Acupuncture Services coming soon to Coolangatta/Tweed Heads Clinic

Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce the expansion of our acupuncture services to the beautiful Coolangatta/Tweed Heads area.

COMING SOON, Alan Jansson will be providing his signature Japanese Acupuncture Services in the Acupuncture & Integrative Health Clinic in Tweed Heads.

101 Wharf St, Tweed Heads NSW 2485, Australia

About Alan Jansson

• 40+ years expertise/experience
• 50,000+ treatments
• Gentle, Effective, Powerful treatments
• Human to Human Medicine

Read more about Alan here.

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In Classical Medicine the cause of colds and the flu are expressed as wind pathogen or cold pathogen.

It is thought that these pathogens affect the body and generate various symptoms such as a runny nose, fever, chills and coughing.

From the perspective of East Asian Medicine it is important to observe how the patient is affected according to the unique diagnostic protocols we use.

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We establish what exactly our patient’s lingering symptoms are, what time of day/night those symptoms are most prevalent, pulse characteristics, meridian palpation, physical appearance, quality of voice, sleep patterns, appetite and dietary habits to gain a deeper understanding of the imbalances causing lingering health issues.

Thus we are able to approach diagnosis and treatment of lingering conditions from a different perspective, this is especially beneficial when the patient is not responding satisfactorily to orthodox medical treatment.

If you are suffering from post viral syndrome, you are welcome to make an appointment to see our veteran Acupuncturist Alan Jansson.

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There is no short answer, over 3500 years of recorded history and millions of successful treatment outcomes only serve to emphasize the clinical efficacy and diversity of this ancient healing modality and it reinforces the difficulty translating the underlying factors responsible for Traditional Acupuncture’s incredible longevity.

With access to ancient classical medical texts, some written 2500 years before the birth of Christ, millions of recorded case histories and an extraordinary vault of knowledge based on the accumulated healing expertise gleaned from millions of successful treatments, acupuncture must be close to being the most historically proven medical modality on the planet today!

Millions of case histories have been recorded in the ancient Chinese language known as Kanji.

I believe it is imperative that the translator has a wealth of clinical experience enabling them to interpret and subsequently translate in an accurate and clinically relevant manner.

A 1000 or so years ago emissaries from Japan travelled to China to study their far more sophisticated medical and legal systems, some decades later they returned to Japan taking with them Chinese experts in the fields of medicine and law.

Much like Latin provided the basis for the Western legal and medical languages, Kanji is the language upon which the Japanese medical and legal systems are based.

As a result, accurate and clinically relevant translation of this knowledge is restricted to a few highly specialized individuals, especially in Japan.

Masakazu Ikeda sensei has written in the vicinity of 20 textbooks, authored hundreds of journal articles and presented hundreds of workshops concerning the practice of this highly specialized medical art called Traditional Acupuncture. He has also been in practice for 50+ years!

How does acupuncture work?

The answer to this question will always be governed by the experience and awareness of the person doing the explaining.
Since the person attempting to provide an answer to this frequently asked question in this instance is yours truly, please allow me to provide you with some pertinent and relevant historical details of my career and how my first visit to Japan irrevocably changed my understanding of how Traditional Acupuncture works where it matters, in clinic.

Alan Jansson at Imabari

In 1996, at the behest of my friend and colleague Edward Obaidey, a gentleman fluent in all things Japanese, we visited Masakazu Ikeda sensei, a modern master of Traditional Acupuncture at his clinic in Imabari, Japan.
Edward’s translating ability combined with Ikeda sensei’s immense clinical experience and linguistic competency created unique access to the ancient classical texts and their clinical application.

After 13 years of practicing what I believed to be Traditional Acupuncture I experienced a truly rude awakening regarding the crude level of skill and extremely basic understanding that I possessed.

I realized I was still playing in the sandpit with a bucket and spade and this master practitioner was the head of faculty at the global University.

I was stunned by Ikeda sensei’s amazing clinical skills, his hands and fingers seemed to dance across the patient’s body, his meditative focus throughout treatment was truly magnetic.
Sensei’s ability to translate his formidable knowledge and understanding of the ancient medical art of Acupuncture into clinical excellence was truly inspirational.

What I learned in his clinic in the dead of the Japanese winter became my virtual professional pole vault, my awareness of the clinical potential of Traditional Acupuncture was veritably exploded by the way in which this master practitioner went about his work.

I thought I was entered in the Traditional Acupuncture high jump and after 13 years in practice I found myself in the pole vault without a pole!

Talk about raising the bar!

In 1996, after receiving treatment from Ikeda sensei and closely observing his work with patients suffering from a virtual Pandora’s box of maladies I realized how far that proverbial bar had been raised as a result of my exposure to this master practitioner.

Ikeda sensei lived and breathed this often misunderstood healing art/science, to me he represented the very heart of Traditional Acupuncture and his devotion to the translation of the ancient doctrines into clinically relevant material provided me with an amazing opportunity to further my understanding and clinical application of Traditional Acupuncture.

His silken skills, effortless focus and immense knowledge were even more obvious upon my return to Japan earlier this year; the connection formed by his hands to the patient was incredibly malleable, osmotic in the extreme.

I was inexorably reminded that I had entered in the clinical equivalent of the pole vault, the bar infinitely higher than in the high jump and the sand pit I had been dwelling in was for emergency landings only.

How well acupuncture works is irrevocably linked to the awareness and skill of your practitioner.
Like a surgeon skillfully using a scalpel, the acupuncturist uses a needle during an energetic form of surgery and the most essential ingredient for a successful clinical outcome is the skill and sensitivity of their hands.

The success of your treatment relies not on the needle or scalpel, but in the hands of your practitioner!
In other words the potency and diversity of Traditional Acupuncture treatment is directly related to the skill and experience of your practitioner.

The ability to translate this immense body of knowledge through their awareness and understanding born from clinical experience, sensitivity and skill can make all the difference to consistently achieving successful clinical outcomes

I continue to practice daily in an effort to refine and develop my skill and understanding of Traditional Acupuncture, clear that elusive bar and do my best to translate my extreme good fortune into clinical competency to the ultimate benefit of my patients.

I believe it important to convey to you the relevance of a solid knowledge base and clinical experience prior to undertaking the immense and somewhat complex task of distilling this unique ancient medical system into an understandable diatribe for your consumption.

Traditional Acupuncture relies upon the recognition of an energetic network that covers the entire body known as meridians.

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The situation regarding Medical practitioners, Physiotherapists, Massage practitioners, in fact all shapes and kinds of health practitioners and the practice of Acupuncture in Australia is ambiguous to say the least.

The use of dry needling amongst a variety of modalities, especially physiotherapy in recent years is perceived by many folk as the practice of Acupuncture.

Dry needling, as wise practitioners of the above modalities will tell you, is not Acupuncture.

Medical Acupuncture and the many simplified versions of needling used by many practitioners of Allied Modalities DO NOT apply the 3,000 years of clinical wisdom encapsulated within the practice of Traditional Acupuncture.

The vast difference between the therapeutic application of acupuncture needles in Dry Needling, Medical Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and the more refined Traditional Japanese Acupuncture is exemplified by the use of thick gauge needles in the former versus the use of extremely thin gauge needles in Traditional Japanese Acupuncture.

A very mechanical manipulation of thick gauge needles versus the subtle energetic application of very fine needles are the polar opposites from which these modalities operate using similar instruments.

Practitioners of the point-based TCM Acupuncture with its dependence upon thicker gauge needles and mechanical stimulation might have a much tougher time convincing other modalities and the consumer that there are major discrepancies in the therapeutic application of Medical Acupuncture, dry needling and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture.

My profession’s inability or unwillingness to stand up and be counted in the public eye as a beneficial and legitimate healing modality has left the door wide open for every man and his dog to lay claim to the practice of Acupuncture merely because they have a needle in hand, and if you’re lucky, have completed a couple of weekend courses.

In Australia the general public has precious little knowledge regarding the clinical efficacy and flexibility of Traditional Acupuncture, believing that Acupuncture might be effective in some cases for the relief of musculoskeletal pain, headaches or perhaps a less invasive way of inducing childbirth.

The full potential of Traditional Acupuncture is not recognized within our own profession let alone by practitioners of Allied modalities and the general public.

As a practitioner of some 40 years in clinical practice I believe that Traditional Japanese Acupuncture is at the forefront of discovering the vital secrets of the ancient acupuncture classics and implementing the myriad of subtle practical skills that contribute to the potency of your treatment.

A physiotherapist, medical practitioner, massage therapist etc, will translate diagnostic information in a very different manner to a practitioner of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture; the diagnostic conclusions they come to and all therapeutic action that they might take will be significantly different to that of a practitioner of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture.

Even a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture will translate diagnostic information differently and treat very differently to a practitioner of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture!

A practitioner of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture will always interpret your diagnostic information based on an intimate knowledge of meridian pathways and the intricate energetic interactions between each of these pathways, their associated organ and the interdependence between each of these meridian/organ complexes.

Your inherited constitution or genetic health tendencies and unique presentation of symptoms are interpreted on an individual basis.

This is a very different clinical picture to the one that a practitioner of another modality might have.

The diagnostic and needling skills required in delivering a therapeutically potent Traditional Acupuncture treatment take years of practice to refine and develop, it is not possible for this to be achieved without much study and committed practice, only a dedicated few choose to walk down this road less travelled.

Fewer still actually tackle the mountains, for that takes great effort.

Virtually no one reaches the end of the road.

It is up to senior practitioners such as myself to demonstrate and assist our valued patients, colleagues in Allied modalities and fellow Acupuncturists to understand more about the clinical efficacy of meridian based Traditional Japanese Acupuncture.

I strive to do this through the websites http://www.worldacupuncture.com and http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com, my in-clinic mentoring program, regular monthly workshops for students/colleagues and most importantly by doing my best to deliver the best possible treatment outcome for our client.

A vast philosophical and therapeutic chasm exists between physiotherapy and Traditional Japanese Acupuncture, a chasm that is bridged in some way by our mutual reliance upon tactile sensitivity.

The diagnostic and therapeutic approaches used in Traditional Japanese Acupuncture and dry needling are very, very different.

‘One is exclusively musculoskeletal in approach and mechanical in execution, the other, combines both musculoskeletal and energetic perceptions and is primarily energetic in its execution.’

Both can achieve beneficial clinical outcomes, however, Traditional Acupuncture, especially Traditional Japanese Acupuncture has far more diverse therapeutic and diagnostic applications than purely muscular skeletal.

Here are some links to a number of articles and videos that may be of interest and relevance to you.

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/chronic-fatigue-syndrome

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/infant-acupuncture

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/infection-and-congestion

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/musculoskeletal-disorders

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/musculoskeletal-disorders/lower-back-pain

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/pmt

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/post-surgery

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/pre-and-post-natal

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/pregnancy

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/preventative-treatment

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/sleep

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/sports-performance-enhancement

http://www.worldacupunctureblog.com/category/specialities/stress-and-anxiety

Last month, I had the pleasure of conducting a one hour practically based presentation where I did my best to demonstrate the clinical efficacy and diverse therapeutic skills of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture to my physiotherapy colleagues

Three courageous physiotherapists volunteered for treatment, none suffering from any specific problem, all highly stressed!

Watched by several intrigued colleagues, each of my three volunteers was treated differently as demanded by their individuality and I did my best to explain the difference between the treatments.

All survived all and reported feeling much more relaxed and significantly energized.

For 40 years my continually evolving version of Traditional Acupuncture has been my sole form of treatment in clinic.

This singularity of clinical approach has much to do with my innate affinity with the underlying philosophy and tactile inclination of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture.

The depth of clinical expertise and knowledge available to me as a practitioner of this extraordinary healing art/science is virtually inexhaustible; I doubt there will ever come a time where I will feel I have completed my studies or fully evolved as a practitioner.

I believe that applying this approach to the practice of Acupuncture is absolutely vital in providing optimum treatment and the best possible results for YOU, the most important ingredient of the clinical equation!

Traditional Japanese Acupuncture is my passion, using that passion to benefit my patients is my purpose!

Wishing you all the best in health and life 🙂

Alan Jansson

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