Your family's health solutions are the focus of a trusted and experienced Acupuncturist
Welcome
Relieve your pain , restore your energy, and revitalise your passion for living!
For over thirty years, I’ve been fortunate enough to use Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in clinical practice, aiding my clients in finding relief from their difficult health issues.
Your progress to better health is a unique and personal journey deserving of individual care and consideration. It is a path that we travel together in a safe and supportive environment. Resolve is gained by treating the cause and the whole person, not just the presentation of symptoms.
Dr Malcolm McKay (Acupuncturist)
Practitioner, CEO of Pottsville Acupuncture
How We Help
Relieve your Pain
Your pain and symptoms are assessed, and your personal treatment plan is directed towards your unique needs.
Restore your Energy
Treating the symptoms and the cause of your health problem removes the obstacles to recovery and frees up your energy to heal.
Revitalise your passion for living
You now have the health and energy to focus on doing the things you like best.
Health Conditions
How can Acupuncture help you?
How Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine works
Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies are directed towards moving Qi and blood relieving stagnation, the cause of pain, muscle tension and decreased function.
Pain and Injury
Injury, trauma, inflammation, muscular spasm, repetitive strain, stress and fatigue are the most common afflictions experienced by the body’s musculoskeletal system. This effects posture and range of movement.
Nervous System Health
The nervous system’s job, comprised of the brain and peripheral nervous system, is to respond to our external and internal environment, ensuring constant harmony between all our organs.
Fertility, Female and Male Health
The major role of the male and female reproductive system is to produce life. It is affected by many lifestyle and metabolic processes like stress, inadequate nutrition and environmental pollutants.
Digestive Disorders
Symptoms of digestive dysfunction start as burping, abdominal bloating and constipation and can accelerate to reflux, indigestion, loose stools, Irritable Bowel and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Cosmetic Acupuncture
Facial cosmetic acupuncture known as Facial Rejuvenation is gentle, safe and natural. The application can be used to assist the softening of facial lines and wrinkles, lift sagging, increase firmness and boost blood circulation.
Fatigue and Immune
The Immune system is in charge of the body’s defensive response to infection or the introduction of harmful elements (chemicals, food) into the body.
More...
See the World Health Organisation (WHO) list of conditions proven to be effectively relieved by Acupuncture.
What our Clients think about us
One of Three Best Rated Acupuncturists in the Tweed Shire, NSW
Services
Your treatment plan includes
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
Gentle use of sterile needles to stimulate the body’s electrical energy (Qi).
Moxa
Moxa
The warming of the skin or heating of acupuncture needles with burning sticks or cones of ground young mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris).
Herbs And Supplements
Herbs And Supplements
Integration of internal Chinese Herbal Medicine and Nutritional Supplementation.
Therapeutic Massage
Therapeutic Massage
Tui Na and various massage styles and techniques are used to move blocked energy (Qi) through the body following the principles of Chinese Medicine.
Diet And Exercise
Diet And Exercise
Dietary modification to support digestion, assimilation of nutrients and energy metabolism.
Gua Sha
Gua Sha
The Chinese Spoon is applied to areas of the body to relieve muscle pain and tension. Pressure and sliding action is used.
Magnetic InfraRed Heat Lamp
Magnetic InfraRed Heat Lamp
The deep penetration of infrared heat promotes pain relief, relieves muscle spasm and stimulates wound healing and tissue regeneration.
Cupping
Cupping
Cupping promotes pain relief, circulation, detoxification and clears congestion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Acupuncture needles are very fine and inserted into energy wells that absorb the needle stimulation without pain. Due to gentle support most clients make the transition to needle application as a personal preference.
Acupuncture is not the only method of stimulating Qi. Clients who are at first concerned or anxious of needles can receive electro-acupuncture, moxibustion, manual point stimulation, Traditional Chinese Massage as alternatives to needle insertion.
Yes, we are a registered provider under most Private Health Insurance covers.
Yes, children respond well to acupuncture. Gentle or non-invasive methods are applied.
Acupuncture has been used to treat illness and wellbeing for more than 3000 years and is a component of the Traditional Chinese system of medicine. It is the art of anatomically inserting very fine, sterile, single use needles into acupuncture points along energy channels of the body known as meridians, with the aim to relieve pain, clear energy blockages and encourage normal flow of Qi.
According to Traditional Chinese Medical Theory, acupuncture points lie along meridians where Qi flows, modern medicine may interpret this as the electrical circuit of the body. As a natural form of healing, acupuncture has the following benefits:
• provides drug-free pain relief
• effectively treats a wide range of acute and chronic ailments
• treats the underlying cause of disease and illness as well as the symptoms
• provides a holistic approach to the treatment of disease and illness, linking body, mind and emotions
• assists in the prevention against disease and illness as well as the maintenance of general well-being
The efficiency of the treatment is a result of how the needles are administered by the practitioner with regard to direction, depth and the practitioner’s intent and knowledge of the art. For the client the experience is predominantly painless and the therapeutic effect is further enhanced by the opportunity to relax, away from busy demands. Treatment may include the use of auxiliary methods such as Moxa, Cupping, Heat lamp, Herbal patches, Oriental/Remedial Massage, Supplements and or Chinese Herbal Medicine to enhance the effectiveness of the acupuncture.
Yes, you can be referred to me by your health plan manager or Doctor for treatment under your plan.
Yes, your insurer will need a letter from your GP stating you need Acupuncture treatment to assist in your recovery.
Yes, your insurer will need a letter from your GP stating you need Acupuncture treatment to assist in your recovery.
Your first consultation will generally include a health assessment and treatment. The health assessment involves an interview, health questionnaire and physical examination. Traditional diagnosis including examination of your tongue and palpation of your wrist pulses are further augmented with western clinical examination.
Such thorough enquiry using modern and traditional methods of analysis ensures we gain a deep understanding of:
• The level of care and health program required.
• Genetic and predisposing factors underlying your health condition.
• Past and present mental, physical, emotional and environmental issues pertaining to your health.
• Energetic quality of your state of health from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective. The patient interview is useful for assessing the body’s balance of yin and yang (hot or cold properties), for evaluating deficiency or excess patterns of disease, and for determining the state of the body’s internal organs and channels.
Once an assessment is made, a series of acupuncture points is selected to improve the balance of yin and yang, to harmonise a deficient or excess condition, and to nourish the organ or channel involved in the disease process. Stimulation of the selected acupoints (situated along meridians in the body) by inserting needles, promotes the flow of energy through the system, and thereby restore the body’s balance and relieve symptoms.
Acupuncture needles are very fine and insertion is generally pain free. Report any discomfort as it is important that you are relaxed and comfortable during treatment, which can last for 45 minutes. Many clients doze off to sleep, which is fine as it allows the body’s energy to absorb the effects of the acupuncture. Depending on what is required treatments are performed with the client lying down on a treatment table clothed or partially clothed and administered to the back and/or front of the body.
Lifestyle advice may also be discussed and recommended with the aim to assist healing and recovery processes.
We understand that the importance of health can be different from person to person. To cater for this, we have developed Levels of Care to suit your particular needs and health goals.
Symptomatic care
Symptomatic Level of Care is for simple acute health problems, which can be dealt with quickly. Superficial complaints can be relieved in as little as one treatment. More long-term conditions may require a Treatment Plan of two acupuncture treatments per week for up to 3-5 weeks depending on the degree of the problem. This level of care is ideal if you want a quick fix and not interested in treating the underlying cause of your health problem.
Corrective care
Our Corrective Care Level takes more time, energy and commitment. A chronic or long-term condition may require a more intensive and/or long-term program. This level of care is ideal for clients who wish to improve and maintain their health with longer term, quality health and lifestyle goals. At the end of the prescribed program you will feel renewed and understand what it takes to stay on top of your health in the future.
Health evaluations at your first consultation and results from any tests will determine the Specialised Corrective Care Program best suited to your needs. It is important that your core energy is at a level able to support deeper healing at this level of care so the first stage often involves at least 3 weeks of 2 acupuncture treatments per week as a way to improve all system responses to the healing process required. It is expected that at the end of the first stage your condition will have improved markedly and moved into a less debilitating stage or process. Next the underlying causes of your condition are addressed and deeper organ imbalances relieved by a program combining dietary modification, detoxification, nutritional supplementation and Acupuncture treatments.
Programs at this level of care are designed to reverse a lifetime of damage to organs and prevent degenerative disease. The outcome being improved performance, enhanced standard of living and quality of life.
Disease prevention and maintenance health care
A Preventative and Maintenance Health Program for Life prevents health conditions developing. When the signs and symptoms of disharmony present the disease is already active and has been for quite a while. It is only when our quality of life is lost that we seek alternative treatment. On the other-hand treatment at an earlier stage would prevent a debilitating disease crisis. Many clients adopt maintenance care programs as an effective way to reduce long-term health costs, prevent drastic health outcomes including surgery and long-term drug reliance while increasing life force and quality of life. Preventative or Maintenance Care is less demanding on the body, as it doesn’t deplete life giving energy reserves to the extent that healing a disease does. Ask one of our practitioners for more information on our Maintenance Care Program.