How to Achieve Vitality in your Life with Acupuncture

Vitality is a word that conjures up images of strength, endless energy and whole-body-health.  Ideally, living a life of wellness goes far beyond living without pain or symptoms, it means living a vital life.

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine can help you along the path towards optimal spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health.  Along the way it is sometimes helpful to identify the various stages of this process.

Symptomatic Care:

Most patients begin acupuncture because their symptoms have simply become too overwhelming.  Whether it’s pain, an internal disorder, emotional disorder or you know something in your life has to change, this stage of care focuses on alleviating your symptoms.  Each visit builds on the next and symptoms begin to dissipate.  Usually the longer or more chronic the condition the longer it takes to treat.  Other variables to consider include age, gender, lifestyle, and your overall constitution.  After symptoms are reeled under control you enter into the corrective care stage.

Corrective Care:

During this stage of care your signs and symptoms have been drastically reduced and treatments help to maintain your level of vital health.  Some flare-ups may occur, but it is important to realize that this is also the time when many long-standing health issues or underlying causes of your condition are being addressed.

Preventative Care:

During this stage of wellness you enter fully into living a vital life.  Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine treatments occur less frequently or even on a maintenance basis.  Many patients come in for monthly tune-ups simply because life with acupuncture helps them feel great.

In some villages in China the acupuncturists were only compensated when their patients continued to be healthy. Sun Tzu the famous military strategist never sent his troops into battle without proper training just as your body needs proper adjustments and training from time to time to run at optimal performance.  Along with a healthy diet and proper exercise many of our patients find that acupuncture is an invaluable resource and must-have part of their vital lifestyle.

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