Initial Treatment (1 hour 30 minutes)

• Bring in a completed health questionnaire provided to you through email or snail-mail by Balance Point Acupuncture.
• The first 30 minutes of the session entail going over your health history in detail, examining important areas that you want to address as well as     anything else that may be important for your treatments.
• Based upon this dialogue, a diagnosis is given and discussed with you in as much depth as is necessary for you to understand and feel                comfortable with it.
• When you are ready, we precede with the treatment. The treatment starts off with a bit more diagnostic evaluation to confirm the original            diagnosis, which includes the evaluations of your tongue, pulse, and abdomen.
• Then, the acupuncture treatment begins, and you are encouraged to breath deeply and relax while listening to soothing music.
• When your pulses indicate a balanced state, the needles are removed and any further recommendations on Chinese herbs, dietary supplements,     cleanses, and other health advice are discussed.

Follow-up Treatments: (45 minutes - 1 hour)
• Conversation about your current state of health and symptoms.
• Diagnosis
• Treatment

Return Visits: (30 minutes)
• A short health update and treatment.
• These are sometimes needed in order to get faster relief from pressing issues or symptoms.
• Some ailments are best treated twice a week for 2 to 3 weeks, gradually shifting to once-a-week treatments.

Long-term Treatments:
• As your condition becomes better, we can start spacing treatments out to once every two weeks, once a month, once a season, etc.

Generally, you will notice improvements within 2 to 3 treatments. Like most other forms of sustainable medicine and therapy, lasting results can take a little bit of time. If you come in with a chronic ailment, you will probably need treatments for 8-12 weeks, which may include coming in twice a week for the first few weeks. For simpler cases or if you turn out to be a quick healer, fewer sessions may be required. Your condition will be re-evaluated as necessary. Though, by and large, treatment prognosis and duration is different from person to person.