Tuesday, January 9, 2018
How acupuncture works?
Lake Vue Acupuncture
Acupuncture works in a series of visits. Just like physical therapy, you need series of treatment to get better.
You can never have two acupuncture treatments too close together, but you can have the two treatments too far apart. It works cumulatively and we want to continue building on your progress.
If we treat you today, but then before your next appointment a week later your symptoms slowly start to creep back in so by the time we treat you again we’re at square one, then we went too far between the two appointments. We’ll be stuck in this see-saw of your symptoms improving, then getting worse, then improving, and getting worse. We don’t want this, we want your symptoms to slowly improve, and improve, and improve.
In order to accomplish this, I’ll need to see you twice a week at least for the first 1-2 weeks, three times a week is even better. After that as long as your symptoms are improving and staying at that level of improvement between appointments, then we’ll back off to once per week. As long as your symptoms continue to stay stable between appointments we’ll keep treating you once per week, but if they start to creep back in during that week then I want you to contact me and we’ll get you in the office ASAP for an appointment so we don’t lose ground on all of our progress.
If your situation is acute, it will take about 5-6 treatments to achieve the definite improvement. If your situation is chronic, it will take about 10 treatments.
Once the symptoms are basically gone or staying stable, then we can go into tune up mode where I have my patient come in every 1 or 2 months for maintenance purpose.
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