Acupuncture Treatments in Seattle for Better Health

Acupuncture - Imagine living with less physical and emotional pain, with more freedom of movement, and with greater energy, balance, and intention. When Seattle’s Sandra Broberg, Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc) and Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner (AEMP), formulates your treatment plan, that’s her commitment to you.

With a focus on pain relief, musculoskeletal injuries, sports medicine and orthopedics, women’s health and fertility, and digestive health, Sandra views her role as a facilitator in helping your body’s own natural healing process. As Sandra’s patient, you’ll also receive resources and education that will help you manage and improve your own health and vitality outside of Sandra’s clinic so you can more quickly regain the life you most want to live. Sandra is committed to providing caring and personalized attention. She welcomes new patients.

What is acupuncture, anyway?

Acupuncture is a complete system of health care that is used to diagnose and treat disease, prevent illness, and improve well-being. A safe and effective form of treatment that originated in China more than 3,000 years ago, acupuncture is long proven to balance and heal the body.

Very fine needles are carefully inserted into specific points on the body to stimulate your natural ability to heal itself. Studies have shown that acupuncture:

• helps control and eliminate pain
• reduces inflammation
• balances the mood
• promotes tissue regeneration and bone healing
• regulates the gastrointestinal tract
• boosts the immune system
• regulates the endocrine system for gynecological disorders
• promotes fertility.

The treatments work on both the particular symptom pattern as well as the underlying conditions that may have allowed the symptoms to develop in the first place.

Acupuncture Styles

Sandra draws upon an eclectic blend of styles that include the sports acupuncture techniques of Matt Callison and Whitford Reeves, the Balance Method treatments of Richard Tan, the system promoted by Dr. Tran Viet Dzung, and the Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion techniques of the Kiiko Matsumoto and Master Nagano style. She is certified in the Kiiko Matsumoto tradition.

COVID-19 Policy

Please do not come in to your appointment if you have COVID, COVID symptoms (a fever, a new cough, or an acute loss of your sense of smell), or are acutely ill. Masks are optional. They are only required if you are sick, have an acute cough, or have been in recent contact with anyone who’s been sick.

Injection Therapy

Sandra offers Acupuncture Point Injection Therapy (APIT), which combines the principles of traditional acupuncture with the benefits of modern medicine. In this therapy, natural substances such as Vitamin B12 and homeopathic remedies like Traumeel and Zeel are injected into specific acupuncture points on the body. These substances enhance the therapeutic effects of acupuncture, promoting the body's natural healing processes.

Sandra also provides Neural Therapy, which involves the injection of a local anesthetic like procaine (Novocain) into areas such as scars, trigger points, and tight muscles. This treatment helps alleviate pain, reduce muscle tightness, and decrease inflammation in the affected tissues.

Scar Injection Therapy
The goal of scar injection therapy is to improve the appearance and function of scar tissue. By injecting local anesthetics, the therapy can help soften and shrink scars, reduce redness, swelling, and tenderness, and promote the detachment of scar tissue from underlying structures. This can reduce the restriction in the surrounding area, improving mobility and comfort.

Trigger Point Injections
Trigger points are hyper-irritable nodules found within tight muscle bands, often causing localized pain and discomfort. Injection therapy can help inactivate these trigger points, prevent their formation, release muscle spasms, and improve blood circulation in affected areas. This treatment is particularly beneficial for chronic musculoskeletal issues that have not responded well to other forms of therapy.

Perineural Therapy/Hydrodissection
Perineural therapy addresses superficial nerve entrapments by superficially injecting substances in the body that include local analgesics such as procaine (Novocain) to neutralize substances in the body that increase the tenderness of nerves.

Acupuncture Office located in Seattle’s University District/U-District

Body in Balance Acupuncture is located in the University District (U-District) of Seattle, Washington at 4500 9th Ave NE, Ste. 300, Seattle, WA 98105.