Acupuncture

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​From a Chinese perspective, acupuncture restores order and harmony to the body’s energy, thereby improving its ability to function properly on its own. By repeatedly reminding the body of the way in which it was designed to function, it is possible to reprogram the body to work in a more balanced, healthy way. I often compare it to trying to make a new path through a field of tall grass. The more times one walks the same route, the more of a true path it becomes.

Recent research done using Functional MRIs, 3D in-line imaging and oxygen micro sensors are demonstrating what acupuncturists have known for millennia - acupuncture has profound effects on the body because acupoints are different from other places on the body. All parts of the nervous system, as well as the endocrine system, (responsible for hormone regulation in the body) are affected by acupuncture. Many people feel relaxed, a decrease in the symptoms of stress or a sense of well-being after acupuncture.​

Chinese Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine is another important facet of Chinese Medicine. Herbs are used to treat everything from infertility to the common cold. Herbs can be used to reinforce the same strategy employed in an acupuncture treatment, to treat a pattern separate from the one being treated through acupuncture, or by itself.

Give yourself a treatment every day!

About Tracey Steady Hardcastle, L.Ac. 

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Tracey Steady Hardcastle (owner of Steady Hands Acupuncture), L.Ac.,MSTOM, Dipl.OM (NCCAOM), is an acupuncturist licensed in the state of Massachusetts. She is certified by the National Commission on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).Tracey graduated with a Master of Science Degree from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2007, and completed her Doctorate with a focus on integrative medicine in 2015.

Tracey practices East Asian Medicine in Great Barrington, MA. She has been a preceptor for  medical students from the University of New England, and a guest lecturer at both Bard College and Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT. Tracey completed the Practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at UMass Medical School and provides individual mindfulness support for people of all
​ages, as well as mindfulness for stress management in local schools.

Tracey has advanced training in pediatrics, and has done extra research in
​the areas of tick-borne illness and fertility.
Steady Hands Acupuncture
140 West Avenue, Great Barrington, MA 01230
(413)429-5225
​tracey@steadyhandsacupuncture.com