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By Times’ Junior Journalist Pia Grover Have you ever experienced a headache or backache so intense and so painful that you needed to see a doctor or acupuncturist to get relief? Who would think that an acupuncturist can also solve such simple problems with long-lasting effects? Read along as I’ve found out so much about this field in the last few weeks. When one of my family members needed immediate medical attention, we happened to discover one such find, Sunnyhills Health Management, which is run by Pengfei (Roger) Yu, an ACC Registered Acupuncturist. He’s a graduate from the New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in acupuncture and recently completed his Master’s degree in Chinese Medicine, which is an incredible achievement. He believes in holistic and natural therapies to alleviate body pain. He provides in-depth consultation, advice, comprehensive care and addresses health concerns from head to toe. Roger’s patients come to him to seek help to relieve aches and pains like arm pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, menstrual and more. However, he also helps heal internal aches or diseases like sore stomachs, constipation, low blood sugar issues, cholesterol problems, and irritable bowel syndrome. Roger was motivated to change his profession and become an acupuncturist after he moved to New Zealand. He felt the need to do something to help people recover from bodily problems, so he set his mind to it and learnt Chinese Medicine. He believes it can help people overcome and cure their pain points. Roger noted that most people who are injured aren’t bothered looking for a good doctor or acupuncturist to help relieve their pain, they just take painkillers instead. Painkillers may provide temporary comfort but don’t always help in the long-term. Roger mentioned he aspires to relieve patients from intense pain and over time hopes to solve those aches in the long-term so patients don’t find a need to rely on pills. Since Roger’s clinic is home-based, his appointment timings are quite open and flexible, which is very unique. He takes appointments from Monday to Sunday from 8am to 8.30pm. With a mixed number of patients per day, sometimes there can be five patients to look at and sometimes more than 10. He finds Saturday and Sundays quite busy as nearly all the citizens of Auckland work on the weekdays. Roger hopes in the future his scope of practice will expand to include the ability to prescribe Chinese herbs to his patients. Feel free to reach out to him for a chat. Sunnyhills Health Management Clinic can be found at 133 Fisher Parade, Sunnyhills. Pia Grover is in year 8
