Get back to living your life
Where your practitioner takes an interactive,
biomechanical approach to everyday sports and spinal injuries
biomechanical approach to everyday sports and spinal injuries
Are injuries and pain limiting your everyday functionality? Being limited on what you can do and where you can go is frustrating. Suffering from headaches or migraines, joint pain, or injuries can make even simple tasks into a challenge. You don’t need to continue to suffer.
We are a soft tissue focused clinic that has found that most pain and discomfort stems from soft tissues including muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia. By finding the route of your pain, we are able provide treatment to complex physical issues.
As your Acupuncturist in Northwest Calgary, we aim to provide integrated health care services to patients so that they can live their lives to the fullest. Rest assured that you will get no better rehabilitation experience than you will at CCSR. Your practitioner will educate you on your condition and the treatment they feel best suits your situation. Our practitioner is thoroughly trained and above all cares about your health.
We want to make getting relief as easy as possible, so we provide direct billing to over 30 extended health benefit providers. Call us today to see if we can complete direct billing for you.
Acupuncture treatment is when thin needles are inserted into specific points along the body called either acupoints or ashi (pain) points. This practice can impact muscular, skeletal, neurological, digestive, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive systems.
More specifically for rehabilitation, acupuncture can be used to treat: Neck pain, muscle strains, tendon tightness, sprains, headaches, low back pain, among other things. Acupuncture works by signaling the release of the body’s natural analgesic and anti-inflammatory hormones to work against pain and inflammation.
Our practitioners believe in approaching your injuries at their roots, which often means loosening up tightness or breaking down scarring present in the surrounding tissues. Using hands-on therapies including acupuncture, gua sha, and cupping to treat your condition in clinic. As well as educating you on your condition, injury or disease can help you understand how to avoid further pain and how to manage it at home. Our practitioners will show you how to treat yourself at home with ball release, stretches and rehabilitation exercises so you don’t need to come in all the time.
Don't miss out on a great opportunity to learn more about your body and how you can naturally manage pain so you can get back to doing what you love.
Acupuncture
60 minute Treatment - $100
90 minute Treatment - $145
Treatment may include needling, Traditional Chinese Medicine, cupping, gua sha, flossing, education, stretches and homework depending on your condition. During your first appointment, your practitioner will review your medical history and discuss the best course of treatment for you going forward. If you have questions you would like to discuss with our practitioner prior to booking an appointment, you can schedule a 15-minute consultation free of charge.
Microneedling
Pre-treatment assessment (15 minutes) - Free
90 minute treatment - $250 (includes two Hyaluronic Acid masks, and Hyaluronic acid applicator)
During your assessment, our practitioner will examine the area you wish to have treated to ensure it is eligible. They will also review treatment procedures and how many treatments you may need. Note, it takes 6 weeks to see the full effects of a single treatment, some areas require 3-6 treatments (spaced 6 weeks apart) for the full effect to be noticed.
Home Care Products (Post Microneedling)
To truly get the best effectiveness of treatment, a home care regime will be required. Your practitioner will recommend products based on your skin type and condition to ensure the best recovery. The products we carry are of very high quality and designed specifically for post microneedling care.
Like traditional acupuncture, micro-needling is a topically focused treatment used for promoting skin repair, reducing the appearance of aging, wrinkles, stretch marks and scars. Healthy skin allows for better protection from the element, prevents limited range of motion, and has the potential to reduce pain (depending on its cause).
Surgical-grade micro-needles reach beyond the epidermis into the dermis, causing pin-point bleeding and triggering the body’s spontaneous healing response. Within minutes, the perforation channels close and the healing cascade starts, invading the area with collagen-producing fibroblasts and growth-promoting properties. New organized collagen and elastin forms, bolstering from within, while the epidermis becomes thicker and more supple, each time a treatment is performed. You practitioner will ensure there is minimal to zero discomfort during your procedure.
This may also be covered by your acupuncture benefits. Book your free consultation to discuss if this is the right treatment for you.
"I see Erik for acupuncture and find him to be very professional, informative and very helpful. He answers questions and educates you using the computer to show where the problem areas are and what he is doing to correct that. I have recommended him to everyone I know who requires the same type of service."
- Verified Patient of Erik Colaiezzi R.Ac.
Erik Colaiezzi is a Registered Acupuncturist (R.Ac.). His roots are from the small Northern Ontario community of Moose Factory Island. With the guidance of the local Moose Cree indigenous peoples, he cultivated a deep respect and appreciation for our natural habitat.
Prior to pursuing Acupuncture, Erik had a 13-year career in aviation as a licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. This experience has fortified him with a broad range of skills, knowledge, communication, problem-solving strategies and taught him first-hand, the rewards of planning with meticulous attention to detail. These traits have shaped Erik’s versatility allowing him to relate western medicine and eastern medicine (Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine).
Erik enjoys working with people from all walks of life. He is continuously researching the connections and differences between western and eastern medicine. Erik’s passion lies in helping patients develop a better awareness and understanding of their pathology, always aiming to increase their quality of life.
As practitioners, we do our best to avoid any negative response to needling, but sometimes bruising may occur, bleeding at the insertion, and/or some post-treatment achiness.
It is best if you wear loose comfortable clothing for your acupuncture treatment so the clothes can be moved or removed in order to reach the acupuncture points. There are occasions when it is necessary to remove clothing down to underwear, such as treating back, chest and leg pain. Patients can expect to change in privacy and be draped with a sheet that will cover any regions not requiring practitioner care.
Every person and conditions are different and as such, treatment time and response to treatment will vary. Generally, chronic conditions required more treatment than acute issues. As with any form of conservative therapy, it generally requires more treatments to gauge its effectiveness for each individual.
Some of the more common conditions that can be treated are:
Pain Headaches Allergies Sinusitis Digestive Disorders Menstrual Disorders
Anxiety Stress Hormonal Imbalances Depression Insomnia Fatigue
Common Cold Muscular Issues Respiratory Disorders Inflammation
