Before Treatment

• Please eat an adequate amount of food before your treatment.
• You should not receive acupuncture with an empty or overly full stomach.
• Please wear comfortable, easy-to-access clothing. The acupuncture needles will most likely be placed in the areas around your lower arms and legs, hands, and feet.

After Treatment

• If you receive treatments for pain, avoid aggravation of the painful area between treatments.
• Your body makes adjustments for up to 36 hours after treatment.
• There is a 10% chance that you may experience an aggravation of the condition that you are being treated for.
• There is no cause for concern, as this is a healing response to the effective and unique treatment employed.

• The pain/discomfort usually subsides within 36 to 48 hours.

Progression and Recovery

• Acupuncture treatments stimulate your body’s own healing capacity.
• You are likely to experience a reoccurrence of the pain/condition in between your treatments to some degree.
• The degree of pain progressively decreases over a series of treatments.
• Finally, the pain will decrease to the level where the condition has recovered.
• The individual recovery time will be different from patient to patient.