Given the right environment and building blocks, the body has an innate ability to heal itself, acupuncture helps to provide those building blocks and thus facilitate the healing process at the core of the problem. In doing you are not simply being treated for symptoms on a short term basis, but rather finding a permanent solution.
There are many ‘styles’ of acupuncture being practiced by acupuncturists around the world, meaning if you saw five different acupuncturist you could potentially receive five different treatments. Some styles maybe work better at treating some things, but essentially, they all work. At Freedom acupuncture Jacqui is now practicing a style of acupuncture known as Neoclassical Acupuncture. ‘Neo’ meaning New and ‘classical’ meaning traditional. Essentially the founder of this acupuncture technique, Dr Slate Burris gave his interpretation of the ancient text books a little differently to others and came up with this amazing new system of acupuncture.
Neoclassical Acupuncture (NCA) is a revolutionary new style of acupuncture, and a total paradigm shift from other styles of acupuncture. Instead of focusing on the symptom or even the cause of the symptoms, the focus is instead on finding blockages within the body. What are blockages? Call them what you like, but they present as tender areas at seemingly random areas around the body. These tender areas are identified by the practitioner by systematically palpating (pressing) specific areas on the abdomen, arms and legs. The feedback from the patient then becomes the basis for the diagnosis, and the practitioner can then identify which acupuncture points to use.
So instead of focusing specific symptoms or areas, this acupuncture system is optimising the healing processes within the entire body, tallowing the body to heal itself, no matter what the symptom are or where they are, whether it be pain, autoimmune, digestive, fertility or hormonal etc. Meaning if someone has multiple health issues, they will all begin healing from the very first treatment.
And a bonus, this method of acupuncture requires very few needles, typically no more than 5 needles are used in a treatment. In addition, the number of treatments required is usually far less than what other styles of acupuncture require. For acute issues typically 2 to 3 treatments, and for chronic issues 3 to 6 treatments are required in total.
Jacqui studying initially started studying the style of acupuncture since 2022, but found the results inconsistent in the beginning, and so would often revert back to what she knew understood previously. Because she knew the potential, she continued to attend courses and do further study whenever the founder of this system came to Australia. She is now at the highest level attainable and the results speaking for themselves, simply amazing!
Over time it has been identified that best results are achieved by doing a few treatments close together initially, before spacing them out. Patients are therefore asked to book in for three treatments within the first week, and If all three treatments are not required then it’s ok to cancel any remaining sessions.
Call or email us with your health concerns, and we can give you an idea if acupuncture will help. We will do our best to give you honest feedback.
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The number of treatments depends on the severity, complexity and where the problem is in the body. The frequency of the treatment can in some cases be just as important as the treatment itself. Most musculoskeletal conditions are usually ok to be treated once a week, however some conditions may require at least twice weekly treatments. This is because with acupuncture we can’t increase the dose, we can only increase the frequency in order to get a stronger effect. As a general rule when it comes to tresating pain syndromes, muscles are by far the easiest tissue in the body to treat, and issues involving ligaments, tendons, cartilage and bone being much more difficult to treat, and so require more treatments.
When you see your acupuncturist for your symptoms, they will make an assessment of what maybe causing your symptoms, and base your treatments on this. With acupuncture we always need to treat the cause of the problem, not the symptom. If we only treat symptoms, they will continue to return. For this reason, to increase the effectiveness of your treatment it is helpful to bring any diagnostic reports with you to your initial appointment. This will allow us to have a better understanding of the cause of your symptoms, and to tell you upfront if your condition is treatable with acupuncture and also to give you an estimate of the number of sessions required.
The success of your treatment, could be our next referral, so it’s in best our interest to get you better, and with the least number of treatments.
Acupuncture is not covered by Medicare, although there are currently negotiations between the Australian Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Association (AACMA) & the Australian government to have acupuncture added to Medicare rebate scheme for allied health services for those people who have a chronic (or terminal) medical condition that is being managed by a GP. Hopefully this will be approved in the not too distant future.
Most major health funds offer a rebate for acupuncture, this is processed through our HICAPS EFTPOS machine at the point of payment. Freedom Acupuncture is also a Medibank Private's Members Choice provider of acupuncture in the Redcliffe area.
Initial consultation is $110 and 1.5 hours. Follow up appointments are $90 and one hour.
What is your Cancelation Policy?
We ask for 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment. Appointments cancelled with less than 8 hours’ notice will be invoiced for 50% of the consult fee. Non-attendance without any contact to the clinic will be invoiced for 100% of the consult fee. This is our business, we cannot pay our bills with no show attendances. It may also mean someone else may miss out on a treatment. Please VALUE our time, as we VALUE yours.
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Ella Street, Redcliffe Queensland 4020, Australia
After five years in Comino's Arcade along the Redcliffe waterfront, in January 2025 we moved to a home based clinic. The address will be given with the booking confirmation email. Please note, there are seven steps at the front of the house.
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