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Traditional acupuncture is based on the belief that the body is controlled by a flow of energy, referred to as qi, and pronounced "chee." According to ancient texts, qi travels through pathways in your body called meridians. Acupuncturists believe that interruptions with energy flow in these meridians are responsible for modern ailments.
Acupuncture improves your body's functions and helps boost its self-healing processes through anatomic site stimulation - usually called acupuncture points. To stimulate acupuncture points, professionals typically insert fine, sterile needles you're your skin. Most patients feel little-to-no discomfort as the needles are applied. Typically, needles are left in the skin anywhere from five to 30 minutes. After their session, patients often report an incredible feeling of relaxation.
While some practitioners still adhere to traditional acupuncture philosophies, modern acupuncturists take an integrative approach. Today, professional acupuncturists use the therapy to stimulate the body's natural healing and pain-fighting processes. When coupled with personalized chiropractic care and physical therapy, patients can find real relief from painful physical conditions.
At Denville Medical, your licensed physical therapist's goal is to maximize your body's structure and increase its overall function for long-term health. To accomplish this, our physical therapists combine traditional and innovative techniques focused on increasing muscle strength and improving the body's range of motion. Our goal is to discover the root cause of your pain or mobility problems. That way, we can address the true reason why you need physical therapy, and work towards achieving long-lasting relief.
Of course, we understand that every patient is different. Your doctor can provide expert care in an encouraging environment by creating a customized treatment plan for you using modern, evidence-based research.
Professional acupuncture treatments can be incredibly helpful for patients suffering from a wide range of disorders. When paired with personalized chiropractic care and other medical treatments, acupuncture is even more effective.
With a systematic treatment plan, patients can find help for painful symptoms like:
Professionals practicing acupuncture in Mount Arlington, NJ, use several techniques to achieve overall patient wellbeing, from Cupping and Gua Sha to Needling and Facials.
Made popular by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, most acupuncturists describe cupping as giving an inverse massage. Rather than using pressure to release tight muscles, acupuncture cups create a suction effect. The suction pulls on muscles and fascia to relieve tension and improve blood flow. Like a massage, cupping is very relaxing for patients. Most people describe it as enjoyable, although the suction cup markings may look painful to friends and family.
Acupuncture cups are made using various materials, including glass and plastic. Cupping applications also vary - some clinics go the traditional route with cotton balls, rubbing alcohol, and fire. Other applications include manual placement with silicone suction points. Usually, patients receive one of two cupping styles. The first uses stationary cups, which remain for about 10 minutes. The second uses moving cups, supplemented with massage oil to let the cups glide over painful areas.
Also called "dry needling," chiropractors and acupuncturists often use this technique to reduce trigger points within soft tissues and muscles. In this application, acupuncturists use a sterile needle and insert it into the trigger point, which fosters a feeling of "release" that helps reduce muscle tension and pain while boosting mobility.
Trigger points are hypersensitive, irritable skeletal muscle areas formed in rigid bands of muscle fiber. Trigger points lead to neuromuscular dysfunction and manifest in painful symptoms, increased stress, and lower overall functionality. During an acupuncture session, these needles are applied to trigger points, which cause a twitch, essentially releasing and restoring proper muscle function.
Gua Sha is the practice of using tools to scrape the skin and apply pressure to painful areas of the face and body. A Gua Sha is a flat, hard tool, usually made of stone. Recently, Gua Sha has taken the skincare world by storm, but the technique has been providing relief for centuries. It is one of the oldest forms of Chinese medicine used to boost blood circulation and energy flow.
In traditional Chinese, Gua means to press or stroke, while Sha refers to redness. Gua Sha usually causes small red spots or bruises to form, which are also called microtrauma spots. When using Gua Sha on microtrauma areas, your body elicits a response that can help break up tough scar tissue. When paired with professional chiropractic care, Gua Sha can be quite effective, even for moderate injuries.
At Denville Medical, we aim to serve you with long-lasting quality of life through personalized acupuncture treatments in New Jersey. The path to a pain-free life begins with a friendly, informative appointment, where one of our doctors develops a customized treatment plan tailored to your body's needs. It starts with your first evaluation, where our experts learn about your medical history, diagnostic tests, current condition, and overall health goals. From there, we'll create your plan and help you hit your milestones until your quality of life is improved.
With treatments like needling, cupping, Gua Sha, and acupuncture in Mount Arlington, NJ, included in your scope of treatment, musculoskeletal relief is right around the corner.
If you're sick and tired of living with painful limitations, our doctors are here to help you live a normal life free of debilitating body issues. No surgery. No addictive medicine. Only comprehensive acupuncture treatments, crafted with health and happiness in mind.
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Charlene Peterson of the New Jersey School Boards Association talks with audience at presentation related to search for new Roxbury schools superintendentPhoto Credit: TAPinto RoxburyPhoto Credit: TAPinto RoxburyRoxbury School Board members listen as board President Leo Coakley addresses audience at Thursday's presentation about the search for a new district superintendentPhoto Credit: TAPinto Roxbury By Fred J. AunPublishedMarch 10...
Charlene Peterson of the New Jersey School Boards Association talks with audience at presentation related to search for new Roxbury schools superintendent
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Roxbury School Board members listen as board President Leo Coakley addresses audience at Thursday's presentation about the search for a new district superintendentPhoto Credit: TAPinto Roxbury
By Fred J. Aun
PublishedMarch 10, 2023 at 11:14 AM
ROXBURY, NJ – A Thursday evening “Public Presentation and Question Session” related to the search for a new Roxbury Schools superintendent drew about 45 people who enthusiastically voiced their opinions about the district and what they want in a new leader.
Led by Charlene Peterson of the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA), the meeting at Eisenhower Middle School ended with two rounds of applause for Peterson, who – at one point – said the level of thoughtful engagement from the audience gave her goosebumps.
Roxbury School Board President Leo Coakley agreed.
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“I think if a potential candidate (for the position) were here tonight, he’d say, ‘That’s where I want to be,’” said Coakley at the end of the night, adding he meant "he or she."
The search for someone to replace retiring Roxbury Schools Superintendent Loretta Radulic is being led by the NJSBA, which will use the material gathered during Thursday’s presentation to help the school board sift through applications, conduct candidate interviews and make a choice.
Ideally, a replacement for Radulic will be ready to start working July 1, but Peterson told the board and her audience that the district should not, in order to meet that schedule, “settle” for someone who is less than ideal.
People in Roxbury and Mount Arlington will have additional opportunity to weigh-in on the superintendent search soon; the district is creating a survey that will be accessed via its website, said Coakley and Peterson.
Peterson organized into several categories the public input portion of Thursday’s session. About 14 people responded to her first question to the audience: Why is Roxbury a good place to live and work?
Among the answers:
Later, Peterson asked the audience to name some “issues requiring attention” by the new superintendent. The question yielded several responses:
When asked what they want in terms of the new superintendent’s background, training and experience, the responses from those at the presentation included:
Peterson then asked for “leadership styles” the audience wanted to see in the new district leader. That question resulted in more than a dozen replies, including:
Then, Peterson asked those at the meeting to think of some questions they would ask candidates applying for the position. This resulted in a cascade of answers – nearly 20 – including:
Early in the evening, Peterson reminded the audience that the superintendent selection process is a 2-way street. “As much as we are selecting someone to be the next superintendent, that person is also looking at us and selecting us,” she said. “They’re watching our board meetings. They’re looking at our minutes. They’re looking at what we’re doing. They’re looking at our website. They’re looking at why is this a good place?”
She later said the level of participation shown during the presentation was impressive and something that many candidates for the job are likely to find attractive.
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has been looking into the rash of recent whale deaths off the coast of New Jersey and other nearby states and they’ve concluded there is no link with ongoing offshore wind-related construction activities.Tuesday afternoon, the DEP issued a statement indicating since 2016 they have been in consultation with NOAA Fisheries, the lead federal agency responsible for evaluating potential impacts to marine life and habitats from human activities in federal waters.The statemen...
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has been looking into the rash of recent whale deaths off the coast of New Jersey and other nearby states and they’ve concluded there is no link with ongoing offshore wind-related construction activities.
Tuesday afternoon, the DEP issued a statement indicating since 2016 they have been in consultation with NOAA Fisheries, the lead federal agency responsible for evaluating potential impacts to marine life and habitats from human activities in federal waters.
The statement reads in part: “DEP is aware of no credible evidence that offshore wind-related survey activities could cause whale mortality. While DEP has no reason to conclude that whale mortality is attributable to offshore wind-related activities, DEP will continue to monitor.”
At least 13 dead whales have been spotted along the New Jersey and New York coastline since December.
The most recent case was March 2, when a 30-foot humpback whale washed ashore in Ocean County.
After completing a necropsy on the female whale the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said the wounds included a fractured skull, bruising on the head, and cuts on the whale's right side, which were likely caused by a propeller strike.
But whales have been dying along the Jersey Shore and the entire East Coast since 2016. During those years, New Jersey has seen 27 dead whales, including a previous high of five in 2019, while New York has seen 36 dead whales, including a high of nine in 2020.
From Maine to Florida, more than 189 dead whales have washed up ashore since 2016, which marine officials have labeled as a year-long "unusual mortality event."
Only half of these whales were examined and 40% of those had signs of a strike by a vessel or an entanglement.
Some environmental groups and lawmakers, including several Jersey Shore mayors, continue to call for offshore wind development to be suspended so an in-depth review of the situation can be carried out. But at least three federal agencies have rejected the idea of there being any link at all, and Gov. Phil Murphy has rejected calls for a moratorium.
In its statement, the DEP notes rising ocean temperatures will continue to adversely impact marine mammals, including whales, their food sources, habitats, and migration patterns.
The statement goes on to say:
“due to these changes in ocean temperature and water chemistry, populations of marine species – including menhaden, a key whale food source—adapt by moving into new areas where conditions are more favorable. Changes that draw prey fish landward similarly increase the risk that these fish and their predators, including whales, may be drawn into conflict with human activities, such as vessel strikes that may increase whale mortality.”
The DEP added that The Offshore Wind Research & Monitoring Initiative, a collaborative effort of the DEP and BPU, has authorized $8.5 million to study "safe and ecologically responsible development of offshore wind energy.”
Here’s one from the ‘now I have seen everything’ file.Much has been talked about regarding bullying in our public schools of late. At a time when it’s already been years that New Jersey has had some of the toughest anti-bullying rules in the country with its Harassment Intimidation and Bullying protocols, there was a tragedy.At Central Regional High School in Berkeley Adriana Kuch was viciously attacked in a hallway. Then cyber tortured with the sharing of a video of that attack. She took her life. She w...
Here’s one from the ‘now I have seen everything’ file.
Much has been talked about regarding bullying in our public schools of late. At a time when it’s already been years that New Jersey has had some of the toughest anti-bullying rules in the country with its Harassment Intimidation and Bullying protocols, there was a tragedy.
At Central Regional High School in Berkeley Adriana Kuch was viciously attacked in a hallway. Then cyber tortured with the sharing of a video of that attack. She took her life. She was 14.
So how do we address this scourge? Logic would say come down harder on those who bully. Present real consequences to those jerks.
One school district in Bayonne, New Jersey has a different idea. At Bayonne High School their plan is to give rewards for non-bullying. Yes, if you do the bare minimum (you know, what you're supposed to do), and don’t insult people, badger people, assault people, you get a reward for that. The school is giving everything from Fridays without homework to visits from ice cream trucks to half days. All for doing the bare minimum and following the rules.
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So we now need to pay you to not be a jerk?
That's the message this is sending. It's institutionalized extortion. Pay me or I'll be a pain in the ass bully. I can't tell you how livid I was when I found out about this.
Talk about having administrators who don't have the stomach for the job before them. Stop letting the inmates run the asylum people. Do you have a problem bully? Stop coddling them. Come down on them hard. Be Joe Clark, the principal memorialized in the movie “Lean On Me.” Get tough for God’s sake. Take no crap. Change the culture.
But no, instead you're going to make matters worse acting as if bullying and being obnoxious and violent is so normal that it's worth some reward to rise above that base instinct? Shame on you. And shame on everyone who supports such nonsense.
Hey, here in the real world I never stabbed anyone. I never assaulted anyone. Do I get a free car payment for that? Maybe a Wegman’s gift card?
This is the mentality now in charge of our public schools and you should be very, very concerned.
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Controversial new sex education standards went into effect for all public schools in New Jersey at the start of this schools year. Districts are allowed to determine how these classes will be taught, and adopt their own curriculum.Facing enormous pressure from parents and community members, some districts have sought to get around the new standards.Districts have gotten creative: Ranging from outright rejection of the new standards, to allowing parents to opt-in their children, to teaching lessons on the last day of school to m...
Controversial new sex education standards went into effect for all public schools in New Jersey at the start of this schools year. Districts are allowed to determine how these classes will be taught, and adopt their own curriculum.
Facing enormous pressure from parents and community members, some districts have sought to get around the new standards.
Districts have gotten creative: Ranging from outright rejection of the new standards, to allowing parents to opt-in their children, to teaching lessons on the last day of school to make them easier to avoid.
The LGBTQIA+ community is being ostracized and told they are broken and don't belong, putting an already at-risk community in further danger. - New Jersey Public Education Coalition
Gov. Phil Murphy and his education commissioner were initially harsh when talking about noncompliance.
A spokesperson for the NJ Department of Education said in July, 2022, that districts not in compliance "will be penalized for instruction and program in the appropriate curricular area” and that “the severity of the ramifications could vary.”
When the Middletown Board of Education opposed the new standards and vowed to adopt an "opt-in" policy, the Murphy administration threatened to haul them into court.
Now, with the current school year nearly two-thirds complete, Murphy and acting NJ Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan have largely been silent.
A group called the New Jersey Public Education Coalition is urging them to break that silence, and force compliance in all districts.
In a letter to Murphy and Allen-McMillan, the group cites several examples of circumvention mentioned in a recent School Ethics Commission report.
NJ.com reports the letter begs for immediate intervention, "The safety of children is being challenged, and the LGBTQIA+ community is being ostracized and told they are broken and don't belong, putting an already at-risk community in further danger."
What could happen?
The education commissioner does have the power to intervene.
Last September, districts were warned if districts do not comply with the new standards, they face loss of local control, monitoring by the state and, in extreme cases, loss of state aid.
To date, there has been no evidence the Murphy administration has taken any such action.
The Public Education Coalition is suggesting that school board members who voted against implementing the new sex-ed standards could be forcibly removed, for violating ethical standards.
Removal of a school board member would require a ruling from a judge or state administrative agency.
Citing that School Ethics Commission opinion, the coalition offered to prepare a "test case" the state could use to take such action.
In an extreme case, the state could seek to have an entire school board removed.
It is not clear what action, if any, Murphy and his education officials will take. Murphy has not responded to the letter.
Implementation of the new sex-education standards triggered large protests before the start of the school year. Angry parents often packed school board meetings to let their opposition to the standards be known.
Photo Credit: Roxbury TownshipCheer for Veterans on Lake Hopatcong Veteran's Cruise this SaturdayPhoto Credit: Roxbury TownshipCheer for Veterans on Lake Hopatcong Veteran's Cruise this SaturdayPhoto Credit: Roxbury Township By TAPinto RoxburyPublishedJune 22, 2022 at 8:18 AMLast UpdatedJune 22, 2022 at 8:27 AMROXBURY, NJ – Roxbury residents are being asked to help the township...
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Cheer for Veterans on Lake Hopatcong Veteran's Cruise this SaturdayPhoto Credit: Roxbury Township
Cheer for Veterans on Lake Hopatcong Veteran's Cruise this SaturdayPhoto Credit: Roxbury Township
By TAPinto Roxbury
PublishedJune 22, 2022 at 8:18 AM
Last UpdatedJune 22, 2022 at 8:27 AM
ROXBURY, NJ – Roxbury residents are being asked to help the township pay tribute this Saturday to veterans aboard the annual “Miss Lotta” Veteran’s Cruise on Lake Hopatcong.
For Roxbury folks wishing to do so, the township is setting up a special viewing station at the Shore Hills Country Club (SHCC) in Landing. The club is at 195 Mt. Arlington Blvd., across from the Landing Market.
“There, residents can cheer for the veterans aboard the 11:30 a.m. cruise, which includes veterans from both Roxbury and Mt. Arlington,” said the township. “The boat arrives at this viewing location at approximately 12:30 p.m.”
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The township said its “tribute to the Veterans” will feature Succasunna resident Andrew Darling singing Lee Greenwood’s song “I’m Proud to Be An American.”
Attendees will include members of the Roxbury Township Council, local Scouts, friends and family of the veterans on the cruise and some Roxbury High School cheerleaders. “All are welcome to join this group to cheer on the veterans as they cruise up to the SHCC dock,” the township said.
Those wishing to attend are asked to arrive by noon at Shore Hills Country Club Beach and proceed to the dock area. “Get in the patriotic spirit and wear red, white and blue!” advised the township!”
Parking will be available at the nearby Rich Zoschak Park at 83 Vail Road and the Shore Hills Country Club banquet hall at 8 Morse Place.
Lakefront residents are being asked to decorated their docks with flags and banners and to cheer and wave as Miss Lotta goes past their properties.
Those with questions are asked to call Michele O’Halloran at Roxbury Town Hall at 973-448-2002.
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