Acupuncture Wellness Center Community Based Acupuncture

Welcome to Community Acupuncture at the Acupuncture Wellness Center! Our mission is to make acupuncture a simple and effective form of healthcare that is accessible and affordable to a wide range of people by using a sliding scale payment system. Acupuncture treatment costs $15-$40 per visit. You decide what you can afford within this range. There is a one-time paperwork fee of $10 at the initial visit. Income verification is not required. Acupuncture does not need to be expensive to be effective!

What to Expect

We are able to keep treatment costs low by treating several patients in a common treatment room with patients seated in recliners. With multiple treatments happening at once, each person can pay less, making acupuncture available to more people. In this open setting, friends and family members can come in together for treatment. Because many people find it comforting in this community setting, a collective healing environment occurs. We offer individualized treatment and care with complete respect for the privacy of your personal history.

Your first appointment will be an initial evaluation of your health history and present complaint(s). You will be asked to fill out paperwork (available online). Please allow 15-30 minutes to discuss and assess your health history. Assessment may include asking you questions, feeling your pulses, and looking at your tongue, all of which are traditional Chinese medicine tools to determine your treatment plan. No acupuncture treatment will be given at this time. After your initial evaluation you will schedule your first community acupuncture appointment.

Patients are treated in comfortable reclining chairs or on a massage table. No disrobing is necessary. Please wear comfortable, loose clothing that can be rolled up above your elbows and knees, so points can be accessed on your arms and legs. The points on the extremities are the most powerful points in the body and can be used to treat any condition. Please also refrain from wearing any perfume/cologne, scented lotion or oils. We strive to keep a quiet healing environment, talking is discouraged. You may bring earplugs.

What is Needed From You

• Responsibility: Please understand that acupuncture is not a substitute for Western medicine. While we can provide complementary care for conditions that are being treated by others, you need to see a Western physician for serious conditions.
• Commitment: Because Acupuncture is a process, it is rare for any acupuncturist to resolve a problem with only one treatment. On your first visit we will suggest a treatment course. To get the best results, it is important that you commit to the treatment process. Please let us know if there is a commitment problem.
• Familiarity with the process: This will streamline your treatment. Paying for your session and scheduling your next appointment ahead of time will allow you to relax during your treatment. If you need to have needles removed at a certain time, let us know and we'll make sure to get you out on time.
• Flexibility and community-mindedness: The soothing atmosphere in our community room exists because we all create it. Please help preserve the collective stillness by lowering your voice or whispering. Feel free to bring whatever you need to make yourself comfortable: a pillow, a blanket, earplugs, etc. Please turn off your cell phone.
• Growing our community: It is our belief that Acupuncture Wellness Community Acupuncture can play an important role in keeping health costs low and keeping people healthy in our community. If you share this belief, please help us develop this sustainable business model. Please take our business cards and/or brochures to pass around the community. Or, write a testimonial.

We appreciate your dedication and hope that you enjoy the space! Thank you for putting your health and trust in our hands!

What Does Acupuncture Treat?

The World Health Organization* recommends acupuncture and herbal medicine for the following conditions:

• Pain Management: for acute and chronic pain
• Post Trauma Rehabilitation including whiplash and other acute and chronic injuries
• Muscular Skeletal Problems: Inflammatory problems, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, sciatica, low back pain, osteoarthritis
• Autoimmune Diseases: Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue
• Neurological Disorders: migraines, TMJ, trigeminal neuralgia, bells palsy, certain eye disorders
• Respiratory Disorders: asthma, allergic rhinitis, cough, common cold
• Gastrointestinal Disorders: reflux, nausea, vomiting, gas, GERDS, IBS, constipation, diarrhea, ulcers, poor digestion
• Gynecological Problems: painful, irregular or no menses, menopausal symptoms, infertility, PMS symptoms
• Nervous Disorders: anxiety, PTSD, mild depression, insomnia, panic attacks, irritability
• Addiction Therapy: Smoking Cessation, Drug Detox
• Courtesy of the American Society of Acupuncture. This list is not all-inclusive.

National Institute of Health Conference (NIH) found Acupuncture:

• Effective for adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting:
• A reasonable option for post-operative myofascial and low back pain;
• Has substantially lower incidence of adverse effects than many drugs or accepted medical procedures used for the same conditions.
• The data in support of acupuncture are as strong as for many accepted Western medical therapies.

Clinical Research (NIH) demonstrates that Acupuncture:

• Stimulates bone re-growth
• Regulates blood pressure
• Increases red and white blood cell count
• Stimulates production of pain modulating endorphins and enkephalins