What should you expect during the treatment?
You will discuss your medical history with Dr. Martin, then using several traditional methods, she will perform the examination. After which she will assess and diagnose. Once the diagnosis is made she will develop a strategic treatment plan personalized for you.
Dr. Martin's primary treatment is traditional acupuncture with sterile, thin needles, but in order to obtain the desired physiological response, she uses other techniques such as moxa, electrical stimulation, cupping, tunia massage, magnetic infrared therapy, herbal therapy, diet and nutrition and occasionally for those patients extremely fearful of needles, she will use laser to stimulate the acupuncture points.
Overall the objective of acupuncture treatment is:
1. Relieve pain and other symptoms.
2. Strengthen the immune system.
3. Balance, harmonize, and integrate functions of the organs with each other.