lupus and acupuncture
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How to help Lupus with Acupuncture and Herbs

Lupus is an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the connective tissue.  Western medicine doesn’t understand the cause of this difficult disease that mainly afflicts women. Men can also get this disease, but 9 in 10 people with lupus are women. Ninety percent of patients complain of joint pain, and 40% of patients have skin conditions and…

blog post master list
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Blog Post Masterlist – Quick Access to All Posts!

Here at Jersey Community Acupuncture, we try to post on our blog about once or twice each week. Our posts typically cover content about acupuncture and herbal medicine, but we also post about Nicole’s experiences, local/clinic events, and updates about the clinic itself! Because we post so frequently, this means that some posts (such as…

The choices we make; daoism
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The Choices We Make: Building Our Lives Everyday 

This post is from January 2015: I just finished up a weekend course on Daoism, Chinese Medicine and Health. I love taking CEU’s. It gives me the opportunity to take a break, take a breath and refocus on my vocation. Why am I doing what I do? How can I do my best at what…

Painful periods and acupuncture
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Painful Periods: Acupuncture’s Natural Relief 

Many women believe that painful periods are something that they will always have to suffer through. The most common western treatment for most things regarding a menstrual cycle is hormonal pharmaceuticals, such as birth control pills. Not every woman wants to be on the pill for years, due to concern over the long term use of…

Common Questions Guide: Acupuncture 101
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Common Questions Guide: Acupuncture 101

What are you doing with those needles? How do you know where to put them? This is a really complex question! It took your practitioners 4 years of acupuncture school, and a year of internships to figure it out. It’s hard to condense all that experience into a simple answer. Our main goal is to…

Overcome PTSD: How Acupuncture Can Help You Heal
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Overcome PTSD: How Acupuncture Can Help You Heal

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. A diagnosis of PTSD is becoming more common. After…

Lyme Disease: How Chinese Medicine Can Help 
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Lyme Disease: How Chinese Medicine Can Help 

Lyme disease is tricky. If the person is lucky, they present with an obvious bulls-eye rash and overt symptoms that easily lead to a quick diagnosis. A course of antibiotic therapy to rid the body of the pathogen, followed up with acupuncture and herbal medicine to help the body return to balance, is usually an…

Back Pain & Unique Remedies: What’s Rabbit Fur Got To Do With It?
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Back Pain & Unique Remedies: What’s Rabbit Fur Got To Do With It?

Lower back pain is a common complaint. You can have acute low back pain from lifting something; hopefully it’s only a muscle spasm. You can have chronic back pain from pelvic instability or herniations of discs or the narrowing of your spinal canal or … there are so many options.  Too many options. Acupuncture does…

Free Yourself from the Stress: Self Care During the Holidays
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Free Yourself from the Stress: Self Care During the Holidays

Chances are, your switch is still set at fast and furious to get all your holiday work done.  This past week, more clinic goers have been asking me to help them reduce holiday stress. We all need to remember to slow down.  Has the cold already encouraged you to retreat inside and to rest? Are…

Acupuncture for Mental Health Concerns
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Acupuncture for Mental Health Concerns

Anxiety, Depression and Acupuncture  Anxiety and depression are very common in our communities, but people do not share their experiences very often. As an acupuncturist, I see stress, at the very least, as one of the common causative factors in many health concerns. Some of us experience anxiety and depression as our stress builds and…

Comprehensive Cancer Care with Acupuncture
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Comprehensive Cancer Care with Acupuncture

How Acupuncture Can Support Your Care Plan. *Note: This blog post was originally published to our original blog on 10/16/2009. The information shared in this post is still accurate and is quite important to the current functioning of our clinic space. Thanks, and enjoy. In June of 2009 I was able to attend an integrative…

Fall Acupuncture Tune-Up: When Your Body Needs a Boost
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Fall Acupuncture Tune-Up: When Your Body Needs a Boost

As the seasons shift, our bodies become more susceptible to illness. When the weather changes from warm summer days to cool, damp autumn, we see the cold and flu season begin to start. Your body works hard to adapt between the cold days and lingering warm days, but sometimes it needs a little help. Chinese…

Nicole Maniez, Lic Ac, MAOM

Nicole Maniez, Lic Ac, MAOM

Nicole Maniez, MAOM, Lic Ac, earned her Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture in 2008. She is Board Certified and licensed to practice acupuncture and herbal medicine in New Jersey and Pennsylvania by the Board of Medicine. Nicole became nationally certified in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and…