Treatment Information

• Pre-Treatment Considerations
• 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 so it is important that the acupuncturist can access these parts of the body.
• In the interest of your own treatment experience and in the consideration of others’ we ask that your put your cellular phone on Vibrate or Silent when inside the Balance Center Acupuncture Clinic.

• Post-Treatment Care
• If you receive treatments for pain, avoid aggravation of the painful area between treatments.
• It is recommended to “baby” that area and avoid strenuous or aggravating activity as much as possible in order to receive maximum benefits.
• Following our treatment, your body makes adjustments for up to 36 hours.
• 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. Typically, the pain will subside to a lower level than before the treatment.

• Treatment Progression and Recovery
• Acupuncture treatments stimulate your body’s own healing capacity. Therefore, the progress of your healing will follow a natural course.
• As this occurs, you are likely to experience a reoccurrence of the pain/condition in between your treatments to some degree.
• The degree of pain, if not aggravated, 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.