Acupuncture and Bodywork therapy in London by Duncan McGechie

Many people use acupuncture and massage to help deal with specific health problems, and as preventative medicine, to assist them in changing their lives, finding balance or achieving an optimal state of health, reduced pain or stress, and positive outlook.

Traditional Acupuncture and Bodywork Therapy could help key into the relationship between your body and mind, facilitating a person's health and search for well being. This website advertises my therapy services and provides information to the public and other practitioners.

I use an approach which draws on the study of classical Chinese medicine, Japanese acupuncture theory and manual therapy as well as up to date knowledge and research from the fields of fascia research and biomechanics.

How is your body?

Can you get tension, aches and pains that restrict your activities?
Do you get ill more than you'd like?
Would you like to feel more in touch with your body?

What are you looking for in life?

Are you looking for change?
Would you like to feel more 'grounded' or 'centred'?
Could you benefit from being more calm or alert?

Traditional Acupuncture and Bodywork Therapy may be able to help you.

There are many conditions acupuncture can help treat or ameliorate, but for which research has not been done or evidence is difficult to generalise from. For example the UK's National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) now recommends acupuncture for chronic non specific low back pain.

Please feel free to call on 07891 244 645 or email info@acupuncturebodywork.co.uk if you have any questions.

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 specific acupuncture points along channels 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 Qi (vitality/ breath) in the body to bring about harmony so the person may become well. Other techniques may be employed like massage, cupping and moxibustion.

Do you want to know more about acupuncture and what it can treat ?

Bodywork

Massage the oldest form of medical treatment. It can help ease aches and pains, relax the muscles, relieve stress and improve circulation and nutrition to the body tissues, and calm the receiver.

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 and injuries 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 the fascia. It can help to realign structural imbalances that may have taken hold over a long time through a persons posture, body use and injuries 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 your 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.

Chinese Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine has been used to treat a wide variety of illnesses the world over throughout history, and forms the basis of many pharmaceutical drugs used today. The Chinese system has been established and related to medical theory from at least 200AD, probably earlier.

Prescriptions of a number of herbs are given for an identified 'pattern of disharmony' which and are precisely tailored the the patients individual needs. As such it can be used to treat and reduce symptoms of many disorders.

It is thought that this combining is important to the effectiveness of herbs as some combinations make the pharmacological componenets more potent, or reduce side effects.

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, Taiji and Yoga) can help re-balance muscular tensions, and improve your body-use. This can lead to a more energized, in-touch, fluid and less stressed way of being in the world.

Movement and exercise play an important part in rehabilitating many painful conditions.

Acupuncture research in the news

New research finds possible mechanism of acupuncture's pain relieving anti-inflammatory effects (Nature) Report on research (Guardian)

Research finds acupuncture effective for period pain. (BBC)

National institute for clinical excellence endorses acupuncture for back pain (Nursing times)

NICE recommends acupuncture for back pain (Times)

Acupuncture shown to be better for back pain than conventional treatment (BBC)

Acupuncture boosts IVF success (BBC)

Scientists prove acupuncture works (BBC)

New electric theory of how acupuncture works (BBC)

Acupuncture treated my migraines (BBC)

Acupuncture effective for back pain (BBC)

Acupuncture shown to be more than a placebo (BBC)

Duncan McGechie BA BSc MSc MBAcC MRCHM is a British Acupuncture Council and Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine member, fully qualified, registered and insured acupuncturist, Chinese Herbal medicine and bodywork practitioner and a member of the NHS Directory of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners.

Available at locations in Holborn WC1, Fulham SW6, and London Bridge SE1 in London, contact me

Email: info@acupuncturebodywork.co.uk or telephone 07891 244 645