WE LOOK AT MANY FACTORS, NOT JUST SYMPTOMS ALONE.

When you’ve been dealing with chronic pain or chronic health problems, it’s easy for all the attention to go to the symptom.

Where does it hurt?
Where is the numbness?
What does the MRI show?
What is your diagnosis?

Those things matter.

But we believe there is another important question:

What could be missing that is preventing you from feeling better?

At Health Source Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine, our approach is built around understanding the person, not simply treating the name of the condition, because no two people are exactly the same.

SYMPTOMS ARE PART OF THE STORY BUT NOT THE ENTIRE STORY

Pain, numbness, tingling, weakness, fatigue, inflammation, digestive problems, anxiousness, and other symptoms don’t happen for no reason.

They are signals that something isn’t working the way it should.

That’s why we don’t want to simply quiet the signal without asking what may be contributing to it.

Think about the warning light in your car.

The light is important because it tells you something needs attention. Turning off the light doesn’t necessarily fix what caused it to come on.

We think about symptoms in a similar way.

We want to help you feel better, but we also want to understand what could be missing or what has been overlooked that could be preventing you from feeling better.

WE LOOK AT HOW YOUR BODY IS WORKING

Your body is doing thousands of things every second to keep you alive and healthy.

Blood needs to circulate.

Oxygen and nutrients need to reach your tissues.

Nerves need to communicate.

Muscles need to work properly.

Cells need energy.

Your body needs to manage inflammation, remove waste and toxins, repair tissues, and constantly adjust to what’s happening around you and more importantly what is going on inside you.

When these processes are working well, your body is better able to do what it was designed to do.

Function. Adapt. Repair. Heal.

When someone has been struggling for a long time, we want to understand what may be getting in the way of those normal processes.

YOUR BODY IS ALSO ELECTRICAL

Most people know their body needs oxygen, water, nutrients, and good circulation.

But there’s another piece that’s often overlooked.

Humans run on electricity.

Your brain uses electrical signals.

Your nerves use electrical signals to communicate.

Your muscles depend on electrical activity to contract.

Your heart has its own electrical system.

And electrical activity is happening at the cellular level throughout your body.

This natural electricity is called bioelectricity.

That’s important to us because the body isn’t just made of parts. Those parts have to communicate and work together.

This is one reason our approach may incorporate acupuncture, Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (PENS), Dry Needling, Biofeedback, and other advanced bioelectric technologies we use in our office when appropriate.

WE LOOK FOR WHAT MAY BE GETTING IN THE WAY

Here’s where our approach becomes very individual.

Two people may both have neuropathy.

Two people may both have chronic low back pain.

Two people may both have migraines.

But when we look more closely, we may find very different factors that need attention.

Depending on the person, we may consider things such as:

• Circulation
• Nerve and muscle function
• Inflammation
• Nervous System Regulation
• Organ System Deficiencies
• Nutrients
• Stress
• Sleep
• Movement and activity
• Previous injuries
• Medications taken
• Lifestyle
• Other factors that could be impacting your health.

We aren’t looking for one single answer that explains everything.

We’re looking for the combination of factors that matters for the person in front of us.

WE DON’T HAVE ONE TREATMENT FOR EVERYONE

This is one of the biggest differences in our approach.

We have multiple treatment options available because different people need different things.

Your care may include acupuncture, electroacupuncture, PENS, dry needling, advanced bioelectric therapies, Chinese Herbal Medicine, nutritional support, holistic health assessments, lifestyle recommendations, or other integrative treatment options.

But having more treatments isn’t what makes an approach integrative.

Knowing what to use, when to use it, and how to combine it is what matters.  We put together personalized programs to lay out exactly how and what we will do in order to put your body in the best position possible to get the best results possible.

We don’t believe everyone needs every treatment.

And we don’t believe the newest technology is automatically the best answer.

What matters most is what is best for YOUR situation!

WE WORK ON MULTIPLE FACTORS IMPACTING YOUR HEALTH AT ONE TIME

Chronic pain and chronic health conditions are often more complicated than one thing going wrong.

That’s why simply focusing on one symptom or one area of the body may not always be enough.

Our approach allows us to work on different pieces of the problem at the same time.

For example, while one part of someone’s care may focus on pain or nerve function, another may focus on circulation, nervous system regulation, nutrition, or reducing chronic inflammation or other factors that could be affecting their progress.

Think of it like putting together a puzzle.

One piece may be important.

But one piece isn’t the whole picture.

Our job is to figure out which pieces matter the most for you and how they fit together.

YOUR BODY DOES THE HEALING

Healing is not something we “do” to the body…it’s something the body already knows how to do when the conditions inside the body at the cellular level are right.  Once this is optimized and supported correctly symptoms begin to improve naturally just how the body was designed to do.

A doctor doesn’t heal a broken bone. The doctor repairs the bone or puts it back in place and then the body goes to work.

We think about chronic health problems in much the same way.

Our job is to use the appropriate treatments and strategies to help create better conditions for your body to function, respond, repair, and heal as well as it can.

That’s also why change doesn’t happen overnight.

The body needs time.

How much time depends on the person, the problem, how long it has been there, overall health, and many other factors.

WE ASSESS. WE TREAT. WE PAY ATTENTION. WE OPTIMIZE.

We don’t believe a treatment plan should simply be created on day one and followed blindly.

Your response gives us information.

Are your symptoms changing?

Are you functioning better?

Can you do something you couldn’t do before?

Are we seeing the changes we expected?

We use that information to help determine what comes next.

Your care should change as you change.

THE GOAL ISN’T MORE TREATMENT

The goal is not to keep adding treatments.

The goal is to understand what your body may need and use the right combination of tools to help you make meaningful progress.

Sometimes that means looking at something that hasn’t been considered before.

Sometimes it means combining approaches that are usually used separately.

And sometimes it simply means asking a better question.

Instead of only asking:

“What treatment is used for my diagnosis?”

We also ask:

“What does this person need to have the best opportunity to improve?”

That’s the foundation of our approach.