Treatment modalities information at Magic Turtle Clinic

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• Acupuncture is offered as a stand alone treatment, or as part of a mixed modality treatment protocol. 
• For your first treatment, please allow 1.5 hours, and 1 hour for follow up treatments. 
• For mixed modality treatments please allow 1.5 hours for the first treatment and 1 hour for follow up treatments. 
• Please wear loose clothing that will assist in the comfortable application of your treatment. 
• A wholistic investigation of your presenting condition prior to treatment may involve questioning, observation and palpation, pulse and tongue diagnosis amongst other traditional techniques. 
• Acupuncture, practiced in Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a safe and effective holistic complementary medicine treatment method. 
• Acupuncture is believed to have originated in China over 2500 years ago.  
• Acupuncture provides a holistic approach to the treatment of disease and illness that can be linked to the imbalance of the body, mind and emotions. 
• Modern acupuncture is practiced by university qualified Chinese Medicine Practitioners that are Ahpra registered in Australia
• Acupuncture is a safe natural form of healing that can effectively treat a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Acupuncture involves the insertion  of fine needles in the skin at specific points (acupoints). This with the aim of enabling the body the ability to correct any imbalances. 
• The insertion of the needles is done to correct the flow of qi that is found running along what are considered to be lines of energy (meridians) and can treat a wide range of disorders.
• Disruptions of the flow of qi along the meridians is believed to be responsible for the diseases that manifests in the body.
• By helping an individual’s general wellbeing with acupuncture, this may assist in the prevention of disease and illness that could impact the individual.

• With many years body worker experience as a private practitioner and in Australia's award winning Day Spas , Jamieson provides Massage treatments that will address your presenting symptoms and leave you in a deep state of relaxation.

• Remedial Massage is offered as a One Hour treatment and often combined with deep relaxation techniques, designed to reset and relax your nervous system and relive presenting symptoms.

• Standard treatments are tailored to your needs, and may involve massage techniques including Swedish Relaxation, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Release, Craniosacral Therapy, and Medicinal Tuina techniques. 

• Treatments are dynamic and wholistic, addressing the muscular skeletal and nervous system from an Ancient Eastern Medicine understanding of the Channel Systems of the Body. 

• Health Fund rebates are available for these services.

• Chinese Herbal Medicine may be suggested to you as a supplement to support any of the treatments offered by Magic Turtle Clinic. 
• Chinese Herbal Medicine is a form of internal medicine that is mostly consumed as a tea, as pills or in capsules.
• Chinese Herbal Medicine is often prescribed as an adjunct therapy to support Acupuncture Treatment, or as a stand alone treatment to address symptomatic imbalances of the internal system. 

• Please allow One Hour for Craniosacral Therapy. 

• Cranio Sacral Therapy is a gentle approach to balancing the nervous system, allowing the Mind, Body, Spirit alignment, to resolve pathologies brought about by everyday lifestyle. 

• The treatment involves gentle holds around the Cranium and Sacral areas that encourage the Spinal fluid flow to nourish and adjust the nervous system. This bringing relief and alignment to many types of physical and Phycological imbalances.

• For stand alone Cupping please allow Half an Hour for treatment.
• Cupping is an important external therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 
• Cupping can produce a type of mechanical and warming stimulation to the skin. 
• Cupping is a physical therapy that treats problems by creating local congestion and hemostasis via the negative pressure of vacuum cups on acupuncture points or various parts of the body. 
• Cupping acts to balance body, supplement antipathogenic qi and remove pathogenic factors, dredge meridians, lubricate joints and eliminate toxic substances.  
• Various cupping techniques can be utilised including fire cupping , flash cupping, retaining cupping, cup ironing, moving cupping , cupping with acupuncture and after guasha or bloodletting.
• Cupping can utilised as a stand alone treatment, or applied as a combined modality treatment combined with Acupuncture, Remedial Massage or Guasha.

• Moxibustion may be used to support other treatments offered to enhance the effectiveness of the treatments, and may be prescribed as a self treatment for at home application. 
• Moxibustion is an ancient technique that can benefit the entire system. It involves burning a herb called Mugwort over acupuncture points and strategic parts of the body to provide relief to illness and pain pathologies. 

• Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light petechiae to boost the immune system and reduce inflammation. Sometimes referred to as “scraping”, “spooning” or “coining”.
• It is believed that gua sha releases unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sore, tired, stiff or injured muscle areas.  
• Gua sha helps to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas and therefore promotes metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing and recovery. 
• Researchers have shown that gua sha causes a dramatic increase in circulation in the soft tissues under the skin. 
• Red marks will appear on your skin after a session, but should completely go away within a few days. 
• The benefits of gua sha seem to occur after blood is brought to the surface of the body during treatment. As the body reabsorbs this blood, it breaks down hemoglobin triggering the production and release of HO-1, bilirubin, biliverdin, and carbon monoxide. These potent chemicals fight infection, inflammation, and a number of other diseases.

Gua sha practitioners can help people in their care with various conditions, including: 

• Pain and stiffness, 
• Fever and chill
• Neck and back pain
• Flu and bronchitis
• Asthma, coughing, and wheezing.