WHEN WILL I GET BETTER & HOW MANY TREATMENTS DO I NEED
YES, we can help you with your medical condition. We have years of clinical experience and get good results.
Here’s HOW we help patients:
Chinese Medicine works by changing a pattern that’s been established in your body. Your symptoms are simply a signal from your body that say “hey, something’s not working here, and I want you to pay attention!”. The way that we change a pattern with acupuncture and Chinese medicine is to remind your body that it has the resources and information to CHANGE THE PATTERN that is currently causing problems.
Typically patients come in for weekly treatments and we usually see significant changes within 6 visits. Sometimes it takes longer, if the problem has been going on for a long time or it's a complicated medical situation. Sometimes we get faster results, if it’s more of an acute situation or the patient is a high responder to acupuncture. If it’s an acute pain situation, sometimes we’ll have you come in twice a week initially, until we can get the pattern changed enough that it’s appropriate to come in weekly. So, generally speaking, you can expect to come in weekly for 6 visits–BUT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE NUMBER 6, IS THAT WE WANT TO SEE TWO CONSECUTIVE WEEKS OF SUSTAINED SYMPTOM RELIEF. Then we will start spacing visits out, so that you come in every ten days or two weeks. When we see that the symptom relief continues to hold, we will decide together about next steps. Those next steps will be either a. Come up with a maintenance schedule that makes sense or b. You call us when you need a tuneup.
After your first visit, you may notice some relief for anywhere between 2 hours and 5 days. By the time I see you for your next appointment, there’s a very good chance that the old pattern will be back! Don’t be alarmed. It takes time to change a pattern. After each visit, we want longer and longer periods of relief. Although I’d love for it to be 10% better after each visit, we are human beings and healing is not linear. Sometimes you’ll feel WAY better after a visit, and then a little better after a visit. THAT IS TYPICAL, but the overall trajectory we have is getting you out of your current pattern and into a new one of health and feeling good. I will be checking in with you at every visit, to see when you notice your symptoms came back, and if they have changed in intensity, duration, or frequency.
At a certain point in our working together, you’ll come in for your appointment saying “I’ve had a pretty good week!!” We want to see two weeks in a row to ensure that the new pattern is solid. At that point, we will discuss spacing your appointments out a little more. We will have a conversation together and decide, by mutual agreement, whether we stretch them out 10 days, 2 weeks, do monthly maintenance appointments, or you call when you need a tuneup. (YES! We say this twice!! This is so important that it needs to be repeated multiple times, and often at each visit!!)
As we work together, I may recommend some herbs or supplements that may be appropriate for speeding up your healing. These are not required, but sometimes they can help us reach your goal faster. These aren’t supplements that you will take forever. Like acupuncture, you may take them intensively for a while, and as you start feeling better, taper down and then eventually only take them on an as-needed basis. We do like to keep things concise and approach this with a “lowest clinically effective dose” attitude, so that you’re not overloaded with a bunch of supplements.
In our work together, we will put together a very practical tool kit that you will then have for the rest of your life. Now, we aren’t talking about radical elimination diets (though sometimes that’s appropriate!), but more like, a little tweak here and a small adjustment there. All of these things add up to helping your body function well, within your busy life where healing doesn’t need to be a full time job!
Honestly, our goal is NOT to have you come in every week for the rest of your life. It’s to work intensively together for a period of time, and have you get back on track with your life, and call us when you need some help again, with the same issue or any other issue that comes up. We are happy when our patients graduate from care, because that means we’ve done our job well! (of course we do have some patients who just love acupuncture and come weekly for prevention and maintenance---that’s 100% fine too!)
For acupuncture appointments, please call (615) 260-6944 or click this link.
YES, we can help you with your medical condition. We have years of clinical experience and get good results.
Here’s HOW we help patients:
Chinese Medicine works by changing a pattern that’s been established in your body. Your symptoms are simply a signal from your body that say “hey, something’s not working here, and I want you to pay attention!”. The way that we change a pattern with acupuncture and Chinese medicine is to remind your body that it has the resources and information to CHANGE THE PATTERN that is currently causing problems.
Typically patients come in for weekly treatments and we usually see significant changes within 6 visits. Sometimes it takes longer, if the problem has been going on for a long time or it's a complicated medical situation. Sometimes we get faster results, if it’s more of an acute situation or the patient is a high responder to acupuncture. If it’s an acute pain situation, sometimes we’ll have you come in twice a week initially, until we can get the pattern changed enough that it’s appropriate to come in weekly. So, generally speaking, you can expect to come in weekly for 6 visits–BUT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE NUMBER 6, IS THAT WE WANT TO SEE TWO CONSECUTIVE WEEKS OF SUSTAINED SYMPTOM RELIEF. Then we will start spacing visits out, so that you come in every ten days or two weeks. When we see that the symptom relief continues to hold, we will decide together about next steps. Those next steps will be either a. Come up with a maintenance schedule that makes sense or b. You call us when you need a tuneup.
After your first visit, you may notice some relief for anywhere between 2 hours and 5 days. By the time I see you for your next appointment, there’s a very good chance that the old pattern will be back! Don’t be alarmed. It takes time to change a pattern. After each visit, we want longer and longer periods of relief. Although I’d love for it to be 10% better after each visit, we are human beings and healing is not linear. Sometimes you’ll feel WAY better after a visit, and then a little better after a visit. THAT IS TYPICAL, but the overall trajectory we have is getting you out of your current pattern and into a new one of health and feeling good. I will be checking in with you at every visit, to see when you notice your symptoms came back, and if they have changed in intensity, duration, or frequency.
At a certain point in our working together, you’ll come in for your appointment saying “I’ve had a pretty good week!!” We want to see two weeks in a row to ensure that the new pattern is solid. At that point, we will discuss spacing your appointments out a little more. We will have a conversation together and decide, by mutual agreement, whether we stretch them out 10 days, 2 weeks, do monthly maintenance appointments, or you call when you need a tuneup. (YES! We say this twice!! This is so important that it needs to be repeated multiple times, and often at each visit!!)
As we work together, I may recommend some herbs or supplements that may be appropriate for speeding up your healing. These are not required, but sometimes they can help us reach your goal faster. These aren’t supplements that you will take forever. Like acupuncture, you may take them intensively for a while, and as you start feeling better, taper down and then eventually only take them on an as-needed basis. We do like to keep things concise and approach this with a “lowest clinically effective dose” attitude, so that you’re not overloaded with a bunch of supplements.
In our work together, we will put together a very practical tool kit that you will then have for the rest of your life. Now, we aren’t talking about radical elimination diets (though sometimes that’s appropriate!), but more like, a little tweak here and a small adjustment there. All of these things add up to helping your body function well, within your busy life where healing doesn’t need to be a full time job!
Honestly, our goal is NOT to have you come in every week for the rest of your life. It’s to work intensively together for a period of time, and have you get back on track with your life, and call us when you need some help again, with the same issue or any other issue that comes up. We are happy when our patients graduate from care, because that means we’ve done our job well! (of course we do have some patients who just love acupuncture and come weekly for prevention and maintenance---that’s 100% fine too!)
For acupuncture appointments, please call (615) 260-6944 or click this link.
330 Mallory Station Road
Suite 15
Franklin, TN 37067
(615) 260-6944 Phone
(615) 617-4307 Fax
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Suite 15
Franklin, TN 37067
(615) 260-6944 Phone
(615) 617-4307 Fax
Read Reviews of Our Clinic