Helping those with chronic pain and complex health conditions start to feel like themselves again.
Meet Our Clinic Practitioner
Hi, I'm Gavin from Acupuncture Grove, Bondi Junction.
My practice is dedicated to helping people with a wide range of complaints, with a particular focus on helping those suffering from complex chronic health conditions.
I’ve learned a lot from my own experience having been diagnosed with two autoimmune conditions, and I continue to study and research in the hope to better guide others through the tangled maze of regaining their health.
Gavin Martin-Rentz
Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist
Conditions We Treat
The ideal goal of any treatment journey is to use the techniques of acupuncture and/or herbs to give your body the chance it needs to recover and heal. As you're feeling better, we then phase out treatment until you don't need it anymore, or we find a maintenance rhythm that works for you and your lifestyle.
What To Know Before Your First Acupuncture Appointment
Frequently Asked Questions
We will start by talking about what's brought you in as well as some other important general health and history questions. Then there will then be some assessments that we'll run through together, which may include any combination of checking your wrist pulse, looking at your tongue, palpating muscles, joints and abdomen, range of motion tests and muscle tests. Once we have our baseline and I have a working idea of what we need to do, we'll start with the acupuncture treatment.
First of all, the needles used in acupuncture are much, much finer than anything you'd get at the doctor. It is normal to feel a sensation with acupuncture, such as a dull ache, heaviness or sometimes a muscle twitch, but all treatments are tailored to you and your tolerance. I work with a lot of people who are sensitive or nervous about needles and so have developed a gentle approach.
Generally, we will get feedback early on in treatment whether you're responding or not. Often, we will be able to observe some fairly immediate changes during the treatment, though because acupuncture has an accumulative effect, I would want to see how you respond over at least a series of 4 sessions or so. Within that time, we should have a good idea of how you're responding and if acupuncture will be helpful for you. From there we can figure out a plan to get you back on track, keeping in mind more chronic and complex conditions will take longer to recover from than more recent or acute issues.
No, acupuncture and dry needling or trigger point needling come from different theoretical backgrounds. Acupuncture is based on Chinese medicine and has a history of many thousands of years of development. Dry needling dates back to the 1940s and is based on the trigger point work of Janet Travel and David Simons. Dry needling got its name because they originally used much thicker hypodermic needles to inject anaesthetic or saline into trigger points, but when acupuncture started to become popular in the West, they found acupuncture needles achieved similar results and so was coined dry needling because no fluid was being injected.
Yes, though there will be certain points that we'll avoid as these points can be used at the end of pregnancy to help induce labour. If you are pregnant at any stage, it is important that you let your acupuncturist know. Having said that, acupuncture can be very helpful for a variety of issues that may come up during pregnancy.
Your herbs will be a combination of plant-based ingredients in most cases, with the ingredients provided on every bottle. If you have any allergies or sensitivities, be sure to let your practitioner know. The herbs used are typically TGA registered and so meet strict quality and safety checks for contamination and toxicity. When prescribed in pill or tablet form they are tasteless and just need to swallowed with water.
Visit Our Clinic
LOCATION ADDRESS
2/15 Bronte Rd,
Bondi Junction NSW 2022
OPENING HOURS
MON: 9:00am - 6:30pm
TUE: Closed
WED: Closed
THU: 9:00am - 6:30pm
FRI: 8:00am - 1:30pm
SAT: Closed
SUN: Closed
