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.
When aching joints follow a tick bite or a Lyme diagnosis, herbal claims can sound hopeful. Medical assessment and established care come first.
Joint aches, tiredness and muscle pain after a tick bite can be worrying, and online searches may lead you to herbal protocols that promise to address Lyme disease. Some traditional Chinese medicine writing does interpret Lyme disease through its own diagnostic language. That interpretation is a way of describing symptoms within a tradition. It does not show that a herbal treatment eradicates an infection.
A suspected infection needs proper medical investigation, which may include tests and treatment from your GP or a specialist. Traditional terminology should not be used in place of that process. If you are told that a herbal approach can stand in for medical care, treat that as a reason for caution.
If you have had a tick exposure, a diagnosis or ongoing symptoms, explain to Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, what medical assessments you have had and what treatment you have already received. List every medicine and supplement before any complementary care is added. Some herbs can interact with antibiotics or other prescribed medicines, so a complete picture is important.
Questions about supportive approaches for comfort, sleep or coping with aches can sit alongside established medical care, not replace it. Any plan should have clear goals, such as managing day-to-day discomfort, and should come with no promise that an unverified protocol will clear the infection. Keeping your doctor informed about complementary care helps everyone involved make safer decisions.
If a herbal product is suggested, keep the name, directions and review date with the original packaging. Tell Christine whenever your prescribed medicines change. If you are unsure whether a new symptom is connected to the herbs, seek advice rather than changing the dose yourself.
Bringing copies of relevant test results or letters from your doctor to the Freshwater clinic allows Christine to understand the medical picture clearly and to keep any suggestions firmly in a supportive role.
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