Our Licensed Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine providers are Nationally Board Certified with extensive training in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Chinese Medicine has a rich history of treating a variety of ailments ranging from depression and weight loss to infertility and stress management. Our practitioners at South Slope Acupuncture & Wellness use a variety of tools to best fit each patient's case, including acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, dry needling, frequency-specific micro-current, cupping, guasha, Chinese herbs, and trigger-point therapy.

PEMF, or pulsed electromagnetic fields, is a holistic supplement that infuses your body with natural energy at the cellular level. That energy may then be used by the body to heal itself, assist with muscle fatigue, and enhance its natural recovery process.

PEMF may help your body’s cells to become fully optimized, as they are stimulated and exercised. Rather than addressing specific injuries, illnesses or ailments, pulsed energy technologies support the body with the raw energy necessary to perform its amazing functions of self-healing and self-regulating.

Pulse PEMF is a holistic, safe solution to low energy, low performance, and slow recovery that integrates seamlessly into any wellness regimen. Pulse acts at the cellular level as a foundational modality that opens energy pathways and creates good soil to make your wellness endeavors more fruitful!

Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapists (LMBT) are board-certified therapists with extensive training in anatomy and physiology. Their knowledge of the body's neuromuscular structure is above and beyond most general massage therapists, making them therapeutically effective in comparison. South Slope's LMBTs are trained to use a wide range of hands-on techniques for your greatest benefit. These include but are not limited to Swedish massage, bodywork, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, joint mobilization, neuromuscular therapy, and rehabilitation exercises. Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapists can help relieve pain, rehabilitate injuries, reduce stress, increase relaxation, and aid in general wellness. Some common conditions that LMBTs address include:
- Headaches
- Sciatica
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- General anxiety
- Back pain
- Hip and shoulder pain
- Post-accident injuries

Naturopathic Doctors (ND) are medically trained, naturally focused physicians who shine in treating chronic conditions. The general educational structure for naturopathic doctors is comparable to that of conventional medical doctors (MDs) and osteopathic doctors (DOs). The key difference is their extensive training in nutrition, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, naturopathic manipulations, counseling, and homeopathy. For most ailments, NDs tend to opt for natural treatments before resorting to pharmaceutical or surgical interventions.

For more information, visit North Carolina's Association of Naturopathic Physicians or AANMC's website :

http://ncanp.com/
https://aanmc.org/

Rolfing® Structural Integration allows for an abundance of vitality and empowerment by creating a sense of spaciousness within the body. Named after its founder, Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of bodywork that reorganizes the connective tissues, called fascia, that permeate the entire body.

More than fifty years ago, Dr. Rolf recognized that the body is inherently a system of seamless networks of tissues rather than a collection of separate parts. These connective tissues surround, support, and penetrate all of the muscles, bones, nerves, and organs. Rolfing Structural Integration works on this web-like complex of connective tissues to release, realign, and balance the whole body, thus potentially resolving discomfort, reducing compensations, and alleviating pain. Rolfing SI aims to restore flexibility, revitalize your energy, and leave you feeling more comfortable in your body.

Essentially, the Rolfing process enables the body to regain the natural integrity of its form, thus enhancing postural efficiency and your freedom of movement.

Reiki is believed to have its roots in a lost spiritual healing art from Tibet practiced thousands of years ago. It was rediscovered by Dr. Mikao Usui in the late 1800s while meditating on Mt. Kurama.

Spiritual healing is one of the oldest forms of healing available today. The theory behind Reiki is that we are made up of universal energy and that this energy extends beyond the physical, visible self. Reiki practitioners help to channel this energy to areas of the body and subtle bodies that are blocked or out of balance. Reiki is said to go to where it is needed and can work on multiple levels of the self, lower, higher, and present. Some notable benefits of reiki include stress reduction, pain reduction, release of emotional blocks, and relaxation.

Facial rejuvenation is a cosmetic style of acupuncture that relaxes and lifts the muscles of the face for a more youthful appearance. This treatment encourages collagen and elastin production, resulting in less sagging and a smoother skin texture. During a session, your practitioner will use neuromuscular techniques to target problem areas on the face in conjunction with body points that help treat the underlying aging patterns. Treatments conclude with facial cupping and gua sha.

NAET is a non-invasive, drug-free, holistic treatment based on a combination of techniques from Western medicine (allopathic) and traditional natural and East Asian medicine (e.g., chiropractic, kinesiology, and acupuncture). According to Chinese medicine, founded thousands of years ago, health is defined as a state of balance within an individual and between the individual and nature.

NAET consists of a combination of kinesiology, acupressure, and Acupuncture. Kinesiology (also called Muscle Testing) is used to identify allergies or sensitivities. Then, Acupressure is used along the spinal nerves, and Acupuncture is used at specific points while the patient is in contact with the allergen.

It is proposed that by stimulating the specific afferent and efferent nerves and nociceptors in dorsal root ganglia (acupressure) while the person is in contact with the allergen, the NAET treatment can change the characteristic of the previous stimulus into a new one with a different signal. These altered stimuli will carry new information about the antigen to the appropriate areas of the cerebral cortex. In return, the brain will relay its response to this new information throughout the body. The previously activated immune response will get deactivated or replaced by a new relayed signal. The previously perceived harmful substance is now recognized as being relatively harmless.