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22/07/2025
Cupping is one of the oldest methods used in traditional Chinese medicine.🌿 Though the exact origin is often debated, cupping was first documented in Egypt in one of the oldest medical textbooks known to date. It is now used widely throughout the world🌎, most notably by professional athletes and Hollywood stars alike, many of whom find cupping to be an integral part of their self-care.✨
🌞Summer is the season of yang—bright, hot, energetic, and expansive. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this is the time when the Heart and Small Intestine meridians are most active, and our diets should support cooling the body, nourishing fluids, and harmonizing digestion. TCM sees health as a dynamic balance of yin and yang, and in summer, the key is to stay cool without overburdening digestion or depleting energy.
🌱Check out our blog to learn the essential summer nutritional tips inspired by TCM to help you stay vibrant, balanced, and healthy during the hottest months of the year.
✨New Blog!✨
Sciatica is a common and often debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide.🌍 It’s characterized by pain that radiates along the sciatic nerve—typically from the lower back through the hips and buttocks, and down one leg. While conventional treatments like medication💊, physical therapy, or even surgery💉 are commonly prescribed, many are turning to acupuncture for a more natural, holistic approach to pain relief.
🌱🌞 In this post, we’ll explore how acupuncture works to relieve sciatic pain, what the treatment involves, and why it might be a worthwhile option if you’re seeking alternatives to traditional pain management.
Despite its ✨trendy status✨, cupping has actually been around for over 3000 years. First documented in ancient China during the Han Dynasty, cupping has since been said to treat a variety of conditions, from coughs😷 to snake bites🐍. In the 1950s, it became an official form of therapeutic medicine, gaining support from hospitals around the world🌎. Since then, numerous studies have proven cupping to be able to relieve pain better than most conventional drugs and treatments.
"River City Wellness, a local Louisville acupuncture and holistic care clinic, has set up shop at their new location, 13000 Equity Place, Suite 105, Louisville, KY 40223. In their new space, Lindsay Matthews, M.Ac.O.M, L.Ac and Shelley Ochs-Cooley, Ph.D., L.Ac., are excited to introduce this new clinic for current clients and all of their clients in the future."
💡Did you know that over 20 million Americans live with some form of thyroid disease, and many others struggle for years before receiving a diagnosis?
Suffering from a thyroid imbalance or any of the thyroid disorders that exist often means feeling unwell inside while looking “fine” on the outside. If you’ve spent months or even years seeking answers from doctors and healthcare providers, only to be misdiagnosed or given generic treatments, you are not alone.
Many patients with conditions like Hypothyroidism or Adrenal Insufficiency find that managing their symptoms requires more than just medication—it often requires:
🌱 Lifestyle Changes
🌞Stress Management
🌷Complementary Therapies
Did you know that an under active thyroid, or hypothyroid, is a very common medical condition? According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an estimated 4.6 percent of the U.S. population ages 12 years and up has hypothyroidism. That’s nearly 5 out of 100 people.
Depending on the severity of the condition, individuals struggling with hypothyroidism often experience a variety of symptoms including:
- Weight gain
- Constipation
- Cold intolerance
- Brain fog
- Fatigue
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Dry skin, and
- Thinning hair
Although most common in older women, hypothyroid-related problems can happen to anyone, even as a symptom of autoimmune disorders such as Celiac or Hashimoto’s disease.
Interested in learning more?
✨Check out our blog about chemical-free hypothyroid treatment options.✨
✨Dry needling and acupuncture may seem very similar. They both involve the insertion of long, thin needles into points along the body and are used to treat a number of different medical conditions.
However, as practices, they really couldn’t be more different. While acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments, dry needling is a modern procedure performed by physical therapists to target specific muscular pain. 🌿
❄️ Hello, Winter!!❄️
As the cold weather makes its way in and the days get shorter, what better time to focus on our health than now? From a Chinese medical perspective, the seasons have a profound effect on our growth and well-being, shifting our bodies in gentle ways day by day.
In our newest blog, we take a brief look at winter, how it affects our body and how we can establish some practices to stay in harmony through the coming months.
The holiday season, while filled with joy and anticipation, can often become a whirlwind of social events, family gatherings, and gift-giving.
The combination of increased social obligations and shorter days can lead to feelings of Seasonal Affective Disorder aka S.A.D., marked by feelings of increased stress and anxiety.
Fortunately, there are things that we can do to find relief. ✨ With a few intentional winter wellness strategies, we can not only survive this busy time but thrive.
To learn about how we can embrace the beauty of winter months while minimizing the challenges, check out our newest blog!
👉www.rcwacupuncture.com/winter-wellness-navigating-the-season-with-grace/
08/10/2024
It’s no secret that women’s health concerns are often downplayed in the doctor’s office, chalked up as “psychosomatic” or “normal” pain. On average, women wait 18 minutes longer than men to receive pain medicine in the ER, and 83% of women have faced gender discrimination from primary care providers, leading many to find other avenues for care, including Traditional Chinese Medicine and Holistic Medicine. Luckily, studies have shown that acupuncture can help those struggling with thyroid disorders, menstrual imbalances, and many other common female health concerns.🙌 We have compiled a list of ways acupuncture can help anyone facing women’s health-related symptoms, and how it can support women’s lives! 😊👭
Did you know 75% of people with spring allergies also experience fall allergies? 🍁 As summer comes to a close, many of us aren’t thinking about allergies… but just like the fall season, they’re right around the corner! 👀 With the leaves falling and temperatures starting to drop, it's important to stay on track and treat your allergies. To help you out, we’ve listed some common fall allergens, symptoms you might experience, and how to treat your allergies. 😊
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This saying holds so much truth in regards to our health and acupuncture. It is all too easy to get caught up in the go go go pace of life, frantically trying to get everything done in a day only to push our health and well being to the bottom of the list. Who has time to stretch anyway? Over time this mistreatment of the body builds up and one day you wake up sore and achy, stiff and slightly slower than the day before. You are stuck.
Not only are you stuck physically with pain or fatigue, but mentally you don’t think as clearly as you once did, your memory is not so sharp and it’s harder to complete tasks that were once easy. On the emotional side of health, the blah feeling sets in and watching tv or spending hours on social media is more enticing then a stimulating conversation with a loved one or a walk in the park. Again, you are stuck.
And don’t forget about your diet. As the pace of life quickens, concern for healthy food choices and proper eating habits gets lost to the wind. Energy is needed now and the solution is often found in energy drinks, caffeine, prepackaged meals and fast food. When this eating style is prominent, there is often a lack of nutrition, weight concerns and a disinterest in food. Stuck again.
So how do you get unstuck!
With holistic care and acupuncture of course! This is the first step of getting stuck to get unstuck. Acupuncture needles are placed strategically along meridians to rebalance and move the stuck energy. Using additional therapies of cupping, moxabustion and infrared promote circulation, freeing up the energy of the body and making you feel better.
Receiving holistic care at River City Wellness will offer an environment where growth and healing can occur alongside a deeper understanding on how the body works. There is special attention paid to both the physical and emotional body and how they relate to one another. Recommendations in lifestyle choices are given such as appropriate exercises, better food choices and ways to break poor habits. Overall awareness will be gained and you will be more in touch with what your body needs to make it feel better.
Compassionate care and an authentic desire to help others is at the root of River City Wellness and Acupuncture.
