What You Can Expect from About Chi
Acupuncture. When you decide to come to About Chi Acupuncture for
treatment you step into a different type of health care. The type of
acupuncture that is practiced at About Chi is Five Element Acupuncture,
this type of acupuncture is a very safe, very simple, very powerful form
of medicine. It is based in nature and is very gentle in all of its
movements within your body, mind and spirit. As you meet your
practitioner and develop a healing relationship you both promise to work
together so that you can reach your best health. The practitioner will
promise to support your best health with a needle treatment that
enhances the changes and ideas that you have already implemented. You
may promise to add new practices to your life; or may you adjust what is
already a part of your regimen. It is a health care system where the
patient is at the epicenter of healing- not the insurance company, not
the practitioner and not the symptom.
What You Can Expect Involving Treatment. When you add acupuncture
into your life, you make the commitment to come to see your practitioner
on a weekly basis for about eight weeks. Then acupuncture treatments
occur less frequently. Those first eight weeks are used to determine
your energetic composite, or how your personal energy "chi" moves
throughout your system. The first treatment is a Traditional Diagnosis,
during the traditional diagnosis the practitioner will ask you a lot of
questions about many different things-not just you health history. He or
she will also do an acupuncture physical exam. This exam consist of
palpating your abdomen, reading the 12 pulses that you have in your
wrist, testing how your energy runs on your left side versus your right
side and some other measurement tools that will help to determine the
most effective route to your best health.
During the subsequent treatments the
practitioner will try to help you find the baseline for your energy.
They may do some treatments that are meant to help clear out old useless
energy. They may do some treatments that even out how efficiently your
chi is flowing. They may do some treatments that build your energy or
move your energy around so it is more balanced and even. Once you and
your practitioner have determined that you are at a good place
energetically then you will reduce your treatments. It may reduce down
to once every two weeks, or three weeks or to once a month and finally
you will only need to come about once a season. Of course if you need
some support during a hard time emotionally, physically or spiritually
then you are welcome to come more often. It is not the goal of
Five Element Acupuncturist to have you become "addicted" to acupuncture
or have you reliant on a system of medicine that "fixes" you. During
your acupuncture treatments you will begin to notice the little things
that guide your health. You will begin to see patterns within you and
you will learn how you can enhance you life yourself by maintaining your
best health.
What to expect to happen with your
symptoms. If you are like the majority of people you are thinking
about utilizing acupuncture because you have a symptom that you would
like to see change. It may be a physical symptom such as a sore lower
back, asthma, addiction or arthritis. It may be a symptom that affects
your mind; like depression, lack of focus or creativity,
"obsessive-compulsive" behavior or many other conditions of the mind. Or
it may be of a spiritual nature, perhaps you haven’t been able to work
through some grief, anger, or fear. Maybe you don’t have as much hope or
faith or will as you would like. Regardless of the symptom that you are
presenting, acupuncture can help you shift your realities. Acupuncture
is about movement- when chi has a hard time moving a symptom happens. So
it only makes sense that when you help your chi regain movement your
symptom will shift.
Even though we recognize the body, the mind and the spirit are equal
parts of a person- we would never minimize any symptom you are
experiencing. We would use that symptom to track how treatments are
serving you and you would learn how to recognize the things that
aggravate the symptom, the things that signal an onset of the symptoms
and the things that alleviate the different aspects of the symptoms. In
essence we work to reduce the symptom while you recognize the different
things that effect the symptom. We never promise that we will get rid of
a symptom, but we do promise that we will work with you as you get to
your best health.
What you can expect to pay.
Traditional Diagnosis- $120.00. The traditional diagnosis is the
initial two hour exam where the practitioner and the patient meet. The
practitioner will do several acupuncture measurement test that will help
determine the course of treatment. There will be no needles used during
the initial visit.
Acupuncture Treatments- $70.00.
The subsequent treatments will last about an hour and will entail a
needle treatment.
If you have priced acupuncture visits
in the past, you may notice that these prices are a little lower than
the normal and customary fees. This reduction of cost is designed to
thank the patient for paying with check, cash or money order. About Chi
does not accept credit cards or credit. Often times you may be able to
offer a barter to your practitioner but that is something to be
discussed directly with your practitioner.
Many insurance companies are now offering acupuncture services as part
of their services. About Chi Acupuncture will gladly accept full payment
and give you a receipt with a diagnostic code so that you can be
reimbursed from your insurance companies. About Chi Acupuncture does not
do the paperwork or submission of paperwork to insurance companies, in
order to handle all of the paperwork from all of the different insurance
companies we would not be able to maintain the lower prices of
treatment. |
