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Napier Acupuncture Clinic
193 Kennedy Road,Napier
Trading Hours:
Monday to Friday
8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Welcome to
Napier Acupuncture Clinic
Established in 1990, we have
provided quality acupuncture care to thousands of Hawkes Bay residents.
Partners James McNeill and
Jacqui Kiddle have been closely
involved in the development of the profession in New Zealand and
are committed to bringing you the benefits of our experience in a safe,
caring and nurturing environment.
ABOUT
ACUPUNCTURE
Acupuncture is an ancient medicine with its own unique system of diagnosis that includes mind, body and emotions.
It can provide health solutions that sometimes elude modern medicine. When this understanding is combined with experience and skill, its a powerful tool indeed.
Another way of understanding
the concept of energy talked of
in acupuncture is to see the
body as a musical instrument.
The energy channels are like the strings of a cello and the
acupuncture points are the notes.
By correctly understanding where the system is out of tune, the right notes on the strings are used in just the right way to bring the body back into balance.
BENEFITS
Acupuncture is a safe, drug free method to successfully treat many conditions. A reliable source of information supporting acupuncture's benefits can be found here:
The Acupuncture Evidence Project: A Comparative Literature Review (2017)
ACC covers much of the
acupuncture cost for injury treatment by members of AcupunctueNZ.
There are over one hundred
different injuries contained
in the ACC's Acupuncture
Treatment Profiles.
Acupuncture has a long tradition both in China and the rest of the world as a health maintenance tool, where a regular tune up can have long term benefits.
CONDITIONS
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine are effective in a wide range of common ailments. Both acute and chronic pain associated with low back and neck strain, sports injuries, shoulder and elbow injuries. Also shingles pain and stress disorders respond
well, as do women's disorders and gastro-intestinal problems.
In fact most people will gain relief whatever their condition.
After a thorough investigation using both Traditional Chinese and modern methods a treatment strategy will be decided upon and
the most appropriate treatment/s for the
condition will be utilized.
WHAT WE DO
ACUPUNCTURE
The practice of inserting fine needles into specific points on the body to facilitate healing.
MOXIBUSTION
The practice of warming or heating of individual acupuncture points or regions of the body by burning the herb Artemisia close to or actually on the inserted needle. The heat is able to penetrate deeply into the muscles and essentially strengthens the actions
of the needles.
CUPPING
The practice of applying vacuum cups to the skin most commonly used on the back to increase the circulation the area. The cups can also be moved on the skin creating an effect like a reverse pressure massage.
CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE
The practice of combining medicinal substances (plant, mineral, animal) to create a therapeutic prescription.
The herbs may either be taken internally or applied externally
to the body.
JAPANESE
ACUPUNCTURE
Japanese Acupuncture is a very gentle style of treatment focusing on the correct acupuncture points and mild stimulation to affect
the natural healing power of the body.
Along with abdominal diagnosis, listening to the body's own voice when needling is the core method of Japanese Acupuncture.
COSMETIC
ACUPUNCTURE
Cosmetic acupuncture is based on a holistic approach promoting inner health, increasing collagen production to reduce the signs of aging.
ABOUT US
James McNeill
James McNeill graduated from the NSW
College of Natural Therapies in Sydney
after four years full time training in
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) including internship training in Hangzhou,
China in 1984.
James is a past president of AcupunctureNZ
and member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health tasked with advising government. From 2001 until 2004 he was appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health
James is an award winning author, singer/songwriter and father of three fabulous children. He is also a Qi Gong practitioner and particularly enjoys helping with stress disorders and all pain related issues.
Jacqui Kiddle
Jacqui Kiddle has over 30 years experience in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She has a Bachelor of Science from Canterbury University graduating in Psychology and then going on to study Traditional Chinese Medicine at the NSW College of Natural Therapies in Sydney. This included an internship at the Zhejiang Medical Hospital in Hangzhou, China. Jacqui graduated in 1984.
Jacqui particularly enjoys treating fertility
and pregnancy issues but what she finds most rewarding is connecting with people to make lifestyle changes so that they can better manage their own health issues. Jacqui is also regular columnist for Living Hawkes Bay magazine.
Daiki graduated from the Morinomiya
University of Medical Sciences in
Osaka Japan, receiving a Bachelor of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in 2011. During his internship in a neurological clinic, he was learning Traditional Japanese Acupuncture techniques and Western medicine from Dr Sakae Yoneyama. His family is one of the most famous Acupuncturist families in Japan.
After graduation Daiki did clinical practice on cruise ships treating many people from a wide variety of countries. This experience showed him what acupuncture could achieve as well as confirming his future role in healing.
His goal is to spread Japanese Acupuncture techniques in New Zealand. Daiki feels passionate to share the Traditional Japanese techniques learned From Dr Yoneyama with patients.
Also, Daiki continues to develop his own
methods, to help more people.
Daiki Hirano
Catherine’s love of Chinese medicine was sparked nearly 25 years ago when, in chronic pain, she limped into a TCM clinic and walked out feeling better.
The practitioner she saw then told her he was going to teach her how to heal herself and became her mentor.
For the next 7 years she trained with him in Tai Chi, Qigong, Tui Na massage, Meditation and Taoist philosophy, before going on to complete her degree in Acupuncture at the London College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Since then she has used her skills working with people with special needs and has recently finished a teacher training in Qigong from the British Shiatsu College.
Her ambition is to get Qigong as widely recognised as a self-healing modality as yoga, and aims to share her love of these ancient arts in doing what that first teacher did for her – teaching people how to heal themselves.
Catherine spends her time between Napier and the sleepy little Cotswold town of Stroud where an 81 year old mother requires her healing powers as well.
Catherine Mead