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Clinic and Chinese Pharmacy Provide Healthful Alternatives
 The staff at Triangle Acupuncture Clinic |
Triangle Acupuncture Clinic, located at 226 Ashville Avenue, Suite 10, and also in Chapel Hill, is one of the few clinics of its kind in the Triangle region, offering the services of six nationally- and state-licensed acupuncturists, each with their own specialty and a dedication to integrating the use of Chinese medicine with Western medical care.
The practitioners at Triangle Acupuncture Clinic specialize in treating four specific areas – infertility and women’s health, pain management, sports and industrial injuries and post-surgical recovery, and chronic illness, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and anxiety, as well as adjunct cancer therapy to minimize the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
The clinic is perhaps best known in the Triangle for the treatment of infertility. Two of its three fertility specialists, Katherine Rowe, LAc and Kolleen Mitchell, LAc, are certified by the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine, having passed a rigorous advanced certification examination in the field of both Western and Oriental reproductive medicine. The Duke Fertility Center and Carolina Conceptions – a private fertility practice in Raleigh –use acupuncture services provided by Triangle Acupuncture Clinic exclusively for their patients undergoing assisted reproductive therapies. Katherine Rowe developed the Fertility Wellness Program to ensure close collaboration among specialists at the clinic and reproductive endocrinologists. Together, they integrate acupuncture with nutrition, stress management, lifestyle modifications and relaxation techniques to help increase a couple’s chances of getting pregnant. These treatments continue on into pregnancy and post-partum care, helping women with everything from morning sickness and back pain to post-partum depression and issues with lactation.
Another of the most common reasons people seek out acupuncture is pain. Each of the practitioners at Triangle Acupuncture Clinic is proficient at treating several types of chronic and acute pain, and Chris Helmstetter, LAc and Tory Wegner, LAc have advanced training in this area. Pain from headaches and migraines, sports injuries, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and fibromyalgia respond incredibly well to acupuncture; patients can find relief in as little as one or two treatments, and can expect to find resolution from several different types of pain with continued treatment. Since its inception, Triangle Acupuncture Clinic has partnered with the Cornucopia House, offering free acupuncture treatments to people that use their services while undergoing conventional cancer therapies. Although many patients seek alternative methods of treatment in the hope of finding a cure, Chinese medicine alone should not be considered a miracle treatment for cancer. Instead, the acupuncturists at Triangle Acupuncture Clinic help to support cancer patients by providing an extremely valuable adjunct therapy to chemotherapy and radiation. Recent studies have demonstrated acupuncture’s effectiveness at treating post-chemotherapy nausea and vomiting; it can also help with fatigue, constipation and many of the other side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
Triangle Acupuncture also receives referrals from Triangle area physicians for those patients who are not responding to conventional care. These patients encompass many of the chronic health conditions circling through today’s current health system – patients who are seeking relief and yet cannot find it through conventional means. Conditions like inflammatory bowel diseases, respiratory, dermatological and autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and anxiety all respond extremely well to Chinese medicine. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine were the only forms of medicine used in China until the 20th century, and are designed to treat health conditions that come from physiological, mental and emotional roots. The acupuncturists at Triangle Acupuncture have several patients whom many would consider “at the end of their rope” and who, in turn, finally find relief through Chinese medicine.Triangle Acupuncture Clinic welcomes your questions about Chinese medicine and your referrals of patients whom you think might benefit from their services. Please feel free to come by, meet the acupuncturists and learn more about the benefits of Chinese medicine at their Web site, www.triangleacupunctureclinic.com.