At Mountain Spirit Acupuncture, treatments are individualized to promote wellness and wholeness in all phases of patients' lives.
Initial examination
Your first acupuncture treatment will begin with an in depth assessment of your condition and an initial treatment. The intake and treatment may take up to 1 1/2 hours. Typical treatments afterwards last approximately 60 minutes.During the assessment
We may ask you about some things that you might not think are connected to your chief complaint, for example, your emotions, sleeping patterns, and eating habits. Oriental medicine considers the whole person, not just one isolated symptom. When put together, the myriad of symptoms and signs you are experiencing reveal patterns of disharmony. Although treatment will focus on your chief complaint, your whole being must be considered in order to develop the most appropriate course of treatment. Chinese medicine is unique in that it appreciates that illnesses may be identical, but the persons suffering from them are individuals.Pulse and Tongue diagnosis
As part of your intake, viewing your tongue and feeling your pulse can provide a practitioner of the Oriental Medical arts with a great deal of information about your body to help guide the treatment. We choose to feel both the wrist and neck pulses to further focus our treatment goals.Following the diagnostic assessment
Our patients may experience treatment in one or more of the following modalities:- Acupuncture
- Nutritional recommendations
- Auricular Acupuncture
- Reiki
- Chinese Herbal Medicine
- Scalp Acupuncture
- Cupping
- Shiatsu
- Electro-Acupuncture
- Tuina
- Moxibustion