WHAT TO EXPECT WITH YOUR FIRST VISIT
With Traditional Chinese Medicine, treatment time can vary extensively depending on the condition, the individual's health as well as the tools and course of treatment chosen by the client and practitioner together. An initial treatment will usually take somewhere between 1 and 2 hours.
To begin this first visit, the practitioner will sit down with the patient for an initial information intake. This intake involves a series of questions that are both general as well as specific to the main ailment being addressed. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this initial intake is quite thorough, and will involve extensive questions on the history of the main issue, aggravating and alleviating factors, qualities of discomfort and other important questions. The practitioner will also asks a series of general health and health history questions. After this the practitioner may or may not perform a series of physical assessments on the area of issue, should it apply. The question and assessment period serves to assess and discuss the patient's main ailment, the patient's health constitution and the best course of treatment based on these and other factors.
After the initial intake, a treatment will commence. This may involve the use of one or several tools and therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine suitable to the condition being treated and depending on the course of treatment discussed by patient and practitioner. This process may require the client to sit in a chair or lay down on a massage table or anywhere from thirty to fifty minutes depending on treatment discussed as well as time factors. The practitioner may use any number of tools including: acupuncture needles or an electric acu-pen or acupressure in place of needles; the addition of electro-acu-stimulation; the use of massage or release techniques, or the tools of gua sha and cupping.
Dietary, herbal and/or movement lifestyle suggestions may be included as part of the client's treatments or may be offered separately. Upon conclusion of the initial treatment the practitioner will suggest and discuss with the client a treatment course and plan influenced by many factors including the degree of the condition, the individual's constitution, and how long the imbalance has been present, as well as patient time and financial factors.
Subsequent visits do not involve initial intakes unless drastic changes to the main complaint and constitution have occurred. For this reason, subsequent visits do not take as long as the initial intake and may be offered as express (30min), light (45min), regular (60min) or in-depth (1hr30min) treatment options depending on several factors such as time and financial constraint, patient's health and constitution, the nature of the condition and other extenuating factors.
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To begin this first visit, the practitioner will sit down with the patient for an initial information intake. This intake involves a series of questions that are both general as well as specific to the main ailment being addressed. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this initial intake is quite thorough, and will involve extensive questions on the history of the main issue, aggravating and alleviating factors, qualities of discomfort and other important questions. The practitioner will also asks a series of general health and health history questions. After this the practitioner may or may not perform a series of physical assessments on the area of issue, should it apply. The question and assessment period serves to assess and discuss the patient's main ailment, the patient's health constitution and the best course of treatment based on these and other factors.
After the initial intake, a treatment will commence. This may involve the use of one or several tools and therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine suitable to the condition being treated and depending on the course of treatment discussed by patient and practitioner. This process may require the client to sit in a chair or lay down on a massage table or anywhere from thirty to fifty minutes depending on treatment discussed as well as time factors. The practitioner may use any number of tools including: acupuncture needles or an electric acu-pen or acupressure in place of needles; the addition of electro-acu-stimulation; the use of massage or release techniques, or the tools of gua sha and cupping.
Dietary, herbal and/or movement lifestyle suggestions may be included as part of the client's treatments or may be offered separately. Upon conclusion of the initial treatment the practitioner will suggest and discuss with the client a treatment course and plan influenced by many factors including the degree of the condition, the individual's constitution, and how long the imbalance has been present, as well as patient time and financial factors.
Subsequent visits do not involve initial intakes unless drastic changes to the main complaint and constitution have occurred. For this reason, subsequent visits do not take as long as the initial intake and may be offered as express (30min), light (45min), regular (60min) or in-depth (1hr30min) treatment options depending on several factors such as time and financial constraint, patient's health and constitution, the nature of the condition and other extenuating factors.
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