Preconception Care – Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

At our Gold Coast Acupuncture Clinic, we want to help you achieve your desired health goals! When it comes to fertility, sometimes it’s easy to become focused on conceiving and forget that the goal is having a healthy baby. “Observational studies show strong links between health before pregnancy and maternal and child health outcomes, with consequences that can extend across generations, but awareness of these links is not widespread.” 1(pp1) It is generally accepted that we are born with all

2025-05-26T22:33:57+10:00By David Haynes|

Fertility, IVF and Pregnancy

At Haynes Acupuncture on the Gold Coast, we strive to provide quality treatments using the fundamentals of Chinese Medicine with a Japanese needling technique, in support of all areas of health. We see a lot of mothers in our clinic right from the start of their fertility journey, through to post birth and we pride ourselves in the care we give during this often, quite tiresome time. We specialise in helping families from the beginning, in many cases, this

2025-05-26T22:33:58+10:00By David Haynes|

Burnout

Often the patients we see for acupuncture at the Gold Coast clinic experiencing burnout are the givers, the go-getters, the doers, the risk takers and the 'I can achieve it all' individuals. These people are the ones who are trying to achieve everything. However, there is only so much energy to go around and as hard as they push they often find themselves burnt out. Physical and mental symptoms of burnout can creep in unknowingly, suddenly you can't concentrate or

2025-05-26T22:34:04+10:00By David Haynes|

Migraines

Migraines are when the brain overreacts to sensory inputs, which triggers a surge of chemicals to be sent to the brain causing the migraine attack. Migraine attacks are usually best described as severe throbbing or pulsating pain on one side of the head. Depending on the severity, individuals may experience nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound and can often last for hours or even days at a time. Unfortunately there is no current cure for migraines. Doctors often suggest

2025-05-26T22:34:08+10:00By David Haynes|

Could you be Perimenopausal?

Did you know acupuncture may assist with the management of the symptoms associated with perimenopause? Here at Haynes Acupuncture Gold Coast we can address your symptoms to assist you to live a normal life. During the years before menopause, production of estrogen and progesterone starts to decrease and menstrual periods and ovulation occur less often. The fluctuations between these hormones are thought to cause the menopausal symptoms experienced by many women. The average length of perimenopause is 4 years, but

2025-05-26T22:34:18+10:00By David Haynes|

Painful Periods

At Haynes Acupuncture, we strive to provide the utmost care to women on the Gold Coast who are experiencing hormonal issues. Dysmenorrhea is the medical term for the dull throbbing abdominal pain that some women experience during their periods. It can range from a mild annoyance to the kind of severe pain that can ruin several days each month. What are the causes? In Chinese medicine, there are several diagnoses but the most common are qi (energy) stagnation, blood stagnation

2025-05-26T22:34:21+10:00By David Haynes|

Exercise & Fertility

At Haynes Acupuncture, we treat a lot of women who are trying to conceive. By using acupuncture and herbal medicine, we can help to improve levels of fertility by balancing hormones, reducing levels of stress and regulating the menstrual cycle. Women can optimise their levels of fertility by eating a healthy diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, getting enough sleep and by managing their stress levels. But what about exercise? Is all exercise good for fertility? Well, there are

2025-05-26T22:34:21+10:00By David Haynes|

Postnatal Depletion

At our acupuncture clinic on the Gold Coast, we see a lot of mothers from the start of their fertility journey right through to post-birth and we pride ourselves in the care we give during this often quite emotionally tiresome time. The physical and mental depletion that new mothers experience has been labelled as ‘postnatal depletion’ by a practising GP in northern NSW. This essentially identifies the struggles that new mothers go through post birth, which can last many years.

2025-05-26T22:34:24+10:00By David Haynes|