Our acupuncturist takes pride in supporting women's health and emotional well-being at Rainbow Medicine Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine in Northern Beaches Balgowlah clinic. The services cover infertility, pregnancy, painful menstruation, PCOS, endometriosis and menopause.
Menopause signifies the end of a woman's childbearing phase in life. The body goes through many significant changes in preparation for the next step of life with more freedom and personal empowerment.
During this transitional phase, the body experiences declining and fluctuating hormone levels. Symptoms include unpleasant hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, mood swings, loss of interest in activities, and fatigue. Menopause can impact the overall quality of life.
Rainbow Medicine Clinic in north-shore Balgowlah offers menopause acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine to help women balance their hormone levels and relieve their menopause symptoms.
The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
