PTSD
PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Getting effective treatment after PTSD symptoms develop can be critical to reduce symptoms and improve daily function. At Stepping Stone Acupuncture & Wellness, we offer many services that can benefit patients suffering from PTSD. When it comes to holistic medicine, we find that the whole is often greater than the sum of the parts.
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle hands-on manual therapy technique. The craniosacral system extends from the head (cranium) to the sacrum and includes the central nervous system. A craniosacral therapist can feel and rebalance the rhythm of cerebrospinal fluid flow, which covers your bones, joints, and sutures. Craniosacral Therapy seeks to reset the nervous system, allowing your body to better process stress and integrate stimulation. It can reduce tension held in the body’s membranes, as well as calm activated nerve fibers between the sutures of the skull, to better promote relaxation and calm.
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing modality used for stress reduction, relaxation, and promoting healing from chronic illness. When it comes to PTSD, Reiki can both calm the nervous system and quiet the mind and can also rebalance your body with a goal of alleviating whatever blockage or pathology has been keeping you in this heightened state of stress.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of single-use, sterile, solid needles into specific acupuncture points on the body to reduce tension and pain, overcome disease, and rebalance the body. Your acupuncturist will work with you to determine the underlying cause of your anxiety from a Chinese Medicine perspective, and to understand how PTSD affects your body and mind. Your treatments will be tailored to your individual condition. Additional Chinese Medicine methods such as cupping and gua sha manual therapy may be included in acupuncture sessions, when appropriate. Acupuncture can reduce mental and physical tension, balance hormones, promote relaxation, and change how the nervous system perceives and responds to pain and stress.
Stress, trauma, shock, and anxiety can often cause a lot of physical tension in the body. Therapeutic Massage – which incorporates Swedish massage, myofascial release, deep tissue, and sports massage techniques – works to reduce muscle tension and pain, improve circulation, and increase range of motion as needed. Research has shown that massage also causes the body to release feel-good hormones that can reduce feelings of stress and anxiety.
A Health Coach is a supportive mentor and wellness guide, who can help you to identify dietary and lifestyle factors that may be adversely affecting your body’s ability to process information or stimulation. Health Coaching sessions focus on looking at all aspects of your lifestyle and how simple changes can improve your mood, emotions, and outlook, such as diet, exercise, supplements, sleep habits, work stress, and relationships.
A growing body of scientific research shows the benefits of meditation for relaxation, sleep, and managing stress. We offer individual or small group meditation instruction so that you can learn the basics of how to create a home meditation practice for your health and well-being.
Reflexology is a therapeutic treatment in which pressure is applied to particular points and regions of the foot to affect change in the whole body. Reflex points on the feet correspond to different organs and body systems, and by stimulating these points the practitioner can create positive change in a particular system and bring the body back into balance. Reflexology has a known calming effect, owing to the fact that there are so many nerve endings on the feet alone – during a reflexology session your entire nervous system is given permission to relax.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Getting effective treatment after PTSD symptoms develop can be critical to reduce symptoms and improve daily function. At Stepping Stone Acupuncture & Wellness, we offer many services that can benefit patients suffering from PTSD. When it comes to holistic medicine, we find that the whole is often greater than the sum of the parts.
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle hands-on manual therapy technique. The craniosacral system extends from the head (cranium) to the sacrum and includes the central nervous system. A craniosacral therapist can feel and rebalance the rhythm of cerebrospinal fluid flow, which covers your bones, joints, and sutures. Craniosacral Therapy seeks to reset the nervous system, allowing your body to better process stress and integrate stimulation. It can reduce tension held in the body’s membranes, as well as calm activated nerve fibers between the sutures of the skull, to better promote relaxation and calm.
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing modality used for stress reduction, relaxation, and promoting healing from chronic illness. When it comes to PTSD, Reiki can both calm the nervous system and quiet the mind and can also rebalance your body with a goal of alleviating whatever blockage or pathology has been keeping you in this heightened state of stress.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of single-use, sterile, solid needles into specific acupuncture points on the body to reduce tension and pain, overcome disease, and rebalance the body. Your acupuncturist will work with you to determine the underlying cause of your anxiety from a Chinese Medicine perspective, and to understand how PTSD affects your body and mind. Your treatments will be tailored to your individual condition. Additional Chinese Medicine methods such as cupping and gua sha manual therapy may be included in acupuncture sessions, when appropriate. Acupuncture can reduce mental and physical tension, balance hormones, promote relaxation, and change how the nervous system perceives and responds to pain and stress.
Stress, trauma, shock, and anxiety can often cause a lot of physical tension in the body. Therapeutic Massage – which incorporates Swedish massage, myofascial release, deep tissue, and sports massage techniques – works to reduce muscle tension and pain, improve circulation, and increase range of motion as needed. Research has shown that massage also causes the body to release feel-good hormones that can reduce feelings of stress and anxiety.
A Health Coach is a supportive mentor and wellness guide, who can help you to identify dietary and lifestyle factors that may be adversely affecting your body’s ability to process information or stimulation. Health Coaching sessions focus on looking at all aspects of your lifestyle and how simple changes can improve your mood, emotions, and outlook, such as diet, exercise, supplements, sleep habits, work stress, and relationships.
A growing body of scientific research shows the benefits of meditation for relaxation, sleep, and managing stress. We offer individual or small group meditation instruction so that you can learn the basics of how to create a home meditation practice for your health and well-being.
Reflexology is a therapeutic treatment in which pressure is applied to particular points and regions of the foot to affect change in the whole body. Reflex points on the feet correspond to different organs and body systems, and by stimulating these points the practitioner can create positive change in a particular system and bring the body back into balance. Reflexology has a known calming effect, owing to the fact that there are so many nerve endings on the feet alone – during a reflexology session your entire nervous system is given permission to relax.