“Instant pain relief” is just as it sounds. It is the ideal for pain treatment that I hold myself to, and I achieve this about 90% of the time. It is accomplished by precise teamwork with my patients to locate the exact site of pain, and together to choose the acupuncture points that instantly change the magnitude of pain, usually down to below 10% of its pre-treatment state, and often to the point of elimination. This provides tremendous pain relief to chronic pain sufferers. Under the right conditions and in the right hands, true acupuncture really works this fast– its like hot water thrown on top of freezing snow that has blocked your way…it instantly melts away.
This way of treating pain is not only “instantly” beneficial for a patient within the moment. It also clearly tells us which points, channels, and techniques are absolutely and obviously relevant to a given problem. If we can have instant feedback of success, then we don’t have to do several treatments as an experiment before we even know if the treatments can affect the problem–we know from the first treatment and even from the first seconds to minutes of that treatment, that we’re on the right track, that the treatment is “going” directly to the problem. That’s very reassuring to both patient to practitioner, and this is why it’s the standard I try to achieve.
One may ask: “so that means I’ll have a “cure” in just one treatment?!?” The answer is, of course, NO. This treatment style begins and facilitates the deeper healing process. In particular, it clears inflammation, it shuts off redundant nerve firings that repeatedly signal pain, it relaxes protective spasm of local tissues, it directs fresh new blood into an area to bring in new nutrition and healing that wasn’t able to arrive previously, and so on. In other words, when done correctly, Acupuncture generally helps induce all of the NORMAL healing resources of body and mind which may have been hypofunctioning or completely blocked before treatments began. It marshals these resources to the area of need. This is the way that acupuncture healing occurs, and it all begins with the “instant pain relief”. Yet full healing takes time.