Our Customized Health Treatment is a blend of ancient wisdom and modern therapies.
We are dedicated to providing attentive, compassionate care to help Relieve Pain and Discomfort by Restoring the Harmonic Balance of the Body's Energies
About Therapist
Chiaki Tomii, Lic.Ac.
 
   
Chiaki Tomii, Lic.Ac. offers professional, gentle and caring Holistic Healthcare services in Greater Boston. She specializes in family medicine, which includes Pain Management and Women's Health, and is able to treat a wide variety of common medical conditions. Her primary goal is to support families and individuals who seek a holistic model of healthcare.

Chiaki is licensed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, and began studying Japanese Acupressure and Oriental Medical Theory in 2001 at Boston Shiatsu School. As a Zen Shiatsu therapist she found profound benefits in Acupressure Meridian Therapy, she sought to pursue further and deeper understandings in Oriental Medicine.

Today, Chiaki focuses on helping patients to restore health and harmony by integrating traditional medical practices with modern medicine. Her primary goal is to help keep families healthy naturally as she tailors and individualizes steps of treatments to each, and treat the illness at root level in addition to the symptom itself.

She earned her Master's Degree in New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA and was nominated for the Compassionate Healer Award in memory of Peter Faust. Chiaki has practiced acupuncture in a number of settings in Boston area including Mount Auburn Hospital, HIV and AIDS Clinic, Dimock Hospital, and Detox Wellness Center. She is a member of the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

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Conditions Treated

The World Health Organization and National Institute of Health recognize acupuncture and traditional Asian medicine’s ability to treat over 43 commonly encountered clinical disorders. Among these are:

* low back pain
* neck pain
* sciatica
* tennis elbow
* knee pain
* periarthritis of the shoulder
* sprains
* facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
* headache
* dental pain
* tempromandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
* rheumatoid arthritis
* induction of labor
* correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
* morning sickness
* nausea and vomiting
* postoperative pain
* stroke
* essential hypertension 
* primary hypotension
* renal colic
* leucopenia
* adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
* allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
* biliary colic
* depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
* acute bacillary dysentery
 * primary dysmenorrhea
* acute epigastralgia
* peptic ulcer
* acute and chronic gastritis

... and much more!
Japanese Acupuncture
Acupuncture is one of the oldest and most commonly used healing systems originating in China over 3,000 years ago. Acupuncture was brought to Japan in the 6th century and since the 17th century has been highly developed by blind acupuncturists. Japanese blind practitioners emphasized in palpation which is a unique tool for diagnosis and treatment.

These palpatory method and technique used in Japanese acupuncture confirms immediate noticeable change on which is used for diagnosis: the pulse, the abdomen, or the point itself. Over the centuries, this diagnostic system evolved to highly complex structure in Japanese acupuncture. By palpation of different reflexes practitioners are able to find imbalances in the body and create an effective treatment plan which can addresses the unique needs of each individual.

Another characteristic of Japanese acupuncture is a unique needle technique. With the use of insertion tube, needles used are quite thin by comparison to those used in Chinese style acupuncture.

Treatment is usually divided into “root” and “local” treatment methods. Root treatment seeks to address core energetic and structural imbalances in the patient. Local treatment addresses symptomatic relief of patient complaints. To resolve complex or long-standing conditions or to treat the underlying cause of problems, both local and root treatments are addressed. Once imbalances have been identified and corrected, the body’s self-healing abilities are activated and it heals itself.

The theories of Traditional Oriental Medicine recognize that all the disorders or diseases from which people suffer can be related to an imbalance in one’s Ki, or life giving energy. Oriental medical practitioners aim in improving the patient’s health both physically and spiritually by rebalancing the body’s own healing mechanisms.
Moxibustion
Moxibustion is the therapeutic practice of oriental herbal healing. Dried leaves of "YOMOGI" mugwort leaves called moxa are burned on or near the skin. It is 100% natural and safe. 

Kyutoshin is a ball of moxa placed on the handle of an inserted acupuncture needle and lit. The penetration of the heat into the body helps to relax the whole body. Direct moxa is applied by using the fingers to roll a small amount of moxa into the size of a sesame seed or half of a grain of rice. This mugwort herb is of a mild heat, burns easily and penetrates deeply beneath the skin into the body and is very effective in reducing pain and inflammation. Moxibustion also warms the meridians and expels cold, also promotes the smooth flow of Ki (Qi) and strengthens the yang energy.

Cupping
Cupping is an ancient medical tool of causing local congestion. A partial vacuum is created in cups placed on the skin by suction. This draws up the underlying tissues. When the cup is left in place on the skin for a few minutes, blood stasis is formed and localized healing takes place. Cupping increases blood flow to the effected areas as well as promoting Qi circulation. This enables the cupping method to treat many types of disorders. Cupping may leave slight bruising on the skin but is not painful.





Magnet Therapy
Small-force magnets, applied to the skin at selected acupoints, impact the local flow of Qi. Applied over a significant period of time, the magnets can effect change. Magnets are commonly used to lengthen the positive impact of an acupuncture treatment. Also, successfully used for children and needle-phobic patients.


Electro-acupuncture
Electro-acupuncture is a form of acupuncture in which acupuncture needles are attached to a device that generates continuous electric pulses, generating a small electric current that flows between pairs of needles. Electro-acupuncture is most frequently used to treat pain (especially musculoskeletal pain and trauma, back pain, frozen shoulder, etc.) and sometimes to treat nerve injury and conditions such as multiple sclerosis.
Japanese Acupuncture

Conditions Treated

Moxibustion

Cupping

Magnet Therapy

Electro Acupuncture

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