Acupuncture Newport Beach

Your practitioner will explain the nature of your program and what treatment is recommended. How long you need therapy depends on your condition. Acute or temporary problems may just need a few treatments. Chronic conditions may need regularly scheduled treatments over several months. You may start out with several treatments per week, and then decrease to weekly or less often. Typically, you should allow 30-45 minutes per session. The initial visit can range anywhere from 60-90 minutes.

Most practitioners of acupuncture perform a partial physical examination during each visit. This includes extensive pulse talking, tongue observation, and feeling of the abdomen. They also will take a detailed medical history including nutrition habits, lifestyle and other environmental factors. After conducting the overall health evaluation, the acupuncturist will ask you to lie down on a padded table. He or she will then insert the needles may be manipulated manually. The needles also may be connected to a safe electrical current, which may cause a mild tingling or no sensation at all. Acupuncturists may also prescribe Chinese herbal preparations, Chinese therapeutic massage (Tui-Na), or diet changes along with acupuncture.

In general, acupuncture is safe and painless. Acupuncture needles are specially designed, hair-thin needles that come in different sizes. By law, acupuncturists use sterilized, disposable, and individually packaged needles that are only used one time, and wipe the skin with an alcohol pad. This eliminates the possibility of transmitting a communicable disease by a contaminated needle and reduces the chance of a local skin infection. After a needle penetrates the skin, the patient should feel some heaviness, distention, tingling sensation or electric sensation either around the needle or traveling up/down the affected meridians/channels.

Acupuncture is virtually free from side effects. Side effects, when they occur, usually involve mild discomfort and bruising at the needle sites. Local spot bleeding and reddening of the skin around the needle site may also occur.

On occasion one may experience light-headedness and usual sensations in the body.

1. Wear loose clothing.
2. Avoid treatment when excessively fatigued, thirsty, and hungry or full.

Notify your practitioner immediately if you:

• Have a pacemaker-Please inform your acupuncturist prior to treatment
• Are taking a blood thinner
• Are pregnant
• Experience dizziness, nausea, cold sweats, and shortness of breath, fainting, or sharp pain during treatment. Nervousness or tenseness may trigger some of these symptoms.

The cost of the therapy varies depending on the type of visit. The average cost for initial visits are between $75.00 and $150.00, and return visits are between $50.00 and $80.00 for self-pay patients. All automobile insurance companies cover acupuncture for the injuries caused by a motor vehicle accident. Some health insurance companies cover acupuncture within defined parameters. Please check with your insurance company first to find out if acupuncture might be covered or contact us and we will be more than glad to assist you to find out your acupuncture benefit.