Acupuncture Clinic at the Senior Center is OPEN

Today was our first clinical acupuncture day at the Sunshine senior center in St. Petersburg. The acupuncture clinic is free of charge to the seniors and stuff members at the center.

We treated 6 patients, which is better that what we expected for the first day.
Some of our patients today never had acupuncture before, and some actually did, and liked it. Some were sick of taking drugs from their doctors and looked for an alternative. One patient told me that she has been taking the same medicine for her health problem for about 20 years, but without any results. Why is she keeping taking the drug? I guess habit, or because her doctor told her so...
One of our potential patients said to us "Hmm..I just took my pills, so I better not get an acupuncture treatment today, I'll come back next time." Total understandable.

Here are some of the questions we got today:
1. what is on the needle? what did you put on the needles?
2. How come you didn't put a needle on my right arm, but you did on my left arm?
3. Are you going to put this needle in my head? but my head is fine...
4. If you are treating my insomnia, will I fall asleep now? Because I have a meeting in an hour, and I don't want to fall asleep while somebody is talking to me.
5. Is this safe? are the needles clean?
6. What do you mean you are going to be here every week?
7. Why is this free?

Then some said to us:
-*- I feel relaxed
-*- I'll come back next week to see you again

A lot of people there don't know anything about acupuncture and Oriental medicine. We hope to change that.



---Eran