What To Expect
Preparation for Your Visit
Dress: You may wear anything you like for your visit. Loose comfortable clothing to expose limbs is best, and we have treatment gowns for your use if necessary.
Your Initial Visit: Please arrive 10-15 minutes early for your first visit, as there will be some short additional forms to fill out prior to your appointment or go to the form link to download and fill forms out prior to your visit.
Specifics: Please bring the names and dosages of your medications, copies of any relevant test results and/or medical documents pertaining to your health concerns.
The Visit: The Doctor will ask extensive questions regarding your history, current, complaints and overall health status.
A physical examination will be performed, including taking your pulse and examining your tongue to determine its color and coating. In addition, the abdomen, back and other body areas may be palpated.
The information obtained from these procedures provide information to the overall diagnosis and enables the Doctor to plan a suitable course of treatment.
Length of Treatment:
A normal consultation takes about 30 minutes to complete, 20 minutes if your form is filled out prior. You will receive your first treatment directly following your initial consultation, your appointment will last about one and a half hours
Subsequent visits will vary with the average being about 45-60 minutes depending on the nature of your particular condition that day.
Course of Treatments
The number of treatments necessary depends upon the diagnosis, chronicity and seriousness of the imbalance. You may notice some positive shifts in your health after the first treatment or within four to six treatments. Please consider that everybody has a different rate and pattern of recovery.
Frequency of Treatments
The frequency of treatments given varies from individual to individual. At the beginning, it is usually necessary to treat you up to 2-3 times a week. Once your body starts to respond, the frequency of treatments will gradually taper, leaving longer intervals between visits.
Following a treatment patients generally very relaxed. You should try to get a full night's sleep the evening of your treatment. Sound sleep will allow your body to heal and you will wake up much more refreshed in the morning.
