We are the first choice for those seeking natural, holistic treatment for pain, stress, anxiety, fertility, and prenatal wellness. At the beginning of every appointment, your practitioner will take the time to assess your individual needs to provide you with a customized treatment to best support your health and vitality.
After your treatment, your practitioner may prescribe herbal or natural remedies from our apothecary to assist in your total body healing. To make our acupuncture treatments more affordable, we treat our patients in a small-group setting. Our patients are able to combine acupuncture, therapeutic massage, and natural remedies from our apothecary to address several aspects of their condition simultaneously.
After your treatment, your practitioner may prescribe herbal or natural remedies from our apothecary to assist in your total body healing. To make our acupuncture treatments more affordable, we treat our patients in a small-group setting. Our patients are able to combine acupuncture, therapeutic massage, and natural remedies from our apothecary to address several aspects of their condition simultaneously.
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South Philly Community Acupuncture is proud to be a member of the holistic health and wellness community of Philadelphia. We are one team in a large group of female-owned and operated businesses in the East Passyunk Avenue Business District. We do our very best to reach out to all members of our Philadelphia community by making our services and products affordable and our clinics accessible.
In 2007, our owner and founder, Lauren Buckley, listened to the call of her roots and moved back to Philadelphia while pregnant with her first son. After leaving the city at the age of 18 to embark on her journey in the healing arts, Lauren returned home to Philadelphia to give back to the community she knew and loved.
Acupuncture is a system of integrative medicine that stimulates certain points on the body, most often with a thin, pine-like needle penetrating the skin, to alleviate pain or to help treat various health conditions. It goes all the way back to the Stone Age and was first written about over 2,200 years ago in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the earliest written work on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Cupping has been growing in popularity thanks to celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow and athletes like Michael Phelps. Its practice is nothing new, however, and dates back all the way to 1,550 B.C., when it was cited by the Egyptians in one of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, Ebers Papyrus.
Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light to dark discoloration. This discoloration, known as "sha, " is metabolic waste that is being released from stagnant areas, promoting blood flow and healing. Your acupuncturist will first apply organic oil to the treatment area and will then begin scraping the skin using long strokes with a gua sha massage tool.
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Eric Kohlhofer
Nov 18, 2020
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Janae Fiorelli
Mar 28, 2019
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Lisa Bove Rosenblum
Dec 02, 2018
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Diane Jazwiecki-Faris
Apr 26, 2018
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Wow! Inviting, professional, peaceful, and fantastic. I love to tell people the story when I locked up my sacral and had to get on a plane to fly to Philadelphia. It took me 15 minutes to get out of bed...trust me I timed it. I scheduled with Lauren. She didn't promise full recovery but she was confident she could provide relief. After our mantis… and king fu panda routine (aka acupuncture) coupled with heat and followed with turning my back into an alligator (aka cupping) she wished me well and said, "you should feel some relief." The next morning when the alarm went off I started the clock
Susan Greenberg
Apr 25, 2017
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Scott Rosen
Mar 09, 2017
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Been coming here for about for about 4 months now to treat some chronic back pain and other nagging sports injuries. All the practitioners there are very knowledgeable and friendly. The treatments have seemed to help subside some of the pain and I am confident that continual treatments will only make it better.
Marta Reis
Dec 08, 2016
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Sara Mizrachi
Aug 20, 2016
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