Traditional Chinese Medicine recognizes Chi, or Energy, that runs along 14 major meridians throughout the body. In order for the body to be healthy, Chi (Energy) must be balanced.
When Chi is blocked in any way, disease, pain or emotional problems may result.
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment regulates the energy flow, strengthens the organs and increases the body’s resistance to disease.
What to expect from your first visit:
Your first appointment will consist of a comprehensive evaluation and treatment.
This will include a standard Western and Eastern medical history exam, an Acupuncture treatment and a Nutritional consultation. Eastern analysis includes Pulse and Tongue diagnosis.
Traditional Chinese Medicine techniques:
Acupuncture
Electric stim. acupuncture
Herbology
Cupping
Moxibustion
Energy enhancement exercises such as Chi Gong
Acupuncture is useful as an adjunct to medical treatment and is an acceptable alternative management program.
Chiropractic, acupuncture, and therapeutic massage can help treat injuries to all athletes, from professionals to weekend warriors. When you’re injured, it’s important to recover as quickly as possible. We offer specific treatments for various sport injuries that can assist your body to heal quickly.
Doctor examining a knee InjuryMassage therapy for sports injuries
Effective physical therapy is essential to continue strenuous exercise and demanding sports with a faster recovery.
Most injuries are problems involving the ankles, elbows, the back, the shoulders, and the knees. Overworking the muscles for a long period,  hyperextension or hyperflexion injuries of the joint, sprains and strains are common and effectively treated.
Chiropractors
Chiropractors are uniquely qualified to deal with injuries to joints muscles, connective tissue, and the underlying skeleton.
Pain management is an important part of healing. Opioids and pain killers mask injuries instead of treating them. They invite additional injuries when the pain signal doesn’t warn the injured person to slow down or stop. We can use acupuncture to relieve pain without prescribing dangerous, addictive drugs. Acupuncture treatments also improve circulation and ease inflammation at the site of the injury, another important way to shorten recovery time.
Avoiding Recurring Injuries the Natural Way
Holistic health experts are skilled at dealing with problems like ergonomics, diet, and exercise. That’s why they not only help you recover from injuries, they can help you avoid them in the first place.
If you have problems with recurring injuries ask your chiropractor or acupuncturist what you can do to avoid future problems. Simple things like changing your posture or running style can cut down on repetitive injuries. In many cases, small tweaks can even improve your performance.
Common Sport Injuries
The most common sports injuries we encounter in our clinic:
Rotator cuff injuries
Tennis elbow
Lower back stenosis
Acute muscle strains
Chronic sprains
Wrist injuries
Ankle and knee sprains
Golfer’s elbow
Sciatica
Rib contusions
Our practice involves looking at the patient’s overall health as well as any injury. Treatments may include chiropractic adjustments, ultrasound, physiotherapy, acupuncture to reduce inflammation and improve circulation, traction, therapeutic massage, stretching, and even dietary advice. A combination of these all-natural techniques is sure to get you back to full strength faster.
Rapid Release Technology
How does Rapid Release work?
Soft tissue disorders are usually a result of overuse, injury or surgery. Injuries cause micro tears in the fascia on the muscles. Fibrous adhesion tissue replaces normal tissue when an injury heals. Adhesions can spread, trapping nerves, causing pain and numbness or limiting range of motion. Commonly adhesions are un-diagnosed. We believe that RRT is the most effective way to treat painful scar tissue and break down adhesion with a lasting effect. It feels good and is completely safe. Rapid Release gives high speed targeted vibration to break down scar tissue and adhesions in muscles and arthritic joints.
Here is a partial list of conditions caused by scarring of soft tissue:
carpal tunnel syndrome
tendonosis
muscle spasms
trapped nerves
range of motion
contractures
neuromas
adhesions
back pain
shoulder pain
ankle pain
headaches
knee problems
tennis elbow
temporomandibular joint disorder
Look Out for Training Injuries
The most common sports injuries occur when you’re in training. Training almost always involves repetitive exercises that can cause tendinitis or stress fractures of a bone.
Talk to your holistic health expert at Relax Holistic before you begin a new training or exercise routine. They can help your avoid technique errors and dietary deficiencies that can lead to injuries. Relaxing, deep tissue massage can keep you limber and performing at your peak, too. Call us today to schedule an appointment!
Our expert therapists provide therapeutic, deep tissue and swedish massage 7 days a week. Great for low back pain and sprain strain injuries.
Massage therapy mobilizes stiff joints
and improves sense of well being.
The benefits of massage therapy are well known in the medical community.
Improved Circulation
The squeezing and pulling of the tissues detoxes by flushing lactic acid from the muscles into the lymph system to be carried away as waste, resulting in lower blood pressure and improved circulation and body function.
Relaxed Muscles
If you’re an active person you need a massage. Lactic acid builds up from sugar combustion in muscles and causes soreness. Simple chores like gardening and other activities can cause muscle stiffness which limits the joint range of motion over time. Massage benefits are accelerated muscle recovery and increased stamina.
Our therapists will help loosen your muscles and flush out the lactic acid.
Improves Range of Motion
Tight muscles can cause injuries and cause over exertion. As your muscles tighten up, your range of motion diminishes, which in turn makes other muscles tighten and compensate.
Our massage experts will work your muscles and joints to make them more flexible, loosen your tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue, plus give your aching muscles relaxing deep-tissue massage.
Always mention to the therapist any history or issues they should know about in order to tailor the massage specifically to your needs.
Headache Relief
Headaches and migraines are among the most common disorders of the human nervous system worldwide. That’s due to an increase in stress and toxins in the body. A steady build-up in anxiety and tension in the back, neck, shoulders, and head can lead to blinding headaches.
Massage therapy releases tension with a series of techniques designed to decrease immediate pain while loosening up the underlying musculature. This releases pain well past the massage therapy session.
Improved Sleep
Tension can cause sleep disorders. Tense muscles make it impossible to lie comfortably in bed, disturbing sleep patterns further. A lack of proper sleep increases stress levels during the day. This creates a self-supporting cycle of discomfort.
Massage therapy improves the restorative properties of your sleep by increasing the levels of serotonin in the bloodstream. These naturally released compounds are believed to contribute to proper regulation of important body functions like appetite, mood, and sleeping patterns.
Improved Posture
Poor posture and Tech-neck happens without thinking about it. Hunching over a computer terminal or craning your neck to look at your mobile phone puts a lot of strain on your muscles. This forward head carriage increases tension, which accelerates the effects of poor posture which can cause permanent damage if not handled.
Massage therapy loosens up tight muscles that your body may of adapted to with bad posture. Patients report after the massage to have increased range of motion and improved posture.
Speeds Rehabilitation
Athletes use Massage therapy to speed healing and as a result, recover quickly from training. The techniques that were once only understood only by professional trainers are now available to anyone that could benefit from therapeutic massage. Massage activates molecules that reduce inflammation and promote mitochondrial growth and flushed acid out of the muscle to reduce achiness.
Get a massage!
You have nothing to lose but your aches and pains!
Relax Holistic is run and staffed by professionals with a deep commitment to helping people stay fit and healthy. They sought out an alternative method of healthcare based on centuries of tradition that emphasizes natural healing, and that concentrates on the total wellness of body, mind, and spirit.
Massage closeup for back pain
Woman getting a holistic acupuncture treatment in a spa
Your holistic health practitioner treats your whole body and works towards achieving both physical and emotional wellness.
Our holistic care uses time-honored cures from healing traditions that have centuries of practice to draw from. Our office has acupuncture for anxiety, weight loss, and fertility. Chiropractic care that’s effective for dozens of illnesses and injuries. Moxibustion for detoxification, and sports physical therapy for both competitive athletes and regular people with an active lifestyle. The staff is also trained in all-natural dietary consulting.
Rapid Release Takes Healing Further
Relax Holistic uses Rapid Release technology to speed healing of scar tissue and muscle adhesions. This therapy uses high-speed, targeted vibration to focus directly on the muscles, tendons, ligaments, or nerves that are causing you discomfort or diminishing your quality of life.
Western medicine concentrates on getting injuries to heal over as quickly as possible, which leads to problems with scar tissue. This scar tissue can be visible or internal, usually called an adhesion. When scar tissue forms as the site of an injury, it’s produced by a buildup of collagen, just like skin. However, this scar tissue doesn’t have the proper blood supply, and it dries out. These scar adhesions can spread and can cause pain, numbness, diminished range of motion, and other chronic problems.
Rapid Release technology relies on the fact that the vibration frequency of the treatment passes harmlessly and painlessly through the outer layer of your skin. But it is perfect for breaking up the more brittle adhesions beneath the surface. If you’ve been suffering from discomfort at the site of an old injury, Rapid Release is the perfect way to get some relief — naturally finally.
Your Holistic Health Practitioner Does More
When you visit one of our three convenient, holistic health clinics in the Los Angeles area, your holistic health practitioner will take the time to understand you as an individual truth, and create a treatment program based on your individual needs. Our practitioners are trained and experienced in the following areas:
Proper nutrition
Body chemistry
Therapeutic massage
Chiropractic care
Acupuncture for weight loss
Acupuncture for depression
Acupuncture for anxiety
Fertility acupuncture
Moxibustion
Cupping
Sports physical therapy
Stress management and relaxation
Natural remedies
Choosing a Holistic Health Practitioner
Relax Holistic wants to make it easy for you to choose us as your only holistic health practitioner in the Los Angeles area. That’s why we offer such a wide range of services to our customers at all our locations. Our affordable services are perfect if you just need a single course of treatment from an acupuncturist or a chiropractor. We’re also ready to handle a full range of other holistic health specialties, including hard to find moxibustion and cupping treatments.
We Succeed Where Others Health Practitioners Fail
Many people come to us with chronic conditions that have been difficult to treat. Many times conditions are the result of treatments received in the past. We’re proud of our ability to guide our clients to safe and effective treatments that help the body repair itself naturally. If you’re tired of visiting doctors, who don’t take the time to listen to your whole story, come in to Relax Holistically and see just how effective treatments from a holistic health practitioner can be.
Relax Holistic has solutions for pain relief, weight loss, anxiety, stress, depression, fibromyalgia, infertility, headaches, joint pains, erectile dysfunction and all other ailments. Acupuncture is also an adjunct to medical treatments including cancer and chemotherapy.
Pain, anxiety, depression and stress relief and prevention.
Back pain relief and prevention
Chronic pain may cause anxiety, weight gain and stress.
The acupuncturist checks the 12 pulse points on your wrists, one for each organ in your body, and looks at your tongue. The findings as well as any other labs are evaluated and a treatment plan is made. It may include herbal remedies and other modalities such as moxibustion or cupping or physical therapy. The goal is to achieve balance in the meridian organ systems. In other words, the body chemistry will become more balanced and symptoms will disappear.
The treatment session involves lying still while about five to twenty needles are inserted and left in place for 25 minutes. Most patients fall into deep relaxation and wake up refreshed. Other recommended modalities may be infra-red light therapy, moxabustion, cupping, gua-sha, tui-na massage, ear seeds, muscle stim.
Acupuncture needles generally are so fine that they do not cause pain as associated with traditional western medicine.
Anxiety, Stress and Fibromyalgia
Pain, fatigue, tingling, and other fibromyalgia symptoms commonly trigger panic attacks. The anxiety creates stress which has a powerful effect on the hormones in your body. This affects the immune system and triggers an inflammatory response to many allergens. Anxiety and stress cause more pain which creates more anxiety and the cycle continues. Acupuncture can break this cycle.
Treatments may help treat side effects of medications, balance hormones and release endorphins to make you feel better.
Arthritis
Acupuncture effectively controls arthritis and joint inflammation when coupled with dietary improvements and massage therapy. With consistent treatment the immune system and circulation improves. Pain is reduced and flair ups are controlled.
Weight Loss
Acupuncture stimulates your body’s circulation and in turn, improves several factors known to contribute to obesity. Studies show it can affect the part of your brain that feels hunger. Acupuncture reduces stress, releases endorphins and balances your body chemistry. The Acupuncturist will give at least 10 treatments to balance the systems of your body. The mind becomes more in sync with the body and abnormal food cravings are lessened. The Acupuncturist will make dietary and lifestyle suggestions and in many cases the weight starts to fall off.
Call for an appointment
If you are interested in learning how Acupuncture will benefit you mind and body, CALL US to schedule your appointment!
Since 2003 we are the ‘go to’ Holistic clinic in West Hollywood and Culver City.
