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Medical acupuncture performed by a physician in Winston-Salem for pain relief, improved mobility, stress regulation, and whole-body wellness.
Medical Acupuncture Performed by a Physician
At Acupuncture Energetics, Dr. Suzanne Edmunds provides a holistic approach to care focused on restoring how your body functions, moves, and feels.
Many conditions — from painful movement disorders to anxiety, headaches, sleep disruption, stress-related symptoms, and digestive concerns — are rooted in patterns of nervous system imbalance. Acupuncture treatments can help restore that balance, promoting ease of movement, comfort, and resilience. Dr Edmunds’ unique style of treatment works to support overall physiologic balance, enhancing the body’s ability to recover from illness and injury and improving day-to-day well-being.
Dr. Edmunds has had extensive training in acupuncture. Her approach to treatment honors the ancient principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine while integrating modern, scientific, Western medical concepts of acupuncture rooted in anatomy and physiology. Her treatments reflect a detailed knowledge of neurophysiology, classical acupuncture point-selection, and needling techniques refined by scholars over the centuries. These time-tested frameworks guide highly precise treatments that can calm irritated nerve pathways, release restrictions in tight and painful tissues, and restore coordinated function throughout the body.
Dr. Edmunds provides care that is both precise and holistic — grounded in medical knowledge, informed by traditional acupuncture principles, and focused on lasting restoration.
A Different Kind of Acupuncture Experience
At Acupuncture Energetics, treatment sessions are hands-on, precise, and highly personalized. Needling is guided both by modern understanding of neuromuscular and neurophysiologic patterns and by classical acupuncture point systems that map how different regions of the body interact. This allows care to be directed not only at the site of your discomfort, but at the underlying imbalances contributing to it.
Sessions are relaxing, restorative, and deeply regulating to the nervous system. As we identify and address the patterns underlying your symptoms, you may also notice better sleep, improved resilience, better digestion, and a greater overall sense of balance.
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What Conditions Do We Treat?
Patients come to Acupuncture Energetics for help with a wide range of concerns related to pain, movement, stress, and nervous system imbalance.
Medical acupuncture can be especially helpful for:
- Headaches and migraines
- Neck and back pain
- Sciatica
- Shoulder, hip, and joint pain
- Muscle tightness and spasm
- Painful movement disorders
- Neuropathic pain
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Sleep difficulties and fatigue
- Digestive discomfort and stress-related digestive issues
- Recovery from injury
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Why Acupuncture Energetics?
Dr. Edmunds brings a rare combination of experience to this work: decades of medical practice, advanced training in medical acupuncture for physicians, extensive study of classical acupuncture point systems, and targeted needling techniques for myofascial release. This allows treatment to be both medically precise and guided by time-tested frameworks that map how the body functions as an integrated whole.
There are no overlapping appointments and no protocol-driven treatments. Each session is tailored to what your body needs that day to restore balance, reduce pain, and ease movement. Our goal is not simply symptom relief, but lasting improvement in how you move, feel, and function in daily life.
Neurofunctional Acupuncture
While Dr. Edmunds has a strong foundation in treatments grounded in the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, she has also completed extensive training in acupuncture techniques based entirely in Western Medical models of anatomy and neurophysiology.
Neurofunctional Acupuncture, also called “Contemproary Medical Acupuncture”, was developed by Sports Medicine expert Dr. Alejandro Elorriaga Clarraco, who has used this method to help elite athletes all over the world reach their performance goals. This groundbreaking technique takes a revolutionary approach to painful movement disorders, whether due to injury or degenerative changes.
In a neurofunctional approach, we look beyond purely structural considerations. Treatments are targeted at the nerves that supply the muscles responsible for moving involved joints. Needles are also placed to enhance connectivity through the brain and spinal cord. Optimizing perfusion to affected areas delivers blood and oxygen and removes waste. By restoring a healthy metabolic environment within the tissues, and connectivity through the central nervous system, your body’s adaptive potential following injury or degenerative changes is maximized.
Begin Your Restoration
At Acupuncture Energetics, you don’t have to choose between traditional and modern acupuncture — your care plan draws from both. Dr. Edmunds’ treatments combine clinical precision with deep respect for the body’s natural energy systems to support whole-body wellness. Whether your goal is to relieve pain, restore mobility, or rebalance internal systems, each session is customized to what your body needs most that day to help you align with health and wellness.
Discover how integrated acupuncture can help you move, heal, and feel your best — naturally. Schedule your visit today to begin your healing journey.
Suzanne M. Edmunds, MD
Founder, Acupuncture Energetics, PLLC
In 2020, I left my 25-year career in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine due to a health crisis characterized by crippling pain and neurologic dysfunction. My medical team worked diligently to find answers, but my health continued to deteriorate for close to two years.
During this time, I sought input from many medical specialists, eventually including some local complementary medical providers. I had several striking experiences with acupuncture and became interested in learning more. While the language and concepts seemed strange to me at first, the holistic nature of this ancient healing art appealed to me. My interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) deepened.
A profound organic failure was identified at last, and I was started on treatment. After months of extreme sensitivities to light and noise, of sleepless nights, of barely being able to tolerate food, I was extremely debilitated. Relentless exposure to that highly charged state had left me both physically and emotionally exhausted. As my lab values crept back into the normal range, my body remained in this “flight or fight” survival mode. COVID was in full swing at this point, making access to resources limited, and doctors had no more to offer.
I turned back to the principles of TCM for understanding and guidance. I discovered that my condition fit well with an imbalance described in TCM theory that was strikingly similar to the Western medical diagnosis. In addition to the organic failure, however, the TCM model addressed the impact of the sleeplessness, poor nutrition, and the emotional drain of this protracted and devastating illness. TCM theory offered suggestions for lifestyle modifications to support my recovery in the most holistic sense, and the application of acupuncture was among these.
With these steps, over time, I have experienced tremendous recovery. While not “cured”, I now enjoy a productivity and quality of life that I didn’t dare dream of five years ago. I have recognized the profound importance of balance in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) for health, and how easily this can be disrupted in today’s busy world. Disturbances in the ANS can manifest many different ways, including headaches, muscle tension, GI dysfunction, fatigue, poor sleep, immune dysfunction, and even cravings for unhealthy foods.
I have also come to understand how the ANS, always humming quietly in the background, can be influenced through intentional practices– not only with acupuncture, but through meditation, breathwork, mindfulness, what and how we eat, and where we choose to focus our attention. We can engage in activities that recalibrate the balance of our ANS to restore our adaptability and resilience.
Inspired by my own powerful experience, I decided to pursue formal acupuncture training for medical professionals with the Acumed Integrated Structural Acupuncture program in 2021, and Acupuncture Energetics was founded the following year. I continue to deepen and broaden my knowledge and skills through both home study and hands-on training with some of the leading experts in the field of medical acupuncture. I remain involved with the Acumed course as a Teaching Assistant, helping other physicians learn how to incorporate this powerful healing modality into their own medical practices.
As a physician acupuncturist, my goal is to help you achieve the success I have experienced with this powerful healing technique. With a lengthy career in academic medicine, my own personal experience with chronic pain and functional disability, and an extensive study of acupuncture from both Eastern and Western medical perspectives, I bring a unique blend of insights and skills to my practice. I look forward to helping you regain your resilience, improve your mobility, and achieve a higher quality of life.
What Our Patients Say
“In my brief (6 week) experience with Dr. Edmunds, I went from having a painful and unstable left knee and hip to being pain free. Yes, pain free! I must say, also, that my general well-being has improved. I have less fatigue associated with my long-standing IBD. I look forward to working with Suzanne as she establishes her new practice.”
—M.M.
“I have suffered from chronic back pain and sciatic nerve pain for several years. I met Dr. Edmunds and started acupuncture treatment once a week and was amazed at the results. My pain has substantially decreased. And the real positive thing is I have no need for prescription pain medication.”
—B.C.
“After I had rotator cuff surgery and had finished physical therapy, I still had a lot of stiffness and pain in my neck and shoulder. After my first treatment with Dr. Edmunds, I was pleasantly surprised that my muscles had relaxed and the pain was gone. I will certainly continue maintenance visits.”
—D.S.
“Dr. Edmunds tailors her treatments to individual needs, considering factors such as health history, symptoms, and lifestyle. Her warm and respectful approach ensures clients from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and religions feel comfortable seeking her care. I highly recommend her.”
—M.R.
“Dr. Edmunds is compassionate, empathetic, and intentional in her individualized care. I know that dealing with my chronic illness is a life long journey and I am so thankful to have Dr. Edmunds help along the way. I truly believe that acupuncture as an adjunct treatment is life changing.”
—M.P.
“I was experiencing severe and debilitating sciatic nerve pain that resulted from an herniated L5 disc. In my first appointment with Dr. Edmunds, I experienced immediate relief. If I ever have pain issues again, I will BEGIN with acupuncture with Dr. Edmunds. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”
—D.S
“Dr. Edmunds has helped relieve the pain, inflammation and muscle tightness in my body, especially the neck and spine. She carefully listened to my description of my symptoms and along with her physical exam was able to tailor treatments that were highly effective. I would highly recommend Dr. Edmunds.”
—J.R.