Here at the Tao Healing Arts Center of Ithaca Trumansburg Acupuncture, we take special pride in our pediatric care. We take great pleasure in helping to ease your child's symptoms, and we are often referred our pediatric patients by Buttermilk Falls Pediatrics for a variety of conditions.
We modify our treatment modalities for our young patients, and are very comfortable working with kids. We have several children who have grown up receiving our care, and we still save their drawings and cards. Working with kids requires friendliness, compassion, and the patience to earn their trust.
We utilize several modalities to make it comfortable for them to receive treatment, and a fun, relaxing experience for them (and their parents). We tend to emphasize:
*Pediatric massage is by far and away our most popular and effective treatment for disorders ranging from earaches to night terrors. We deliver gentle manual treatment to acupuncture points, channels, and body regions, and these treatments are often so effective that we do not need to do acupuncture at all. We also teach parents simple pediatric massage techniques so they can deliver highly effective treatment to their children on a daily basis.
*Chinese dietary therapy. This modality emphasizes food as medicine, and very subtle and easy to implement additions and subtractions from a child's diet can have dramatic results on digestive disorders, skin conditions, and sleeping problems.
*Acute care for cold and flu: As a parent, I am all to familiar with the seemingly perpetual viruses that kids pick up. Often, parents end up at the pediatrician's office, looking for some relief for their child, but are reluctant to put their child on medications for their runny nose or their non-infected cough. Chinese medicine offers a wonderful array of gentle techniques for the treatment of mild viruses, and they are safe, non-toxic, pain free, and effective.
*Pediatric acupuncture: While many children respond so well to other modalities that acupuncture is not required for them to get better, we have successfully treated dozens of children with specialized pediatric acupuncture. We are trained to deliver acupuncture that is completely painless for the child, and you would be surprised how many kids find the experience relaxing, and even fun! We have had several whole families come in for treatment over the years, sharing rooms, and getting better together. We always take extra time to build rapport, and make the experience calm and comfortable for everyone involved. We most commonly use acupuncture in the treatment of pediatric bed wetting, and in adolescents for a wide variety of conditions.
Herbal Medicine: We use specialized pediatric tinctures that meet Australian GMP regulations, taste sweet, and are formulated specifically for kids. My own kids, Sophie and Ryder, have grown up using Chinese herbal medicine as a first course of treatment for a variety of minor illnesses, and I regularly am full of gratitude to have access to them as a treatment option.
Please call 607-387-4577 today, and ask how we can help your child feel better with our safe, evidence based treatments.