example. And you may have asked yourself: Do these herbal remedies really work?
On the one hand, it’s true that certain herbs can be highly effective in addressing certain ailments. On the other hand, it’s usually not as simple as picking up an “herbal supplement” from your local drug store.
Herbal medicine is an integral and highly complex element of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to prevent and treat a wide range of different conditions and ailments. And to be truly effective, it requires a prescription developed just for you by a licensed and experienced herbalist.
What is Chinese Herbal Medicine?
Like acupuncture, herbal medicine is premised on the belief that a body that is out of balance is more susceptible to pathogens and injury, and cannot self-heal effectively. Your unique herbal medicine formulation is designed to help bring your body back into balance and boost its ability to fight pathogens and heal itself from illness and injury.
The key to the effectiveness of herbal medicine lies in the properties of each herb and how they interact synergistically within a unique formula to address your specific imbalances. Most formulations contain four or more distinct plant-based ingredients, including leaves, flowers, bark, roots, and seeds. Your specific herbal medicine formula may be in the form of tea, powder, pills, tinctures, syrups, or topical ointment.
When is Herbal Medicine Appropriate?
By helping to re-establish your body’s natural balance—or homeostasis—Chinese Herbal Medicine can be highly effective in helping the body cope with:
- Fatigue and sleep issues
- Cold and flu symptoms
- Breathing
- Digestion
- Autoimmune disorders
- Pain management
- Mental and emotional health, including stress, anxiety, and depression
- Menstrual concerns
- Morning sickness
- Menopausal concerns
- Male and female fertility issues
- Assisting in recovery from side effects relating to cancer treatments
- Assisting in rehabilitation from chronic disease
Chinese herbal medicine is not a substitute for conventional diagnosis, treatment, or medications. However, Chinese herbal medicine can complement more traditional treatment options. Before beginning an herbal remedy, be sure to consult your medical provider.
How Can I Get a Prescription for an Herbal Remedy?
Herbal formulations must be prescribed by a Board certified herbalist who has extensive training in Chinese herbal medicine. At Urban Acupuncture Center, your initial consultation with our herbalist can be in-person or through our safe and secure online telehealth system.
During your consultation, which should last about an hour, your herbalist will discuss your general health, medical history, and lifestyle patterns, as well as your specific medical concerns and symptoms you are experiencing. If in-person, they may also perform several diagnostic measurements, such as pulse and heartrate.
Based on this initial assessment, our herbalist will prescribe a formula for the treatment of your specific health concerns. Through our convenient email system, you can purchase your prescription from our safe and reputable suppliers to be shipped directly to your home. Regular follow-up appointments with the herbalist will review the efficacy of the treatment and make adjustments as necessary.
Contact Urban Acupuncture Center in Columbus, OH 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 | Nov 13, 2020 | Acupuncture Columbus
What is a Health and Wellness Coach?
When we identify a problem in our lives, our first instinct is to seek help from a specialist, someone who can help us solve that particular problem. When we are sick, we see a doctor. When we are feeling depressed or stressed, we see a therapist. When we are feeling unhealthy, we see a fitness coach or a nutritionist.
This approach—while often effective at certain times—fails to take into account the fact that we—as human beings—are not composed of distinct, separable bits that can be treated in isolation from each other. Instead, we are a complex, interconnected system. A problem in one part of that system will, inevitably, impact the whole system.
A health and wellness coach approaches health and lifestyle problems from a comprehensive, holistic perspective. By helping you understand the root causes undermining your overall health and well-being, a health and wellbeing coach can then help you create sustainable strategies to take charge of your health and develop healthy lifestyle habits.
Working with a health and lifestyle coach should be collaborative, motivating, and empowering.
- Collaborative: Because your wellness is totally unique to you, your health and wellness coach should spend a lot of time asking questions and listening to your responses. They should work closely with you to identify your unique concerns and help you develop a customized, actionable plan to improve your health and lifestyle habits.
- Motivating: Big, dramatic change—while sometimes necessary to improve your health and wellness—can feel overwhelming and unachievable. A health and wellness coach can help you stay motivated to make the necessary changes by breaking longer-term goals down into small, achievable steps.
- Empowering: You have the power to advocate for yourself and take the steps you need to bring your mind, body, and spirit back into balance and harmony. A health and wellness coach should facilitate and promote your ability to spark change, while helping you identify self-limiting behaviors that may have been undermining your health in the past.
What Kinds of Services Does a Health and Wellness Coach Offer?
A health and wellness coach seeks to offer guidance across the fields of traditional healthcare, behavioral psychology, and lifestyle management. While a health and wellness coach cannot diagnose or treat a specific physical or mental health disorder, he or she can help empower you to create a healthy, balanced lifestyle by affecting change in areas such as:
- Prioritizing self-care techniques
- Nutrition and weight loss
- Fitness and exercise
- General health
- Interpersonal relationships
- Maintaining a positive work/life balance
- Managing and coping with stress
- Setting and achieving short- and long-term goals
- Practicing positive thinking and mindfulness
Do I Need a Health and Wellness Coach?
If you are concerned about your health, wellness, or overall well-being but find yourself “stuck in a rut” and unable to effect lasting change, a health and wellness coach may be able to help.
A health and wellness coach may be able to help if you:
- Have been diagnosed with an acute or chronic medical condition that requires long-term lifestyle changes;
- Want to make a major lifestyle change to improve your long-term health and happiness, such as quitting smoking/vaping or losing weight; or,
- Find yourself overwhelmed by stress and anxiety but aren’t sure how to create a healthy lifestyle balance in response.
These are just a few of the most common reasons why many people have sought help from a health and wellness coach. The underlying reason, of course, is change. If you feel that you need to make a change in your life—whether to solve a problem or simply to improve your overall health and well-being, a health and wellness coach can help.
Contact Urban Acupuncture Center in Columbus, OH 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 | Nov 9, 2020 | Art
Kaleidoscope Revisted by David Stichweh now on display at the UAC Indianola location
Kaleidoscope Revisited
The gift of a kaleidoscope early in my life started me on a visual fascination with pattern and design. In a kaleidoscope objects are multiplied by mirrored reflections creating wonderful patterns and shapes. In the photographs in this exhibition a single subject is flipped and “mirrored” multiple times producing unexpected visual patterns and relationships. Although abstract at first appearance, closer examination of the photograph reveals the subject that is mirrored and reflected. This mirroring method allows me to rekindle a way of seeing and composing that was sparked by that early gift of a kaleidoscope.
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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.
by urban-acupuncture | Nov 1, 2020 | Acupuncturists
Telehealth for Herbal Medicine
Complex and powerful formulations of herbs and other natural substances have been used to treat acute illnesses and chronic conditions for thousands of years.
A body that is in balance has the amazing ability to fight off illness-causing invaders, cope with the negative impacts of stress, and even potentially self-heal. A body that is out of balance in some way may become more vulnerable to pathogens and unable to heal itself effectively.
With the help of a personalized formula, herbal medicine can help restore the body’s natural balance and therefore its ability to resist and heal from illness and injury. By identifying the specific imbalances at the root of organ system dysfunction or blockages, a Board certified herbalist can create a unique, carefully tailored formulation of natural herbs to correct the underlying imbalance.
The first step in diagnosing and treating an illness or medical concern with herbal medicine is a consultation with a Board certified herbalist. We understand, however, that many patients who may benefit from herbal medicine either cannot easily get to our office for a consultation, or may not feel comfortable with in-person office visits at this time.
For this reason, we have created a telehealth option for any patient interested in herbal medicine.
Your Telehealth Experience at Urban Acupuncture Center
Through a simple and easy-to-use online interface, you can now meet with our Board certified herbalist from the comfort of your own home.
The process is safe, convenient, and just as effective as a traditional, in-office visit.
Your personalized herbal medicine journey begins with a one-on-one consultation with our Board certified herbalist via the online platform, doxy.me.
During your first telehealth visit, you will discuss your specific health concerns and overall wellness with our herbalist. In the course of this extensive discussion, we will diagnose the pattern of disharmony at the root of your unique health concern. We will then prescribe the prepared or customized herbal formula most appropriate for you.
Follow-Up and Check-In sessions can also be online. During these appointments, we will determine the effectiveness of the treatment, renew prescriptions, and make adjustments to the herbal formula if necessary.
Telehealth for Herbal Medicine is simple and easy to use
All you need to get started with your telehealth visit is a computer, tablet, phone, or other device with a camera and a microphone. We use a simple and safe online platform called doxy.me. This platform is designed specifically to safeguard your privacy and comply with all HIPAA rules and regulations.
There’s no software to download for a telehealth visit. You don’t even need to create another online account. When it’s time for your appointment, simply use your device to check in from the comfort of your home.
The check in steps are as follows:
- Start your device and confirm that the camera and microphone are working correctly.
- Enter the correct doxy.me web address for Urban Acupuncture Center into your internet browser.
- Select “Allow” in the small dialogue box asking “Would you like to share camera and microphone with doxy.me?”
- Type your name and select the “Check In” button.
- Once your herbalist starts the telehealth visit, you will be able to see and hear each other just as if you were together in the office!
After your appointment, you will receive an email with a prescription for your unique herbal formula. This email will enable you to accept and purchase the formula. It will be shipped directly to your home!
Make Your Telehealth Appointment at Urban Acupuncture Center Today!
Herbal medicine can be a powerful method of correcting imbalances, preventing illness, and enabling the body’s natural self-healing capabilities. We work only with the most reputable herbal supply companies in compliance with cGMP standards.
As always, it is important that you communicate openly with both our Board certified herbalist and any other medical practitioners about all the medications you are taking. While we generally recommend taking herbal formulas two hours apart from other medications and supplements, it is important to understand how herbal supplements may interact with other medications you take.
Contact Urban Acupuncture Center in Columbus, OH 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.
