Comprehensive Health & Acupuncture Center

What We Do

At Classic Touch Acupuncture Center, your health is extremely important to us.  We listen to you and strive to provide the best service in acupuncture and alternative medicine.  Sometimes this can even include referring you to another healthcare provider, such as a chiropractor, medical doctor, or specialist if we feel this would be in your best interest.  Helping you regain your health is our #1 priority.

Do you have questions about what we do?

Please see the descriptions of our services below.

Acupuncture

The patient is treated by inserting very fine needles into the skin.  There are acupuncture meridians, similar to highways, where the energy navigates through the body.  These pathways have certain areas where the energy is more pronounced.  These are the acupuncture points.  Inserting needles into these acupuncture points causes therapeutic effects in the body. 

There are 12 regular, and 8 extraordinary, acupuncture meridians.  There are 361 regular acupuncture points in the body, about 40 extra points, and many other auricular acupuncture points located in the ears.  In acupuncture, these points are needled to produce a healing effect in the body. 

Auricular Acupuncture

The ear is, energetically, a holographic representation of the body.  Certain points on the ear represent different areas of the body.  Needling these points has been shown to relieve pain and cause other therapeutic effects.  Interestingly, it has also been said that the practice of pirates wearing earrings was started because pirates in the South China Sea learned that there are many points in the earlobe that relate to vision, and that these might improve night vision while at sea.   In modern times, auricular acupuncture has been used for many things, including to relieve high blood pressure and to relieve the symptoms of drug addiction and withdrawal. 

Asian Bodywork Therapy

Asian Bodywork Therapy, called Tui Na in the Chinese language (Tui = Push, Na = Grasp), is an ancient method of massage that is thousands of years old.  Instead of using needles to move energy as in acupuncture, or herbs to affect the body's energy as in Chinese herbalism, Asian Bodywork Therapy uses the hands to move the body's energies in a unique system of massage movements.  One core difference between Asian Bodywork Therapy and western massage is that in Asian Bodywork Therapy, the patient is able to keep their clothing on and still receive a therapeutic effect from massage.  This method may be favored by those who are more conservative and do not wish to disrobe, but still would like to receive the benefits of massage therapy.  Techniques such as rolling, pushing, grasping, pressing, etc. are used to move the Qi, or vital life force energy, through the meridians.  It is especially effective for traumatic injuries and pain.  One saying that appears in the ancient Chinese texts goes like this: "Where there is stagnation, there is pain, but where there is free flow of Qi, there is no pain."  Asian Bodywork Therapy can restore the free flow of energy in the meridians and muscles, thereby eliminating pain.

Cupping

Cupping is  an ancient technique used all over the world.  Glass or bamboo bowls are placed on the surface of the body - the air in the glass is removed either by flame or by a suction vacuum.  The suction created will take up the skin underneath the glass bowl.  You may feel a tight or tingling sensation.  The cups are remarkably effective for pain, muscle tightness/stiffness, arthritis, bronchitis and asthma.  They "suck out" any stagnation or tension trapped in the muscles, improve the flow of fresh blood, oxygen and qi to the area, and help to remove toxins.

Gua Sha

Gua-Sha is a scraping technique used on the surface of the skin.  The acupuncturist uses a jade, stone, porcelain, metal or plastic wedge to gently scrape a selected area (depending on the health condition).  The scraping stimulates the flow of qi along the meridians which stimulates healing.  It is very effective for warding off fevers and colds/the flu when just in the beginning stages.  Gua-Sha is also remarkable for relieving muscle tension.

Dietary Recommendations

Dietary therapy, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, is much more complex than just recommending how much protein, carbs, and fats to consume in the daily diet and making sure the patient receives the proper amount of calories, and micro- and macronutrients. 

It goes one giant step beyond that, including the vast subject of the energetics of foods, and their effects upon the body.  Certain foods are good for certain conditions specifically.  All foods have certain energetic properties.  For instance, a person with hypothyroidism or simply a low body temperature or subjective cold feeling most of the time will likely have a low body temperature.  They will feel cold.  In Traditional Chinese Medicine, that person would be said to have "yang deficiency".  Yang is the dynamic, hot, and moving energy of the body, and yin is the still, quiet, cold, and liquid energy.  A person with "yang deficiency" may benefit from hot or warming foods, such as Cayenne pepper, Cinammon, or Ginger.  A person who is overly hot would be considered to have either a heat condition or yin deficiency.  That person may benefit from such cooling foods as watermelon or cucumber, which tonify yin and cool the body.   Adding these energetic properties to the dietary recommendations will greatly increase the therapeutic effect of dietary therapy. 

Chinese Herbs

Much like the dietary therapy listed above, Chinese herbs affect the energetic system of the body.  Combining certain herbs, or using certain herbs alone, can have a very powerful effect upon the body's energetic system which in turn stimulates healing. 

Athletic and other injuries

Chronic Pain

Acupuncture has been shown to be very effective in treating chronic pain, whether it is from arthritis, lower back ache, or whatever the cause.   As stated above, Classic Touch Acupuncture's Long Island office also uses a Far Infrared Heat Lamp to provide gentle heating action deep into the body's tissues, increasing circulation and improving the movement of Qi, or vital energy, to the injured tissues. We also use electric-stimulation acupuncture in our office and for house visits which often greatly enhance the efficacy of acupuncture.  Chronic injuries and pain often respond very favorably to acupuncture and can often be quickly and easily treated. 
 

Specialties

Internal Conditions

Sports Acupuncture (Orthopedic style)

Women's Health

Facial Rejuvenation

Cellulite Reduction

Breast Enhancement

Hand rejuvenation

Information Request Form

Select the items that apply, and then let us know how to contact you.

Send service literature
Send company literature
Have a salesperson contact me

[ Home ] [ Internal Conditions ] [ Sports Acupuncture ] [ Women's Health ] [ Cellulite ] [ Breast Enlarge ]

Send mail to info@classictouchacupuncture.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2004 Classic Touch Acupuncture