Providing Personalized and Holistic Care for All Ages
Acupuncture has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. It involves inserting fine needles into specific points on the skin or applying various other techniques (for example low level laser light therapy) to the acupuncture points to restore balance and encourage the body to heal itself.
About Dr. Libby Rochstein
Dr Libby Rochstein is an holistically minded GP trained in medical acupuncture with over 25 years experience. She graduated as a Fellow with the Australian Medical Acupuncture College in 2022 after 4 years of study.
During her many years as a GP, Dr Libby noticed a need for an alternative or more holistic approach to care. Dr Libby can support all ages of people with acute or chronic ongoing health conditions and will provide an in-depth and holistic approach to each person’s medical needs.
Dr Libby will create a personalised care plan catered to each individual’s needs. This can include:
An in-depth and holistic review of your medical condition
A personalised care plan catered to your needs
Access to acupuncture (needle or laser)
Dr. Libby is now focused on honing her Holistic GP skills in primary practice around pain and pain management, chronic disease management, diet and lifestyle advice in conjunction with medical interventions and managing mental health concerns. She does not provide minor surgical or procedure based medicine, rather utilising longer consults and really listening to her patients to understand their history and current health concerns. From here, Dr. Libby may use Medical Acupuncture alongside some of the Allied Healthcare practitioners at BDHH, including Osteopaths, Psychologists, Dietitians and Exercise Physiologists.
Some concerns that Dr. Libby can help address include:
- Acute muscle pain
- Sleep issues/insomnia
- Menopausal symptoms
- Period pain/pelvic pain
- Irritable bladder
- Digestive or bowel issues
- Acute muscle pain
- Some nerve pain/cancer treatment side effects
- Chronic pain
- Low energy/ fatigue
- Depressed or anxious feelings
- Headaches
- Fertility and long covid
Is one of the oldest medical treatments in existence, originating in China more than 2,500 years ago. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM ) philosophy promotes harmony between humans and the world around them.
Acupuncture has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. It involves inserting fine needles into specific points on the skin or applying various other techniques (for example low level laser) to the acupuncture points to restore balance and encourage the body to heal itself.
TCM believes that there are multiple channels throughout the human body (called meridians in TCM) that vital energy (Qi) flows through. Any imbalance and blockage in the flow of the energy will result in various diseases. This philosophy fits with the Western medical approach of blood, circulation and organ nourishment, but is just described differently. It is a concept that explains a vital energy or life force.
These channels are accessible by superficial points on the skin, of which there are more than 400 points. Inserting needles into these points with appropriate combinations is believed to bring the energy flow back into proper balance.
In the Western medical acupuncture approach, the GP makes a conventional diagnosis and considers acupuncture as a physiologically based, rational treatment alongside drugs, physical therapy and surgery.
Following is a summarised, but quite diverse, list of conditions shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by Acupuncture:
- Low back pain
- Depression and anxiety
- Neck pain
- Osteoarthritis pain
- Tennis elbow
- Sciatica
- Knee pain
- Peri-arthritis of the shoulder
- Facial pain
- Temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction
- Bell's palsy
- Menopausal symptoms
- Headache
- IBS
- Nausea and vomiting Postoperative pain
- Essential hypertension
- Radiation/chemotherapy reactions
- Allergic rhinitis and hay fever
Dr. Libby Rochstein
About Dr. Libby Rochstein | Medical Acupuncture
Dr Libby Rochstein is an holistically minded GP trained in medical acupuncture with over 25 years experience. She graduated as a Fellow with the Australian Medical Acupuncture College in 2022 after 4 years of study.During her many years as a GP, Dr Libby noticed a need for an alternative or more holistic approach to care. Dr Libby can support all ages of people with acute or chronic ongoing health conditions and will provide an in-depth and holistic approach to each person’s medical needs.
Dr. Libby is a mother of 5 children, who lives locally in outer east Melbourne, with a passion outside of work for trail running, while living an active and intuitively healthy lifestyle.
