New River Healing Arts

Before your first acupuncture session, you will need to fill out some paperwork, providing contact information and information about your past and present medical conditions.
This information helps me provide you the best care I can.
Additionally, you will need to sign a consent form.
Once the paperwork is completed, I will ask you to tell me more about the reason for your visit.
This is your opportunity to express all your health concerns, including those you haven't been able to voice to your other health care providers.

Prior to your session, abstain from eating foods that might color your tongue like artificially colored foods, coffee, etc.
Avoid stimulants like coffee in close proximity to your treatment, but if you are on medication, please take your doses on schedule.
For a couple hours prior to and following your treatment it is advisable to avoid activities that might shift your body's attention away from the treatment.
Avoid vigorous exercise, spicy foods, sex, recreational drugs, and alcohol.
Wear loose-fitting clothing if possible.

While many people are aware that acupuncture is helpful in reducing pain, they often are not aware that it does much more.
To put Chinese medicine in perspective, realize that acupuncture and herbal medicine were primary care in ancient China and were used to treat infections, injuries, and chronic diseases.
In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) reviewed the scientific literature on acupuncture and found that acupuncture helped, or might help, a wide range of conditions.
A few of these conditions include: allergic rhinitis, depression, dysmenorrhoea, headache, low and high blood pressure, pain (knee, low back, abdominal, sciatica, neuralgia), tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, polycystic ovary syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, TMJ dysfunction, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, and many others.

Before your first massage, you will need to fill out some paperwork to provide contact information and information about your past and present medical conditions.
Additionally, you will need to sign a consent form.
You may want to arrive a few minutes early to fill these out, or if you would like to feel these out ahead of time, I can email them to you.
This information allows me to communicate with you when necessary and insure that you receive a safe and appropriate massage.
I want to be able to give you the full length of time scheduled, so please arrive on time.

The New River Healing Arts clinic is located in downtown Blacksburg in the New River Valley.
It is easily reached from other areas in the New River Valley.
It is only 15 minutes from Christiansburg and about a half an hour from Radford.
There is often street parking available, but I recommend using the parking lot behind the building, as the NRHA entrance is on the rear.
The entrance opens directly into the waiting and office areas (pictured right).
Here we can conduct business and discuss your concerns in a pleasant environment.