Holly Mitchell

I understand that your health is so much more than the absence of disease. Being healthy means that you are able to gracefully navigate all the changes and challenges that life sends your way.  It's also the way you want to feel physically and emotionally. For most Americans, wanting to feel great, have more energy, along with a positive attitude towards life and the feeling of joy is what they want to bring or regain back into their life. 

If you’re like many of my patients, you want to get to the root cause of your health problems– not just put a temporary bandage on them. Seeking an alternative or complement to conventional medicine could be just what you’re looking for.

 

 My mission is to keep you strong and adaptable so that you can handle all of life’s challenges and live your healthiest, happiest life.

 

As health care costs continue to rise, acupuncture has gained enormous popularity as an extremely cost effective approach. Thus, most private insurance, automobile accident insurance and workmen’s compensation elect to cover acupuncture benefits.

Over 15 million people in the United States and 1 billion people worldwide chose acupuncture for their health care needs. A recent federal study indicated that approximately one-third of all Americans will pay for “alternative therapies” such as acupuncture each year.

 

Many Hospitals, Clinics and Physicians are presently incorporating acupuncture into their practices. After a meta-analysis of published acupuncture studies found in an interesting article, titled Acupuncture For Pain in the Journal, American Family Physician (Sept. 2009), the Author concludes that acupuncture is beneficial for many pain related conditions.Empirical and scientific evidence exists to support the benefits of acupuncture, manual therapies and several medicinal plants for chronic or mild conditions. For instance, the effectiveness of acupuncture, a popular treatment for relieving pain, has been demonstrated both through numerous clinical trials and laboratory experiments. As a result, 90% of pain clinics in the United Kingdom and 70% in Germany include acupuncture as a form of treatment. Equally, some medicinal plants have shown efficacy for life-threatening conditions; medicine combinations containing the Chinese herb Artemisia annua are now considered amongst the most effective remedies against malaria.

Acupuncture treats a wide variety of disorders. According to the World Health Organization (WHO)  The following are diseases, symptoms or conditions  for which acupuncture has been proved—through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment:

 

• Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

• Biliary colic

• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following

• stroke)

• Dysentery, acute bacillary

• Dysmenorrhoea, primary

• Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and

• gastrospasm)

• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

• Headache

• Hypertension, essential

• Hypotension, primary

• Induction of labor

• Knee pain

• Leukopenia

• Low back pain

• Malposition of fetus, correction of

• Morning sickness

• Nausea and vomiting

• Neck pain

• Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

• Periarthritis of shoulder

• Postoperative pain

• Renal colic

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Sciatica

• Sprain

• Stroke

• Tennis elbow