Acupuncture in Gunnison & Crested Butte

Stimulate your body's natural recovery with expert acupuncture techniques

How Acupuncture Supports Healing

Acupuncture is the most commonly known treatment modality used in Chinese medicine. Acupuncture is the practice of piercing the skin, muscles, and body tissues with thin, sterile, single-use needles. Acupuncture is used on specific points that have a specific effect on the body. Piercing these specific points activates muscle fibers, fascia, interstitial tissues, nerves, and blood vessels. Through this network of body tissues, acupuncture has the ability to affect the internal organs as well. Manipulating these tissues of the body stimulates the bodies natural healing resources. The practice of acupuncture is relatively painless. The needles used are not hollow like the hypodermic needles you may be used to. In fact, about 10 acupuncture needles can fit inside one hypodermic needle! 

There are some cases where a small electrical current is connected to the needles and consequently flows through the network of body tissues. It is painless, and feels more like an internal massage than electricity. The continuous stimulation of the needles with the electricity has a profound effect on pain syndromes. Studies have shown that electro-acupuncture stimulates the release of several endorphins and can cause pain relief for up to several days.