A Natural Treatment for Chronic Pain and Illness
San Healing Arts focuses on treating chronic pain using acupuncture, moxibustion, meditation and movement. Acupuncture-moxibustion is a safe, effective tool for treating chronic pain, and many other conditions.
What We Treat
Chronic Pain
Arthritis
Migraine
Fibromyalgia
Injuries
Repetitive Strain
Post-Viral Diseases
Autoimmune Disorders
Fatigue
Depression
Anxiety
Insomnia
Hypertension
Neuropathy
Women’s Health
Men’s Health
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Dizziness & Vertigo
Asthma
Frequent Colds
Allergies
Eczema
Sinusitis
Tinnitus
Acupuncture
Sessions
In your first session, we will have a conversation about your health history, conduct a physical assessment, have an acupuncture treatment, and then we share our findings and reflections along with any advice that may be helpful to you.
A treatment may involve a combination of methods, including sterile, single-use filiform needles, moxibustion heat therapy, massage, and cupping.
If you are scared of needles, we can work around that. There are many techniques in our toolkit that will help without using filiform acupuncture needles. Just let us know and we will adapt to whatever you are comfortable with.
Acupuncture is covered by most third-party health insurance providers.
Your Treatment Plan
Acute problems may take 1-3 sessions. Chronic problems usually require 6-12 sessions for substantial improvement. Everyone is different and an important part of your initial session is to find out your unique treatment plan. All the factors affecting your health are considered, including the duration and severity of the condition, stress levels, work and lifestyle, and family medical history.
You are always in control. Our acupuncturist makes a recommendation based on their clinical experience and training, but you make the final decision about how often and for how long you want to come for acupuncture treatment. You also make the decision about what areas of your body you are comfortable having treated.
Rates
90-minute initial consultation and treatment: $95
60-minute follow-up appointments: $80
If these rates are not possible for you, please let us know. We will offer discounted treatments on a case by case basis.
The desire to get better and your own commitment to your healing is what’s important, not whether you have the means to pay for it. We will always do our best to work with you to make sure that you get the care you need.
Your first session
Before your treatment, you will complete an intake form. The more information you can provide, the better. This helps us get a more complete picture of who you are and the things that are affecting your health and wellbeing.
During the treatment, your acupuncturist will stay with you the entire time. The treatment itself lasts anywhere from 10-30 minutes.
At the end of the session, you will receive a plan for addressing the concern you came in for, or for maintaining your health going forward. Your plan includes how many sessions of acupuncture may be needed, how frequent and for how long, as well as often additional ideas for a helpful exercise, a book recommendation, a small shift in diet or habit—whatever it may be to help you progress as quickly and deeply as possible.
How does acupuncture work?
Acupuncture uses sterile, single-use filiform needles, as well as round-tipped massage tools to gently promote circulation in blood vessels, nerves, skin and muscles.
Moxibustion is acupuncture’s sister treatment, burning the fine hairs of mugwort leaf on or near the skin to apply heat, infrared light and essential oil. This technique improves cell metabolism, reduces inflammation and boosts the immune system.
Acupuncture and moxibustion are tools that a practitioner uses to re-establish healthy circulation of blood, fluids, nutrients, and information. This circulation follows complex pathways that are intelligent and interconnected everywhere in the body.
At the heart of this practice is resonance. A change to one part of the body can ripple along a pathway—through blood vessels, skin, muscle, fat, or bone—to create a change elsewhere. Injuries and illness can follow these paths, and so can healing. An acupuncturist makes small changes to damaged tissues and disregulated circulation patterns, ultimately restoring the body’s own mechanisms for healing.
Acupuncture is covered by many health insurance plans.
See if you have benefits and remember to use them before the end of the year!
Dr. Wang Ju-yi checks a young visitor before a quick pediatric acupuncture treatment. Dr. Wang pioneered an approach to acupuncture using careful palpation to learn what is out of balance in a body directly from the body itself. In 2014, San acupuncturist Henry Claflin had the great fortune to spend a year in Beijing studying his method in various clinical settings, from Dr. Wang’s small teaching clinic, to busy multi-bed treatment rooms in public hospitals with a student and long-time acupuncture doctor, to one-on-one treatments and study with a senior apprentice.
Photo by fellow acupuncture student, Eliane Jansen.