Lighthouse Physio Acupuncture

31/12/2025

As we welcome the New Year, we’d like to thank all our patients, families, and the local community for your continued trust and support. It’s been a privilege to be part of your health journey.

We wish you a year filled with good health, balance, and steady progress — whether that’s moving more freely, managing pain better, or simply feeling stronger day by day.

We look forward to supporting you again in the year ahead.

Warmest wishes for a healthy and happy 2026!

24/12/2025

As the year comes to a close, we just want to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported and trusted us with their care this year. It’s been a privilege to be part of your health and healing journey.

We hope this festive season gives you time to rest, recharge, and enjoy moments with the people who matter most. Wishing you a Christmas filled with warmth and a New Year full of health, balance, and movement.

Looking forward to seeing you in the New Year!

19/12/2025

In the long run of health, it isn’t just about speed or distance,
but about balance — in movement, in recovery, and in everyday life.

Balance brings Wellness.
Another way to express it is:
陰平陽秘，精神乃治

Happy Saturday everyone ☀️

19/12/2025

🌿 A Special Day at Lighthouse Physio Acupuncture 🌿

Today I had the privilege of welcoming a dear friend and colleague—an experienced acupuncturist and registered nurse from RAVA Wellness in Adelaide—to my clinic for a co-treatment session with one of my clients.

Working together, we combined our clinical perspectives and acupuncture techniques in a truly integrative way.

The result?

✨ Significant improvement in symptoms
✨ A very happy and satisfied client

Moments like this remind me of the power of collaboration in healthcare—when practitioners come together, patients benefit the most.

I felt genuinely honoured to have her visit and share this meaningful clinical experience. Thank you for your expertise and the inspiration.

💙 Always grateful for opportunities to learn, connect, and deliver the best care possible.

01/12/2025

When a physio uses ‘hands-on’ treatment, the client would generally feel good. So, what work actually did these hands complete?

Putting bones, muscles and joints ‘back in place’?

Naturally Gliding and Moving the ‘spinal vertebral segment’?

This article is giving a different perspective on how we should interpret manual therapy.

After reading this, this is what I think:

Maybe, the ‘therapeutic touch’ does exist.

What do you think?

🤔 Ever wondered what myofascia looks and behaves like?
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💪 It is elastic, firm and most importantly - tough to release!⠀
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👀 You might have heard that you can ‘release’ fascia

❌ This simply isn’t what happens⠀
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👉🏻 We advice you to read a great blog on ‘clinical reasoning in manual therapy’ that explains how manual therapy works well ⠀
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🔗 Read it now: https://www.physio-network.com/blog/clinical-reasoning-in-manual-therapy/

30/11/2025

30/11/2025

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29/11/2025

✨ Chronic hives aren’t just a skin issue — they affect sleep, mood, and quality of life.
Many patients find that antihistamines help temporarily… but once they stop, the itching and flare-ups return — often worse at night. And for many, there’s no clear trigger at all. That’s the frustration of Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU).

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New 2025 Evidence: Acupuncture reduces relapse by 67%

A major systematic review (22 RCTs, 1,867 patients) found:

✨ 20% better overall improvement than antihistamines
✨ 67% fewer relapses after stopping treatment
✨ Better sleep, mood, confidence & daily functioning (DLQI, CU-Q2oL)
✨ Less itching, smaller & fewer wheals (UAS7)
✨ Improved emotional wellbeing
✨ No increase in adverse events

For many people, acupuncture feels like “finally getting my life back.”

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🔬 Why it works (modern + TCM explanation)
Acupuncture helps:
• Lower IgE and inflammatory markers
• Balance Th1/Th2 immune response
• Stabilise mast cells (less over-reaction)

In TCM terms:
• Clears heat
• Calms wind
• Harmonises qi & blood
• Regulates digestion and stress pathways

This means acupuncture doesn’t just calm symptoms—
it makes the body less easily triggered.

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💡 If your hives keep returning, the answer may not be stronger medication—
but a deeper rebalancing of the body.

Reference:
Wei, W., Wu, Y., Zhang, S., Li, B., Cheng, Z., & Zhao, W. (2025). Clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment for chronic spontaneous urticaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Medicine, 12, 1498795. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1498795@

10/11/2025

Integrating Acupuncture and Exercise Therapy in Physiotherapy: A Powerful Combination

Combining acupuncture with exercise therapy in a physiotherapy treatment program offers a holistic and highly effective approach to managing pain and restoring function.

Acupuncture works by stimulating specific points in the body to regulate and balance the body system. This leads to decreased pain and body tension, allowing patients to move more comfortably and participate in exercise therapy with greater ease.

Exercise therapy, on the other hand, strengthens muscles, improves joint stability, enhances flexibility, and retrains movement patterns. When pain is reduced by acupuncture, patients are more likely to perform therapeutic exercises correctly and consistently, accelerating recovery.

This combination addresses both symptoms and root causes of dysfunction. While acupuncture targets pain, relaxation, and autonomic regulation, exercise therapy builds long-term resilience and prevents recurrence. Together, they improve range of motion, decrease reliance on medication, enhance mental well-being, and promote faster return to daily activities and sports.

For chronic conditions such as lower back pain, neck pain, arthritis, or post-surgical rehabilitation, this integrative approach supports the body’s natural healing processes and leads to more sustainable outcomes. By blending traditional techniques with modern rehabilitation science, physiotherapists can deliver personalised, evidence-informed care that empowers patients to recover and stay well.

06/11/2025

💡 The combination of dry needling and eccentric exercises was more effective in reducing pain and improving hand function compared to NSAID-based interventions. These findings support the use of dry needling as an adjunct therapy to eccentric exercises for the management of lateral epicondylalgia.

👉🏻 This is from the new paper "Efficacy of Dry Needling Combined with Eccentric Exercise Versus Oral and Topical NSAID Treatment in Patients with Tennis Elbow: A Randomized Controlled Trial" by Sánchez-Milá et al 2025

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Disclaimer: Sharing a study is NOT an endorsement. You should read the original research yourself and be critical.

01/11/2025

Where tradition and modern meet, healing becomes complete.

Motion and stillness.
Science and spirit.
Physiotherapy and acupuncture — both ways of listening to the body.

Light up your healing journey with wisdom from East and West.

古今交匯，療癒整全

動與靜，
理和心，
物理治療與針灸 —— 都是傾聽身體的方式。

集合東西方的智慧，照亮你的復康之途