Gentle Acupuncture


Gentle Acupuncture Provides
the Most Natural and Holistic Health Care to Patients





(1) Consistently striving to treat the root causes of disorders (in the framework of TCM) and stressing functions recovery, rather than mere symptomatic relief. This is a basic principle of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), whereby a therapist enables a patient to mobilize his / her internal healing to overcome chronic conditions and attain sustainable wellness.


(2) When you come for your acupuncture session, you may upon each occasion discuss major conditions or concerns, as well as minor ones, with your acupuncturist, and your acupuncturist will consider your conditions within a holistic background involving your physical and psychological development, so as to exact the most effective acu-points in which to insert needles.


Conditions seemingly independent of your major health concern, such as skin rashes, poor sleep, recurring neck sore or lower back pain, an experience of a recent stressful social event, so forth, may be deemed interconnected and related by your acupuncturist, based upon the theory of TCM.


Acupuncture may treat such conditions holistically and effectively. This, in some cases, may be more convenient than a patient seeing a series of specialists separately while consuming many medications possibly and potentially undertaking various surgeries.


(3) Offering guidance for self-care. While treating patients, we stress the prevention of sickness, health education and life style.



Acupuncture Treatment in Gentle Acupuncture





Acupuncture, with thousands of years, is a major component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It involves the insertion of hair-thin needles at specific points (acupoints) on the body.


The basic principles of treatment and its holistic nature have been summarized above. Trained in classic acupuncture, both of our acupuncture practitioners were certified by NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, USA) and licensed by State Board.


After arriving you will fill out the basic forms that help to provide systematic information on medical history. then our practitioner will talk with you and perform necessary physical examination to collect information for diagnosis. This will guide them to choose acupoints and perform treatment.

We use disposable and fine needles, and disposable exam paper on our exam tables. Each treatment room houses one patient during his / her session. Rooms are personalized for temperature, lighting and music. We have some eastern music CDs prepared for the session you may also bring your own playlist if you’d like. Rooms are also equipped with professional exam tables/beds that expand choices of posture during treatment sessions, as required by specific treatments for specific disorders as well as simple physical comfort. Some conditions' treatments require patients to be needled in a face-down posture on the exam table, such as many back, hip or neck issues.

We have patient gowns ready for some patients to change into, for upper back or hip area issues. Such patients may also chose to wear / bring their own clothes to ease access into areas to be treated.

Duration: durations depend on patients' conditions and / or ages. Usually the first visit is the longest in order to allow for a complete history taking and exam - typically 45 to 50 minutes. The follow up visits are 30-45 minutes for most cases. Please don't think the longer the better.


If a patient is suffering acute pain or some other urgent condition that suitable for acupuncture, and needs immediate relief, we may be able to arrange for such a patient to be treated in the same day or within the next days.


Please check the page Your First Visit for more information you may need.


Fees and Insurance:


The fee for initial visit is $82. We accept personal check, cash, credit or debit card, or Health Saving Account (HSA) / Flexible Spending Account (FSA) card.

We currently don't bill insurance. If your insurer cover acupuncture you may call them for approval to get reimbursement ( you pay for each visit and we will give you standard statements with codes the insurer required, to submit).



Acupuncture combines some of below services





The following therapies sometimes may be chosen to incorporate with acupuncture treatment, based on patient's condition and the discussion with our patient. We will charge extra fees for some of below services, such as Herbs, Moxibustion Leaves, Cupping and Electric acupuncture.


Acupressure / Tuina (Chinese deep tissue body work)

Herbs

Moxibustion

Heat Therapy

Cupping

Electric Acupuncture

Ear Acupuncture (or Auricular Acupuncture), incl. either Ear Dots Acupuncture (Put small ear dot patches on ear acupoints), or Ear Needles Acupuncture

Lifestyle discussion --- oriental philosophy

Basic Tai Ji (Tai Chi) movements



A List of Disorders or Conditions





You may get more details and updated information for the diseases or disorders that can be treated or affected positively with acupuncture, from the websites of

WHO (World Health Organization): www.who.int or

NIH (National Institute of Health): www.nih.gov.


The following list of conditions are those commonly treated by acupuncture practitioners, or the complains described when people come to see us. If you don't see your condition in the list, please email or text us your inquiry.


Muscular Skeletal

Pain in back, neck, shoulder, leg, head, arm, hand or foot

Sprain

Muscles tight or stiff

Tendonitis

Tennis elbow

Carpal tunnel syndrome (slight to moderate)

Sciatic

Disk issues

Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

Periarthritis of shoulder

Rheumatoid arthritis

Post stroke

Bell’s palsy


Mental / Emotional

Stress

Anxiety

Dizziness (ruled out severe diseases by medical doctors)

Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

Bipolar disorder

Insomnia

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)


Gastrointestinal

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

Biliary colic

Diarrhea (emotionally related)

Flatulence (fullness feeling in abdomen)

Hiccup

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Nausea/vomiting

Ulcerative colitis, chronic


Circulatory

Hypertension, essential

Edema


Endocrine

Acne

Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent

Obesity

Menopausal symptoms


Genitourinary

Irregular menstruation

Painful menstruation

Premenstrual Syndrome

Female urethral syndrome

Infertility (female and/or male - natural fertility, support to IVF/IUI, miscarriage, low sperm count, low motility )

Malposition of fetus, correction of Urinary incontinence

Enuresis

Prostatitis, chronic

Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

Pain or skin conditions in genitalia (man or woman, ruled out infections by medical doctors)


Neurological

Migraine headache

Post stroke paralysis

Neuralgia, post-herpetic

Facial paralysis (Bell's Palsy)

Fibromialgia

Neurodermatitis


Respiratory

Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

Asthma Sinusitis Bronchitis


Others

Weight and Eating disorders

Addiction (smoking, alcohol, drugs)

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

Postoperative pain

Pain due to endoscopic examination

Acupuncture Facelift (facial rejuvenation)

Cancer (see note below)


Note for Patients with cancer:


The goals of acupuncture for patients with cancer include providing basic balance and support, balancing emotional disorders and stress, reducing cancer pain or postoperative pain, and reducing adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. We will need (1) a letter from one of your doctors that states that the acupuncture treatment is in conjunction with a treatment program prescribed by the doctor, or a letter showing the doctor's recommendation for acupuncture treatment, the patient also should be under that active care of a medical doctor. (2) a copy of most recent blood test result. It is not good time to come for acupuncture if the patient is extremely weak, or is easy to bleed for a long time after injection/injury/brush teeth, or is very prone to infections.