{"id":86,"date":"2017-02-17T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angelamentink.wordpress.com\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2017-02-17T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:53:00","slug":"about-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Acupuncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0 \u00a0Acupuncture is a safe, effective, and relatively painless way to treat and prevent many issues that people deal with on a daily basis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It originated over 2,000 years ago in China, and is increasingly gaining popularity in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>During a session a licensed acupuncturist uses sterile, one-time use needles to direct and rebalance the flow of Qi or energy in a patient&#8217;s body.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Theses needles resemble the width of a hair (about 20 of them can fit into a hypodermic needle which you get a shot with).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once the needles are in place, the patient lies quietly and relaxes while the needles \u201cdo their work.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although some people do see results after one treatment, typically a range of 4-12 treatments are needed depending on patient response and the severity of the symptoms presented.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Side effects are very rare and minimal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Acupuncture can be used to treat a very wide variety of ailments, some of which include, but are not limited to the following:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>acute &amp; chronic pain, respiratory disorders, digestive disorders &amp; discomfort, headache, toothache, women&#8217;s health issues (including fertility), neurological disorders (including neuropathy), emotional disorders (including anxiety &amp; depression), sinus issues, sleep disorders, addiction, stress relief, and many more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It can even be used by healthy individuals to maintain a harmonious flow in the body and mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Acupuncture is a safe, effective, and relatively painless way to treat and prevent many issues that people deal with on a daily basis.\u00a0 It originated over 2,000 years ago in China, and is increasingly gaining popularity in the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}