You want to find an acupuncturist that best suits your needs. If you like and trust your practitioner, your encounter with acupuncture will be more positive.
DETERMINE YOUR GOALS
- First off, you need to decide about getting help. If you’ve been suffering from chronic knee pain, lower back stiffness, serious muscle tension, agonizing headaches, excruciating migraines, or even painful arthritis that runs amok inside your joints, thinking that their health concern will ‘just go away with time’, or that they have to ‘live with it’ , but then months, or years later down the line, they’re still putting up with it, and nothing’s changed… Or it gets worse
- Next, avoid taking pills and strong medications – it’s likely you’ve been prescribed countless medications or even injections, to help ease your pain, headaches, or arthritis – but the truth is, all of those painkillers are no good for your health long-term, and they only mask the pain.
- Get a real, natural solution with Acupuncture, Massage Therapy to help you with long-term chronic pain, muscle tightness, and headaches.
PICK A LICENSED AND BOARD-CERTIFIED ACUPUNCTURIST
Make sure that your practitioner is licensed in acupuncture and board-certified in both acupuncture and Chinese herbs. Licensed and board-certified acupuncturists have completed a 3 -4 years full-time master’s degree, which has included hundreds of hours of supervised hands-on clinical training.
Apart from acupuncture and prescribing Chinese herbs, a good practitioner is trained in cupping, moxa, massage, nutritional support.
ASK ABOUT TREATMENT STYLES & DISCUSS LENGTH OF TREATMENT
We hear this type of thing all the time at our clinics, people who have been living with chronic pain, unwanted headaches and tension, for months (sometimes even years) who can’t seem to find a solution to fix it.
Decide in advance what your expectations are and discuss them with your acupuncturist. A chronic illness may need several months of acupuncture treatment to have a noticeable effect.
HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS OUR PHYSIOTHERAPY TEAM CAN DO FOR YOU:
- We can quickly ease the pain and stiffness — often inside a couple of sessions.
- We will help you reduce the stiffness caused by arthritis and degeneration or wear and tear in your joints, helping you to feel more mobile, less stiff, and able to move with ease.
- We will ensure that your problem is “corrected” and “healed” properly – and we will provide you with the perfect set of exercises that will speed up your recovery.
- We can help you put an end to taking all those painkillers that are no good for your health long-term.
- We can help you avoid dangerous surgery and painful injections – that you may have been told was the only solution.
- We can help you to finally get a good night’s sleep without any pills.
Basically, we can help you get back to living life free from the curse of chronic pain and unwanted tension.
