Holiday Greetings and Office Hours 2023~2024 Season

Clinic news

May the Holiday season fill your home with joy, your heart with love, and your life with laughter.Have a healthy, happy, and peaceful New Year.

Dear Valued Patients,

As the holiday season twinkles upon us, the team at Almond Wellness Centre wishes you and your loved ones joy, warmth, and a season filled with wellness and cheer.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude for entrusting us with your health and well-being throughout the year. Your trust in our practice inspires us to continually strive for excellence in delivering personalized care tailored to your needs.

Please take note of our holiday office hours, ensuring you have access to our services during this festive season. For detailed information on our open hours, kindly visit our website [insert hyperlink to the detailed open hours page].

May this holiday season bring you moments of serenity and togetherness. Here’s to a rejuvenating break and a new year brimming with health, happiness, and harmony.

Warm regards,

Your health team at Almond Wellness Centre

Important Information for Private Health Fund Members – massage therapy, acupuncture and chiropractic

The New Year is fast approaching and for many Private Health Fund Members it signals the expiry of your insurance entitlements for 2023.

Many Health Fund Providers run on a calendar year and they tend not to carry over unused funds to the following year. Now is not only the time to check that you are taking full advantage of your Health Insurance entitlements, but also to ensure that you are keeping fit, healthy and pain free for the festive season.

Almond Wellness Centre is dedicated to helping you reach your health potential; guiding you to a lifetime of freedom, good living and a better quality of life.

Take advantage of your remaining Private Health benefits for 2023 before they are gone.

Call  03 8802 1519 or 03 9378 9479 to make your next appointment now.

Holiday office hours

During the Holiday Season our clinic will have the following schedule:

23rd – 26th December 2023 Closed

27th – 29th December 2023 OPEN

30th December 2023 – 2nd January 2024 Closed

We will reopen on Thursday January 3rd and resume regular office hours.

Acupuncture Menopause Trial

Clinic news

Have troublesome hot flushes?

Volunteers wanted for acupuncture study

The University of Melbourne, in collaboration with Jean Hailes for Women’s Health and Monash/RMIT/Southern Cross Universities is looking for healthy postmenopausal women who can attend for

10 free sessions of acupuncture

(either real or placebo) as part of a study on acupuncture for hot flushes.

Eligibility criteria:

• You need to be over 40
• Have not had acupuncture in the past TWO years
• Having regular hot flushes
• Have not had a hysterectomy or your ovaries removed
• At least 12 months since your last menstrual period
• Have not started any treatment for hot flushes within the past 12 weeks
• Not taking hormone replacement therapy
• Willing to attend for acupuncture (real or placebo) at the nearest location over 8 weeks

Treatments are provided by Dr. Richard Zeng (TCM Dr.) at Coburg and Ringwood clinic, and other experienced acupuncturists located in St Kilda, Bentleigh, Rosanna, Mount Waverley, Bundoora and Melton. Treatments last for 30 minutes except for the first treatment which is 45 minutes.

For more information please see:

www.gp.unimelb.edu.au/acupause

email: [email protected] or

call 03 90355018