New Patient Information
If you have never been to my office before, please make an appointment and if you like, let me know briefly in the notes how I can help you. Your first appointment will usually last 60 to 90 minutes. Before you arrive at our office, please read our Privacy Practices form. You do NOT need to print this, please feel free to just read it and then print out and sign the Consent and Receipt of Privacy Practices forms here:
If you have health insurance, please contact me with your insurance information via email. Include your ID number, Group number and your date of birth so I am able to provide you with your insurance benefits at your appointment. When you come for your appointment, please bring your insurance card and I will make and keep a copy of it. If there is a co-pay or deductible, that will be collected at your appointment. If you have no coverage, we accept cash, checks and PayPal. I do NOT at this time accept debit and credit cards, except through PayPal.
If you need to cancel, please give us 24 hours notice.
Your first appointment will include an extensive set of questions pertinent to Oriental medicine which may seem unusual if you have never had an acupuncture treatment. In addition, I will look at the color, shape and coating of your tongue and check the characteristic feel of your pulse in six different locations. Depending on your condition, vital signs and some screening tests may be performed. All of these things help lead to an accurate TCM diagnosis which will dictate a treatment plan for your whole-body health and your specific symptoms.
In my clinic I always treat only one client at a time, so you will get my full attention. During the course of the time I insert needles, I will repeatedly check your response to the treatment and adapt your treatment accordingly.
Most patients come for six to eight treatments to get their discomfort relieved and they feel healthy again. If the pain is chronic, a less rigorous, but more long term maintenance may be needed, but for most patients, a check in for a ‘tune-up’ at the change of the seasons is often all that’s needed to maintain that level of health and wellbeing.
If your health is overall great and you want to see me only for a relatively minor condition or an acute injury, please do call! Those nagging feelings that you are getting a cold, that ankle sprain, or that headache can all be helped with a course of treatment!
Free street parking is available on Grand Avenue. Our building is a blue house located on the west side of Grand avenue in a residential area. My name is on the mailbox and you may come right in to our waiting room and make yourself at home. If you need a map or directions, go here for more information. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) to access and print the files.
