Text Box: A first visit to the Lightwave Healing Arts begins with a comprehensive intake, using various diagnostic techniques specific to Traditional Chinese Medicine. This could include questions about your main complaint, your past health history, your lifestyle, and any recent treatments and recommendations made by your physician or other health care providers. A careful evaluation of this information and of other physical signs and symptoms will lead to an initial Chinese medical diagnosis, which will guide your acupuncture treatment, as well as herbal or nutritional treatment. Next, you will lie comfortably on a massage table, either face up or face down, while very thin needles are deftly inserted into various acupuncture points. The sensations from these needles can include some tingling, spreading warmth, heaviness, mild pricking or no sensation whatever. Generally, once the needles have been inserted, these sensations fade, and you will feel deeply relaxed. Some patients fall asleep during their 20-30 minutes on the table. At the end of this time, needles are removed. Before you leave, we may give you an herbal formula , nutritional advice or supplements to build on the changes put into motion from your acupuncture treatment. For adults, this initial visit generally lasts 90 minutes; for children 10 and younger it is one hour. Follow-up visits last 60 minutes for adults and 30 minutes for children. At the end of your first visit, we will suggest an appropriate schedule for follow-up visits, and will tell you how many visits we think you will need. Text Box: Introduction to Chinese Herbal Medicine Text Box: Acupuncture for Children Text Box: Acupuncture for Teens & Adults Text Box: Acupuncture FAQs Text Box: Fees & Scheduling Text Box: For more information about these services, contact Gail Rex at (802) 453-4943.

What to Expect from

Your First Acupuncture Visit