About Community Style Acupuncture

Community style acupuncture means getting acupuncture treatments in a common area with other patients. This has several advantages:

• It allows us to treat several patients at once and to be available to each patient at the same time, which allows us to provide acupuncture at rates that are lower than those charged for typical private-room treatments.
• It also means you are not left alone in a room by yourself full of needles. Someone is always around to make sure you are comfortable.
• You may come with a supportive friend or family member and be treated together.
• You may stay as long as you like; in the private room setting, it is common for the acupuncturist to come in to remove your needles at a prescribed time so that he or she can turn over the room for the next patient.
• Community style treatment is how acupuncture is usually performed in China, so you are getting a more culturally authentic experience.

Clinic Policies

There are some rules patients must follow to make the group treatment experience a positive one for everybody.

1. The community treatment room is a QUIET ZONE, like the library. Please turn off your cell phone before entering the treatment room. Even a vibrating phone can be distracting to the healing process.
2. Please whisper to communicate so that you don’t disturb other patients.
3. Please bring your belongings with you to your chair. You may use the baskets provided to place your belongings in until after your treatment is finished.