DR SILVIA RUSSO
CHI TEMPLE NATURAL THERAPIES
ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE

TREATMENTS

Chi Temple natural therapies offers a series of complementary medical services designed to heal the entire human body and unlock the strength of self-healing. All of our treatments are sure to make you feel energized, happy and calm. With over 20 years of clinical practice, Silvia is well experienced and passionate about restoring people back to the best health they can be. Let Silvia help you begin your healing process. Located on the lovely Mornington peninsula Victoria from Tuesday to Saturday.

ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture is an age old system of health care which dates back to thousands of years ago and works within a holistic framework whereby the complete individual (physical, emotional and spiritual) is taken into consideration.
Acupuncture taps into the nervous system to help the body to heal and repair, activating the bodies own innate healing capacity thereby improving quality of mood, sleep, stress, digestion, pain and more.
PLEASE NOTE ACUPUNCTURE AND DRY NEEDLING ARE VERY DIFFERENT. Read more in my blog.

Silvia has a special interest in preventative medicine and sports injuries/chronic pain also with experience treating some past players of the Richmond Football Club including Matthew Richardson and athletes from other sports codes as well as being part of the medical team as an acupuncturist for the Western Bulldogs Football Club for 3 years from 2011 to 2014 helping achieve a low injury rate. Go to "about" page to find out more on what Silvia treats and how Silvia individualises her one on one treatments where the "whole" being is taken to account.

HERBAL MEDICINE

We are lucky to be able to tap into nature and have herbs around us which nourish, support and guide our body through its very unique capacity to heal itself, no matter what the disease.

Having done a Graduate Diploma in Western herbal medicine from the University of New England with a background in biochemistry with Honours at Melbourne University, Silvia is qualified as both a medical herbalist as well as in Chinese herbal medicine.

Silvia can offer you a tailored health solution using the best quality herbal medicine, including supplements, which are mostly made in Australia and are TGA approved. Silvia has well stocked dispensary, containing practitioner only herbs and supplements in both tablet and liquid form, which are easy to take and so you can still look after yourself with a busy lifestyle. Chinese herbal medicine is AAA grade and certified organic from Empirical Health. Go to empiricalhealthshop.com.au for more information. Mediherb, Metagenics and Eagle are other practitioner only herbs and supplements in stock.

Silvia can also work on your unique nutrition and lifestyle plan based on evidence based research and/or the traditional approach including recommending meditation and mindfulness programs such as MICBT (Mindfulness Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

EQUINE ACUPUNCTURE

Equine acupuncture and cold laser therapy can be used as a complementary treatment for your horse, along side veterinary care and other treatments and can be used for all sorts of conditions, no different to what it is used for in humans. Some of the conditions though, do vary as they are only present in horses and not in humans!
Some of the conditions which cold laser and/or acupuncture is frequently used for in horses includes chronic and acute laminitis, colic, stringhalt, muscle tightness and soreness/pain, difficulties with digestion, trauma recovery and healing, soft tissue injury such as tendonitis, scar tissue, fertility, post viral fatigue or just fatigue/lacking lustre, behavioural problems, viral infections with cough/COPD and choking. Silvia has in depth knowledge on how to treat laminitis and equine metabolic syndrome. Read the blog for guidance and details.

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Massage or Physical therapy can be used in conjunction with acupuncture and other modalities. Silvia has also completed studies in remedial/sports massage. She combines her knowledge of sport's massage, exercises, stretches, trigger points and acupuncture to help treat sport's injuries and other aches and pains.