At the initial consultation you will be asked about your health condition, lifestyle and diet to gain a whole picture of your wellbeing. This enables a customised treatment plan to be created with your agreement, which may include dietary advice. You will be treated using acupuncture needles, but other treatments such as massage, cupping (suction is created in specially designed cups placed on the skin), moxa (heat application), ear or electro-acupuncture will be used as necessary with your agreement. Treatment may take place over one day, a few days or several weeks or more. Your plan is tailored to suit your medical condition, and life circumstances, with agreed fees so that you have control of your own expectations and progress.

Acupuncture may be considered for a wide variety of conditions including:

• Acute and chronic pain control
• Anxiety, fright, panic
• Asthma
• Coughs and colds
• Depression
• Digestive disorders (e.g. nausea and vomiting, oesophageal spasm, hyperacidity, irritable bowel, abdominal bloating/flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea)
• Drug detoxification (alcohol; cigarettes etc)
• Hayfever
• Fatigue
• Gynaecological disorders
• Infertility
• Insomnia
• Muscle and skeletal problems such as aches and pains, spine syndromes, muscle spasms, weakness, tremors, tics, numbness, tingling, contractures, sprains and strains, fractures, arthritis, tendonitis, frozen shoulder, tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, bursitis etc.
• Period pain, pelvic pain.
• Headache (migraine and tension-type), vertigo (Meniere disease), tinnitus
• Neuralgias (trigeminal, herpes zoster, others)
• Pregnancy problems: nausea, breech presentation etc.
• Skin problems (urticaria, pruritus, eczema, psoriasis)
• Sinusitis
• Urinary incontinence, retention (neurogenic, spastic, adverse drug effect)

This list is not exhaustive, and acupuncture can be considered for many other conditions.

According to Chinese Medicine the body maintains its healthy state through a dynamic balance between two opposing forces called yin and yang.  These forces are continually subject to influences such as emotional stress, viruses, trauma and so on, which can all lead to an imbalance of yin and yang.  This imbalance blocks the flow of qi or energy within channels or meridians in the body and leads to disease.  Acupuncture works by re-balancing this qi or energy.  Regulation of qi can affect a person’s spiritual, emotional, mental and physical balance.

Western medicine proposes that acupuncture regulates the nervous and immune systems, including altering brain chemistry to release pain-killing biochemicals, such as endorphins, and hormones to boost immune effectiveness. 

Fees

The Chatfield Medical Centre GP Practice Chatfield Road, Battersea London SW11 3UJ. Telephone: 07941 740018 to book an appointment.
Fee is £45 for a one-hour consultation and treatment or £40 if you are a patient of the practice.

The Crystal Palace Osteopathic Practice 10 Westow Street, Crystal Palace, London SE19 3AH. Telephone: 020 8771 9050 to book an appointment.
Fee is £45 for a one-hour consultation and treatment, then £45 for follow-up sessions lasting one hour.

The Dulwich Chiropractic Clinic 277 Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, London SE22 9JH. Telephone: 020 8693 1115 to book an appointment. Fees is £40 for one hour consultation and treatment, then £40 for follow-up sessions lasting one hour.

The Traditional Acupuncture Centre 75 Roupell Street, Waterloo SE1 8SS. Telephone: 020 7928 8333 to book an appointment.
Fee is £75 for a one and half hour consultation and treatment, and follow-ups are £55 for an hour. Further information about the clinic is available from www.acupuncturecentre.org.uk.

Areas covered include: East and West Dulwich, Dulwich Village, Forest Hill, Brockley, Herne Hill, Camberwell, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Anerley, South Norwood, Battersea, Earlsfield, Clapham, Fulham, Waterloo and Central London.

My Personal Guarantee to You

I base my practice on integrity.  This means I provide excellent quality, so if you are not happy for any reason after receiving a treatment, then you do not pay.  It is more important that you are 100% satisfied.