Pregnancy Health Natural Remedies, Acupuncture and Massage
Pregnancy is supposed to be the most wonderful time of your life. It can also be one of the most uncomfortable – due not only to the morning sickness, heartburn or constipation you’re experiencing, but the lack of pregnancy health treatments and medications at your disposal. Well, here’s the good news pregnancy health natural remedies are our speciality.
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Pregnancy Health Natural Remedies, Acupuncture and Massage
Pregnancy is supposed to be the most wonderful time of your life. It can also be one of the most uncomfortable – due not only to the morning sickness, heartburn or constipation you’re experiencing, but the lack of pregnancy health treatments and medications at your disposal. Well, here’s the good news, at Austin Therapies pregnancy health natural remedies are our speciality at our pregnancy massage Brisbane south clinic.
Pregnancy massage, pregnancy acupuncture therapy and Chinese herbal medicine therapy (where appropriate) are drug-free natural remedies for a range of conditions from exhaustion and fatigue during pregnancy, to back pain during pregnancy. And it is more than okay to reach out for help.
Just because you’re not enjoying certain aspects of your pregnancy, or pregnancy at all, it does not mean you need to feel guilty or suffer in silence. Pain is debilitating and needs to be addressed. In fact, pregnancy massage provided by Austin Therapies pregnancy massage clinic, reflexology therapy and acupuncture therapy can help ease the pains of many “normal” conditions. ***Hyperemesis gravidarum, **back or pelvic pain during pregnancy; as well as the more serious ones such as pregnancy-induced **hypertension (with medication).
Pregnancy massage and pregnancy acupuncture therapy can even help your baby correct itself into something a little more comfortable for you both. It is even possible to use acupuncture for ***induction of labour if necessary. **Back or pelvic pain during pregnancy is extremely common.
Our treatments for **pregnancy back pain relief can be made part of your regular Pregnancy Care Program, to curb lower back pain and leg cramps as well as neck and upper back pain. And when it comes to your big day, your partner or support person can use the specific acupressure points the Austin Therapies acupuncture clinic therapist taught them in the weeks leading up to your labour. These acupressure points can ease your pain levels and increase your labour “efficiency”. Used to treat a variety of pre and post-partum conditions, massage, acupuncture therapy, reflexology therapy and natural remedies such as Chinese herbal medicine therapy can help ease a range of stressful, uncomfortable ailments, helping to replace baby stress with baby bliss. These conditions include
**Constipation
Musculoskeletal conditions, such as:
Rib pain
Symphysis pubis pain
Neck and upper back pain
Lower back pain and sciatica
***Carpel tunnel syndrome
Leg cramps
Fatigue and exhaustion
Anaemia
**Insomnia
**Anxiety and **depression
Pregnancy-induced **hypertension (with medication)
***Induction of Labour
***Post-natal depression
If you have any pregnancy health questions, contact us today at our acupuncture and pregnancy massage Brisbane clinic and talk with a qualified massage therapist about how our treatments can be used pre-birth, as well as post-birth to have you enjoying what really is such a special time.
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Under Australian National Law, claims of efficacy of treatment are required to be made with reference to research of a high standard.
Traditionally Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years, in many countries, world wide to assist with a wide range of conditions. However, not all have evidence of efficacy that meet Australian National Law requirements.
I have therefore grouped and colour coded the conditions treated into three different areas, as follows:
*STRONG EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EFFICACY OF ACUPUNCTURE
**MODERATE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EFFICACY OF ACUPUNCTURE
***WEAK POSITIVE / UNCLEAR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EFFICACY OF ACUPUNCTURE
Additional conditions may potentially benefit from using Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, however western scientific evidence may not yet exist for these.
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