Dr. Fred Lisanti, a naturopathic doctor and licensed acupuncturist at Integrative Med Solutions in Eastchester, NY, offers acupuncture treatments for a variety of conditions. Lisanti says that acupuncture is safe for everyone, including children, pregnant women and the elderly.   

“Acupuncture has been accepted by western, conventional medicine and is showing up in doctor’s offices and hospitals across the country,” he says. “It’s used for a variety of ailments, conditions and diseases such as anxiety, weight loss, high blood pressure, insomnia and chronic pain,”   

Lisanti approaches each patient’s condition with a specific intake procedure to identify the best acupuncture points for optimal effectiveness. His treatment plans may also include such therapies as clinical nutrition, nutraceutical supplementation, botanical medicine, homeopathy, detoxification, environmental medicine, counseling and clinical hypnosis.   

Acupuncture has been used to reduce pain and improve people’s quality of life for thousands of year, Lisanti says, and some theorize that it was discovered when Chinese soldiers returned from battle with arrow wounds and found that chronic pain was alleviated. “The concept is simple; energy flows throughout the body and, when it slows down or becomes stuck it can manifest as an acute or chronic affliction,” says Lisanti. “By painlessly inserting hairlike needles into specific points along correlating meridian pathways, this energy can be unstuck and sent moving again.”

Integrative Med Solutions is located at 281 White Plains Rd. in Eastchester, NY. For more information, call 914.337.2980 or visit IntMedSolutions.com.