Most of our patients don’t walk in excited about acupuncture.

They walk in because something else didn’t work.

That was me.

In my twenties, I had low back pain. I went to the doctors. Their advice was basically:

“Take it easy.”
“Use Tylenol.”
“Try not to overdo it.”

That wasn’t a plan. That was a medical shrug.

So like most people who are frustrated and running out of options, I went to an acupuncturist.

He didn’t even put needles in my back.

Hands. Feet. Arms. Legs. That’s it.

I remember thinking:
There’s no way this is doing anything.

But while I was still on the table, he asked me to move my pelvis.

The pain was gone.

Not slightly better. Gone.

It crept back a few days later, which he told me was normal in the beginning. I came back. Same thing. Relief. Then longer relief. Then it stopped coming back at all.

That’s when I got curious.

That curiosity eventually turned into a career.

So if you’re skeptical? Good. I was too.

Now here’s what actually happens in the first three visits — and why it matters