At Stone Wellness, balance is at the heart of how we view your health. This includes nutrition, exercise, pain relief and the treatment of acute and chronic conditions with acupuncture and myofascial therapy. We offer these primary services, as well as others:
AcuPoint Injection Therapy (Homeopathic injections)
Tui Na and Gua Sha (Chinese pain relief treatments)
Cupping
Nutritional/Dietary Advice
B-12 Injections
Compassionate Healthcare
Two common questions about acupuncture are, “How does it work? and What does it treat?” While many people are aware that needles are involved, they often don’t understand how these needles relate to pain relief and overall health improvement. Acupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years for a reason: it’s effective!
At its core, acupuncture aims to restore the body’s natural balance, or homeostasis. The body inherently seeks equilibrium but sometimes requires assistance to achieve it. The practice is based on the concept of Qi (pronounced "chee"), which flows through channels (pathways) in the body. Qi is our life force, generated from breath, food, and essence—it’s what gives us life. When the flow of Qi is disrupted, it can lead to imbalances. By regulating Qi through these channels, acupuncture helps restore harmony. From a Western scientific perspective, acupuncture points stimulate the central nervous system, triggering the release of chemicals in the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. This biochemical response enhances the body’s natural healing abilities, reduces inflammation, and promotes both physical and emotional well-being.
Various factors can lead to imbalances in the body, including stress, trauma, anxiety, poor diet, accidents, overwork, illness, grief, anger, and other emotional challenges. An imbalance can often result in suffering and pain, sometimes manifesting later on. Acupuncture encourages the movement of Qi, opening blocked pathways and allowing the body to return to its natural state of balance.
Enjoy the beauty of the outdoors while receiving treatment in this lovely private room at Stone Wellness.
Every individual is unique, which is why a comprehensive intake process is essential for understanding specific issues. Building trust with your practitioner and being open during this intake is important for an effective treatment. Initial visits typically last between one and a half to two hours. During this time, you’ll answer questions about your health history, current concerns, and specific symptoms. The practitioner may also palpate painful areas to gather more information. A complete assessment includes checking the pulse on both wrists and examining your tongue (please avoid brushing your tongue or consuming colored foods prior to your appointment). This comprehensive approach helps form your diagnosis and treatment plan, which may involve addressing a single imbalance or multiple interconnected issues.
After your consultation, you will receive a treatment tailored to your diagnosis.
The needling process is gentle and often causes only mild sensations, if any. In addition to acupuncture, adjunctive therapies such as fascial release, cupping, herbs, and nutritional counseling may be incorporated to help you achieve your wellness goals.
Due to its holistic approach, acupuncture treats the whole person and not just the symptoms. Here is a list of some of the disorders that can be treated:
Bone, Muscle or Joint Problems including arthritis, backache, inflamed injured or strained muscles, sciatica
Cardiovascular Disorders including angina, high or low blood pressure, stroke
Infertility
Disorders of the Head and Face including facial paralysis, headaches, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, vertigo
Chronic sinus issues, nosebleeds, upper respiratory colds, flu, sore throat
Endocrine problems including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism
Gastrointestinal disorders
Gynecological problems including menstrual issues such as amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, PMS, menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia
Liver and gall bladder disorders
Mental and emotional disorders including addiction, depression, hysteria, insomnia, phobias
Respiratory disorders including asthma, bronchitis (acute and chronic), cough (chronic), frequent colds
Sexual issues including lack of libido, impotence, painful intercourse
Skin disorders including eczema, psoriasis
Urinary disorders including cystitis, incontinence, proctitis, retained urination
Fascia (fah-sha) is connective tissue made of collagen fibers that looks similar to a spider web. This connective tissue covers all major structures of the body, including bones, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and organs. It even covers the spinal column, skull and the brain itself. Fascia is found between the sutures of the cranium, around the pulp of our teeth and even in our eyes. It prevents friction between bodily structures during movement, enabling them to move smoothly against each other. Additionally, it interconnects all of our systems, all of our cells, which is why issues in one area of the body can affect other areas. It turns out that acupuncture has been treating our fascia all along - an acupuncture treatment can relax the entire fascia body. That explains the feeling of deep relaxation post treatment.
Fascia research shows that fascia is highly innervated (full of nerve endings) and is constantly giving feedback to the brain. This innervation means that our fascial system is responsible for much of our proprioception— our position sense, our muscle coordination and our spatial awareness. Damage or restriction to our fascia can cause muscles to turn off or on, or can cause us to be off balance or in pain.
Our fascia is designed to hold us together and to protect us from injury, so it’s like the first line of defense. Because of this, it can be impacted by many things in both positive and negative ways. Thing like falls, slips, automobile accidents, concussions, as well as chronic repetitive movements (think baseball pitcher or hours on a computer) and surgeries can cause our fascia to stiffen, creating imbalance. These imbalances may not be noticed by us initially, but eventually these restrictions in our fascia can result in unexplained pain and discomfort, i.e. nerve pain, limited range of motion, headaches, lack of muscle tone, balance issues, confusion, etc. While we know other habits can cause problems for the fascia - like dehydration, poor sleep, poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, we continue to discover that this is just the tip of the iceberg. It seems even things like high levels of stress and emotional trauma can play a big part in the health of our fascia as well. We need our fascia to be healthy and supple to live our best, pain-free, healthy lives.
Fascia Reset™ Therapy was founded by Dr. Susan Stone after years of working with other methods of fascial release and using her experience with acupuncture, Chinese medicine and kinesiology to put it all together into one gentle, effective therapy.
Fascia Reset Therapy targets the fascia and the nervous system, helping to resolve long-standing imbalances in the tissue and improve healing. We use tension mapping (gentle palpation) to locate and release the strains in the fascia causing the imbalance. This process can unlock years of restrictions that were are causative in both limitation, and pain.
This approach addresses the root causes of persistent pain resulting from injury, surgery, or postural imbalances, aiding in the process of reestablishing the body’s optimal state of well-being.
Based on our experience of working with thousands of patients using this method, we are able to locate and release the fascial restrictions that have built up over the years and essentially “Reset” your system to have you feeling more like yourself after just a few treatments. In this highly effective and gentle method of manual therapy, we are able to release even the deepest fascial restrictions, making it wonderfully effective for brain injuries, spinal injuries, falls and much more. See what our client’s have to say about it!
•Hydration. •Healthy diet. •Get good sleep. •Movement •Infrared Sauna
Note: Changing up your routine is helpful - don’t do the same things every day. Make your brain work. If you have a sitting job, get up and move every 30 minutes or so, take deep breaths and stretch. If you have a more physical job - rest.
We also recommend checking out a fabulous and inexpensive book by Dr. Daniel Fenster - Free Your Fascia, available on Amazon.com for under $12.
FasciaReset™ Therapy is unique. This work is a cumulation of Dr. Stone’s years of practice of both acupuncture and Residual Strain Therapy™. She has joined the two together to create an extremely effective, and gentle, needle-free therapy that can reduce or eliminate pain and optimize the way your body functions.
Dr. Stone has recently completed her first training course in this therapy and hopes to bring this training to therapists around the globe. If you are, or if you know someone who is a therapist who would like to learn Fascia Reset™ Therapy, please use this link to access the website for more information and training.
Conditions that Often Respond Well to FasciaReset Treatment:
BACK PAIN
HIP PAIN
CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHES/MIGRAINES
CERVICAL PAIN
RECOVERY FROM A FALL OR CAR ACCIDENT
TENDONITIS
KNEE PAIN
ANKLE PAIN
SCIATICA
SPINAL STENOSIS
NEUROPATHY
SHORTNESS OF BREATH
CARPAL TUNNEL
HEAD INJURIES - CONCUSSIONS
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
TMJ
SURGERIES
VERTIGO AND BALANCE ISSUES
DIGESTIVE ISSUES
INFERTILITY
BLADDER ISSUES
MENSTRUAL ISSUES
OVERALL FEELING OF TIGHTNESS OR DISFUNCTION
IMPROVING OVERALL PERFORMANCE
HOLDING CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS
Caring for your health is a lifelong job. Stone Wellness offers a variety of services for all patients to facilitate ease throughout this journey. Just as adding FasciaReset™ Therapy to your acupuncture treatments helps pinpoint deep tissue trauma, our infrared sauna can facilitate yet another level of healing .
Unlike a traditional sauna, infrared saunas do not heat the air around you. Instead, they use infrared lamps (that use electromagnetic radiation) to warm your body directly. These types of saunas use infrared panels instead of conventional heat to easily penetrate human tissue, heating up your body before heating up the air.
An infrared sauna can operate at a lower temperature (usually between 120˚F and 140˚F) than a traditional sauna, which is typically between 150˚F and 180˚F. In doing this it allows the heat to penetrate more deeply than warmed air. This allows you to experience a more intense sweat at a lower temperature. The infrared sauna environment could be found to be more tolerable, which allows you to stay in the sauna longer while increasing your core body temperature by two to three degrees.
Similar to a traditional sauna, the infrared sauna contributes to your overall health and well-being by helping you relax, loosening up stiff or tight muscles, reducing joint pain, and giving you some much needed time to yourself. Throughout their day-to-day lives, patients who regularly use our infrared sauna have seen various improvements such as:
better sleep
relaxation
detoxification
weight loss
relief from sore muscles
relief from joint pain such as arthritis
clear and tighter skin
improved circulation
chronic fatigue syndrome
There is nothing quite like a 20-minute sweat session in a sauna. You feel more relaxed and rested after you are done, and the heat helps relieve sore muscles and improves your overall health and well-being, but if the high temperatures of a traditional sauna are just too much for you to handle, an infrared sauna may offer the benefits of a sauna without the extreme heat.
The article and video links below will give you an overview on what to expect.
If you have any health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart problems, or are under medical care, check with your doctor before your first session. We always recommend that you speak with your healthcare provider about any questions or concerns you may have before engaging in any new therapies, techniques or sessions of any kind.
Check out the links below for related clinical and research information!