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.
Cupping is often advertised for soreness and fatigue, while the question of who should avoid it gets less attention. Suitability deserves just as much space in the conversation.
Articles about cupping often lead with headlines about easing sore muscles and tiredness. Those claims grab attention, but they can crowd out an equally important question: who should be cautious, or avoid cupping altogether? Understanding the cautions is part of the treatment discussion, not small print to skim past.
Before cupping is planned, tell Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, at the Lane Cove clinic about anything that might affect how your body responds. That includes:
With this information, Christine can explain whether cupping is suitable, how it might be adapted, or why another option may be preferable.
A sound plan spells out the reason cupping is on the table for your particular problem. The fact that many people use it for similar aches is not, on its own, a reason. Ask what the treatment is intended to address and how you will know whether it is worth continuing.
Choose one everyday activity to talk about at follow-up, such as carrying the washing basket, swinging a golf club or sleeping through the night without a stiff neck. Afterwards, consider that activity together with your comfort during the session and how the skin recovered. A visible mark is a single observation and does not settle whether to continue.
Whether to book again depends on why you started, how you responded and which other options are on offer. Putting suitability first does not make cupping less appealing; it simply means the decision is made with your health in full view.
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