As Designed Wellness is your premier destination for acupuncture, functional medicine and cupping, serving Dana Point, San Clemente, Laguna Beach, and neighboring areas!
Led by Dr. Susan Jeffries, our practice embodies integrative natural medicine. We believe in our inherent biological capacity to thrive, recognizing that our choices either propel us toward or steer us away from optimal well-being.
Our treatment approaches range from gentle to appropriately intense, always tailored to your needs. During initial sessions, we typically start with a moderate or lighter touch, adjusting as necessary for optimal results. Incorporating Sports Medicine Motor Point Therapy into nearly every session underscores our commitment to enhancing functional movement, while addressing potential underlying factors like PTSD to amplify the effectiveness of each treatment.
A common query revolves around the mechanics of our methods. Through acupuncture and bodywork, we reset nerve-muscle connections and prompt the release of beneficial chemicals and hormones, alleviating pain and inflammation. The needles act as catalysts, empowering your body's innate healing abilities to work their magic.
While this clinic does not specialize and may not treat every ailment on this list; Chinese medicine does help almost every system of the body. Every tissue of the body has special relationships with the organs, and the five organs themselves are interrelated as well.
Acupuncture regulates fluid metabolism, blood circulation, the autonomic nervous system and the immune system.
Sinus & Airway
Acute bronchitis
Bronchial asthma
Sinusitis
Common cold
Leukopenia (low white blood cells)
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Shingles
Acupuncture effects electrical systems of smooth muscle by enhancing the transportation circuits in tissues.
Nausea and vomiting
Constipation
Diarrhea
Abdominal pain
Intestinal spasm
Colitis
Ulcer
Heartburn
Gallbladder stones
Spasm of the esophagus and cardiac muscle
Hiccups
Acupuncture effects and regulates the blood components by way of improving circulation and detoxification.
Hypertension
Hypotension
Hyperlipidemia
Raynaud syndrome
Acupuncture stimulates the secretion of endorphins in the brain and spinal cord. Ear acupuncture and clinical nutrition is most effective in this case.
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Tobacco dependence
Acupuncture stimulates the release of natural opioids which normalizes autonomic nerves thereby clearing and enhancing communication networks within the body.
Bell’s palsy
Sleep Disorders
Head Injury
Facial spasm Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Eye issues
Earache
Headache
Ménière disease
Sore throat
Conjunctivitis
Acupuncture affects higher areas of the brain by way of sensory neurons, stimulating the secretion of endorphins in the spinal cord.
Depression
Competition stress syndrome
PTSD
Long term stress dysfunction
Sleep disorders
Anxiety
Memory loss
Acupuncture regulates hormones by way of calming the nervous system’s stress response.
PMS
Delayed labor
Labor pain
Malposition of fetus
Morning sickness
Female infertility
Ovary dysfunction
Female urethral syndrome
Lactation dysfunction
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Prostatitis
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Retention of urine, traumatic
Kidney stone
Renal colic
Acupuncture activates nerve receptors and ‘jumps’ the proprioceptive (sensory nerve) pathway to reset the transmission of pain.
Facial pain
TMJ
Headache
Fibromyalgia
Knee pain
Low back pain
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry
Postoperative pain
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
TMJ dysfunction
Osteoarthritis
Cancer pain
Gout