Category — Acupuncture

Due to growth and demand, we must expand!

The new address will be:

560 Market St

Chanhassen MN 55317

We are right next to the Chanhassen movie theater.  The front side of our building is on 78th, we are facing south next to the Bikram Yoga studio.

We will have 3 acupuncture treatment rooms and about 800 sqft. (we will still have some treatment times available in Excelsior.)  Sandra and I are super excited and we will let everyone know when our doors will be open for business.

Not really, but it does add some more insight to why it is effective.  For acupuncture treatment and pain relief in Chanhassen be sure to give us a call to see if we can help.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/08/27/imaging-sheds-light-on-how-acupuncture-works.html

Here a cool article on how to alleviate tennis elbow.  I will say I have successfully treated many case of tennis elbow with acupuncture.  It is a fantastic therapy for that type of injury.  The problem is that many people resume the activities that originally caused the tendonitis or rsi without modifying or improving the movement.  Watch the video in the article and it is nothing more than balancing the motion or “undoing/unwinding” of the irritation.  Simple but brilliant.

Give acupuncture its due, it can get you over the hump within a few treatments.  After that it is up to you to do your own rehab.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/phys-ed-an-easy-fix-for-tennis-elbow/?em

It is a big year for the city of Chanhassen.  Opening a new high school, new sports teams, a fantastic theater department, heck Tiger Woods just left hazeltine.  A whole bunch of fun stuff going on in the community.  Sandra and I are super excited to be a part of the #2 community in the country (according to Money Magazine) and ready to grow our Chanhassen acupuncture clinic along with it.  We hope that we see lots of sports medicine type conditions, feel free to pop-in or give us a call to get you back into the game.  Go Storm!  Traditional Chinese Medicine is fantastic for sports-injuries sprains, strains, and pain…we can treat a lot of issues using herbs and acupuncture.

We treat injuries and can provide relief for soccer, cross-country, football, volleball type injuries.

“Trend #1: Deterioration of Medical Philosophy and Practice
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. The cold fact is that while Americans live more than 30 years longer than they did at the turn of the last century, public health measures such as better sanitation, immunizations, better food and water, and safer and less polluted workplaces account for 25 years of that increase; medical intervention, only five years. A recent study showed that in the 1990s, only about one in 16,000 Americans had his or her life saved or significantly extended by improvements in health-care technology. “Let’s Take the Stomachache Out of Health Care Reform” provides a real-world example of a different approach.”

The rest of the article is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/whats-wrong-with-american_b_261365.html

I really like the part that 5/6 of the increase in our life span is due to better sanitation and food supply.  People are now less likely to die of communicable diseases…but the double-edged sword of most deaths are due to chronic disease (most of which are preventable) but that is another story.  Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine have a lot of tools to deal with lifestyle adjustments and dietary issues that can better help cope with disease.  If you are looking for relief from headaches, MS, obesity, heart disease…we may have some ideas for you to implement that can improve your quality of life without getting acupuncture.

Like the old saying…patience is a virtue.

Have patience with the medicine.  What we do is very effective and we have many methods of acupuncture that we can use local, distal, scalp, auricular, e-stim and some combination of all five.  So if you get a few treatments and we aren’t getting the results…we still have some options.  Be patient, this medicine has worked for billions of people over the last few thousand years.  And do not forget that we have herbals, dietary, cupping, gwa sha, liniments, and exercise.  We will always give you honest feedback and give you the most bang for the buck…but everyone responds differently to the many methods but we will tirelessly attempt to get it just right for you.

Fantastic article–our country is really about disease management and not health care.  No matter how wrong or inconclusive some treatments are…we still spend tens of billions on it.  But god-forbid you do some acupuncture…who knows it may help and how are they going to sell you a statin if we actually get you healthy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-health-care-reform-wi_b_248937.html

As we enter the dog days of summer–tempers flare, frustration mounts, and the humidity gets down right oppressive.

The most noticeable effect of acupuncture is the calming experience.   Almost all of our patients report a sense of improved well-being and peacefulness immediately after treatment.  That “acupuncture buzz” can last for many days– improving sleep, decreasing anxiety, and alleviating stress!

Make an appointment, stop-by and say hi, or comeback for a little wellness treatment.  Everyone can use a little down time, and acupuncture might just be the ticket to get you thru these hot, sticky days of August.

Also, Mason McClellan LAc., is now gladly accepting patients having just jumped thru all the hoops necessary to get his license.  So there are now two of us here to help you or your friends/family with their health needs.

In Wellness,
Sandra

Mason McClellan, LAc has finally received his license and insurance and is now gladly accepting patients.

I really want to focus my near-term practice on people that have been dealing with chronic headaches or migraines.  The best thing about acupuncture and treating migraines is that the results can be immediate.  Whether the pain goes away or the severity drops and they become less frequent…there is almost an immediate result.  In our medicine we also have the ability to treat headaches thru herbs and food therapy.  There are many treatment protocols in our toolbox…so if we are not getting the results we are looking for we have options…and they don’t involve pharmaceuticals.

Let us see what we can do and just make an appointment.

952.393.7143

They are now going to supply the local Hmong population the famous “black chicken soup.”  It is a time-tested method to help the mother recover from the birthing process.  So cool.  Acupuncture and herbs are becoming more mainstream by the day.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=819379&catid=14