Mrs. Stefanie Schwartz-Kushner, AP
Acupuncturist
5630 Oaktree Ave Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33312About
Stefanie Schwartz-Kushner, AP, is an acupuncture physician who attends to patients at her own private practice in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine in which trained medical professionals use needles to stimulate certain parts of the body. It is meant to relieve pain, promote healing, and improve physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being. Stephanie attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL and was awarded her Acupuncture Physician degree in 1990. She additionally studied at the Florida International University in Miami, FL, and the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She maintains a license to practice as an Acupuncture Physician with the Florida Department of Health.
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University of Miami 1990
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Can acupuncture help a chronic cough?
In many cases A chronic cough can be held by Acupuncture. Acupuncture will treat you on your cause and strength it. Allowing to dissipate. There are many reasons for a cough: wind in the body, phlegm in the body and allergies. Many times this can be corrected. READ MORE
Is acupuncture on the forehead safe?
Yes, Acupuncture on the forehead is perfectly safe. READ MORE
Can acupuncture help prevent a miscarriage?
Acupuncture may be able to prevent a miscarriage. The best way to prevent this is to have Acupuncture before the pregnancy begins to strengthen the uterus and embryo connection. Acupuncture can release hormones such as progesterone but if normal levels are still low a supplement may be needed as well. Bedrest may be recommended for those with perpetual miscarriages. READ MORE
How are you supposed to feel after acupuncture?
Most acupuncture treatments leave you feeling refreshed and revived. Some people even feel as if they’ve meditated or have gone to a spa. It all depends on what you’re being treated for and who the practitioner is and what their specialty might be. Whatever your treatment is, you can always ask for a spirit point to add to your treatment. This has the potential to make you feel better emotionally mentally and spiritually. Warm regards, Stefanie Schwartz-Kushner,A. P. READ MORE
Is acupuncture good for stress?
Yes, Acupuncture can be extremely good for stress, anxiety and depression. Many acupuncturist actually base their practice on treating a persons mind and spirit. A type of acupuncture called Five Element Acupuncture is extremely successful with treating stress. READ MORE
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Get to know Acupuncturist Stefanie Schwartz-Kushner, A.P who serves the population of Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale , Florida.
Acupuncturist, Stefanie Schwartz-Kushner, has been practicing in her field for almost 30 years.She currently cares for the population ranging from Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her practice focuses on Classical Acupuncture which focuses on mental and spiritual balance and wellbeing. Classical Acupuncture understands that when you balance the mind. the body will follow. In the State of Florida, an Acupuncture Physician is a Physician who is licensed by the Florida Department of Health to practice Acupuncture.
Acupuncture as defined by Florida includes a lot more than the practice of Acupuncture itself, which is essentially the insertion of very fine needles at specific locations in order to produce a physiological response which results in pain relief or the activation of healing. In the state of Florida, Acupuncture means the entire system of Chinese Medicine. This includes diagnosis, nutrition, physical/orthopedic exam, herbal medicine, supplement prescription, rehabilitative exercise, intramuscular injection of non-drug substances (such as vitamins or saline), and the ordering and interpretation of lab tests and images (such as blood work or x-rays). The primary difference between what a Medical Doctor (MD) and an Acupuncture Physician (AP) can do is that the MD can prescribe pharmaceutical drugs and an AP cannot.
Both MD’s and AP’s spend 4 years in medical school, with similar prerequisites for science education in undergrad. Both physicians study important subjects such as Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Dermatology, and External Medicine. But there is a major difference in the way these subjects are approached.
Acupuncture Physicians are trained from the get-go to look at the body through a holistic lens, that is to say that they are analyzing how various systems fit together in order to determine the root of the malfunction. Rather than zeroing in on a single symptom, such as nasal allergies or an abnormal lab result, AP’s are trained to look at really big picture indicators like digestive function, inflammation and constriction of tissues and blood vessels, detailed health history and the relationship between “physical” and “mental” disorders. This holistic approach gives AP’s the advantage when it comes to pain and chronic disorders. The reason is that chronic disorders are never isolated, single body-part events. They always involve multiple systems and evolve through complex mechanisms. If they didn’t, they would never become chronic; they would simply heal themselves or be quickly eradicated by a short-term problem-focused approach like those typically offered by an MD. And there is no drug on the market that corrects the neurological pain impulse the way that Acupuncture does. Pain medications merely dull or mask the pain in the hope that the body will get better on its own in the meantime.
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