An old practice,
explained plainly.

Six sessions of acupuncture with tui na over five weeks, home exercises between visits, and the review at session four. Three things are measured: how far the forward bend goes before pain, how long you can sit at the desk before it returns, and how many nights a week the pain wakes you. If those numbers have not moved by session four, the approach changes once. If the second review has not moved them, the course stops, we say so in the room, and we write to your doctor with the notes. Numbness down a leg, loss of bladder control or unexplained weight loss are a doctor’s appointment and not ours.

The first consultation takes the history and the full medication list, including anything a doctor prescribed, before anything is dispensed. A prescription then runs four weeks. The first two weeks are reviewed against the same list, with how the digestion and the sleep are behaving and whether any of it is disagreeing with you. A prescription is not renewed because a month has passed: if the review shows no change, the herbs stop and the next step is a conversation with your doctor rather than a longer course here.

Four sessions over four weeks, with the last fifteen minutes left quiet and the needles in. What is measured is ordinary: how long it takes to fall asleep, how many times you wake, and how much of the working day the jaw or shoulder tension costs you. Nothing here treats depression or an anxiety disorder. Where either is already being treated, a course runs alongside that treatment, and we say in writing to the doctor who is running it.