HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? AND CAN I AFFORD IT? IS IT WORTH THE INVESTMENT?

The short answer is, "it depends." It depends on two main factors: your rate of response to acupuncture and the cause of why your body refuses to heal itself. These two factors help us to determine if we can help you, to what extent we will be able to help you, and the investment that's involved. We say investment instead of cost because when you invest in something you get a return on your investment.

Cost is synonymous to expense, you pay money out and get nothing in return. If you are concerned mainly about cost, then we recommend you choose the medication route, because it's usually covered by your insurance. However, be aware that medications will not fix your health problem and it will not stimulate your body to heal itself again; but it'll mask the cause of your pain and symptoms, which means your body is falling apart, but you can't feel it.

The question to ask yourself is can you afford not to try acupuncture? Certain chronic degenerative disorders like macular degeneration and degenerative disc disease, only worsen with time. Sometimes taking medications to help alleviate pain, but they do not slow down the degeneration process. Basically, your body continues to degenerate, but you don't feel anything, because you used medication to mask the pain.

Eventually, degeneration progresses to a point of no return, which means the structural damage is so severe there's no reversing it. By this time, surgery will be your only option. Even if you have insurance coverage for your surgery, you still have a deductible to pay, and what about the days off work you'll have to take to recover, and the post-surgery therapy?

In the end, you end up with a medical bill of $20,000-$30,000 and lost wages, just because you chose to mask the problem with a $4 advil over the years. Instead of investing in fixing the problem or helping your body to heal itself, what could have been resolved with an investment of a few hundred dollars, will now cost you tens of thousands of dollars. So again, can you afford not to get your body to heal itself again?

WHY DON'T I JUST CHOOSE THE CHEAPEST ACUPUNCTURIST IN TOWN?

You could, but let me ask you this if your mother needed heart surgery how would you choose which heart surgeon to operate on your mother? Which criteria would you be considering? Age, cost, sex, race, location, years in practice, insurance coverage? Probably none of those, right? Most of us would want to find the surgeon who gets results and they have successfully performed the most heart surgeries and that would be our choice, right?

Acupuncture and heart surgery may seem completely different because heart surgery is for a crisis situation, whereas acupuncture is most effective in helping chronic situations. However, the selection process for both is exactly the same. If you chose a surgeon because of cost, age, sex, race, insurance coverage, or location, and the surgery was not successful, the consequences are not reversible.

Although acupuncture does not deal with crisis situations like heart surgery, there are still consequences when you choose the wrong clinic to go to. Practitioners who do not know how to use acupuncture to retrain your brain to heal your pain will end up costing you money, time, and irreversible damages due to improper treatment experience.