After Acupuncture Treatment
What To Know After Receiving Your First Acupuncture Treatment
What to Expect
This is also called "post-treatment soreness" and is completely normal after a session, especially if we were using local acupuncture. This will usually clear up in a day or two.
The positive effects of your first acupuncture session may decrease over time. It's important to keep track of this period to help create a treatment plan. The goal is to create an accumulative benefit over time, where periods of relief get longer and longer.
You might not experience any benefit initially, but will notice an improvement over the coming days. It may also be the case that we haven't targeted the correct spots, and will need to adjust treatment for future sessions.
It may also be the case that we ARE targeting the correct spots, but more treatments are required to achieve results.
Acupuncture Treatment Phases
This phase of acupuncture treatment is all about getting relief from intense and/or frequent symptoms. If you're in constant pain, suffering with daily symptoms that aren't going away, or have an acute injury or illness, this is typically where we'll start.
Treatments are closer together (2-3 times per week or more) to build up the accumulative effect of acupuncture relatively quickly.
In most cases, if the acupuncture is working for you, things will stabilise within weeks of beginning treatment and we can move into the next phase. Severe cases or circumstances may require us to maintain higher frequency for longer.
This is time for us to work on supporting your body's ability to heal, repair and self-correct. The body can get trapped and held in illness configurations. Our job is to identify the underlying imbalances maintaining that internal environment and work towards restoring a healthier body ecology.
Treatment frequency can vary from twice weekly, to fortnightly.
This phase is the most variable as some mild conditions only need a few weeks to months of treatment before no longer requiring treatment, but more chronic and severe conditions may take years to change substantially.
Throughout, it is important to check in with your progress and make sure treatment is adjusted as needed.
Many people who have gone through either of the previous phases like to keep acupuncture as part of their regular self-care. This can help with prevention and maintaining the improvements already gained.
Athletes and high performers may also like to incorporate acupuncture for their recovery and to support performance optimisation.
It can also be for chronic cases that will need ongoing management of symptoms.
Frequency will depend on the person and their goals. Usually anywhere between weekly to monthly, or just as needed.
This would be ongoing, for as long as the person finds value in the treatments.
It's important your acupuncturist has a plan and process for you to go through. During the course of treatment there should also be certain markers and signs that you can both track to tell you whether or not acupuncture is working for you, as well as when to adjust treatment.
Different Treatment Prices and Options
For your reference, I've included the different treatment prices and options. We can discuss what suits you and your situation best in follow up sessions.
If you’re not sure if acupuncture can help you with something specific, please don't hesitate to reach out. Book an initial consultation or email me with the contact button below:
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2/15 Bronte Rd,
Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Located across the road from Westfield Shopping Centre
OPENING HOURS
MON: 9:00am - 6:30pm
TUE: Closed
WED: Closed
THU: 9:00am - 6:30pm
FRI: 8:00am - 1:30pm
SAT: Closed
SUN: Closed
Finding The Clinic
Entrance is between "Feyshell" and "Baby Village". Clinic is up a flight of stairs, on the first level. Rooms are through the first door on the right. Please make yourself comfortable in the waiting room.
NOTE: If you have mobility issues that make stairs challenging, please contact me and I may be able to refer you to a more accessible clinic.
Public Transport: within short walking distance of Bondi Junction train station and bus interchange.
Parking: Free 2hr parking at Westfield and 1hr free parking at Eastgate shopping centres.