Acupuncture for Visual & Performing Artists

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We are committed to providing authentic high quality, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Organic Body Therapies for the talented Visual & Performing Artists who create health and well being through their nurturing of the hearts and minds of the Greater Atlanta community. We recognize and commend those in the Arts as they are the cultural underpinning of a sound Society.

With regular sessions at Green Acupuncture and Med Spa you’ll enjoy immune system support, a calm relaxed state of mind, and a fluid body. We want to keep you ready for peak performance. 

Our services can help to keep you steady, strong and ready for the next audition, performance or tour.

Our success with Medicine for Performing and Visual Arts began with support for Georgia as a professional speaker and her rich background as an educator for the Arts. This engenders a certain knowledge base in our Practice. 

We address the general health and well-being of visual artists, vocalists, musicians, dancers, actors, directors, writers and all the creatives related to the Arts. We are knowledgeable of performing artists’ lifestyles, professional activities, as well as the specific challenges and stress factors affecting the mind, body, and spirit of performing artists. Our Practice includes the treatment and prevention of injuries and conditions common to artists.

Listed below are some health issues encountered by performing artists that can benefit from Oriental Medicine (TCM) Medicine/Acupuncture, and services offered in the Med Spa.

Health Conditions Common to Visual and Performing Artists

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information for the benefit of everyone’s understanding and support.

Visual Artists

The successful view built over time from Traditional Chinese Medicine embraces your body’s ability to heal naturally; with no side-effects. “Restoring balance from Root Cause imbalances” is a simple explanation for a complex effort. It works. No beliefs required. All Visual Artist including painters, sculptors, and potters have repetitive motions and activities that can cause joint pain. Ergonomics also play a role in creating discomfort. Arthritis can make these things so difficult the heart leaves.

Conditions We Treat:

Overuse injuries

Psychological stress 

Low back, neck, and shoulder complaints

Joint pain

Arthritis 

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Skin

Detox to help minimize retention of chemical exposure from industrial art mediums

MUSICIANS

Pain syndromes are by far the most common medical disorders of musicians followed by anxiety disorders. It is estimated that forty percent of all musicians and seventy percent of music students suffer from performance anxiety.

Neurological disorders such as dystonia is especially challenging. This involves loss of fine motor control due to involuntary muscle spasms. 

In order to master an instrument, most musicians spend hours practicing and perfecting technique, learning scales, arpeggios, theory and listening to others perform. Sitting in one position like this can cause painful muscles and stress your whole system. We want to help you stay balanced and at your best, producing a relaxed and ergonomic posture that promotes a confident and attractive player.

Conditions We Treat:

Upper Body - Injuries of the back, neck, shoulder, fingers, hands, wrist, jaw

Overuse and repetitive strain injuries

Shoulder impingement syndrome

Musculoskeletal

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ)

Spondylolysis

Bursitis

Tendonitis

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

DeQuervain’s Tenosynovitis

Lateral Epicondylitis (tennis elbow)

Medial Epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)

Dexterity – Support fluid technique, relief from Carpal Tunnel, etc.

Stiff Neck/Shoulder Tightness - holding your instrument in position for extended periods of time

Breath Control – Support for horn or woodwind players

Low Back Pain & Fatigue – From lengthy rehearsals

Concentration & Memory

Performance Related Stress & Anxiety

String players: Injuries of the neck, shoulder, arm, ear, nose, throat, mouth

Wind players: Lip injury, laryngoceles from excess air pressure

Percussionists: Injuries of the back, shoulder, neck, arm, wrist, hand; finger tension & pain

Pianists: Injuries of the neck, shoulder, arm, wrist, hand; back pain, finger tension

Vocalists

“In actuality, the vocal tract is the entire person, since any abnormality of the psyche or soma can give rise to an abnormality of the voice. The voice is, therefore, a measure of a person's overall sense of well-being.”

                                                               Jamie Koufman, M.D.

For thousands of years, Oriental Medicine has presented with an enduring and enriching treatment of the whole person. Modalities offer a harmonious transcendence into balance. Over time, we are a Vocalist gateway to attain repair, depth, breadth and freshness in the foundations that enable aliveness to fully express you.

Our approach examines and works to re-balance your body systems to ensure you are ready for important performances. It is balance in the whole body that brings your vocals to optimum level.

According to Chinese Medicine theory, your lungs are the most delicate of all organ systems. The change of seasons, dietary factors, fatigue, weather, and emotional strain can all play a role in any challenges you may experience.

Conditions We Treat:

Sore Throat, Difficulty Swallowing

Hoarseness, Laryngitis

Phlegm Or Tightness Blocking Your Airways

Relaxation Before Performance

Promoting Vocal Power & Projection

Allergies, Chronic/Acute Sinusitis

Aphonia

Loss of voice

Dysphonia

Abnormal voice; hoarseness

Odynophonia

Discomfort or pain associated with speaking or singing; also usually associated with abnormal laryngeal muscle tension

Vocal fatigue

Dysphonia(hoarseness) and/or dysphonia specifically associated with prolonged vocal usage

Voice break

A "momentary" pitch-specific dysphonia; a voice "crack"

Loss of range

A reduction in the pitch-range, usually a loss of a portion of the high range

Dysresonance

An abnormality of resonance

Dancers

Besides activating every muscle, tendon, ligament, and bone in your body, your nervous system and your emotional state are on call to respond when the lights go up. It is vital importance of every call and each time you step up on a stage whether it  is an audition, a rehearsal or the biggest show of your life that the collective composition of you, the dancer, ignites the stage and the audience with more than any lighting could ever provide.

Your body is everything to your art and we want to help you keep you on your feet with your full expression through preventive care and be your best recovery team when things do not go as planned.

Conditions We Treat:

Muscular Strain, Minor Tears

Bruises and Stiffness

Rehabilitation of Sprain, Break or Joint Replacement

Strength, Flexibility and Endurance Issues

Elbow, wrist, hand: Thoracic outlet syndrome, epicondylitis (tennis elbow, golfers elbow), carpal tunnel syndrome

Shoulder: Rotator cuff tear, shoulder impingement syndrome

Back: Spine injuries, low back strain, sacroiliac joint sprain, herniated discs

Hip: Snapping hip syndrome (tight iliotibial band), arthritis, piriformis syndrome, femoral stress fracture, bursitis

Knee: Patellofemoral pain, knee sprains and strains, meniscus & ligament tears, osteoarthritis

Lower leg: Shin sprains, stress fractures, stress reactions

Ankle and foot: Ankle sprains, achilles tendinitis, bunion, plantar fasciitis, impingement syndromes (dancer’s heel),  subtalar subluxation

Foot & toes: Stress fractures, more

Joints - Dancers are prone to injury in every joint in the body

ACTORS 

Control, confidence, relaxation and presence are all hallmarks of a good actor, and ingredients for a great performance.

This is best achieved when you feel great about yourself. Are you sleeping well? Do you eat well? Wouldn’t you like to be able to relax before that career altering audition, or that special scene that you have to read to get that coveted part?

We can help to keep you steady, strong and ready, which will allow you to access the deepest part of yourself when you need to. A Green Acupuncture and Med Spa patient says he comes regularly for treatments because it gives him internal peace with enhanced abilities to see himself in “the flow” of the role and minimize “over producing the character.”

Conditions We Treat:

Performance Related Stress & Anxiety

Fatigue, Sleep Issues

Fitness – Diet, lifestyle and exercise recommendations

Physical Endurance

Mental Focus

Writers

Without you so little would be written on this website. Our plan for unblocking and maintaining balanced flow in your creative life is ready. Should any of the aforementioned under Vocalist (your written voice) Actors (character development) Musicians (the flavor on the tongue of your written materials) Dancers (the energetics in your beginning to ending) be troublesome to you as well, please call.

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