AcuPhysio

16/09/2025

50% off your initial appointment in September.

16/09/2025

We are so happy to have Azka join us.🙌
Azka is a Senior Physiotherapist who has amazing hands-on and needling skills; great to help fix those aches, pains and injuries.
For online bookings or just to find out more go to www.acuphysio.co.nz.
Or call ☎️ 03 377 8867 to book an appointment with our friendly team.

06/09/2025

Got a pain that isn’t going away and don’t know what to do about it? Book now at AcuPhysio and let us sort it for you.

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13/08/2025

And the third most important thing to keep strong is...THIGH strength!!!
If knee pain is preventing you from walking far or working out, book an appointment now by clicking this link. link - https://nzappts.gensolve.com/acuphysio
Let's get you living better, longer!

16/06/2025

AcuPhysio is expanding and we are looking for a new PHYSIOTHERAPIST to join the team.

If you are a Physiotherapist looking to learn more about dry needling and acupuncture, then this could be your dream role – working alongside Michelle Hall, the Lead Tutor for the New Zealand Physiotherapy-Acupuncture Association.

If you’ve a passion for learning, good hands-on skills and excellent interpersonal skills, you might just be the person we’re looking for.

AcuPhysio is the seed to a new healthcare provider – INTEGRATED HEALTH GROUP, a rapidly expanding healthcare practice where the focus is on preventing DIS-EASE or resolving the underlying cause of a disorder or syndrome, using natural therapies.

Integrated Health Group stands at the forefront of a shift in healthcare provision, where the focus is on addressing causes rather than simply treating the symptoms, and enabling patients to make lasting positive changes.

You’ll be part of a fast-growing company that has one main goal: Helping people reach their health, well-being and fitness goals, using MIND, BODY, and GUT HEALTH to promote INNER HEALING.

We are growing so quickly that we need a new Physiotherapist to join our team!
If the prospect of joining a team dedicated to change sounds exciting, you may be the person we're looking for.

This role is a full-time position based in Redcliffs, CHRISTCHURCH, reporting directly to Michelle Hall, while working closely with a fast-growing team.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS www.acuphysio.co.nz/careers

15/05/2025

Essential Nutrients are therapeutic - whoop whoop! But this is bad news if you want to get these nutrients, as this means they need to be prescribed, which is utter madness.
Thank you, Julia Rucklidge, for doing the research. Now, we just need sensible politics.

12/03/2025

One of our local residents and world leader in micronutrients for the treatment of mental health disorders including ADHD and Depression Julia Rucklidge - Mental Health & Nutrition Research: Te Puna Toiora met with Medsafe last week. Her update below may be frustrating for some, but here is light at the end of the tunnel.

Update: I had the meeting with leaders at medsafe and the impasse continues. Yes, they are trying to be helpful with some guidance on how prescribers can write a letter of authority for an unapproved medicine (ie Daily Essential Nutrients because it exceeds the doses allowed on B12 and zinc). There is hope that more information will be available to prescribers to help them navigate the hoops to help their patients obtain Daily Essential Nutrients (DEN) as an unapproved medicine. Three months is the max for a prescription as that is the law. DEN with lithium can only be sold here if a wholesaler with a license to sell a medicine can be found. So far, no company has been interested. As Nature Zone (supplier of DEN-V) is not licensed to sell medicines, that is not an option.

Improving GP education IS a good thing and if that can happen, that is moving in the right direction.

Again it was made clear to me that changing the dietary supplement regulations isn’t in Medafe's hands. They just apply the law even though everyone present at the meeting (11 of us) acknowledged the regulations are no longer fit for purpose. As I have posted earlier, Hon Seymour has decided it isn't in his portfolio to make those changes.

It seems such a waste of precious resources (mine, theirs, GPs) trying to make workarounds on extremely outdated regulations for dietary supplements.

The light at the end of the tunnel is that there is new legislation being written (perhaps under Hon Costello?) and I understand that as part of that process, the DST 1985 could be updated slightly while we wait the few years for the new legislation to come into effect. I don’t know the process of how to make those changes happen; however, I have already followed up on the leads that were given to me.

Meanwhile, at the heart of it, New Zealanders suffer. Those with resources can figure out the system and import for personal use, but those without resources, continue to struggle with dysregulated, aggressive, and irritable kids who could so easily be calmed with micronutrients (and with no serious side effects). Mothers-to-be could use them to support positive birth outcomes and people with ADHD could have another choice if current options were not suitable.

Image created by AI to capture that while nothing substantial is about to change, we do have some leads to follow

03/03/2025

Is health important to you?
This petition hit my email inbox today and grabbed my attention. It is something I am passionate about. I have watched our health service deteriorate over the years. We often follow the US system of pharmaceuticals as the first line of treatment for chronic conditions. Frequently, these pharmaceuticals are not designed to cure; they simply treat symptoms and many of them cause more harm than the thing that they were prescribed for.
Our health system needs a serious wake-up call. Please sign this petition.

15/02/2025

We are running all 4 Acupuncture Foundation courses in Christchurch this year, so if you are a physio, Chiropractor, Osteopath or Doctor and wish to learn Acupuncture, this is a great course. Part A - Introduction to safe needling, is next weekend.

The Foundation Acupuncture courses Parts A, B, C and D courses are designed to introduce safe needling and both Western and Traditional concepts of acupuncture practice. The courses are for beginners and participants who want to extend their acupuncture knowledge and skills beyond dry needling or th...

14/09/2024

Another couse coming up. This time in Auckland.

The Shoulder AcuPhysio course is a two-day, theory and practical course covering needling techniques and rehab for shoulder issues.

21/06/2024

Some of you may know that I have been “studying” the mind-body connection over the last two years and one of my highlights earlier this year was attending a week-long Dr Joe Dispenza “event” in Mexico. Here I learned in more detail the astounding science and effects of the mind on the body. The event is featured in the film below.

The research being done by a team of scientist at San Diago University will likely change your view on just how amazing our minds and bodies are.

View this for FREE this weekend only:

For the first time in the history of meditation studies, scientists have discovered something profound happening inside someone’s body when a simple formula of brain and heart coherence is practiced.

30/01/2024

Graded exercise should not be recommended for people with chronic fatigue following Covid.

Graded exercise therapy should not be recommended for patients with post-exertional malaise / post exertional symptom exacerbation



https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-024-00992-5