What to expect

All consultations and treatments are done in my purpose built clinic in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.

The first visit includes a full consultation and an acupuncture treatment. This can take up to 2.5 hours. The consultation includes a detailed discussion about your past and present health, as well as a physical examination including several diagnostic techniques such as abdominal palpitations, feeling your pulses and taking your blood pressure. All of this information enables me to build a personalised treatment plan for you. The consultation finishes with your first acupuncture treatment.

There will be time during this visit for any questions or concerns you want to discuss about the treatment and future plans. All of what is discussed is in complete confidence and records are secure and confidential.

Subsequent treatments can take up to one hour and initially continue once a week for the first five weeks. Frequency of future treatments are constantly discussed and reviewed depending on your progress.

Some patients notice a positive change and difference immediately after a treatment, some the day after and some a small sustainable improvement over the weeks of treatments. Many patients continue treatment for years receiving a top-up maintenance treatment once a month or whenever they feel they need it.

What does it feel like?

The needles are very thin, so insertion usually causes little discomfort. People often don't feel them inserted at all. Our aim as 5 Element Acupuncturists is to use as little needles as possible but each treatment varies and depends on what your body needs at each session.

Most patients find the treatment very relaxing and sometimes fall asleep as its a calm, quiet and gentle process.