Phone: 609-751-3147
Location:
2681 Quaker-Bridge Road. Hamilton NJ 08619 Building B suite 3
569 Abbington Drive East Windsor NJ 08520 COMING SOON
Insurance Accepted:
- Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem
- United Healthcare
- Aetna
- Cigna
- *We Gladly Accept Personal Injury Auto Accident Insurance and Treatment is Often Covered!
Fei Yang is an acupuncture point which can provide quick, widespread relief. The name means “soaring upward” or “Fly and scatter”, is commonly used to treat leg and knee pain, low back aches and sciatica, strengthen your mind as well as your back.
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What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is an alternative medical practice and a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that has been used to prevent, diagnose and treat disease, as well as to improve general health and help the body to maintain homeostasis.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of very fine, sterile disposable needles into specific points on the body to alleviate the perception of pain. Acupuncture originated in China and it has been practiced in Asia for over 5,000 years. It is considered one of the oldest forms of medicine. It’s now being used in the United States and other Western countries to ease everything from back pain, to nerve pain, to headaches, muscle ache and irregular menstruation— and more.
Traditional Chinese medicine sees the human body as an organic whole, a complete system made up of physical structures, emotions, mind, and spirit. Everything in the body is connected. Physical symptoms are simply messages from the body that something is energetically off balance. Chinese medicine does not separate your body into parts, nor does it just treat one part of your body. In the TCM view, everything in the body is seen as woven together into a seamless whole; all parts have a relationship with one another.
Acupuncture was popularized in the States during the early 70’s after President Nixon opened relations with China. At the time, a New York Times reporter, James Reston, had an appendectomy in a Chinese hospital using acupuncture as a means to decrease his post-surgical pain.
How does Acupuncture work?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the general theory of acupuncture is to balance the two energies in the body, the yin and the yang. When these are balanced, the body is healthy condition. However, the flow of energy (the qi) can become blocked, which leads to pain or illness. Acupuncture is used to release the blockage and stimulate the body’s natural healing ability.
From a western scientific perspective, when a needle is inserted into specific acupuncture points, it can stimulate the nerve. The nerve actually sends signals through the nervous system to the brain, and the brain (in the anterior pituitary gland) secretes neurotransmitters such as beta-Endorphins, which is the body’s natural pain-killing chemicals. These chemicals will either change the experience of pain, or they will trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones which influence the body’s own internal regulating system.
Research published in the May 30, 2010 online edition of Nature Neuroscience demonstrated that the effects of acupuncture include influencing the activity of adenosine, an amino acid which becomes active in the skin after an injury to ease pain. This may explain in part why pain relief is often experienced as one of the benefits of acupuncture.
Open Hours
Hamilton Location:
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:30am- 5:30p
Saturday: 8:30am -11:00pm
Sunday: Closed
East Windsor Location:
Monday and Wednesday: 9:30 -5:30 pm
Friday: Closed
Fei Yang Acupuncture 