The Menard Acupuncture Experience
The clinic space of Menard Acupuncture is more of an open format, quasi-community acupuncture clinic with two treatment rooms separated by custom-made shoji screens. This design and construction layout is intended to promote the free flow of Qi and light throughout the space. While this semi-private environment is intended for communal healing, I do take every measure to insure intake and conversations are private. In addition, patients while resting with needles are offered the use of headphones featuring binaural music, a sound technology that balances the hemispheres of the brain inducing a deep meditative Delta state that furthers the acupuncture effectiveness.
Private sessions are available by blocking out the schedule of the other room. Premium pricing applies. Please email with any questions.
Treatments
M/Ac Full Treatment 60
60 minutes. $300
Initial and follow up acupuncture treatment for Complex, multiple muscular skeletal injuries or pain conditions. Treatment includes proper assessments (postural/muscular balancing) and diagnostics, SMAc® acupuncture + cupping, electric muscle stimulation, moxibustion, manual therapies, etc depending on condition.
*Menard Acupuncture offers discounted rates for seniors and veterans. Please contact Kevin directly at kevin@menardacpuncture.com, or call the office 631-899-4112.
Services
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the insertion and stimulation of thin, sterile needles into “points” in the subcutaneous and muscle tissue to achieve certain desired outcomes which may include enhancing the immune system, relieving of pain, decreasing the recovery time of injuries, and/or relaxing the sympathetic nervous system. It’s early beginnings extend over 3,000 years to ancient China to a medical system and theory based in the Tao, a philosophy of balance and harmony.
Sports Medicine Acupuncture®
SMAc combines Western sports therapy postural assessments and muscle balancing testing with the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine to differentiate and treat many muscular skeletal injuries and pain conditions.
Cupping
Cupping is a very old-school, simple method of treatment that uses the negative pressure of glass jars plus heat to enable the body to remove exanimate blood, white blood cells, and other inflammatory responses that have become stagnant in deep tissue causing pain, soreness, and preventing healing.
Moxibustion
Otherwise known as “moxa” is a form of heat therapy that uses the Chinese herb, Artemisia Argyi, or “mugwort”, which is applied to certain acupuncture points to treat and prevent diseases. Clinically, it is an excellent tool for enhancing the immune system, warming muscles, and relieving pain.
Guasha
Also known as “scraping”, and “coining”, is a therapeutic technique that uses a smooth-edged instrument on lubricated skin that serves to release toxins and promote healing of injured tissue. “Modern research shows Gua sha produces an anti-inflammatory and immune protective effect that persists for days following a single Gua sha treatment. This accounts for its effect on pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting etc., and why Gua sha is effective in acute and chronic internal organ disorders including liver inflammation in hepatitis.” -Arya Nielsen
Tuina Chinese Medical Massage
Tui na is a manipulative hands-on body treatment that uses Chinese taoist and martial arts principles in an effort to bring the eight principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into balance.
External Liniments
The special sauce of TCM, used mainly for therapeutic effects to relieve pain and decrease the recovery time of injured muscle and skeletal tissue.
Electric Muscle Stimulation
Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), also known as neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) or electromyostimulation, is the elicitation of muscle contraction using electric impulses. EMS has the potential to serve as: a strength training tool for healthy subjects and athletes; a rehabilitation and preventive tool for partially or totally immobilized patients.