First Acupuncture Treatment
What To Know Before Receiving Your First Acupuncture Treatment
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.
This is a very difficult question to answer, and will depend on a broad number of variables. I'll work with you to develop what I call a "rate of response". This will take data from the first four sessions to see how you're responding to the treatment.
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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.
Things to Know
In Chinese Medicine, it's important that we treat you as a whole person, and not just a series of symptoms. I'll ask you a series of questions to help get a better understanding of your situation.
I will take your pulse and do some other checks common in Chinese medicine. I'll perform a series of tests to gauge your baselines responses, so we can check back with them later on.
We will likely be doing a combination of distal and local acupuncture, depending on what you're coming in for. After that, we'll be giving you some basic recommendations for diet, lifestyle, and follow-up treatments.
It's very common to be concerned that acupuncture will hurt, but the needles are much smaller than those used for flu shots. There can be a little bit of a sensation, a dull ache, or some muscle spasms. This is perfectly normal. I'll work with you during the treatment to make sure you're as relaxed as possible, and to ensure any sensation remains within a normal threshold.