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Original Osteopathy
8551 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 765 4044
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Los Angeles osteopath Arash Jacob, D.O. welcomes
patients also receiving Acupuncture treatment.
 Cranial Osteopathy and Acupuncture work quite well together. While the Cranial Osteopath removes restrictions in body tissues and restores normalcy, the Acupuncturist removes the energetic obstructions preventing health. Both attempt to bring wholeness to the body. Both practices view disease as an aberration in the normal state of things, a piece out of harmony with the whole. And both aim to restore health by uniting that which ails to that which is working healthfully. In Cranial Osteopathy, the practitioner's hands diagnose. Those same gentle hands issue cure. Acupuncture uses tongue and pulse reading together with the patient's history to diagnose. Needles and herbs deliver cure. Both crafts recognize that the body's intelligence reigns supreme and that the doctor is its faithful assistant.
Acupuncture's strength is in its ability to change cellular physiology, with needles but especially with healing herbs. At my osteopathic clinic in Los Angeles, I have noted benefit in cases of internal organ and nervous system distress especially. Cases of stomach/gastrointestinal difficulty, breathing distress, and infertility, to name a few, have responded well to Acupuncture. Many of my patients use Acupuncture together with Cranial Osteopathy and experience great result.
Cranial Osteopathy's strength is in its ability to treat physical trauma most successfully. I have noted that Acupuncture has some difficulty treating physical trauma. For example, babies that are induced, c-sectioned, experience long labor time, and delivered with forceps or suction are susceptible to such trauma. These children do very well with Cranial Osteopathy. Orthodontic treatment and dental extractions are another form of insidious physical trauma that can yield ill effect. Children or adults with such histories also do very well with Cranial Osteopathy. Then we have the slew of those things usually considered as physical trauma-falls, car accidents, fractures, strains, sprains, concussions, etc. All effects from such traumas are easily treated by your friendly Cranial Osteopath.
If one is receiving Cranial Osteopathy and Acupuncture, it's best if the two are spaced about three days apart. This will allow the body to integrate one treatment before the other is applied. |
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