Facial Rejuvenation aka Anti-aging with Acupuncture

Within the last year or so Facial Rejuvantion Acupuncture aka FRA have been very popular around the world. Just do a search on any search engine and you see all these website popping up talking about the benefits of using acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal mask to create that youthful look we once had or trying to keep.

As a licensed acupuncturist and been using and teaching this technique at Dongguk Royal University Medical Center, the results are very satisfactory. Most of my female and male patient that been getting this treatment over the last 3 months are very satisfy especially when they get a compliment from their family or friends that they haven't seen for awhile. Of course the success and how fast the treatment works all depends on each individual. From my master in Beijing TCM hospital that our beauty are from within, which we all heard of. But this is really true in our traditional chinese medicine point of view.

When we get a patient we first need to differentiate and diagnose what is causing the health problem if any within our body. If our body is balance and healthy then we sleep better, we eat better, and all our stress level is under control then we can look at the superficial part of the treatment. If we don't fix what is going on internally, doesn't matter what we do topically the problem will continue to persist. Just like many of the patient that comes in for pain management, I always ask them what do they do to relief their pain and the answer is always taking pain killer med. That is not treating or helping in the long term, it is just temporary relief until the med wears off. Of course acupuncture or any other alternative medicine will not fix you in one to two treatment especially if it is chronic pain. oops... getting off topic now. I will talk about pain management on another day. Back to the facial treatment...

After balancing our emotional state; stress/anxiety, insomnia, etc. we need to concentrate on our diet and exercise; how much water you drink daily, do you often get constipated, how often do you go for a daily stroll around your neighborhood or hit the gym for some cardio, etc. After we pinpoint any underlying signs and symptoms we then go to the face and concentrate what is necessary to get that youthful glowing look.

I seen many different type of approach to facial treatments. Some courses they taught in California I attended and observed dealt with acupuncture follow with these spikey roller they roll on the face to stimulate the flow of energy. I heard patients telling me they had experience facials where they use these ultrasound pen to stimulate they skin or muscles, which both patient that had experience didn't like it because it was uncomfortable. My protocol for each individual patients of course first comes the acupuncture needle on specific location on the face that the patient wants to concentrate on, follow by acupressure on the face, neck area. Every now and then all depends on the patients tone of skin I apply herbal mask and some herbal supplement to help the internal body system. After the treatment I discuss with the patient what is needed and done by the patient themselves between visit to maintain and make the treatment last longer so they don't have to come in as often. Through this protocol without using any machine, only the touch by the physician you get the best results and most satisfying by the patitents.

Here I just briefly describe about the process of a Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture, next week I will talk a little on Pain management with acupuncture and what modalities we use to relief that chronic pain we all have that comes and goes. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to discuss freely about your experience. A little note before I leave, make sure before you get any type of treatment both western and eastern you know a little bit about the background of the physician you planning to see either by other patients or colleagues. Because we are dealing with our body and health so this is very important that you are comfortable with the physician you are seeing because just the feeling and trust you have with your physician can be a cure itself.