Karen Adès

How can Karen assist you?

Using Traditional Chinese Medicine, Karen takes an holistic approach to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness, looking carefully at your physical symptoms, as well as the emotional, social and environmental aspects that impact health / ill-health. Her treatments are highly individualised and work to restore your body’s internal balance, enabling recovery, healing, improved physiological function and pain relief.

Karen is qualified to provide:

• acupuncture
  
• low density laser stimulation (needle-less acupuncture)
  
• moxa (heat) therapy
  
• Chinese herbal medicine
  
• dietary therapy & lifestyle medicine
  
• remedial massage and acupressure
  
• cupping and gua sha

Karen is experienced in the treatment of:

• Musculo-Skeletal
  back, neck & shoulder pain, sciatica, frozen shoulder, sprains and strains, sporting injuries, tennis and golfer's elbow, osteoarthritis, plantar fasciitis, improved healing of fractures, repetitive strain injury (RSI)

• Pain
  post-surgical pain, abdominal & pelvic pain, tension & cluster headaches, migraine, complex regional pain syndrome (CPRS), fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, chemotherapy-induced pain, acute and chronic pain, difficult-to-treat pain and pain that is unresponsive to other treatment

• Respiratory
  common cold, hay-fever, sinusitis, acute & chronic sinus infection, bronchitis, tonsillitis, bacterial/viral infection, chronic asthma, low immunity and susceptibility to cold and flu

• Skin
  reduction of scar tissue and adhesions from surgery or traumatic injury, reduction of keloid / hypertrophic / contracture scarring, eczema, dermatitis, ssoriasis, acne

• Emotional
  insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, irritability, addiction

• Neurological
  headache, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, Bell’s palsy, neuropathy, chemotherapy induced neuropathyy

• Cardiovascular
  hypertension, hypotension, angina pectoris, oedema

• Endocrine
  alleviation from the side-effects of chemo & radiation treatment,
  hyper / hypo thyroid function, PCOS, adrenal fatigue,

• Gastro-Intestinal
  indigestion, bloating, acid reflux, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), constipation, diarrhoea, colitis, 

• Women’s Health
  pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), heavy and/or painful periods, light, irregular or absent periods, irregular or absent ovulation, polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, hormonal imbalances, fibroids

• Female Fertilityl
  pre-conception care for natural conception, unexplained infertility, preparation for assisted reproduction & IVF, low oestrogen/high FSH, low AMH, support for IVF treatment and embryo transfer

• Male Fertilityl
  low sperm count, poor morphology, low motility, high DNA fragmentation, hydrocele & varicocele, low volume ejaculate, low libido, fatigue, fertility-related anxiety & depression

• Pregnancy conditions
  spotting or bleeding, threatened miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, nausea & vomiting (hyperemesis gravidarum), fatigue, restless legs, muscles cramps, headache, varicose veins, oedema & swelling, constipation, rib pain, pre-eclampsia (in conjunction with medical management), small-for-date babies, Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPS and PEP), placenta previa, non-invasive turning of posterior and breech presentation, labour encouragement at due date or if over-due