What Can I Expect At My Acupuncture Appointment?
Your first visit requires about 90 minutes, during which you have the opportunity to speak about your health concerns. This initial visit enables the acupuncturist to evaluate underlying conditions leading to your current situation. The first appointment includes the interview and treatment. Confidentiality is always maintained.
Subsequent treatment sessions last about 45 minutes. At first, we recommend weekly appointments to create an internal harmony. As harmony is increased after 4 to 8 weeks, appointments are extended to every other week, three weeks, monthly and eventually seasonally. Of course, everyone is different.
What Are The Benefits of Acupuncture?
Traditional Chinese medicine is often effective with a surprisingly wide range of physical complaints caused by the stresses and strains of everyday life, including back pain, sleeping problems and computer use. Acupuncture is helpful for many severe chronic illnesses and complaints that have no easily determined cause.
The World Health Organization recognizes the use of acupuncture for the treatment of:
Slightly thicker than a human hair, acupuncture needles are very different than hypodermic needles. Only high quality, sterile disposable needles are used. Most insertions are made just below the skin’s surface, and sensations vary from person to person. Some people feel nothing at all, some feel a dull momentary ache, and some feel a tingling sensation.
Your first visit requires about 90 minutes, during which you have the opportunity to speak about your health concerns. This initial visit enables the acupuncturist to evaluate underlying conditions leading to your current situation. The first appointment includes the interview and treatment. Confidentiality is always maintained.
Subsequent treatment sessions last about 45 minutes. At first, we recommend weekly appointments to create an internal harmony. As harmony is increased after 4 to 8 weeks, appointments are extended to every other week, three weeks, monthly and eventually seasonally. Of course, everyone is different.
What Are The Benefits of Acupuncture?
Traditional Chinese medicine is often effective with a surprisingly wide range of physical complaints caused by the stresses and strains of everyday life, including back pain, sleeping problems and computer use. Acupuncture is helpful for many severe chronic illnesses and complaints that have no easily determined cause.
The World Health Organization recognizes the use of acupuncture for the treatment of:
- Pain (back, shoulder, knee, etc.)
- Digestive Disorders
- Muscular-skeletal Disorders
- PMS and Menopausal Discomfort
- Chronic Fatigue
- Reproductive Disorders (Infertility, etc.)
- Stroke
- Asthma and Allergies
- Addictions
- Headache
- Ballistic injuries
Slightly thicker than a human hair, acupuncture needles are very different than hypodermic needles. Only high quality, sterile disposable needles are used. Most insertions are made just below the skin’s surface, and sensations vary from person to person. Some people feel nothing at all, some feel a dull momentary ache, and some feel a tingling sensation.