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The Treatment Process

At Healthy Living Acupuncture, Andrew Appello will perform a detailed interview about your health, symptoms and lifestyle, and a comprehensive exam to evaluate your health condition and determine the root of your body’s disharmony. This may include abdominal and muscle palpation, examination of the shape, coating, and color of the tongue, the color of the face, the strength, rhythm, and quality of the pulse and other traditional methods of oriental diagnosis. Throughout your treatment, Andrew will maintain a detailed case history with observations to monitor your state of health. Andrew will select one or a combination of the forms of acupuncture that he practices.

To prepare for treatment, the skin is cleaned with alcohol. Treatment is done with single use solid/filiform, sterile needles (usually 0.20 mm). Since this needle size is a fraction of the size of a hypodermic needle (the thickness is similar to a few strands of hair), needling is a painless procedure, nothing like receiving a typical medical injection. Often a comfortable heaviness and sense of muscular relaxation accompanies needling. Needles are retained for 15-20 minutes, while the patient relaxes comfortably.

Treatment Modalities

Healthy Living Acupuncture offers a wide array of natural treatment modalities to assist clients on their journey to restore and balance their health. Andrew Appello draws upon his extensive background in the various forms of acupuncture and accompanying complimentary treatments to design the correct plan to treat your condition and the results you seek. The treatment plan begins with an in-depth interview about you, your overall health and medical history. As an alternative health care practitioner, Andrew sees you as a whole person, not just your disease, so a complete understanding of you and your health is critical to selecting the proper treatment. Your plan may involve a combination of the following natural, drug-free modalities he offers:

Treatment Frequency

Patients often come in for health maintenance at various intervals, depending upon their health situation. Initial visits often take up to 1.5 hours. Andrew spends a good deal of time with patients in order to better get to know them as a person and to understand the imbalances that are present. Generally, treatment is performed once weekly until symptoms begin to fade, then frequency is reduced as the person begins to respond.

Follow-up visits and treatment usually take under one hour. Often, treatment will be complemented by other modalities such as herbal therapies, massage and meditation, to treat the body as a whole and rid it of disharmony.

Herbal Therapies

Using carefully designed herbal therapies is a safe and effective way to restore and maintain optimum health. It is one of the most ancient forms of treatment.

At Healthy Living Acupuncture, Andrew Appello treats the whole person, not the disease. Recommending herbal treatments, either alone or in conjunction with acupuncture and other healing modalities, will help to stimulate and balance the body’s innate healing mechanisms. Each patient gets an individualized treatment customized to his or her unique constitution and symptoms. Using a specifically selected combination of herbs to restore and maintain health is an ancient art that goes back millennia. A classic Chinese medical text, the Shang Han Lun (circa 200 A.D.), describes herbs and treatments that are still used today wherever Traditional Chinese Medicine is practiced.

After carefully selecting from among approximately 1800 available herbs in the Clinical Herbalist’s pharmacopoeia, your formula may be given to you in various forms: