Meridian Health and Relaxation

Meridian Health and Relaxation at 1673 Wisconsin Avenue NW is a wellness and massage center in the upper Georgetown commercial district, providing the therapeutic massage, acupuncture, and relaxation services that the Georgetown professional community uses to manage the physical and the mental demands of the Washington professional career. The meridian concept, which refers to the energy channels of the traditional Chinese medicine system that the acupuncture treatment accesses through the needle placement at the specific anatomical points, signals the practice’s integration of the Eastern wellness tradition alongside the Western therapeutic massage.

The Georgetown professional who comes to Meridian Health and Relaxation for the combined acupuncture and massage appointment is typically managing one of the specific conditions that the Georgetown professional life reliably produces: the chronic lower back pain of the desk-bound lawyer who sits in the same posture for ten hours of the professional day; the neck and shoulder tension of the executive whose phone and laptop use has created the postural pattern of the forward head that the musculature cannot sustain without the chronic tension; or the stress-related condition that the demanding Washington professional environment generates in the autonomic nervous system.

The upper Wisconsin Avenue location at 1673 places the wellness center in the commercial block near the NEKA stone surfaces and the other upper-Wisconsin commercial addresses, serving the Georgetown residential community that uses the upper Wisconsin Avenue strip for the regular personal service appointment.

Hours run Monday through Saturday. The acupuncture and massage combination at Meridian Health and Relaxation at 1673 Wisconsin Avenue NW provides the Georgetown client with the integrated treatment that addresses the musculoskeletal complaint from both the Chinese medicine perspective of the meridian system and the Western massage perspective of the soft tissue. The combined treatment appointment, in which the acupuncture treatment precedes or follows the massage, uses the acupuncture to address the energy pathway dimensions of the condition and the massage to address the muscular and fascial components, producing a more complete treatment than either modality alone.

The upper Wisconsin Avenue location at 1673, in the commercial block near the NEKA stone surfaces and the upper gallery and antique addresses, serves the upper Georgetown residential community with the wellness and health services that the upper Wisconsin Avenue commercial strip supports alongside the retail and design businesses. Hours run Monday through Saturday. The acupuncture service at Meridian Health and Relaxation at 1673 Wisconsin Avenue NW provides the Georgetown client who is new to the Chinese medicine treatment with the introductory consultation that explains the meridian model and the needle placement process before the first treatment session. The Georgetown professional who has been reluctant to try the acupuncture treatment because of the needle apprehension typically finds the actual acupuncture needle, which is considerably finer than the hypodermic needle, to be the non-event that the practitioner’s explanation promises. Hours run Monday through Saturday.