Clinical Services

Pricing:

Initial Examination: $50-$100 ($220 value)

Acupuncture Treatment: $50-$80 / session

Electrocupuncture Treatment: $80-$100 / session

Cupping: $50 / session
Herbs: 1 pack of herbal tea (lasts 3 weeks) ; Cost varies

Traditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 5,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tuina), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine/Acupuncture is in concern the need to eliminate the fundamental causes of illness, not simply to remove symptoms. More and more American people get in treatments from practitioners of TCM Acupuncturist.

A Choice Health Center is a clinic of Acupuncture and Herbs: we provide the clinical services as follows:

Evaluation and Diagnoses in TCM Principle

In TCM, there are five diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation.

· Inspection focuses on the face and particularly on the tongue, including analysis of the tongue size, shape, tension, color and coating, and the absence or presence of teeth marks around the edge.

· Auscultation refers to listening for particular sounds (such as wheezing)

· Inquiry focuses on the "seven inquiries", which involve asking the patient about the regularity, severity, or other characteristics.

· Palpation includes feeling the body for tender, palpation of the wrist pulses as well as various other pulses, and palpation of the abdomen.

Examination of the tongue and the pulse are among the principal diagnostic methods in TCM. Pulse palpation involves measuring the pulse both at a superficial and at a deep level at three different locations on the radial artery of each arm, for a total of twelve pulses, all of which are thought to correspond with certain conditions.

When treating a disease, doctors of TCM usually find the patient's condition through these four diagnostic methods. Combining the collected facts and according to their internal relations, doctors will utilize the dialectics to analyze the source and virtue of the disease. Then make sure what prescription should be given.

Chinese Herbal Medicine

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Acupuncture

By stimulating specific points on the body, most often by inserting thin metal needles through the skin, practitioners seek to remove blockages in the flow of qi.

Electro Acupuncture

It’s quite similar to traditional acupuncture in that the same points are stimulated during treatment. As with traditional acupuncture, needles are inserted on specific points along the body. The needles are then attached to a device that generates continuous electric pulses using small clips. These devices are used to adjust the frequency and intensity of the impulse being delivered, depending on the condition being treated. Electro acupuncture uses two needles at a time so that the impulses can pass from one needle to the other. Several pairs of needles can be stimulated simultaneously, usually for no more than 30 minutes at a time.

Ultrasound Therapy

Ultrasound is another modality that physical therapists can use to help a patient with their pain. Ultrasound is essentially a machine that uses sound waves to generate heat within a body part. And, in a circular motion, we just rub the sound head on, say, your shoulder joint, and what that will do is generate heat in that joint, which will help with overall blood flow circulation. It will also help loosen up tissues to allow them to respond better to stretch or any other manual techniques that the therapist will be using such as to loosen up tight joints or tight muscles. It also helps prepare the body part for just general activity before an exercise program. Ultrasound can also be helpful in acute injuries for non-thermal effects, meaning no heat is generated, but it can help increase blood flow so that way inflammation or swelling can be reduced.

Cupping

According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cupping is a method of creating a vacuum on the patient's skin to dispel stagnation stagnant blood and lymph, thereby improving qi flow, to treat respiratory diseases such as the common cold, pneumonia and bronchitis. Cupping also is used on back, neck, shoulder and other musculoskeletal conditions. Its advocates say it has other applications, as well. Cupping is not advised over skin ulcers or to the abdominal or sacral regions of pregnant women.

Moxibustion

Acupressure Manual Therapy

Acupressure is an alternative medicine technique similar in principle to Acupuncture. It is based on the concept of life energy which flows through "meridians" in the body. In treatment, physical pressure is applied to trigger points with the aim of clearing blockages in these meridians. Pressure may be applied by hand, by elbow, or with various devices.

Acupressure used in treatment may or may not be in the same area of the body as the targeted symptom. The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory for the selection of such points and their effectiveness is that they work by stimulating the meridian system to bring about relief by rebalancing yin, yang and qi (also spelled "chi"). This theory is based on the paradigm of TCM.

Nutrition, Diet, and Dietary Supplements

Introduces the concept of healthful nutrition and sports nutrition according to TCM principles; provides a broad overview of sound guidelines relative to both exercise and nutrition for optimal health and physical performance with recommendations of hers remedy; focuses upon energy and energy pathways in the body; and reviews the concepts of body composition and weight control.

The following guidelines are consistent with those promoted by each organization:

• Eat a nutritionally adequate diet consisting of a variety of foods.

• Reduce consumption of fat, especially saturated fat, and cholesterol.

• Achieve and maintain an appropriate body weight.

• Increase consumption of complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber.

• Reduce intake of sodium.

• Consume alcohol in moderation, if at all. Children, adolescents, and pregnant women should abstain.

Exercises - Tai Chi, Qi Gong

Tai chi and qigong are two mind-body practices that originated in ancient China. Practiced widely in China for thousands of years, both tai chi and qigong have become popular in the West. This might be because people of almost any age or condition can learn them.

Large, clinical studies on the health benefits of tai chi and qigong are lacking. But many who practice tai chi and qigong report heightened feelings of well-being along with a variety of other health benefits. A few studies are beginning to support some of these claims. People believe that tai chi improves the flow of energy through the body, leading to better wellness and a wide range of potential benefits. Those benefits include:

· Improved strength, conditioning, coordination, and flexibility

· Reduced pain and stiffness

· Better balance and lower risk of falls

· Enhanced sleep

· Greater awareness, calmness, and overall sense of well being

Heat, Cold, and Magnet Therapy

Heat and cold and Magnetic Therapies are the most common types of noninvasive and no addictive pain-relief therapies for muscle and joint pain. Which one you use depends on whether the pain is new or recurring.

Heat opens up blood vessels, which increases blood flow and supplies oxygen and nutrients to reduce pain in joints and relax sore muscles, ligaments, and tendons. The warmth also decreases muscle spasms and can increase range of motion. Applying superficial heat to your body can improve the flexibility of tendons and ligaments, reduce muscle spasms, and alleviate pain.

Cold slows down blood flow to an injury, thereby reducing pain and swelling. Cold therapy slows circulation, reducing inflammation, muscle spasm, and pain. It should be used if the area is swollen or bruised.

Magnet therapy involves applying a magnet to the skin or close to the skin to improve a condition such as pain.

There is interest in magnet therapy for medical conditions due to the variety of electromagnetic fields that naturally occur within the body. For example, nervous system transmissions and related muscle contractions are associated with magnetic activity. The heart generates the largest magnetic field in the body. Several other activities in the body are associated with magnetic activity.

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