Ren Acupuncture has been in business since 2017. The owner, Dr. Lijia Ren was trained at the University of Chinese Medicine in China for 5 years and has been practicing Acupuncture and Chinese medicine for the past 20 years. Her inspiration is to be able to share her knowledge and experience while helping people feel their best. She has a passion for helping patients that are going through cancer treatment with Chinese herb remedies and is enthusiastic about sharing facts about how Acupuncture and other modalities can help. Dr. Ren is also trained as a doctor of Physical Therapist and works with Home Care patients in Lehigh Valley for many years.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine practice that originated thousands of years ago. It is based on the premise that a blockage or disturbance in the flow of the body’s life energy, or “qi,” can cause health issues. An Acupuncturist will insert hair-thin needles to specific acupuncture points throughout the body to restore the flow of qi, balance the body’s energy, stimulate healing, and promote relaxation.
Acupuncture and Pain
Acupuncture has long been recognized as a extremely effective treatment for pain relief. Chinese medicine believes pain is caused by stagnation of qi and energy in certain part of body. By inserting needles to the key acupoints, qi and blood circulations will be greatly promoted in human body. With improved qi and blood circulations, pain will be reduced. Selections of used acupoints are extremely important as well as the depth of needle insertions, which directly effect pain reduction outcomes.
Acupuncture and Anxiety
Qi and blood stagnations also cause anxiety, which may greatly increase the chance to get high blood pressure and heart disease. Therefore, promoting qi and blood circulations in human body will help with reducing anxiety. Acupuncture along works very well to reduce anxiety. Many patients feel their energy starts circulating in their bodies again. However, since there are varies level of anxiety, some patients will be benefits from taking Chinese herb remedies along with acupuncture treatments due to the severity of anxiety. These Chinese herb remedies work differently comparing to anti-depressants with no side effects, since Chinese herb remedies are assisting with improving qi and blood circulation directly.
Acupuncture and General Health
Either acupuncture or Chinese remedies are the better way to maintain healthy on daily basis, along with exercises. It is very helpful to get acupuncture treatments on regular basis to boost immune system to prevent us from getting sick, especially during winter time. Chinese medicine highly recommends that maintaining healthy life style to not getting sick is much more important than treating diseases after getting sick. Maintaining healthy life style includes eating healthy food, exercise more often, reducing anxiety and stress level as well as getting acupuncture on regular basis. Patients with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure will greatly benefit from maintaining healthy life style particularly.
Cupping
The suction and negative pressure provided by cuppingcan loosen muscles, encourage blood flow, and sedate the nervous system (which makes it an excellent treatment for high blood pressure). Cupping is used to relieve back and neck pains, stiff muscles, anxiety, fatigue, migraines, rheumatism, and even cellulite.
