Who can benefit from acupuncture treatments?

Acupuncture is beneficial to people of all ages and all stages of wellness or disease. At any stage of life, the body is able to move towards a state of greater balance and harmony, providing improved health and well-being. Acupuncture may be helpful whether you have a major health problem or are in good health and want to facilitate your own personal growth. Many people receive acupuncture treatments as a way to ensure that their body will continue to maintain good health and balance. It is absolutely not necessary to wait until you have a complaint before receiving acupuncture treatment. One of the great strengths of this medicine is its ability to ward off disease by resolving the effects of everyday stress that pulls the body gradually out of balance. A symptom generally arises as a last stage effect of a long term accumulation of stresses and imbalances in the body. In Oriental Medicine, elimination of the symptom is just one piece of the overall approach. The greater value is in using acupuncture to bring the body to optimal wellness and keeping it there.