Acupuncture for Stress

Can acupuncture treat stress?

Yes!  Practitioners at our Brisbane acupuncture clinics can treat all types of Stress.  Clinical Research Trials have proven that approximately 95% of patients experienced significantly reduced stress levels after receiving Acupuncture. It is a highly effective, drug-free treatment for reducing stress, with fast results (1). 

Most of our patients report feeling less stressed and more relaxed in as little as one session.

Is stress harmful?

Yes! Too much stress has a negative impact on your brain’s and body’s systems.  It can affect your metabolic processes from digestion to reproduction, growth, and immunity (2) making you more vulnerable to disease.    This is why people who are suffering extremely high amounts of stress usually have an array of health conditions that follow. 

Not all stress is bad, small doses of minor stress can motivate you and allow you to work more efficiently.  However, frequent doses of major stress or a constant state of stress will take its toll on your body, mental clarity, and quality of life.

How does acupuncture help reduce stress levels?

Acupuncture helps to regulate hormone levels and restore a balance to the body’s energy by:

• Increasing endorphin releases to make you feel happy, think clearly and feel less stressed (3).
• Reducing excessive stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline (4).
• Increasing your white blood cell count, thereby boosting your immune system function (5).
• Increasing your cellular growth and repair (6).
• Reducing internal inflammation to tissues and organs (7).
• Helping you sleep better by increasing your night time release of melatonin, the hormone required to enter a deep sleep cycle (8).

When should I see an acupuncturist?

There are many signs that your body is not coping with stress, which you can find on this page.  If you have one or more of these symptoms, it’s a good time to seek help from one of our acupuncturists.

Stress reduction is a big part of what we do at TLC Acupuncture Brisbane.  All our acupuncturists have advanced training and extensive experience in this field.  

For more information about our practitioners and there individual areas of special interest please see the Our Healthcare Professionals page.

Clinical research trials for acupuncture as an effective treatment for stress

There are plenty of clinical research trials which support the use of acupuncture as an effective treatment for stress and stress-related illnesses: 

1 The effective initial stress screening and monitoring of successful acupuncture intervention

using the new European Cardio Stress Imaging Technology, conducted in August 2013 by J Dyczynski MD in Western Australia.

2 https://www.mind-training.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2016_studie-Conc_McEwen-2016-Annals_of_the_New_York_Academy_of_Sciences.pdf

3) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8569823_Acupuncture_and_endorphins

4) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cleria_Maria_Bittar2/publication/319186420_Annals_of_Yoga_and_Physical_Therapy/links/599a18daa6fdcc261586b19b/Annals-of-Yoga-and-Physical-Therapy.pdf

5 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2007/276565/abs/

6  https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2005/601306/abs/

7 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-0971-7_11

8 https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/jnp.16.1.19

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