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Well-known Whangaparaoa acupuncturist Leesa Jackson has opened a ground floor clinic in Orewa.
Leesa has always been interested in helping people since her own shoulder pain drove her to seek acupuncture care, on the advice of a friend.
“In five sessions, all my pain went,” Leesa says. “That’s what fuelled my interest in taking it up as a career.”
Leesa’s postgraduate training was mostly aligned with classical acupuncture. “This is a method that I get excellent results with,” she says. “One thing that patients like is that it requires no removal of clothing as all points are reached by lower limb areas.”
She says while some people seem to focus on the needles and think that acupuncture may be painful, it is actually a very relaxing as well as therapeutic process.
Leesa set-up a successful clinic in Whangaparaoa seven years ago and moved to Tamariki Plaza in Orewa last month.
She says her new clinic offers a relaxing atmosphere with lots of natural light and seemed like a natural progression towards giving her clients the best experience possible.
She says acupuncture isn’t just for pain. “I have customers who come in on a monthly basis as part of their health routine. It’s a lot like exercise – you need to do it regularly to get the ongoing benefits.”
She says she is increasingly seeing clients with lower back pain, shoulder pain, headaches and wrist issues.
“I call it ‘mouse syndrome’ because a lot of this pain is caused by the length of time people are spending on computers and digital devices.”
Leesa says acupuncture can also assist with fertility issues, birthing issues, morning sickness and pre-labour treatments which can help make labour less painful and its duration shorter.
Acupuncture can also help with anxiety and depression, and is popular with elderly folk who are looking for relief from aches and pains.
