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.
Huangfu Mi is remembered for compiling an influential classical acupuncture text. This article explores why that history is fascinating, and why it differs from modern evidence.
Many people who come in with a stiff neck or aching knees are curious about where acupuncture came from. Its written history includes scholars who gathered, ordered and passed on earlier knowledge. Among the most widely remembered is Huangfu Mi, a third-century writer associated with compiling the Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing, often translated as the Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion.
A compilation like this drew together material from even older sources and arranged it in a way later practitioners could study. Its influence on how acupuncture points and channels were described is part of the reason the tradition looks the way it does. For readers who enjoy history, it offers a window into how people centuries ago thought about the body, illness and care.
Historical importance tells us that a text shaped a tradition. It does not, by itself, show that a specific treatment will help a particular person today. Modern evidence for any individual claim is a separate matter and needs to be looked at on its own terms.
Keeping these ideas apart does not diminish either. You can admire a classic work and still want a clear, present-day explanation of what is being proposed for your shoulder or lower back.
If the cultural background interests you, raise it with Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, at the Lane Cove clinic. Christine is happy to discuss where ideas come from, while the assessment itself focuses on what care fits you now. Useful questions include:
Moving with less discomfort during a favourite activity, making sense of what is going on, or learning when further assessment is needed are all reasonable aims. A sense of history can sit comfortably alongside them, adding meaning to the visit without setting its direction.
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