Acupuncture

Kiiko Style of Japanese Acupuncture

To achieve significant and successful results, AXIOM primarily uses the Kiiko Style of Japanese Acupuncture. It is a highly skilled and developed technique of palpation and treatment that relies on an immediate and noticeable change in the body to confirm proper treatment. Although there are five main styles of Japanese Acupuncture, Matsumoto has principally drawn upon the experience of Nagano, Kawaii, and Manaka to assemble a system that embraces Western medicine to advance the therapeutic benefits. This style is the only form of acupuncture taught at Harvard Medical School.

Trigger Point Dry Needling

This approach to acupuncture provides significant results by identifying constrictions or tight and tender points in the body that correspond to either physical or emotion conditions. Then, at the pace of the patient, these points are released. The work of doctors Travell & Simons on myofascial pain and dysfunction has significantly influenced this style. Through the use of acupuncture needles—which are safer than hypodermic needles and easier than trigger point massage—trigger points are released.

Chinese Medicine

Classical Chinese Medicine is the common denominator among East Asian Medicine. As a result of the revolution in China, Chinese Medicine became a standardized and prescription based medicine. Today, it is known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is taught in almost every acupuncture and oriental medical school in the United States. However, the roots of TCM are in the classical medical texts that are still relied upon as the jewel of Chinese Medicine. Rigorous study and examination of these texts provides insight into the fundamentals of the human condition.

Conditions Treated

There has been much speculation over the clinical results of Acupuncture. In an effort to better understand its method of action and outcome, countless studies have been published. As with many fields that are researched, at times there are conflicting results. Some of the discrepancy can be explained by the designs of the research, some by the techniques and style of those providing the acupuncture being studied and still some because it is difficult to study one or two acupuncture points out of context. Nevertheless, in an effort to accurately represent the scope of conditions that can be treated by acupuncture, below are diseases, symptoms and conditions cited from the study released in 2003 by the World Health Organization Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials.

We encourage you to call us at 646-633-4606 to discuss the clinical studies or other information regarding Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Additionally, there are a many more diseases, symptoms and conditions for which acupuncture has been useful. The list below covers most:

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved—through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow


Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)


Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:

Chloasma
Choroidopathy, central serous
Colour blindness
Deafness
Hypophrenia
Irritable colon syndrome
Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury
Pulmonary heart disease, chronic
Small airway obstruction


Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment:

Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Coma
Convulsions in infants
Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)
Diarrhoea in infants and young children
Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage
Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar