Your initial visit includes a comprehensive health history and intake using traditional Chinese medicine techniques. This includes feeling the pulse on both wrists, observing the tongue, and palpating pressure points on the abdomen and along the meridians of the body, as well as areas of pain. You will typically change into shorts and a tee shirt or a treatment robe for acupuncture, enabling access to acupuncture points anywhere on the body.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of fine needles into the body at specific points known to be effective in restoring balance and resolving different health problems. Modern Western science can not yet explain how acupuncture works, and yet it has been empirically shown to be effective over thousands of years in restoring and maintaining health. As acupuncture grows in popularity, an increasing number of scientific studies are underway to provide evidence of its effectiveness and elucidate its mechanisms in Western scientific terms.

Acupuncture is beneficial to people of all ages and all stages of wellness or disease. At any stage of life the human body is able to move towards a state of greater balance and harmony, providing improved health and well-being. People suffering from a wide range of disorders can gain relief from their suffering very readily using acupuncture.