1. What happens during my first visit?
During your first visit you will have completed your comprehensive Acupuncture health intake. The Acupuncturist will inquire about your complaints and assess you using Traditional Chinese Medicine methods. This includes feeling your pulse and observing your tongue.
Afterwards the Acupuncturist will make a Traditional Chinese Medical Diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan and follow with performing Acupuncture on you.
Afterwards the Acupuncturist will make a Traditional Chinese Medical Diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan and follow with performing Acupuncture on you.
2. Why does the Acupuncturist have to take my pulse and tongue?
Both pulse and tongue are important to the Acupuncturist because it can give a clearer picture of what is going on with an individual’s body. For example, the state of the pulse and tongue can give clues to the status of different organs.
3. Some of the questions on the health history seem personal, why is this so?
Traditional Acupuncture is a Holistic system. In other words you may have symptoms that may seem unrelated but to an Acupuncturist it can provide a broader view of the person’s condition and it can help in the accuracy of the Traditional Chinese Medical diagnosis.
4. Is it painful?
Acupuncture needles are hair thin in diameter. It is relatively painless when it is inserted. Generally you may just feel a slight pressure on insertion. During the treatment you may notice a sensation of warmth, heaviness, soreness, itchiness and numbness. This is normal. In Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture the stronger the sensation, the better the results in general.
5. How long are the treatments?
The first treatment is 1 hour in length (includes assessment) and follow-ups can be between 20 minutes to 40 minutes, depending on your condition.
6. How many treatments will I need?
This all depends on your condition. Variables such as length of time you have had the issue, your own body’s response and how complicated your condition may be, can affect the amount of treatments you will need.