What to Expect From Your Acupuncture Treatment.

The initial patient visit consists of an in-depth review of your health history including: prior illnesses; surgeries; immunizations; medications; family history; and your current health issues.

The Acupuncturist will review your diet and lifestyle choices, spiritual and meditation practices, exercise routines, and will inquire into your emotional status. This inquiry is regarded with as much importance as the review of your chief medical symptoms.

By observing the quality and texture of your skin, your voice, tongue, by palpating the major meridian systems, and by “feeling” your pulse at the radial position, the practitioner is trained to comprise a detailed diagnosis and treatment protocol using the Chinese medical framework.

The treatment consists of placing very fine, sterilized, single use acupuncture needles into specific acu-points on the body. Acupuncture is a painless and very relaxing process that works at a deep internal level leaving the individual in a calm and alert state of mind.

By going deeper into the underlying, root cause of the disharmony, the Acupuncturist is often able to correct the imbalance that led to the unpleasant symptoms in the first place. The result of a series of acupuncture and oriental medicine treatments is not the alleviation of the symptoms, but to resolve the disharmony completely.

An Ancient Healing Technique
Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, medicinal herbal prescriptions, Tuina (traditional Chinese medical massage), and foot reflexology have proven to be an effective form of health care for over 3,000 years. Chinese medicine has a beneficial and regulatory effect on all of the systems in the body including musculo-skeletal, endocrine, reproductive, nervous, circulatory, and digestive. It is a safe, non-invasive, comprehensive system used to not only treat disease, but to prevent a variety of disharmonies that manifest in the body.