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FAQ

What to expect on your first Acupuncture visit?

Congratulations! By choosing acupuncture, you have taken a great step toward a more balanced, healthy lifestyle. The ancient practices of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have helped millions of people regain and maintain their health. Since the system of health care may be different than other care you have received, it is only natural to have questions.

Acupuncture and TCM take a holistic, or whole-body approach to health. This means your acupuncturist will take into account your whole self, not just your symptoms, in order to get to the root of your health concerns. We will work together to find out how factors like your lifestyle and emotional and mental well-being may be affecting your health.

Getting a chance to really discuss your health concerns with your care provider, and having your provider really listen, may be new to you. Think of it as your opportunity to form a partnership for better health. The more you take part in your healing process, the more successful it will be.

On your first visit: Initial visits generally last about 60 – 90 minutes. We will take a detailed health history, perform a quick physical exam, and provide you with your unique treatment plan.

During your first exam, we will spend time to get to know you and your health concerns. You may be asked a wide range of questions about your symptoms, eating, exercise, sleeping habits, emotional states an anything that may offer insight into your health. We will also use different diagnostic tools that are unique to acupuncture and TCM such as tongue and pulse diagnosis.

You can consult with your concerns through e-mail if you don’t find any answers below.

  • Headaches ( tension headaches and migraines)
  • Low back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Shoulder Pain
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Kidney Failure
  • Osteoporosis
  • Anti-Aging
  • Weight loss
  • Menstrual cramps
  • Infertility
  • Respiratory disorders ( allergic rhinitis)
  • Total Health Scan prevention
  • Alternative Family Care
  • Urgent care – fever, UTI, bronchial disease

  • Therapeutic Massage
  • Acupuncture
  • Pain management
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Classical Chinese Acupuncture
  • Physical therapy and rehabilitation
  • Acupressure Massage
  • Fine Elements Acupuncture
  • Kinetic acupuncture​
  • ​Art therapy for trauma patients
  • Western Dry needle
  • Reiki Energy Healing
  • Cupping Massage
  • Dry Needle
  • ​Bio energy
  • Chakra energy Treatments
  • Detox scraping treatment
  • Herbal Consultation
  • Hot stone / heat lamp/ heat pad
  • Nutrition Wellness Prevention
  • Moxibustion (Indirect and direct)
  • Qi Gong Yoga & Meditation
  • Sport strapping of lumbosacral – Kinesiology ​
  • Feng Shui Home Consultant for better health

A common anxiety expressed by new patients is whether it is safe to have the body punctured by needles. This is understandable.

The answer would have to be that if the practitioner does not know what he or she is doing, it is possible to inflict injury with an acupuncture needle. A fully trained and experienced practitioner knows how to use needles safely and effectively, and avoid any potential danger areas. However, with the correct needling techniques there is no danger of this whatsoever. The importance of seeking a registered acupuncturist from your local area, and one trained by an accredited college of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and acupuncturists cannot be overstated. In the hands of such practitioners, acupuncture is very safe and effective.

The World Health Organization has cited 104 different conditions that acupuncture can treat, including migraines, sinusitis, common cold, tonsillitis, asthma, inflammation of the eyes, addictions, myopia, duodenal ulcer and other gastrointestinal disorders, tri-geminal neuralgia, Meziere’s disease, tennis elbow, paralysis from stroke, speech aphasia, sciatica, osteoarthritis, variety of rheumatoid conditions. There is also evidence to suggest that acupuncture is valuable in the treatment of environmentally induced illness due to radiation, pesticide poisoning, environmentally toxic compounds and air pollution.

Please call your insurance company if you have acupuncture benefits, or you can check on the website from your insurance to look for our practice. If you don’t know how to do it or don’t have time, just text or email your insurance card a week before you are coming, so we can check for you as well. Most CareFirst, or BlueCross BlueShield under Montgomery County Public Schools, or county employees is covered for 20 times a year. Federal government covers 10-20 times depends on your coverage, and Obamacare with blue cross blue shield is unlimited, but you still need to double check, so far I do not take Medicare, nor Medicaid, but I give 50% discount for a first time patient, or you can purchase a discount package for a senior or low income patient if you have no coverage in your insurance.

Yes. Acupuncture is covered by most Medical Insurance Plans and most extended health insurance, such as CareFirst BCBS, United, Aetna, Medicare and others. Please contact your insurance policy or your claim representative, and bring your claim number with you to the appointment.

Acupuncture is a holistic approach that is meant to treat the person instead of a particular symptom. While you decide to have acupuncture treatment, you should put down all your complaints and medical history and report to the acupuncturist. Those complaints may all connect in some extent. The practitioner would then design an individual program for you based on the disharmony or disorder you have, and treat those problems with the same session. From your headache to flu, your lower back pain, and whatever, they would all be taken care of. ​

Although acupuncture does not cure AIDS, it is often used with Chinese herbs to improve a patient’s immune function and to reduce uncomfortable or dangerous symptoms, including night sweats, fatigue, and digestive disturbances. However, acupuncture significantly extends the life span and improves the quality of life in AIDS patients.

Acupuncture is very effective in the treatment of opium and heroin addictions, and has a significant response in alleviating the symptoms of withdrawal. This is confirmed by studies done recently by the U.S. National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) which recommends acupuncture be widely utilized to treat substance abuse. In addition, acupuncture claims high success rates with cigarette addiction.

Your acupuncturist will recommend a schedule that is right for you. You may not get the full benefits of acupuncture on the first or second treatment. If you decide to try acupuncture, you should give it at least five treatments.

  • Don’t become a busy body. In short terms, experts recommend resting after acupuncture therapy near LAX. …
  • Don’t take coffee and alcohol. …
  • Avoid ice and cold. …
  • This isn’t the period for junk food. …
  • Don’t engage in stressful activities.

Daily Food Nutritional wellness Therapy has a recorded history of more than 3,000 years and is the most basic treatment in Chinese Medicine to prevent and cure disease. It is the preparation of medicinal food dishes, using selected food ingredients and superior herbs, to derive the necessary nutrients to treat specific health conditions. It is the product of accumulated experience from generation after generation of close monitoring and refinement of recipes on people. Each recipe is tried-and-true and the natural characteristics, therapeutic effects and impacts on people are fully known. Besides, most recipes are very delicious and they are specialties in the Chinese cuisine.

Animals are usually presented with an entering complaint. Initial treatment is usually directed towards correcting the more acute problem; however, longer term balancing of the underlying constitutional imbalance is often required in order to keep the initial complaint from recurring.

Traditional Chinese Medicine is aimed at restoring this natural balance. It consists of Chinese herbal medicine, acupressure, and food therapy; acupuncture and so on. They can be used effectively on its own or in conjunction with Western medications. Treatments should only be employed under the instruction and supervision of an appropriately trained veterinarian.

For acupuncture treatment, the placement of needles causes very little, if any, discomfort. Once a needle is situated it is painless.

During a treatment most animals become very calm and relaxed; they may become sleepy and yawn. The number of needles, their placement and needling technique employed varies from case to case, as does the duration of treatment. The duration of treatment can be as short as a few seconds to as long as thirty minutes. The number of sessions and their timing varies with the problem being treated. Most cases will need up to ten treatments at varying time intervals; however some will require only one or two treatments.

The period of time you will feel its therapeutic benefits is around 3-4 days. But it can also be effective right away as soon as 1 hour if you have acute pain or anxiety attacks. If you are having one issue only and your problem isn’t chronic, you can have it once a week.

There are two major claim procedures: In the first, the insurer asks you to pay for your treatment and to submit the receipts for reimbursement. For this policy, you need to make sure that your insurance company covers acupuncture. Know how much they pay for each treatment and how much they cover per year. The other one is, the where the insurer authorizes your acupuncturist to be directly billed to them. For this policy, you need to bring your claim number, name/phone number of your claim representative, and your family doctor’s referral.

You can check with your employer or your insurance company. Your acupuncturist would be happy to find that out for you too.

In most cases it is OK to take herbs and prescription drugs on the same day, however, it is advisable to allow a couple of hours in between to take the herbs and drugs so that each of them has enough time to work in the system and achieve full benefit. Please keep in mind that herbs are medicine too, as there will be a potential for negative interactions with prescribed drugs. I would recommend to discuss any medications you are taking with both your family doctor and Chinese herbalist before you consume herbs. Licensed TCM Practitioners are competent to provide you with advice and serve the best of your health interests.