Acupuncture therapy is the traditional ancient Chinese medicinal practice where an acupuncturist uses a thin needle to heal the body of any imbalances in yin and yang to treat a variety of symptoms. It originated from the traditional Chinese medicinal theory that when yin is deficient or in excess of yang, or when yang is deficient or in excess of yin, imbalance occurs. For instance, if you have experienced dizziness due to excess yang in your liver originating from a deficiency of yin in your kidney, the best way to treat it is to supplement the yin in your kidney while suppressing the yang in your liver. In simpler terms, to heal the body is to restore yin and yang to an equilibrium throughout your body by supplementing energy where it’s deficient and suppressing energy where it’s in excess.
Over the millennia, acupuncture has proven to be one of the most effective ways of treating the body for a wide range of symptoms. These symptoms can include but are not limited to:
Here at Oncare Wellness Clinic, we offer some of the best acupuncture therapy and moxibustion therapy treatments around for the city of Richmond Hill and surrounding areas. All of our acupuncturists are fully registered and licensed under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 as well as the Traditional Chinese Medicine Act, 2006. They have undergone tremendous amounts of formal education and amassed extensive clinical experience to ensure that you are fully looked after for the symptoms you experience. In fact, all of our acupuncturists have studied acupuncture in school both in China and in Canada, and have practiced acupuncture therapy for over a decade in Ontario. We use only the best equipment available on the market to supplement the quality of our service. All of our single-use acupuncture needles are made from medical grade stainless steel. Additionally, our bedding is thoroughly washed after each patient to ensure the most sanitary acupuncture experience possible.
Here at our Richmond Hill acupuncture and massage clinic, not only do we provide exceptional acupuncture treatments for our patients, we also believe in exceptional patient care. When you first enter our doors, we would like you to describe to us the symptoms you have been experiencing to get a clearer picture. Unlike most other places where you may have to wait around until you are looked after by a doctor, we book appointments with all our patients ahead of time to minimize waiting time. If this is your first time visiting our clinic, we would like you to fill in a form outlining your symptoms and any pre-existing conditions we may not know about. This is to ensure that we do not give you the wrong expectations, as well as to avoid any approaches which may cause damage to your health. Only after we have determined that your condition can be remedied by acupuncture treatments will we proceed with a treatment plan and the appropriate treatments.
During your first treatment session, our acupuncturist will politely ask you to lie down on a padded examination table and make sure that you feel comfortable. He or she will then gently insert acupuncture needles into specific meridian points on your body to restore yin and yang equilibrium based on the symptoms you described earlier. We use as little pressure as necessary to avoid any discomfort while ensuring the treatment remains effective. Most patients experience no sensation of needles at all as the treatment continues for 15 to 60 minutes, depending on the severity of your symptoms and what treating them requires. After the needles have done their job, they are removed painlessly by the acupuncturist. The patient is then left alone to dress if needed, and is then followed up by the acupuncturist in his or her office to further discuss things to look out for and things to avoid in the future. With every one of our acupuncture sessions, we aim to help our patients with their ailments as much as possible, both during a treatment session and afterwards. Because we believe maintaining good health is a habit.
If you are interested in checking out our Richmond Hill acupuncture facility or speaking with one of our acupuncturists, feel free to give us a call.
At our clinic, we use dried mugwort to introduce yang energy into a person’s body to help them with their yang deficiencies. There are several different styles of moxibustion therapy, ranging from direct moxibustion to indirect moxibustion. For the safety and effectiveness of our treatments, we only conduct indirect moxibustion therapy in conjunction with our acupuncture treatments.
Learn more about moxibustion therapy →Cupping therapy has been a long-standing tradition in Traditional Chinese Medicine practice. It is non-invasive, relaxing, yet effective. At our clinic, we use tempered glass cups to conduct fire cupping therapy. Similar to our moxibustion therapy, we do not allow the flame to touch our patients. Instead, cupping therapy is conducted only when the cups have cooled significantly, to elicit their desired effects while avoiding any type of burn.
Learn more about cupping therapy →We specialize in Chinese Tui Na as well as modern massage therapy. We aim to open up meridian points throughout a person’s body using Chinese Tui Na while relaxing deep tissues with modern massage techniques. This allows improved circulation in the muscular tissues where the therapy is performed, relieving the patient of his or her muscle tension. It also allows for greater relaxation within these tissues.
Learn more about massage therapy →We currently only offer chiropractic therapy on a by-appointment basis at our Richmond Hill acupuncture and massage clinic. Chiropractic therapy aims to realign the spine of the patient to improve various bodily functions and posture.
Learn more about chiropractic therapy →
