What Does an Acupuncturist Do?
February 28, 2021
Tennis Elbow
March 14, 2021
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Steps of Acupuncture Treatment
Feeling healthy goes beyond the absence of acute or Chronic illness. Often, we don’t acknowledge our health until it is compromised; only then do we seek ways to regain it. Acupuncture treatment and Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) can help you along the path toward optimal physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being.
The following steps of care can lead you toward a balanced, healthy, and well-rounded lifestyle.
Relief Care-Steps of Acupuncture Treatment
Most patients begin acupuncture treatment to receive quick relief from pain, discomfort, and other symptoms. This phase is called relief care. This type of care allows you to feel better, faster. Each visit builds on previous visits, paving the way toward eliminating your initial problems and complaints.
Frequent visits over the next few weeks or months may be needed to further reduce your symptoms. Your condition, age, lifestyle, and the quality and quantity of your energy, or Qi(pronounced “chee”) , are all factors in your treatment frequency. After relief care, you will notice that your aches or pains have been dramatically reduced or eliminated.
Corrective Care-Steps of Acupuncture Treatment
The next phase is corrective care. Signs and symptoms have been reduced and visits are less frequent. This phase maintains and supports the changes you have achieved and provides a foundation for deeper healing. This is also the time when underlying problems can be addressed.
Even though you may not be experiencing symptoms, it is important to continue to build, strengthen and support your body. Stopping care now could disrupt the progress you have already achieved, and even simple activities could cause a relapse.
Maintenance and Wellness Care
Maintenance and wellness care is the next phase. This type of care preserves all the progress you have made. Visits may be monthly, every other month or seasonal. Much the same way you keep a car running smoothly with regular oil changes and tune-ups, periodic visits to your acupuncturist can keep you running smoothly. Theses preventative maintenance tune-ups further strengthen your body’s resistance, balanced and potentially free from illness. Little problems may be caught before they become major concerns.
Wellness care is the root of healing. In ancient times, an acupuncturist was only compensated as long as patients remained healthy. If they became ill, it was the doctor’s duty to get them well again without compensation.
Receiving regular acupuncture, combined with regular exercise, a healthy diet and lifestyle, can keep you feeling and performing at your best.
Treatment may be combined with herbs, cupping, moxibustion, massage, qi gone or light exercise. Theses techniques are added to further relieve symptoms, speed up recovery time and pave the way toward health, vitality and longevity.
It is difficult to judge the health and integrity of your body’s Qi simply by whether you are experiencing pain or other symptoms. Qi imbalances can exist in the body for years without showing any symptoms. For this reason, regular acupuncture evaluations and treatments are necessary.
For patients new to acupuncture, committing to long-term acupuncture care can feel daunting, but there are many reasons it’s a great choice for your future health and well-being. Here are just three reasons it’s important to commit to the entire treatment plan laid out by your acupuncturist.
Cultivating lasting health is a process
Western medicine often suggests there are quick fixes when it comes to health, but that’s rarely the case. Traditional Chinese Medicine asks that we call on our patience and validate our right to deep, lasting wellness.
You may access levels of healing you didn’t know were possible
After your acupuncturist relieves your primary aches and pains during relief care, healing can move into deeper layers of your body, creasing a resiliency that will help deflect future imbalances.
It very well may save you money in the long run
Committing to long-term care from your acupuncturist helps your body stay healthy, which can reduce how often you need to invest in other healthcare modalities, such as over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs or physical therapy.
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