FAQs

BEWARE any and all practitioners that suggest you ante up your hard earned cash for a certain amount of treatments. This is a sinister and shameful business practice aimed at benefiting the practitioner, not the patient. How does your care provider know that your symptoms will be relieved in 12, 24, 36 treatments? The amount of care and time you will receive from one of these practitioners will be minimal.

I do not sell package deals. I have found that this leads to mistrust, and a blemished reputation to patients and cohorts in the same field. I make time to assess and address each and every concern of every patient, every visit. I owe that to my clients.

I am accepting new clients through visitation services only. This is a convenient service where I bring my massage table and travel acupuncture kit to your home, office, church, etc. Why leave the comfort of your home? Why spend extra time traveling to and from where you already are? This is a luxury service without a premium price tag. This service costs the same as an office visit. Please call 262-443-6690, or email at Delafieldacupuncture@gmail.com.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Wear loose fitting clothing, and make sure you have eaten a meal or a light snack the day of treatment. Fasting before an acupuncture treatment is not usually recommended.

For visitation services, all I need is enough room to set up the massage table. The best place is a communal area such as the living room or dining area. If your home is too constricted, an easy chair could be an easy substitute.

The initial consultation/treatment usually takes an hour and a half. Follow up visits take significantly less time, usually around an hour for a brief consult and an acupuncture treatment. Although if you are in a rush, the procedures may be quickened.

The sensation is not painful, and the needles are not as big and thick as one may think, or fear. For the sake of simplicity, we generally only have pain receptors at the surface of our skin. You may feel a slight prick of the initial insertion, which is on scale with plucking a small hair. Most do not feel the needles at all. Participants may feel the initial prick of the needle but habituate its placement and forget a needle was placed in a particular area. Because of the thin diameter, acupuncture needles should not hurt. Moreover, I practice a skilled approach whereas I can use less needles, with more comfortable insertion than most other skilled practitioners and maintain better results.

Acupuncture needles are hair thin. An acupuncture needle can fit inside the tip of a hypodermic needle, the kind of needle most people think of. Hypodermic needles are typically utilized for injections and blood withdrawls. Hypodermic needles hurt, acupuncture needles are not supposed to. I use only new, pre-sterilized, hazmat disposable needles. I use only the highest quality, and most expensive acupuncture needles, manufactured in Germany. I choose these specific needles based on comfort and safety.

The depth is dependent on the placement of the body. For example, acupoints on the wrist are inserted rather shallow compared to those areas with more muscle and girth, like the waist. The placement of the needles is dependent on the treatment strategy. Generally symptoms are treated locally and distally. For example, shoulder pain may be treated with points on the shoulder combined with other points on the hand, leg, etc. Some treatment strategies can treat a symptom indirectly. That same shoulder pain could be treated by using just points on the hand, just the foot, just the ear, etc.

Chinese Herbs are FDA regulated. Some specific herbs may be dangerous to use with specific medications. A proper medical intake including a medication list is standard for acupuncture and herbal visits. Potentially harmful substances have been prohibited for sale or use in the West.