Ancient Acupuncture Center

Ancient Acupuncture Center offers a treatment program for SCI. Chinese medicine is a truly holistic medicine and has been proved by the effective clinical results over the last two thousand years. Acupuncture is painless, safe, quick, and has no side effects. It is to raise the level of health and to restore the body’s energy flow to a normal state so that the body can heal itself.

Dr. Wu’s treatment can improve people with SCI with great results. The recovery will be comprehensive and include everything related to our body, for example, sensory functions, motor functions, bladder and bowel function, etc. Through treatment, every SCI will see improvement. Here are two cases from his SCI treatment.

• SCI Case 1: SCI 10 years post, paraplegia, no bladder or bowel functions, 1 year ago suffered brain damage due to a fall and had brain surgery due to internal bleeding in brain, right hand spasms and no motor function, right leg spasm and no motor function, left leg has limited movement but with no strength, cannot sit straight, lost language ability, use left hand to signal. After two-month treatment, left leg gained some strength, right leg could curve and held for a few minutes while laying on back. Bowel movement started. Gained some control to bladder. He could held the bladder and could signal nurse to come to empty it.
• SCI Case 2: SCI T11 Complete, 1 year post, he had no sensory functions under navel and no voluntary bowel and bladder controls. After three treatment sessions, he gained some sensory functions below navel areas. More sounds can be heard from the increased bowel movements.

Program Objective
• To improve sensory functions, motor functions, and bowel/bladder functions for SCI patients.

Program Guidance
• It is a two-month treatment program. It includes three times a week for nine weeks for a total of 27 treatments. The whole program must be completed without skipping any treatment session.
• Each treatment lasts for about 1 to 2 hours. It includes a combination of steps such as acu-point therapeutic massage (i.e. Wu’s Tui-na), electro body acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, cupping, and heat pad. The procedure varies from case to case. Sometimes herbal medicine is also used.
• After the first program, every SCI will see improvement. Further evaluation will be conducted based on the amount of initial improvement.

Payment Option
• The cost of each treatment session is $55. Herbal medicine treatment is optional and the cost of herbal medicine is $65 for half month.
• We have 10-session treatment card available to purchase for a discount.
• Some PPO medical insurance plans such as Blue Cross PPO are accepted. Due to the complex procedure of insurance claims, we would like you to pay the above rate first. We will send claims to your insurance company. After we receive payment, we will refund you up to your cost.

Privacy Protection Policy
• Patient information is strictly protected. No information can be disclosed without patient’s permission.
• SCI patient is assessed weekly for the progress. Sometimes the assessment will be video-taped. It is also for the purpose of future study and research of SCI. The video will not be disclosed to the public without patient’s permission.

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Ancient Acupuncture Center has very extensive experience of healing herniated disc. For patients during the acute period (i.e., happened within 2 months), it usually takes 4 to 7 treatments to heal the pain based on our treatment cases.

Common symptoms of herniated disc are back pain, leg pain, and weakness of leg muscles, tingling, numbness, or bowel/bladder problems. For severe cases, patients have to lie on bed and cannot stand up to walk. For herniated disc happened over 6 months, the symptoms can become persistent and worsening. It will take longer to heal. For chronic condition over 1 year, the treatment and healing process can take a few months. For these chronic cases, a two-month treatment program is recommended as initial treatment. At the end of the program, every case will see improvement. Based on the initial improvement, the amount of further treatments will be evaluated.

Program Objective
• To completely relieve the pain from herniated disc so the patient can resume normal life.

Program Guidance
• It requires three treatments a week until it is healed. It usually takes 4 to 7 treatments to heal the acute herniated disc.
• Each treatment lasts for about 1 to 2 hours. The treatment includes a combination of steps such as acu-point therapeutic massage (i.e. Wu’s Tui-na), electro-acupuncture, and scalp acupuncture. The procedure varies from case to case. Sometimes other treatments such as heat pad, cupping, and herbal medicine can also be applied.

Recommendations
• Rest on back and sleep preferably on the firmest bed.
• Use soft belt to tighten the lower back muscles while doing gentle activities.
• Avoid activities that aggravate your symptoms. Avoid lifting heavy objects and should try not to bend or twist the back excessively.
• During acute period, avoid sexual activities. At chronic stage, keep sexual activities to minimum.
• Keep lower back warm. Don’t let your back get cold.
• After the pain is gone, consider taking herbal medicine to improve your health. This can reduce the chance for recurrent herniated disc.

Payment Option
• Each acupuncture treatment session costs $55. Herbal medicine costs $65 for half month.
• We have 10-session treatment card available to purchase for a discount.
• Some PPO medical insurance plans such as Blue Cross PPO are accepted. Due to the complex procedure of insurance claims, we would like you to pay the above rate first. We will send claims to your insurance company. After we receive payment, we will refund you up to your cost.

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