A: Our commitment to you is to determine its probability by the first treatment session. Everyone is different even with the same condition. The assessment protocol of Cooper’s Unified Body Therapy will determine if your condition fits in the realm of expertise offered. During Assessment, your body must show a notable response indicating the possible value of treatment. What is presented as treatment must make sense to you. To best expedite your care, especially in chronic concerns, it may be necessary to experience a chiropractor, physical therapist, a nutritionist, a homeopath or some other additional therapy. The intention is to accelerate your recovery through a refinement of treatment choices not simply add to them.
A: It depends on how severe and chronic the issue is. Please note: It is possible that serious pain can require reasonable short term therapy. Because: ‘The intensity of pain is not always indicative to the seriousness of the cause.’
Once a week is usually sufficient. There are numerous causes of serious pain that can respond in one or two treatments. Chronic issues extended complications, serious accidents and adjunct treatment for illness may require a series of 4 to 12 weeks. Initially, several times a week may be appropriate in some acute cases or when acceleration of relief is a possibility. If not before, by the third treatment some identifiable results should be realized.
A: A standard therapy session will last approximately 50 minutes. There are other lengths of time and concentration of treatment available as needs arise.
A: Your first visit will probably last a little over one hour to accommodate time for introductions, intake paperwork, and initial examination requirements. As much as possible wear loose comfortable clothing. You will be covered appropriately at all times. We will take time to determine your needs and design a comprehensive treatment plan with your doctor’s diagnosis and prescription as our guide. Copies of important medical records are appreciated. You should receive skills and strategies that you need to do at home.
A: We are often asked if you take insurance. The answer is Insurance does not cover us.
It is the responsibility between your insurance company and the subscriber to determine if services are covered.
We request you pay for services rendered and then submit paper work that we provide.
We hope someday this will change.
A: Yes, You may also submit payment to a Flexible Spending Account. For all who are eligible, it presents a cost effective financial strategy to employ.
A: We take cash or check.
A: The needles are government regulated, sterilized for safety, used once and discarded. They are very thin. They do not equate with the standard needles at the doctors office.
A: In general no. Sometimes a needle can have a small quick bite like effect or a dull temporary ache. As the effects of the needles emerge often a pleasant relaxing feeling is realized.
A: That is a large question. Simply stated there has been much research over the last few decades in pursuit of a Western scientific answer. The National Institute of Health reports: “studies have demonstrated that acupuncture can cause multiple biological responses, mediated mainly by sensory neurons, to many structures within the central nervous system.”1
There are numerous theories that research qualifies. The Neurotransmitter Theory, The Autonomic Nervous System Theory, The Gate Control, Vascular-Interstitial and Blood Chemistry Theory which aid in the reduction of pain, help strengthen the immune system, facilitates healing of injured tissue, and regulates the body towards homeostasis.
A: Yes, the needles are not direct at any site of injury where such an issue exist. The most powerful response often comes from acupuncture points distal to the pain site or on the opposite side of the body.
- The National Institute of Health Consensus Conference on Acupuncture, Office of Alternative Medicine and Office of Medical Application of Research. November 1997.