What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a traditional healing practice that involves gently inserting fine, sterile needles into specific points on the body to restore balance, relieve pain, and support natural healing processes. This integrative approach can help to enhance mobility, ease chronic pain symptoms, and promote overall wellbeing, offering patients a holistic path to recovery and long-term health.
Elisa Yip is a tertiary-educated acupuncturist with a strong foundation in both Biomedical science and Chinese medicine. She completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Neuroscience) at the University of Melbourne before undertaking a double degree in Applied Science (Chinese Medicine) and Human Biology at RMIT
University.
With many years of clinical experience, she supports people with a wide range of concerns, particularly pain management, women’s health, pregnancy support and hay fever. Elisa brings together her background in neuroscience with traditional Chinese medicine to offer thoughtful, holistic care that supports each person’s
overall wellbeing.
Potential benefits of acupuncture include:
- Pain relief
- Headache and migraine reduction
- Stress and mental health support
- Improved sleep
- Allergy, hay fever and respiratory symptom relief
- Women’s health including menstrual and hormonal symptoms
- Menopause and peri-menopause symptoms relief
- Pregnancy support
