Where We Start With Insomnia-Sleep

Insomnia Acupuncture

Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a natural way to enjoy longer-lasting sleep without drugs or annoying sleep aids?

As you know, waking up during the night can wreak havoc on your metabolism and energy levels...

And it can have a devastating effect on your mood and memory.

So, if you're not getting enough sleep and it's becoming a REAL problem in your day-to-day life, here's some exciting news...

Studies have shown that acupuncture can help with insomnia:

• Increase secretion of melatonin hormone that regulates sleep cycle.
• Promote the blood circulation in the cerebrum.
• Relax the lower sympathetic nerve system

From Chinese medicine perspective, the key pathologies for insomnia are

• Stomach pathology:according to classical text of Chinese medicine,” when stomach is in disharmony, the sleep can not be sound”
  
• Heart Yang fire is weak on top which can not descend to be rooted in kidney water. Therefore mind stays active on top

Make sure to reach out to Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist at Rainbow Medicine clinic in Balgowlah to get your beauty sleep.

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.