What to
expect on your visit to Dr.Sarvotham’s
Acupressure Clinic
You are new to Acupressure treatment, and
are wondering what to expect. We want you
to be comfortable with your experience with
us. Life has too many stresses, and one
of the purposes of acupressure is to relieve
the effects of those stresses.
The first thing we do is to assess your
ailment and its cause. You may already have
undergone other forms of treatment such
as Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Chiropractic,
Osteopathic, or Medical to name a few. Apart
from the findings of the initial assessment,
we have designed questions to help us determine
the nature of your ailment, which helps
us put together a personalized acupressure
therapy plan for you.
There are three phases of Acupressure care:
Initial Intensive Care
Our first goal is to make you start feeling
better. So initially your office visits
will be frequent and may include multiple
sittings designed to relieve your immediate
symptoms. While your symptoms may mostly
be taken care of at this stage, it is
very important to continue your care into
the next phase, in order to heal completely,
and to help prevent recurrence.
Rehabilitative
Care
Underlying tissue dysfunction and degeneration
often remain, even after your original
symptoms have diminished. Rehabilitative
Care stabilizes your condition and promotes
greater healing. In this phase your visit
frequency will be reduced. You will learn
how to take care of yourself for life
and how to avoid and prevent re-injury.
Preventive
Care
Once you have achieved maximum therapeutic
benefit, you may choose to begin a Preventive/
Maintenance care program. Occasional visits
help treat problems before they become
serious. These visits will be scheduled
based on individual assessment.
By identifying and treating problems
early on, often when the symptoms are
very mild or not felt at all, serious
problems can be avoided and chain-reaction
types of problems can be stopped, as for
example, cervical spondylitis. We have
spent years learning motion palpation,
the art of examining by Movement or Touch,
and other forms of spinal examination.
Once we have isolated the problem, we
begin care by applying bare finger pressure.
We pay extra attention to areas of your
spine where the cause of your problem
has been detected. The pressure is usually
delivered by hand, and intermediately
applied to the areas of the spine that
are out of alignment or not functioning
properly.
We use varied and sophisticated techniques.
The specific procedure to be used will
be explained to you following your examination.
In most circumstances, finger pressure
does not hurt. You may experience some
minor discomfort during the pressure which
lasts only for seconds and is extremely
safe. The risk factor or side
effects are nil.
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