London acupuncture and bodywork therapy by Duncan McGechie
Introduction
Many people use complimentary therapies to help deal with specific health problems, but also preventatively to assist them in finding balance in their lives and achieve an optimal state of health, with reduced stress. Traditional Acupuncture and Bodywork Therapy can help to key into the relationship between body and mind, facilitating a person's health and search for well being.
How is your body?
- Do you have a restriction or pain which limits your activity?
- Would you like to feel more aware of your body?
- Can you feel muscular tension after work?
- Do you get pains that come and go?
What are you looking for in life?
- Are you looking for change?
- Do you feel run down, tired or stressed?
- Would you like to feel more 'grounded' or 'centred'?
- Could you benefit from being more calm or alert?
If you suffer from discomfort and pain including:
- Injuries, chronic occupational syndromes (RSI, Carpal tunnel) or arthritis
- Digestive problems (inclucing IBS)
- Menstrual and gynaecological problems (period pain or irregular periods, infertility or menopausal symptoms)
- Headaches
- Low energy, lethargy or feeling tired (ME and chronic fatigue)
- Allergies, intolerances, low immunity and sinus problems
- Insomnia, anxiety and panic attacks or depression
Traditional Acupuncture and Bodywork Therapy may be able to help you.
Movement, Acupuncture and Bodywork
If applied in appropriate combination, these modalities can not only help deal with specific health problems; people can feel more grounded, clear and 'together' after treatment.
The release of restrictions, combined with flowing strengthening movement (e.g. Qigong Pilates Tai-Ji and Yoga) can help re-align, and improve body-use. This can lead to a more energized, in-touch, less stressed and fluid way of being in the world.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient oriental system of medicine which has been of great benefit to countless people over the centuries. If you have a health problem, an acupuncturist may be able to help you.
Very fine needles are inserted into the body at very specific points discovered empirically through the ages, (predominantly by the peoples of East Asia, most notably China and Japan) to effect healing in the body and mind.
It does this by affecting the flow of energy/ Qi in the body to bring about harmony so the person may become well. Other techniques may be employed like cupping which has been shown to draw fluid to the area and reduce inflammation.
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Bodywork
Massage is possibly the oldest form of medical treatment. It can help ease aches and pains, relax the muscles, relieve stress and can improve circulation and nutrition to the body tissues, harmonize the internal organs and calm the mind and spirit.
Sports massage therapy takes the principles of Swedish and remedial massage and focuses on rehabilitation and priming for physical activities. Familiarity with the kinds of problems active people get and how to approach them to maximise performance or aid recovery are key.
Tui Na massage is a Chinese system of bodywork which employs a wide range of manual techniques to restore the balance of Qi in the body in the treatment of physical symptoms, but also internal problems using the same theoretical basis as in acupuncture and qigong.
Myofascial Release treats muscular tension and distortions in the connective tissue by working on that tissue, the fascia. It can help to realign structural imbalances that may have taken hold over a long time through a persons posture, body use, injuries and as life takes its toll.
Muscle Energy Technique (MET) uses a carefully directed muscular contraction, which helps the muscle release and then lengthen by changing the way the nervous system perceives it.
Positional Release finds a position of ease by passively moving the painful or tight part. This allows the body to 'reset' tightness, relax, decrease pain and restore function and blood flow to a problem area. It stops a feedback pattern where pain causes more tightness, and tightness more pain.
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Duncan McGechie is a British Acupuncture Council member, qualified, registered and insured acupuncturist and bodywork practitioner and a member of the NHS Directory of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners.
I work in Holborn SW6 and Fulham WC1 in London, contact me? info(at)acupuncturebodywork.co.uk