Patience, the Key to Healing With Acupuncture One of my professors in acupuncture school was fond of telling us that, as acupuncturists, we'd have about two weeks to make patients feel better. For the most part, this isn't an issue. He reasoned that most people will discontinue treatment if they don't see any improvement in their condition in that time frame. However, lots of people come to acupuncture with very chronic, persistent and stubborn conditions. Pain, insomnia, anxiety, depression and fatigue can take years to manifest at an intensity that forces someone to seek treatment.

Sometimes that happens with acupuncture, but it's impossible to predict who will be austina enough to experience an instant resolution of a nagging health problem.. We all laughed back then, but he was serious and, as it turns out, he was right. Acupuncture is so effective that most people feel a difference within the first four visits (usually over two weeks).

We're all so busy that we just put up with these discomforts until they start interfering with our daily lives, and then, because we are a nation of people who believes bigger and faster must be better, we look for something that will quickly provide significant relief.