Cosmetic Acupuncture and Seneca Falls Acupuncture Featured on NewsChannel 9’s Bridge Street

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Erik Columbia: This segment of Bridge Street is sponsored by Seneca Falls Acupuncture. The better you feel, the better your skin tends to look, no matter your age. Seneca Falls Acupuncture wants you to leave their facility feeling smooth, radiant, rejuvenated after a visit.

Kate Thornton: When can I go?

Erik Columbia: Anytime you want.

Michelle Grasek: Seneca Falls Acupuncture specializes in women’s health, pain management, and cosmetic acupuncture, which is for reducing fine lines and wrinkles.

Erik Columbia: What are some of the different services that you offer there?

Michelle Grasek: We have general acupuncture, which is for symptoms like regulating digestion, for internal conditions like women’s health, and of course for pain.

And then we have cosmetic acupuncture, which is very gentle points in the face to help build collagen.

Kate Thornton: What’s the difference between cosmetic acupuncture and Botox?

Michelle Grasek: This is a question we get at the office all the time. We know that Botox works by temporarily paralyzing specific muscles of the face, so you can’t make the repetitive facial movement that would lead to wrinkles. And cosmetic acupuncture has an opposite approach to that.

We’re really focused on skin health and building collagen. When you put the points in the face, you are creating these teeny tiny invisible micro traumas and the body’s natural healing response to that is to send resources to the area to repair the area. That would be the building blocks of proteins like collagen and elastin.

Erik Columbia: How many needles do you usually get in your face or something like that?

Michelle Grasek: It really depends on the person and how many areas that they want to work on. It could be 20, it could be more than that, and they’re very small, like you’ll see today, teeny tiny.

Kate Thornton: I want to see this in action. Laura, take a deep breath.

Laura: All right, I’m ready.

Kate Thornton: Are you ready? All right, let’s see this.

Erik Columbia: We’ll take the youngest woman in the building that has no fine lines or anything.

Kate Thornton: Just walk us through the process too as you’re doing this.

Michelle Grasek: Sure. Typically whenever we do a cosmetic acupuncture, we also do acupuncture points on the body for balancing internal health. Balancing hormones, addressing stress levels, poor sleep digestion. Today we’re doing a super mini cosmetic only.

We’ll start on the face. You’re not afraid of needles are you, Laura?

Laura: No.

Michelle Grasek: You’re good. Okay, good. You ready?

Laura: Mm-hmm.

Kate Thornton: And these are painless, right?

Michelle Grasek: Yep. For the most part.

Laura: I really don’t feel much.

Michelle Grasek: Nice work.

Kate Thornton: How long does this process normally take?

Michelle Grasek: The whole treatment is about an hour. And that includes napping for about 30 minutes.

Kate Thornton: Napping?

Michelle Grasek: Yes.

Kate Thornton: Why am I napping?

Michelle Grasek: I love it. The best part.

Kate Thornton: You had me at nap.

Erik Columbia: Same.

Michelle Grasek: And then you do get a face massage at the end of every cosmetic treatment at our office.

Erik Columbia: Okay. Nice. After the needles are inset, then you just hang out or anything else that’s involved?

Michelle Grasek: Nope. Once the needles are in, then that’s pretty much when I leave the room and let people nap or meditate. Most people just fall asleep.

Erik Columbia: That would be me.

Kate Thornton: What have you learned about yourself and business in general over the last seven years?

Michelle Grasek: I feel like I’m very honored to be a business owner who has employees and to be able to hire other people in the community. That has meant more to me than I ever expected.

Erik Columbia: Pretty cool. Now I see you have something called a glow facial. What is that?

Michelle Grasek: The acupuncture glow facial is the points on the body for balancing the internal systems, the points on the face for building collagen. It’s an extended face massage with the Gua Sha tools that we have over here. And then you get a hydrogel mask on the face, which is really fun.

It goes on with a little spatula. It sets, and then you peel it off in one piece.

Kate Thornton: Do we notice effects immediately, or is this multiple treatments that someone’s usually going for?

Michelle Grasek: Typically the recommendation is two treatments a week for five or six weeks. Or if that’s just impossible with someone’s work schedule, for example, then once a week for 10 to 12 weeks. Because the results are always cumulative, especially when you’re trying to build collagen.

You can only make the body produce collagen so fast. How are you feeling, Laura?

Laura: I feel fine. I feel relaxed. It really is painless.

Erik Columbia: You don’t feel any of the needles or anything?

Laura: Just a tiny, tiny little prick, but it’s not bad.

Erik Columbia: Well, you’re already looking younger.

Laura: Thank you.

Kate Thornton: This is very interesting. We love that you came back here on the show. And Laura, thanks for being our guinea pig, okay?

Laura: Anytime.

Kate Thornton: You can learn more or book an appointment now by visiting SenecaFallsAcupuncture.com. This segment has been sponsored by Seneca Falls Acupuncture.