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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.

Sciatica Patients can find Relief with Acupuncture

Sciatica is a medical condition characterized by pain going down the leg from the lower back.This pain may go down the back, outside, or front of the leg. Typically, symptoms are only on one side of the body. Certain causes, however, may result in pain on both sides. Lower back pain is sometimes but not always present. Weakness or numbness may occur in various parts of the affected leg and foot

About 90% of the time sciatica is due to a spinal disc herniation pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots. Other problems that may result in sciatica include spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, piriformis syndrome, pelvic tumors, and compression by a baby’s head during pregnancy. The straight-leg-raising test is often helpful in diagnosis. The test is positive if, when the leg is raised while a person is lying on their back, pain shoots below the knee. In most cases medical imaging is not needed. Exceptions to this are when bowel or bladder function is affected, there is significant loss of feeling or weakness, symptoms are long standing, or there is a concern of a tumor or infection.Conditions that may present similarly are diseases of the hip and early herpes zoster before the rash appear.

Acupuncture has been proven to be very effective in treating sciatica.

 

  • Acupuncture helps reduce the pain of sciatica. Sciatica causes the muscles in your body to tense up and hold, which leads to fatigue, chronic pain, and stress. Acupuncture relaxes   the body and releases your muscles from the tension.

 

  • Acupuncture helps foster a positive chemical balance in the brain. By releasing much-needed endorphins, acupuncture can aid in the healing process, both mentally and physically. Relaxing your mind can help take it off of the chronic pain and allow you to focus elsewhere.

 

  • Acupuncture deals with the nervous system, and sciatica travels along damaged nerves. Taking medication is applying a blanket treatment to something specific, whereas acupuncture pinpoints and gets to the heart of the pain and the problem.

 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatica

 

 

Acupuncture Can Provide Relief From Your Daily Life Stress in Long Island

Let’s face it, while we enjoy many beautiful features of Long Island and New York area, busy life in Long Island and tri state area in New York brings a lot of stress to our life. An estimated 17.5 million Americans suffer from depression.

Patients who are searching for options are seeking alternatives to anti-depressant medication.

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) states that “evidence for the use of acupuncture . to treat anxiety disorders is becoming stronger.”  Reuter’s health reported on a study from the University of York in the UK. The study recruited 755 people with moderate to severe depression. Seventy percent of the patients had been on anti-depressants and continued on them throughout the study. The study concluded that both acupuncture and counseling (or both) had a strongly positive effect on depression, lowering the depression scale from an average of 16 out of 27 at the start of the study, to 9 for acupuncture and 11 for counseling at its conclusion. The benefits lasted 3 months after treatment had concluded.

So how does acupuncture help with stress and anxiety? The acupuncturist inserts fine sterile and super tiny needles into certain identified acupuncture points on “meridians” which run throughout the body and correspond to certain organs.

Meridians can be thought of as a highway of energy, or “qi” in traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture works by getting rid of the roadblocks on this energy superhighway. When the energy blocks are removed, whole body functions and provides energy and happiness one needs.

Western medicine has shown that acupuncture releases endorphins, and activates natural pain killers.

Most patients during Acupuncture treatment fell a deep sleep and wake up with feeling of ease and rest in their body and mind.