Honoring ancient medicine
to find wellness today.
Drawing both from teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern research, our practice strives to provide effective care to treat the whole, unique you.
Dr. Zega is a graduate of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, holding a doctorate diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. As a born and raised Oregonian she finds continual inspiration in nature, and as a lifelong athlete understands the importance of maintaining good function, physically and mentally, to achieve your goals. During her clinical internship at OCOM she treated a wide variety of conditions and strives to provide holistic, compassionate, patient centered care. Now, as a nationally certified and state licensed practitioner, she is excited to share her skills with her community. Her practice includes treatment of internal conditions and psychosomatic balance as well as pain management, orthopedic conditions, and injury or surgical recovery. Dr. Zega draws upon her education in classical Chinese medical theory as well as current research to form her empirically based practice, using many different methods of treatment to help her patients find balance in their health and lives.
When Dr. Zega isn’t treating patients she enjoys spending time in her backyard garden, exploring trails by foot, skis, and wheels, reading, sipping on a cold northwest brew, and engaging in creative pursuits ranging from needlepoint to jam making.
Dr. Sophia Zega DACM, LAc
Offerings of the Clinic
Add cupping to your acupuncture treatment to relax tight, achy muscles and promote microcirculation with Chinese suction cups. With their application, the cups create a vacuum to draw tissue into the cup space and decompress the surrounding area. Although cupping is effective in treating body pain, it has also been shown to lower blood sugar levels, reduce both HDL and LDL cholesterols, and can be preventative to development or worsening of cardiovascular disease. Cupping also draws out biproducts of cellular waste from the interstitial spaces, and promotes capillary vessel repair and growth to improve blood circulation which nourishes injured tissues.
Developed over centuries and still utilized today, acupuncture can address nearly any complaint by stimulating specific acupoints with needles and activating the meridians of Qi flow in the body. Decades of research has demonstrated acupuncture’s effectiveness in treating a variety of disorders, whether they be musculoskeletal, internal, or mental-emotional in nature. Affecting many physiological systems, acupuncture can relax tight muscles, promote blood circulation to speed injury recovery, reduce inflammation, ease acute and chronic pain, support better sleep, and help manage stress, among other benefits.
Enhance your acupuncture treatment with Chinese style Tuina Massage. Tuina focuses on warming up the tissues around stiff or painful joints, then utilizes slow stretches to encourage proper skeletal alignment and extension of muscles and tendons. This can be useful for tight areas, knots, and tendinopathies.
In classical Chinese medical texts pain is described as the result of a blockage of free flow in the body, like a stream that becomes stagnant from build up of silt, and the Gua Sha tool is compared to a canoe paddle that dislodges these blockages and allows the current to carry them away. Consequently, Gua Sha helps the body move stagnation of Qi and Blood to alleviate tightness, achiness, and knots by sweeping deeply along specific acupuncture meridian and muscle pathways.
Chinese Herbal Medicine is a profound and elegant therapy. After making a detailed assessment of the patient and their complaint, a customized herbal formulation will be designed to address the issue within the context of a person’s natural constitution. As a take-home therapy, this allows the patient to continue treatment everyday reach their health goals more quickly than with acupuncture alone. Cost of herbs is not included in treatment price.
Want a little more massage in your treatment? Expanding your time to 90 minutes is the perfect way to allow for a deeper relaxation to set in, or to address those more stubborn aches and pains.
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