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Medical Massage is Now Available in our Commack Office for Long Islanders

Integrating Healing: Why Medical Massage and Acupuncture Are the Ultimate Recovery Duo
At Hatice Daspinar Acupuncture PC, our mission has always been to provide holistic, root-cause healing that honors your body’s innate wisdom to repair itself. We know that chronic pain, stress, and degenerative conditions require a multi-faceted approach.

That is why we are thrilled to announce a powerful new expansion to our practice: Medical Massage Therapy is now officially available!

Led by Dr. Hatice Daspinar—who holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and recently earned her clinical massage therapy degree from the prestigious New York College of Health Professions—our practice is uniquely equipped to offer a seamless, integrative approach to wellness. By blending the ancient brilliance of acupuncture with the targeted structural relief of medical massage, we are taking your healing journey to the next level.

What is Medical Massage Therapy?
Unlike a standard spa massage meant purely for temporary relaxation, Medical Massage Therapy is outcome-oriented and clinically driven. It focuses on a specific medical diagnosis or physical ailment—such as chronic back pain, sports injuries, or post-operative tightness. Using advanced anatomical knowledge, a licensed medical massage therapist targets the precise soft tissue structures contributing to your pain and restricted mobility.

The Power of Synergy: How Medical Massage Enhances Acupuncture
While acupuncture and medical massage are incredibly effective on their own, combining them creates a powerful synergistic effect. They work on different physiological layers to achieve a common goal: total systemic relief.

Here is how medical massage acts as the perfect complement to your acupuncture treatments:

1. Enhanced Circulation and Faster Recovery
Acupuncture utilizes targeted points to stimulate the nervous system, trigger the release of endorphins, and improve systemic blood flow. Medical massage physically manipulates the muscles and soft tissues, forcing fresh, oxygenated blood into tight localized zones while flushing out metabolic waste. Together, they supercharge your body’s natural healing speed.

2. Double-Layer Pain Relief (Nervous System + Structural)
Acupuncture excels at down-regulating an overactive nervous system, turning off the “fight or flight” response, and disrupting chronic pain signals in the brain. Medical massage tackles the physical, structural counterpart by breaking up painful fascial adhesions, reducing muscular trigger points, and lengthening tight muscle fibers.

3. Deeper Acupuncture Treatments
Muscles that are locked in a state of chronic spasm can sometimes resist acupuncture needles or make the insertion more sensitive. Receiving a medical massage beforehand relaxes the superficial muscle layers and calms the patient. This allows acupuncture needles to penetrate deeper, target the correct neuromuscular junctions more comfortably, and deliver a more profound therapeutic effect.

4. Improved Range of Motion and Structural Alignment
Chronic pain often stems from poor posture, repetitive stress, or structural imbalances. While acupuncture reduces the inflammation and nerve irritation associated with these imbalances, medical massage physically coaxes the musculoskeletal system back into alignment. This dual approach restores flexibility, stabilizes joints, and prevents future injuries.

5. Comprehensive Stress and Anxiety Management
The psychological toll of dealing with chronic, degenerative, or autoimmune conditions can be exhausting. Both modalities are proven to lower cortisol (stress hormone) levels and boost serotonin and dopamine. Combining them offers an unmatched, deeply immersive experience for emotional grounding and nervous system regulation.

Conditions That Benefit Most from This Dual Approach
If you are struggling with any of the following, our integrative acupuncture and medical massage treatments are designed for you:

Acute and Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain (Sciatica, low back pain, neck strain, herniated discs)

Sports Injuries & Repetitive Strain (Carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, rotator cuff issues)

Stress-Related Disorders & Tension Headaches

Digestive and Hormonal Imbalances (Where stress directly impacts gut motility and endocrine health)

Circulatory and Autoimmune Conditions (Promoting lymphatic drainage and systemic inflammation reduction)

Experience Next-Level Holistic Care in New York
You don’t have to settle for toxic, ineffective treatments that merely mask your symptoms. Your body possesses an incredible ability to heal when given the right tools, the right structural manipulation, and the right energetic alignment.

With Dr. Hatice Daspinar’s expanded clinical expertise, Hatice Daspinar Acupuncture PC is proud to be your comprehensive destination for integrative holistic medicine.

Pain Relief with Acupuncture

Healing art of acupuncture has been used in Asia for centuries to treat various conditions, including pain relief. It is now being used more often than before in the United States to ease lower back pain, nerve pain such as sciatica, headaches and migraines, fibromyalgia, and menstrual cramps and many more pain related issues.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely fine needles into the skin at specific “acupoints.” This relieves pain by releasing endorphins which are chemicals produced naturally by the nervous system to cope with pain or stres and serotonin which is an important chemical and neurotransmitter in the human body that is believed to help regulate mood and social behavior.

During the acupuncture session, Acupuncturist may choose to use different techniques by applying heat or electrical stimulation to intensify the effect of treatment.
Acupuncture needles are extremely thin, most patients don’t even feel the insertion. Due to some points being more sensitive, patients at times feel a very tiny pinch that’s nothing more than mosquito bite. Acupuncture needles are stainless steel and used only once and disposed after each treatment.

 

How to Find Your Best Acupuncturist

What to consider when searching good Acupuncture Clinic Near You:

 

Like anything else you search on or offline, finding a good or the best acupuncturist near you, has its own challenges. Below are some tips we always recommend our own clients, family and friends:

 

1.     Get Referrals from family and friends. The best way to know that an acupuncturist and the acupuncture clinic will be a caring one is to get referrals from family and friends. Their experience will take many questions out of your mind and will give you the confidence you need before you walk into a new clinic.

 

2.     Acupuncture License: Verify that the acupuncturist you will see is licensed. While only licensed acupuncturists in New York State can practice by law, it is a good idea to ask whether he or she has acupuncture license. We always remind our patients that.

 

3.     Expertise: Ask around and check online what kind of conditions are treated by your acupuncturists. Acupuncture is great for many conditions such as lower back pain, sciatica, head ache, migraines, pediatric acupuncture, knee pain, digestive issues, Bell ’s palsy, upper back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, foot pain, arthritis, infertility, insomnia, anxiety, stress, weight loss and great for a preventive care.  

 

4.     Clean and Relax Office Settings: Make sure that the clinic you are being treated is clean and relaxing.

 

5.     Convenience: Your practitioner’s location and schedule are of primary importance, especially for time intensive therapies.

 

 

Acupuncture and UFC Figthers

Have you seen the latest UFC shows on FOX TV? If you have, you will see that more and more highly skilled fighters are integrating acupuncture into their routine care. UFC athletes are using acupuncture for both proactively to get ready for their fights and for recovery after their fights. In either situation acupuncture has been known to be very effective.

 

In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang are the two polar that complement each other. For the UFC athlete, yin can be thought of rest and recovery while yang relates to competing and performing. You could also think of the training period to yin and competition and “game day” to yang. Acupuncture can be incorporated for both of these components of the athletic experience.

 

Everyone agrees that these highly skilled UFC fighters get better but putting many hours of hard work in the gym every day. However regular acupuncture treatments would be beneficial in may ways. One benefit is to treat specific points at the different areas of the muscles and tendons to prevent injuries that can disrupt the training schedule. Another benefit of acupuncture for the athletes would be to have their immune and digestion systems stronger and healthier. Strong immune and digestion would increase the performance during fight.

 

 

Fun Facts about Acupuncture

Did You Know That?

 

  • Acupuncture needles DON’T HURT as much as people fear or imagine. Thin acupuncture needles are almost same or less felt than a mosquito bites in most cases.

 

  • Before stainless steel needles that used in today’s acupuncture practices, very first acupuncturist used to work with thorns, bamboo slivers, and sharpened bone to stimulate acupuncture points.

 

  • The oldest acupuncture needles were made of bronze, copper, tin, gold and silver. Oldest needles found date back to A.D. 600.

 

  • Stainless steel was discovered in 4th Century A.D in China and became the most commonly used material since steel was strong and could make very thin needles.

 

  • Waichi Sugiyama – a gifted blind Japanese acupuncturist invented the guide tube in 17th This was the biggest step in the development of much finer needles

 

  • Today’s acupuncture are made of stainless steel of a very fine diameter (approximately 0.015″). These are prepackaged, sterilized, disposable and one time use only.

 

  • Acupuncture needles were accepted by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995 as medical instruments, stating their safety and effectiveness.

 

  • Acupuncturists look at your body as a whole and treat root cause of the complain rather than masking the symptoms.

 

  • Acupuncturists can assess your  overall health by checking your pulse and look at your tongue.

 

  • Acupuncture treatments are different for each individual. Every person will have their own treatment plan based on complete diagnosis performed by their acupuncturists.

 

  • The World Health Organization endorsed acupuncture for over two hundred symptoms and diseases – low back pain, seasonal allergies, headache, nausea, vomiting, allergic rhinitis, depression, anxiety, side effects of chemotherapy and induction of labor to name a few.