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Natural Integrative Medicine in Woodbury, CT

Sophia Natural Health Center utilizes Natural Integrative Medicine to provide our patients with a different approach to holistic medicine. By using both traditional treatments and natural alternatives, like acupuncture, Sophia can provide a personalized health plan to fit your needs.*

SERVING WOODBURY, DANBURY, RIDGEFIELD & NEARBY

If you are suffering from a debilitating physical or mental condition, Sophia Natural Health Center may be able to help you through the use of Integrative Natural Medicine. This holistic approach allows the medical specialists at Sophia to develop a treatment plan tailored to your condition using traditional and natural medicine. We aim to improve the health of your body, and mind, to promote a healthier life.*

We know that all of our Woodbury patients are different. That is why we focus on finding and treating the source of your condition, and develop a customized treatment plan specifically for you.*

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Our Office Serving Woodbury, CT

Address: 31 Old Rte 7, Brookfield, CT 06804

Phone: (203) 740-9300

Hours of Operation:
Monday: 8:30AM – 6PM
Tuesday: 1:00PM – 5PM
Wendesday: 8:30AM – 6PM
Thursday: 11:00AM – 6PM
Friday: 8:30AM – 12PM
Saturday: 8:30AM – 12PM Sunday: Closed

Conditions We Treat

Natural Integrative Medicine, such as acupuncture, can help with, and relieve, many different conditions. After determining the source of your medical condition, our medical specialists can develop a custom treatment plan to fit your needs.*

Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is characterized by any sort of pain that persists for weeks, months, or even years. This kind of pain is typically the result of some level of damage to the nerves.

Anxiety

Anxiety is usually the result of a larger issue, and can be defined as a troubling sense of worry or nervousness.

Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease refers to any disease that generally affects the heart, including: vessel disease, structural malformations, and blood clots.

Depression

Depression is a form of mental illness that is distinguished by persistent negative feelings towards oneself, and towards life.

Insomnia

Insomnia may cause difficulty falling and staying asleep, and can result in fatigue and irritability.

Lyme Disease

This is a tick-borne illness, also called borreliosis, from blacklegged ticks that can result in a number of different ailments including headaches and fatigue.

Fatigue

Fatigue is generally associated with a lack of physical or mental energy despite sleep and can complicate everyday tasks.

Digestion Problems

Digestion problems affect the digestive tract. The most frequent kinds of digestive problems include GERD, IBD, and IBS.

Sports & Accident Injuries

Physical injuries, such as sprains or strains, that typically result from improper form, overuse, or lack of stretching.

Experienced, Professional Acupuncturists Providers Serving Woodbury, CT

Our dedicated physicians serving Woodbury, utilize their many years of experience with alternative and natural integrative medicine to treat a variety of different illnesses and diseases with personalized health plans. Dr. Kenneth Hoffman, our founder, has served thousands of patients using Traditional Chinese Medicine such as acupuncture. We have had success determining the cause of most medical conditions.*

Dr. Kenneth Hoffman, DAOM, L.Ac.

Our Medical Director and Founder

Ken Hoffman is a Doctor of Acupuncture and a specialist in Natural Medical Care. In 1991, he began private training under the tutelage of a Taoist medical and qi gong master where he began learning the art of Chinese healing.

He then completed a 4 year Chinese medical school program with an internship at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY. He has performed more than 18,000 acupuncture treatments on over 7,000 patients since starting his practice which has now grown into the busiest clinic of its kind in the state of Connecticut.

The system of Medicine he has founded, Integrative Natural Medicine, is a unique blend of his years of experience and combines the best of eastern medicine and modern functional medical sciences.

Your Different Treatment Options

Acupuncture Services in Woodbury, CT

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a healthy body is defined as one that maintains a balance between two energetic forces known as yin and yang. These forces are also referred to as Qi (pronounced “chee”). Acupuncture involves inserting thin, sterile needles into some, or many, of the hundreds of acupuncture points in the body in order to regulate and balance these forces in the body.*

Secondary Acupuncture Therapies

Cupping

Cupping is the process of using heated glass, or bamboo, cups in order to create a vacuum seal on the skin over the affected area. This helps to stimulate the flow of blood and energy in the area in order to encourage healing. Our Woodbury patients can benefit from the stimulating and pain relieving effects a cupping procedure.*

Diathermy

Diathermy, often called moist heat therapy, is the therapeutic process of using a high-frequency electric currents to accelerate healing by generating blood flow, destroying unhealthy tissue, and increasing flexibility within deep tissue.*

Moxibustion

Moxibustion is a Traditional Chinese Medical technique that involves burning a spongy herb called mugwort over the affected area. This is another method we offer to our Woodbury patients in order to stimulate blood flow and promote the healing process.*

Tui Na

Sophia Natural Health Center also offers a form of therapeutic massage to our Woodbury clients known, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as Tui Na. This process helps to stimulate the flow of Qi throughout the body and works as an effective substitute for acupuncture. Tui Na may be preferable to those who are afraid of the thin needles used in acupuncture, or for children.*

Dietary Therapy in Woodbury, CT

Our medical specialists serving Woodbury also offer a form of Dietary Therapy known as Chinese Food Therapy. By setting up a personalized health plan that manages nutritional intake, it can be possible to manage and alleviate your condition, as well as stimulate the flow of energy.*

Dietary Therapy does not always necessarily mean cutting back on calories. This method is more focused on managing the flow of yin and yang within the body through the nutritional power of food.*

Herbal Medicine & Supplementation in Woodbury, CT

Through a combination of herbal medicine and modern supplementation, our Woodbury clients can benefit from a healthier physical and mental state. Our physicians will take the time to determine what vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and hormones will have the greatest medicinal effect on your condition.*

We at Sophia Natural Health offer more than just natural integrative health to our Woodbury patients. We also offer our years of experience treating patients with natural and herbal medicines.*

Lifestyle Counseling in Woodbury, CT

No matter what condition we are treating our Woodbury patients for, we always try to involve some degree of personalized lifestyle modification in order to improve overall health. We help by providing resources to help regulate sleep and alleviate stress in your everyday life with the help of lifestyle changes through counseling.*

Your Natural Medicine Specialist Serving Woodbury, CT

Our main mission, here at Sophia Natural Health Center, is to increase the quality of living for our Woodbury clients by improving health through natural means. We work hard to create a personalized health plan that works for you.*