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Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine take a holistic, or whole-body approach to health. This means your practitioner will take into accout your whole self, not just your symptoms, in order to get to the root of your health concerns. You will work together to find out how factors like your lifestyle and emotional and mental well-being may be affecting your health.

Acupuncture therapy promotes health and healing based on the concepts of "vital energy," "energetic balance," and "energetic imbalance." The acupuncturist evaluates the flow and distribution of vital energy through the "meridians and channels" of the human body. By stimulating acupoints along the meridians, the acupuncturist enables the proper amout of vital energy to reach each area of the body.

Recent research has shown that acupuncture produces beneficial changes in the body's natural painkillers, anti-inflammatory agents, immune system functions, and hormonal activity.

Examination
In an exam/consultation, the practitioner learns your medical history and assesses your face, body, build, shape, abdomen, back, the shape and color of your tongue, and the quality of your pulse. Some acupuncturists test for weaknesses along your meridians and in the muscles. Some may test electrical activity.

Treatment
Licensed acupuncturists insert sterile, disposable needles safely. Bleeding is rare, and even then, minimal. Most acupuncture patients describe the treatment as virtually painless; possibly less painful than plucking out a hair. Sensations range from nothing to mild tingling, numbness and a dull ache, and electrical pulsations.