Acupuncture at Project Walk
Neuro Acupuncture Approach?
Acupuncture awakens the nervous system,
stimulating impulses along both sensory
and motor pathways and helps to enhance
the beneficial effects of the Project Walk
exercise program.
85-90% of patients treated with
acupuncture at Project Walk show an
accelerated rate of progress in recovering
sensory and motor functions.
Areas stimulated with scalp acupuncture
directly correspond to areas of injury and
disability. Precise points are chosen to
specifically treat each patient’s condition,
and treatment protocols are designed to
coordinate with each individual patient’s
level of function.
In addition to helping patients recover
motor function, muscle strength, and
sensation in the torso and extremities,
acupuncture helps patients recover bowel
and bladder function, and regulation of
blood pressure and temperature.
Acupuncture also treats many painful
conditions resulting from musculoskeletal
and neurological disorders.
What is Unique About the What Other Conditions Can
Neuro Acupuncture Help?
Only Neuro Acupuncture combines a • Migraine • Addiction
variety of acupuncture techniques which • Allergies • PMS, Cramping
are specifically designed to help patients • Sinusitis • Fibroids
with neurological disease or injury. • Addiction • Menopause
• Anxiety • Morning Sickness
Principle Techniques used include:
• Insomnia • Irregular Menses
• Zhu’s and Yamamoto’s of scalp • Gastric Reflux • Joint Pains
acupuncture • Irritable Bowel • Arthritis
• Needle cauterization • Constipation • Fibromyalgia
• Wrist-ankle acupuncture • Neuropathy1 • Carpal Tunnel
• Dao Yin • Back Pain • Tennis Elbow
• Qi gong • Neck Pain • TMJ
What Neurological Conditions can How Does Acupuncture Work?
Neuro Acupuncture Benefit?
Though it seems mysterious, acupuncture
Conditions following spinal cord injury has a scientific explanation, and does not
require a patient’s belief in order to work.
• Bowel and bladder incontinence
• Sexual dysfunction Recent scientific studies have shown that
• Sensory loss the brain is signaled when one receives
• Motor dysfunction acupuncture (using functional MRI). The
• Muscle weakness brain responds by increasing immune
• Heart rate, temperature and system elements and activating
blood pressure regulation neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters (or
messenger molecules) are responsible for
sending information throughout your body
Other Neurological Conditions
to maintain normal function.
• Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke)
Acupuncture uses Qi, (pronounced “chee”)
• Multiple Sclerosis
to restore the natural balance of energy
• Guillain- Barre Syndrome
throughout the body without the use of
• Cerebral Palsy
• Parkinson’s Disease drugs, by activating these natural
biochemicals to speed healing. The
• Bells Palsy
restoration of normal bodily functions is
• Sciatica
promoted by each acupuncture treatment.
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
 What about herbal medicine?
Herbal treatments act similarly to
acupuncture, by using the inherent
energetic properties of herbs to create keep
the body’s organ systems balanced. A
typical formula may contain 4-12
individual herbs to harmonize and enhance
the body’s energetic state. Each dose of
herbs further activates the body’s innate
healing capacity to restore health.
Is Acupuncture Painful?
Unlike hypodermic needles, acupuncture
needles are very, very thin, about the width
of a single hair. They are designed to easily
penetrate the skin, to reduce the possibility
of discomfort. Usually the patient feels a
very slight pricking sensation or nothing at
all.
For your safety, only pre-sterilized,
disposable needles are used.
How Quickly Will I Respond?
Everyone is different. Some acute problems
may be resolved in a single session. With
chronic problems, significant results are
typically seen within 3-10 treatments. The
total number of treatments depends upon:
• The severity of the condition or illness
• The duration of the condition or illness
• The patient’s overall state of health,
energy and motivation for lifestyle
changes.
Neuro Acupuncture Associates Neuro Acupuncture Associates
Michael Akong, MPH, MSTOM, LAc
Ann Michelle Casco, MSTOM, LAc
Jenna Depino MSTOM, LAc
Your licensed acupuncturists have been
involved in scientific, clinical and medical
research for over 20 years. Graduates from
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, they have
clinical experience in combining specialized
techniques for neurological disorders, internal
medicine with an emphasis on paralysis,
including spinal cord injury and stroke.
They have had additional training in China and
the U.S., under professor Ming Qing Zhu and
with Dr. Toshikatsu Yamamoto M.D. ,PhD. ,
both innovators of unique forms of scalp
acupuncture that are powerful and effective.
Special points on the head,
We have several convenient locations in San neck and back allow access
Diego and North County to the central and peripheral
(www.NeuroAcupuncture.org, see website for nervous systems. These
map). specialized neuro-
acupuncture points provide
16885 West Bernardo Drive, #380
unique functions to connect
Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127
Phone: 858-837-2830
the brain and body together
and restore normal function.
2738 Loker Avenue (Inside Project Walk)
Carlsbad, CA 92010
Phone: 858-837-2830 Neuro Acupuncture Associates
provide a unique approach to
Paradise Valley Hospital (South Bay Rehab Center) neurological disorders, including
National City, CA 91950
Spinal Cord Injury
Phone: 858-837-2830
3670 Clairemont Drive, Suite 11
San Diego, CA 92117 On the Web at:
Phone: 619-206-9679 WWW.NeuroAcupuncture.org