ACUPUNCTURE | TUINA | CUPPING
ACU HEALTH CENTRE
Meet Violaine Vair-Piova
Acupuncturist, Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialist
Violaine holds a Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture) and a Diploma of Tuina from the NZ School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Violaine has solid knowledge of the human body, its physiology, and its energy flows, as well as the mental processes involved in motivation, the management of emotions, and the furthering of self-knowledge.
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Her goal is to improve the overall well-being of her patients and maintain a healthy mind and body.
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She treats a range of issues including pain management, weight management, headaches/migraines, sports injury, fatigue, mental/emotional health, allergies, digestive issues, sleep disorder, and more.
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She has had impressive outcomes with fertility treatments and menstrual disorders.
For people who fear needles, Violaine’s approach is gentle.
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Violaine will regularly offer advice through her blog, accessible to all. The goal is that each person can understand and interpret the messages that their body sends to them to rebalance and have a long and healthy life.
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With a French background, Violaine lived in several countries before settling in New Zealand ten years ago. Her life experience has enabled her to develop key skills such as listening, communicating, patience, finding suitable solutions, and encouraging optimism within those around her.
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Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, exploring New Zealand, reading, and gourmet cooking.
What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
At least 2500 years old, TCM for Traditional Chinese Medicine - is a scholarly medicine, formalised, and written medicine, which brings together a set of theories and practices concerning human being and their health.
TCM has its own philosophical and symbolic basis and considers that human beings and the universe are subject to the same natural laws:
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The human being is a small universe, a microcosm, modelled on the entire universe, the macrocosm.
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The human being and the universe are in a permanent relationship exchange.
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The human being maintains a similar relationship with the cycles of nature (season, days…)
TCM is based on a holistic approach to the individual by considering the physical, emotional, psychic, and spiritual dimensions as a whole, and by conceiving its functioning in its personal and family history, its social, geographical, and even cosmological context.
TCM is based on several foundations: Qi (energy), Yin & Yang, the five movements, meridians, and acupuncture points.
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TCM uses different techniques such as Acupuncture, Tuina, Cupping, Gua Sha, Moxibustion, and herbal medicine.
Acupuncture can help with several health concerns such as
pain management, weight management, headaches/migraines, sports injury, fatigue, mental/emotional health, allergies, digestive issues, sleep disorder, women’s and men’s health, and more.
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An acupuncture session consists of a Chinese Medical diagnosis, which is followed by a specifically formulated combination of acupuncture and Tuina manual therapy.
The treatment will be tailored to meet individual healthcare needs.
Headache/Migraine
Headaches and migraines are symptoms that often occur as a result of emotional tension (especially anger which is linked to the liver meridian). Headaches or migraines are often caused by external pathogenic factors (eg: cold wind), during overwork, digestive disorders, or physical trauma (an accident for example). Acupuncture will help relieve headaches by rebalancing the overall energy of the body.
Fatigue/Tiredness
Fatigue/tiredness is often caused by physical exhaustion, which encompasses a variety of underlying causes (heredity, overwork, emotions, diet, activity or inactivity, etc.). It is a symptom of an imbalance of Qi (energy). It is both this energy of the universe, which constitutes us as humans and the vital energy which animates us (the breath) and circulates in the meridians. Acupuncture will correct this imbalance by treating the cause, which will eliminate fatigue/tiredness or at least reduce it.
Sleep Disorders/Insomnia
Acupuncture restores the balance between Yin and Yang. Indeed, according to TCM, sleep disorder/insomnia is caused by a broken relationship between Yin and Yang and can have various causes: frequent awakenings indicate a disturbance in the kidneys, while sleep disturbed by many dreams or nightmares rather reveals an imbalance in the liver, for example.
By determining the origin of sleep disorder/insomnia and targeting specific points, Acupuncture will be able to dissipate tension or even strengthen areas in which patients are deficient.
Women's Health
Acupuncture treats a wide range of women's health from puberty, menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, postpartum, and menopause.
Weight Loss
Acupuncture will act on the regulation of appetite and on the external factors that disturb the internal balance:
- Stress
- Anxieties
- Hormonal imbalance
Emotional Disorders
Emotions can refer to any feeling, such as fear, sadness, grief, worry, anger, thinking, rumination, and stress can hurt internal organs if very intense and persistent for a long time. Acupuncture will act on the affected organ and will restore balance.
Treatments
40 New Zealand dollars- 35 New Zealand dollars
- 100 New Zealand dollars
- 80 New Zealand dollars