Services

Wellness Bus

 

We are here to provide additional support for you and your clinical treatments. Chemotherapy, drug targeted, and radiotherapy are a necessary part of the treatment of breast cancer. With these therapies come a number of quality of life limiting side effects. Quality of life metrics include, levels of stress, sleep, diet and general wellbeing. There is a clear need to for physical and psychological support to regain control over their life, and acupuncture can provide this.

Physically

Acupuncture Improves Outcome

(Clinical Trial data)

  • Acupuncture has been shown in published Clinical Trials* to improve the outcome 8 conditions (listed to the left).

    *USA and Europe based studies.

  • 1. CANCER: relieve all side effects of chemotherapy

  • 2. DIGESTIVE: reduce “leaky gut” syndrome and IBS symptoms

  • 3. ENT: improve inflammatory symptoms of the sinuses

  • 4. GYNAECOLOGICAL: improves period pain and improves egg quality and rates of fertilised egg implantation

  • 5. MUSCULOSKELETAL: treatment clinically improves muscles soreness, tightness and pain associated with muscle fibres, tendons, arthritis and nerve related pain including sciatica

  • 6. NEUROLOGICAL: improves nerve pain in the head that presents as migraine and headache. Improve nerve and muscular coordination for stroke/palsy and peripheral nerve damage from diabetes, chemotherapy and advanced age

  • 7. RESPIRATORY: similar to ENT treatment alleviates symptoms from allergies and inflamed sinuses

  • 8. EMOTIONAL: treatment relaxes the sympathetic nervous system to release “happy” hormones improving mood and overall emotional state.

Mentally & Emotionally

 

  • The evidence currently available suggests that acupuncture is a safe and effective therapy to manage cancer and treatment related symptoms.

  • Having treatment that makes you feel better rather than worse is what you need, it is the pure definition of complementary! 

  • A sense of calm and giving patients the ability to actively participate in their own care plan, enhances overall quality of life.

Socially

 

  • There are approximately 130 cancer-treating medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. This cost the Government around $2 billion in 2016-17. Improvements in quality of life correlate with improvements in duration for recovery, relapse rate, need of anti-nausea medicines and need for psychological support, all of which incur costs on the Australian Health system.