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.
Moxibustion is often described with traditional phrases about warmth and qi. This article shows how to translate that language into practical questions about your own session.
Read about moxibustion and you will soon meet phrases such as warming the channels, nourishing qi or moving stagnation. These come from traditional Chinese medicine theory, a framework that has shaped how practitioners reason about heat therapy for centuries. They can explain why moxa is being suggested, yet they do not tell you what will happen on the table or what you hope to notice afterwards in a stiff knee or aching lower back.
When you meet Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, at the Lane Cove clinic, it is reasonable to ask her to translate the traditional language into everyday terms. Useful questions include:
Appreciating the history of moxibustion and asking for clear limits are not in conflict. You can value the tradition while still wanting to know the alternatives and what would lead to stopping.
Before any moxa is lit, agree on a simple signal for when the warmth becomes too much. Ask what aftercare involves and how your skin should look later that day. Reduced sensation in the feet or hands, fragile or easily marked skin, and sensitivity to smoke from asthma or another breathing condition are all worth raising before you start.
Keep whatever is agreed specific to you. A routine from a video, or a neighbour's experience with heat therapy, describes someone else's body and circumstances rather than yours.
The aim of a good explanation is a decision you understand. If you leave knowing what was done, why it was suggested and how its usefulness will be judged, the traditional terms become interesting background rather than a puzzle you are expected to accept on faith.
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