Polaris Acupuncture & Chiropractic Center, LLC

Dr. Shauna Hindman

Consultation, Exam, EMI Testing and

One Acupuncture Treatment

Our goal is to enhance the natural, powerful healing ability within your body to restore proper function, provide superior pain relief, decrease stress, and improve overall vitality so life can be more enjoyable!

Are you looking for a caring doctor that treats your time and your health concerns as primary importance?  You are in the right place.  Dr. Hindman has based her office around the concierge health care model that gives you flexibility in care while keeping medical costs low.  Our office is unique because we offer powerful, holistic medical treatments in one location. This allows treatment of a very broad list of physical and emotional conditions for the entire family.

Acupuncture examination in our office involves a modern, computerized analysis for precise treatment which may be done with or without needles.

ACUPUNCTURE: WHAT IS IT?

Acupuncture is a ancient health science which is used to successfully treat both pain and dysfunction in the body by stimulating precise acupoints at various locations in the body.

HOW DOES ACUPUNCTURE WORK?

The classical Chinese explanation is that channels of energy run in regular patterns through the body and over its surface. These energy channels, called meridians, are like rivers flowing through the body to irrigate and nourish the tissues. An obstruction in the movement of these energy rivers is like a dam that backs up in others.

The meridians can be influenced by needling the acupuncture points; the acupuncture needles unblock the obstructions at the dams, and reestablish the regular flow through the meridians. Acupuncture treatments can therefore help the body's internal organs to correct imbalances in their digestion, absorption, and energy production activities, and in the circulation of their energy through the meridians.

The modern scientific explanation is that needling the acupuncture points stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals in the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. These chemicals will either change the experience of pain, or they will trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones which influence the body's own internal regulating system.

The improved energy and biochemical balance produced by acupuncture results in stimulating the body's natural healing abilities, and in promoting physical and emotional well-being.

Below is just a partial list of conditions that Acupuncture has been known to help.

• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD, ADHD)


• Addiction - including Smoking, Alcohol or Drug Abuse


• Allergies


• Bed Wetting


• Cold - Flu


• Colic


• Concentration


• Cystitis - Interstitial Cystitis


• Diabetes


• Ears - Earache, Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) with Vertigo (dizziness)


• Emotional Imbalances - some of which are Grief, Depression, Stress, Anger, Compulsive, Worry, Fear, Hysteria


• Energy - Low


• Eye Symptoms


• Facial Pain/Tics


• Fibromyalgia


• Fluid Retention


• Gastrointestinal Problems - General Digestive Problems, IBS, Poor Digestion, Gall Bladder Problems, Ulcers, Anorexia, Bulimia, Diarrhea/Constipation, Hemorrhoids


• Health Maintenance


• Insomnia


• Kidney - Kidney Function, Urinary Incontinence


• Pain in General and Pain involved with any of the following: Arthritis, Auto Immune Disorders, (Gout, Rheumatoid, Etc.), Back Pain (Neck, Mid Back and Low Back), Disc Related and Central Canal Stenosis, Leg Pain including Sciatica, Headaches - including Migraine, Joint Pain (TMJ, Hand, Wrist, Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, Ankle, Feet, Toe) - including Carpel Tunnel, Rotator Cuff Syndrome, Bursitis, Tendinitis


• Pregnancy - Morning Sickness


• Respiratory Problems - Asthma, Hay Fever, Sinus


• Sexual/Reproduction - Infertility, Impotence, Vaginal Discharge, Prostate Syndrome


• Skin Disorders - Psoriasis, Hives, General Inflammation


• Snoring


• Vomiting


• Weakness

DOES ACUPUNCTURE REALLY WORK?

Yes. In the past 2,000 years, more people have been successfully treated with acupuncture than with all other health modalities combined. Today acupuncture is practiced widely in Asia, the Soviet Union, and in Europe. It is now being used more and more in America by patients, physicians and in hospitals. Acupuncture treatments can be given at the same time other techniques are being used, such as conventional Western medicine, osteopathic or chiropractic adjustments, and homeopathic or naturopathic prescriptions.