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Chris Savidge, R.Ac, R.TCMP

Find & Correct the Root Causes of Your Health Issues

Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine In Collingwood & Thornbury

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Welcome to Savidge Health

We Treat the Underlying Causes of Your Health Issues

Using the safe and effective tools of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, Chris Savidge R.TCMP, R.Ac works with patients to uncover the root cause of symptoms to optimize health throughout the entire body. Symptoms are the body’s way of speaking to us, and at Savidge Health, instead of quieting them, we listen.

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Tap Into The Wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part of the brilliance of the Chinese approach to medicine is its seamless integration of diagnosis and treatment. The basis of this is pattern recognition; the job of the practitioner is to understand how the patient’s symptom picture fits together and from there, to choose the formulas and modalities that address these patterns.
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Acupuncture

Dealing with anxiety, depression, pain, insomnia, infertility or poor digestion? Then acupuncture could be an excellent choice. Painless, effective and safe, it’s popularity continues to rise as more people discover how useful it is.
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Moxibustion Heat Therapy

If you are often cold, have poor digestion or have low energy, then moxibustion (Chinese medical heat therapy) could be a right choice for you. Safe and effective, moxibustion involves warming the body using the herb mugwort on specific points.
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Chinese Herbal Medicine

Safe and effective, herbal medicine is the backbone of Chinese medicine. Used for chronic internal issues including mental-emotional conditions, pain, digestive problems, cardiovascular issues and much more.
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Cupping

Soothing for sore muscles, powerfully pain-relieving, and relaxing for the nervous system, cupping therapy is a powerful stand-alone therapy or useful as an adjunct to acupuncture.
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Nutrition Therapy

Poor digestion? Chronic disease? Low energy? Anxiety, depression or chronic pain? All of these issues and many more often respond well to simple changes in diet based on the helpful and rational Chinese medical approach to diet and nutrition.
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Qi Gong Exercises

Qi gong, or Chinese exercise, is a great tool to gently but powerfully exercise your body and calm your mind, while treating whatever illness or disharmony you may be dealing with. It has also been used for thousands of years for health maintenance.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture

Because Chinese medicine treats underlying causes, it treats many diseases. Think of disease as being the fruit of an unhealthy tree. Chinese medicine and acupuncture treat the tree, the ground its planted in (as well as the fruit itself) so the tree can produce healthy fruit. 
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Pain Conditions

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have a long history of often being deeply helpful in treating pain conditions.
Chris' goal is always to treat the root cause of the pain rather than just treat symptoms so you can be pain-free and live the life you wan, without depending on pharmaceutical drugs.

Some common pain conditions that he regularly treats are musculoskeletal pain such as sciatica, back pain, joint pain, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, headache and migraine, period pain, digestive pain, chronic pain from accidents, carpal tunnel, neck pain and more.
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Skin Conditions

While skin conditions have a wide variety of causes, they often respond very well to TCM, particularly herbal medicine and acupuncture.
The health of our skin is important to us, being the most visible and exposed part of our body. As a result, skin conditions can cause significant emotional and physical suffering.

As always, Chris treats the whole person and finds that by treating the underlying patterns such as digestive problems and excessive inflammation, skin conditions improve, often dramatically.

Some conditions he commonly treats include acne, eczema, psoriasis, rashes, hives and allergic reactions.
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Mental Emotional Issues

TCM, which looks at the body and mind as an integrated whole, has a host of tools that can greatly relieve this mental suffering.
Many of us are dealing with anxiety and depression Psychological and mental suffering is epidemic. Qi gong, acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion are all deeply relaxing and consistently balance our mental states. Herbal medicine effectively and efficiently corrects the underlying imbalances that contribute to our mental suffering.

Chris has been effectively treating anxiety, depression and other forms of mental suffering for many years.
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Women's Health

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have been a safe and effective treatment of PMS, PCOS, fibroids, dysmenorrhea and more.
Chris often treats women’s issues. These include perimenopause and menopause symptoms as well as menstrual issues including PMS, menstrual mood fluctuations, irregular menstruation, PCOS, fibroids, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.

The Chinese medical perspective is that both menstruation and perimenopause/menopause should be minimally disruptive to a woman’s quality of life. Please reach out if you would like to discuss what Chinese medicine can do for you to ease any difficult symptoms you have involving your monthly cycle or transition into menopause.
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Digestive Disorders

According to TCM, the root of health is digestion. Our health depends on strong and efficient digestion, absorption and elimination.
Many of us have poor digestion and elimination. The signs of this are sometimes subtle (such as reduced morning appetite or low energy) or very obvious (like chronic constipation or inflammatory bowel disease). TCM practices are often very effective at correcting digestion and restoring our ability to breakdown and absorb our food.

Chris commonly treats digestive conditions such as acid reflux, IBS, inflammatory bowel conditions, constipation, diarrhea, loose stools and ulcers.
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Respiratory Issues

In the Chinese system of thought, our lungs govern qi or energy, so without proper functioning of our lungs, it is very hard to feel healthy and vital.
In the Chinese system of thought, our lungs govern qi or energy, so without proper functioning of our lungs, it is very hard to feel healthy and vital. Usually, a combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine along with dietary changes is indicated in conditions such as asthma, shortness of breath, chronic colds and respiratory tract infections.

Chris is also able to provide support in more serious conditions such as COPD. In all cases, though, improvement or elimination of respiratory symptoms improves vitality and wellbeing.
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Autoimmune Issues

While complex, autoimmune issues such as Hashimotos, Crohn's and Grave's often respond well to Chinese herbal medicine along with dietary changes.
Autoimmunity, in which the body’s immune system attacks our own tissue, includes conditions such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and Grave’s disease. While complex, they often respond well to Chinese herbal medicine along with dietary changes. When there is a stress and emotional component, patients often find acupuncture very supportive.

Many patients with autoimmune conditions find that they are able to reclaim their health and live with a higher level of wellbeing and vitality using the tools and methods of Chinese medicine.
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Metabolic Disorders

One third of women will be diagnosed with an underactive thyroid gland during their lifetime and rates of pre and type 2 diabetes continue to climb.
Metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypothryoidism are becoming more common. 1/3 of women will be diagnosed with an underactive thyroid gland during their lifetime and rates of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes continue to climb. All of these conditions can seriously effect the quality of people’s lives, and often lead to other, more serious illnesses down the road.

The great thing about these conditions is that they usually respond well to Chinese medicine as well as lifestyle and dietary changes. Please reach out to discuss treatment options with Chris.
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Meet Chris Savidge, R.Ac, R.TCMP​

Chris is passionate about helping his patients live better lives. Whether you are suffering from acute or chronic issues, Chris will create a customized treatment plan to help you reach your health goals.

Chris’ clinical focus is on internal medicine and he regularly treats pain disorders, autoimmune, skin, lung and cardiovascular issues as well as digestive, hormonal, mental/emotional and neurological disorders. He also treats children.

Chris Savidge started his study of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in 2004. He graduated with a Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2007. He practices Chinese medical herbalism in the Classical Chinese Medicine style of Drs Feng Shi Lun and Suzanne Robidoux. He continues to study directly with Dr Robidoux.

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Collingwood & Thornbury Locations

Collingwood

70 Courtice Crescent, Collingwood, ON 

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Thornbury

@ Inner Yogies, 53 Arthur St W, Unit 2, Thornbury, ON

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