Amy J. Huegerich

Acupressure may help but it might also irritate the condition. A sinus infection would be an excess condition and acupressure adds to the body while acupuncture reduces excess. Acupuncture can definitely help reduce sinus pain. Acupuncture is not your first stop for sinus infection. Please see a medical practitioner like a doctor or a physician assistant or nurse practitioner first to address the infection. If you require medication, that treatment is important to address along with receiving acupuncture to help you be more comfortable and improve reduction of the recurrence of sinus infections. Once you are under medical care to treat the sinus infection, acupuncture can definitely help you cope with the symptoms and reduce congestion, headache, and discomfort to improve your outcome.

Relief time varies depending on how long you've had the issue, what your pain level is, what caused the issue, and how often you receive treatment. For mild back pain, many people see relief quickly, whereas with severe back pain or pain that's been in place for months to years, you'd want to give it several weeks of 3 treatments per week to begin to achieve the pain relief you seek. Frequency is reduced as pain subsides, and many people find longer term relief, with perhaps some maintenance visits monthly after the back pain has subsided. Of course, if you have an injury, acupuncture can only temporarily reduce pain, and medical care is likely needed to address any damage or structural challenges. Acupuncture and medical care for back pain can be complementary and useful in achieving a better overall outcome.

Insomnia is a condition that acupuncture has addressed successfully for many patients.

Acupuncture is definitely a strong complementary therapy to your medical care for concussions. Acupuncture can help with concussion in several ways. Many patients find a reduction in headaches and improved cognitive functioning following the addition of regular acupuncture to their integrated care regimen. It's important to continue medical monitoring as well. Thanks for asking. Hope to see you for ongoing care to improve your outcome.

Acupuncture treats most knee pain very successfully. Acupuncture treatments are designed for the individual patient after personal evaluation of the patient and the condition. Needles can go near the problem or distal to the problem depending upon many factors that will be discussed at your appointment. Unfortunately, there isn't one answer about where needles are placed for knee pain since acupuncture treats the whole patient and we need to take into consideration the patient's constitution, if it was an injury or overuse or something else, and many other factors that can be discussed at your appointment. Fortunately, acupuncture has proven very effective in assisting with many painful knees. Thanks for asking!

Acupuncture is a strong complementary therapy to your medical care for concussion. Acupuncture can help with concussion in several ways. Many patients find a reduction in headaches and improved cognitive functioning following the the addition of regular acupuncture to their integrated care regimen. It's important to continue medical monitoring as well. Thanks for asking. Hope to see you for ongoing care to improve your outcome.

Acupressure can be useful to help reduce and cope with any pain in the body. Acupuncture is usually more effective and quicker at addressing body pain than acupressure.

Acupuncture has proven to be effective at reducing inflammation throughout the body including vascular inflammation (inflammation in veins including varicosities). Due to the nature of varicose veins, you'd want to be open to a series of treatments before deciding, and know that the problem that took years to develop may take months to address and to reduce your problem. The good news is there are few side effects and acupuncture is a safe way to approach this challenging issue.

Acupuncture can be used during pregnancy as often as it's required and as long as it is deemed safe by your primary care practitioner in your case. It's generally not recommended to start acupuncture during pregnancy if you weren't doing it prior to pregnancy since it moves a lot of qi and blood, and a pregnancy by definition contains energy that needs to stay in place and not move. Please set up an appointment to evaluate your specific situation.

Yes! Allergic rash is a commonly treated condition that we have success with greatly reducing. Prior to becoming an acupuncturist, I personally had success with acupuncture reducing allergy symptoms and allergic rash. In fact, I was getting treatments for headaches and noticed I had no symptoms of my regular spring allergies. I asked the acupuncturist and she confirmed that our treatments work to balance the entire body so it makes sense. My own patients have reported eczema disappearing after treatments, but they hadn't reported the eczema as an issue. What a great side effect if your rash reduces! Acupuncture can be very effective with this issue and I encourage you to set up an appointment sooner than later to get ahead of this situation and get some relief.

Acupuncture is safe and good at any time. Make sure you let your practitioner know if you are pregnant as there are some points to be avoided. Is there a specific reason you'd be seeking acupuncture?

Depending on the cause of the condition, acupuncture is usually of great benefit to the condition of shortness of breath. In fact, I have asthma and acupuncture has improved my life with regard to breathing immensely from before I received treatments.

Most of the time an acupuncturist is not treating a patient with an active case of covid as we all know that it is not wise to be in direct contact with others at this time. If you are talking about longhaul covid or after effects of recovery, yes, give acupuncture a try because it does help many people with cough reduction, phlegm reduction and breathing improvement.

Acupuncture can help with most hip pain. It may take several treatments to get relief and unless it's an acute condition without any underlying damage, continued treatments may be useful to maintain relief. Give it a try!