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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 2019, my life and 25-year career as a Pediatric Critical Care physician were derailed by a health crisis. I had had an accident many years before that left me with chronic pain that, although debilitating, was fairly stable. Suddenly, I found myself incapacitated with severe and unremitting pain. I developed new symptoms, such as extreme sensitivities to light and sound, that made the simplest chores daunting challenges. I was barely able to leave my home. For almost two years, my condition declined as doctors grappled with my unusual symptoms.
Desperate for relief, I became open to healing techniques that I might not otherwise have considered. I was genuinely surprised to see how well I responded to therapies directed at healing on an energetic level. I found acupuncture extremely effective for pain relief, and as I learned more, I came to understand how my symptoms would be explained and treated according to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Ultimately, I attribute my recovery to a marriage of biomedicine and energy-based therapies. As I pursued the formal study of acupuncture, applying what I learned, the pace of healing accelerated. By focusing on living in harmony with my condition, rather than striving to “beat it”, I once again have a productive and fulfilling life.
I learned from this experience that, as it was put to me, “The body stays tidy by hiding the mess”. The organic failure underlying my symptoms had been brewing for years before erupting in a catastrophic explosion. A more sensitive communion with my body might have prevented the crisis and the damage that followed.
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.