Effective treatment relies on a thorough physical examination which includes a detailed medical history, followed by a systematic physical exam, designed to provide instant feedback both diagnostically and with respect to treatment efficacy. The physical exam is indispensable, since chronic pain is often neurological as opposed to structural, and therefore invisible to expensive X-rays, MRI tests, Bone and CT scans.

Contemporary Acupuncture is a biomedical approach to acupuncture providing safe and effective treatment for chronic pain and functional disorders of the nervous system. The practice is derived from decades of study and research with western-trained professors of neurology, orthopedics, and physical medicine. More traditional techniques used in the clinic, including Meridian Therapy, have been handed down from teacher to student in Japan for many hundreds of years.

This anatomically oriented approach to acupuncture treatment addresses a patient's health issues from several levels. By looking more deeply into the neurological and/or metabolic disorders which often underlie a patient's symptomatic complaints, a more complete and lasting healing is assured. It is precisely this holistic approach that provides help for patients with the most complex issues. Often, by seeing the patient's problem from this broader perspective, very difficult cases are able to be resolved quickly and with more complete tissue repair than traditional forms of physical medicine.