Acupuncture

Oriental medicine theory explains that pain and disease are caused by either an imbalance or blockage of the energy circulating throughout the body. Acupuncture restores the balance to the flow of energy, returning the body to a healthy state. 

In an acupuncture treatment, thin sterile pins are inserted at specific points on the body. These points are carefully selected by the acupuncturist according to the patients signs and symptoms. Each treatment is tailored to the individual's needs. Emphasis is placed on understanding and treating the underlying cause of each individual's imbalance.

This holistic approach to health not only addressees physical complaints, but also emotional, environmental and lifestyle conditions.

Read More about Acupuncture, including Esoteric Acupuncture

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Herbal Medicine

In a majority of the world's population, Herbs are the primary, if not sole, source of medicine and nutritional supplementation. They may be used alone or in conjunction with acupuncture, the combination can prove most efficacious tor many conditions. Herbs are safe, natural and balanced energetically, eliminating the harmful side effects and high expense commonly found with western pharmaceuticals.

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Lifestyle Counseling

We know that people are occasionally “nervous” about seeing a complementary healthcare practitioner – “What if they tell me to stop eating meat?” (we won’t!) or “I’m too tired to exercise every day!” (then we just figure out first why you’re tired). We are committed to help you find new ways to break out of old routines and develop new habits and ways of thinking that support you in your new health goals. We figure out what is already working and build on that.

It’s true that there may be some changes that would be good to make, but they will be choices you make, not us insisting that you do. We are all about meeting you wherever you are and giving you options.We will educate you on those courses of action and help you implement them.

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Cardinale Acupuncture Wellness Center specializes in nutrition and functional medicine. Using the best of Western medicine testing along with the most current research and treatments, we can help guide you clearly through the thick of nutritional information out there. What’s right? What’s not? What do YOU personally need? We will get you back on track and help you deal with your current issues as well as prevention for the future. We use nutrition to treat specific conditions and heal disease by giving the body specific foods. Working with whole food supplements gives the body all the co-factors and enzymes for absorption that allows healing to occur. We only use whole food supplements in our office.

Functional Medicine

What would it be like if a doctor actually dealt with the ROOT of your health issues, rather than write prescriptions to deal with symptoms? If he or she could tell you what it would take to improve your health, rather than give you meds to simply not feel AS bad? This is what Functional Medicine does — it’s focus is to restore FUNCTION to a person or system, and it is always striving towards optimal health. A good example is a blood test — someone trained in Functional Medicine applies narrower ranges to that blood test, to see if you’re in optimal health ranges, rather than waiting until you fall out of the lab ranges. And the blood panels are more complete, allowing us to see the relationship between values. As another example, most doctors will only run a TSH panel to check for thyroid symptoms, skipping the actual measurement of actual thyroid hormones like T4 and T3, but in Functional Medicine, we look at it all. If you want to improve your health from the roots AND deal with the branch symptoms, this is for you.

Nutrition Counseling

We use nutrition to treat specific conditions and heal disease by giving the body specific food supplements (not isolated and incomplete vitamins like 99% of supplements on the  market). Working with whole food supplements gives the body all the co-factors and enzymes for absorption that allows healing to occur. This is very different than the typical nutritionist who gives synthetic Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol). Even Wikipedia acknowledges that vitamin E has eight different parts, yet what you get in a “vitamin” pill from even the best health food stores is, at best, mixed tocopherols (there are four total) and not even close to how vitamin E is in foods. This is why we don’t use synthetics in our office — not just because they don’t fully provide nutrition, but also because they have been shown to increase rates of cancer, infertility and mortality.