Welcome to Thomas Crooks' website.
Thomas is a practitioner of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Shiatsu massage. He consults in Sydney's Inner West at The Buddha Bar Healing Clinic, which is located at 434 King St, Newtown. The Buddha Bar is a real haven, a place to let go and be looked after. Thomas is also practising in the Eastern suburbs at The Living Room Yoga Studio, at 62 Carr St, Coogee Beach (above Barzura Cafe). The Living Room boasts unrivalled views of Coogee Bay and is a wonderful place to receive treatment.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is understood to restore the human's self-regulatory mechanisms. In other words, it is a method of diagnosis and treatment that enables your own self-healing processes. When you come for treatment, you are treated in your entirety, in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Physical and emotional states are interrelated and provide vital information about your underlying pattern of disharmony.
TCM is a powerful form of medicine that is able to rectify many health complaints - and it is completely natural! Clinical trials continue to support the techniques and treatment protocols passed down for thousands of years. In our era, the wisdom of the ancients is scrutinised by the rigours of the scientific method – and the result is a system of medicine that complements all that modern medicine has to offer.
The World Health Organisation states that based on controlled clinical trials acupuncture can be effectively used to treat many diseases including the following:
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lower back pain, headache, neck pain, knee pain
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adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
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depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
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nausea and vomiting
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postoperative pain
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sciatica, sprains, tennis elbow
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morning sickness
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rheumatoid arthritis
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stroke
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allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
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period pain (primary dysmenorrhoea)
Further research continues to uncover more conditions that acupuncture can treat.
Health rebates are available with most health funds.
About Thomas Crooks
Thomas draws on his extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine theory and treatment in order to select a treatment approach that best suits you, the unique patient. This may be any combination of acupuncture, herbal medicine, shiatsu, cupping, moxibustion, gua sha and dietary/lifestyle advice. Training and studying for almost a decade, both in Australia and China, Thomas is highly qualified and has successfully treated many people with a wide range of health issues. Committed to working with you to restore your good health, Thomas creates a safe environment in which positive change and true healing can occur.
Qualifications
B. Hlth Sc. (TCM), Cert. TCM (Beijing)
Dip. Shiatsu, B.A.
AACMA Member no 2346