Please read the "What" section on the home page in the "Who, What, When, Where, Why, How" column before continuing, if you haven't already!
The best fit for you can be determined after consultation and/or throughout a treatment plan.
Please do not give up on this great art of healing too early!
Do continue to try and find your right fit if you are not completely satisfied here at More Than Needles - General Acupuncture :)
Of course, try to stick to a treatment plan and give it a fair shot. No form of healing is a simple one-and-done, right?
Other styles of acupuncture and specializations :
Orthopedic: A specialized form that blends traditional Chinese medicine with modern Western knowledge of anatomy, orthopedics, and sports medicine to treat muscle, joint, and nerve pain.
Pediatric: Infants as young as 3 weeks old can undergo acupuncture therapy. Each treatment usually takes between 30 and 60 minutes.
Women's: Acupuncture helps balance estrogen and progesterone levels, regulate menstrual cycles, and address conditions like PMS, PCOS, and irregular periods.
Facial: A non-surgical cosmetic treatment that inserts ultra-fine needles into the face and body to stimulate collagen, boost circulation, and relax muscles.
Japanese: Uses thinner needles, shallower insertions, and a heavy focus on touch (palpation) to diagnose and treat, making it ideal for sensitive patients.
Korean: Focuses on the extremities like the hand or ear. Most of the standard acupuncture layouts in Korea use only four needles. In fact, Korean acupuncture is often called the ‘four-needle’ technique, or Sa-am technique, for this reason.
Master Tung Style: Originating from Taiwan, this system uses unique distal points (often on the limbs) and uncommon channel combinations to achieve rapid results with fewer needles.
So this next one needs a bit of a preface. The public acceptance of acupuncture is growing! This means now more than ever, Western practitioners are integrating traditional Chinese medicine into their practice. Some go to acupuncture school and become LAc's themselves. Or some take a dry needling course to include it with their specialty of physical therapy, chiropractic, etc., sports therapy, etc.
The bottom line is a patient's health, always, and so is full disclosure. So the comparison is not to dig at dry needlers, but to improve on the lack of public education in the acupuncture field.
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