Page 16 - How long will it take me to heal and why?

Monitoring your progress

If you want an answer to the question, “How

long will I need treatment?” The honest answer is

it depends. Many factors go into how long it takes

the body to heal including severity and duration of

the problem, your age, your level of fitness, your

diet, other medical problems you have or had, your

level of stress, how well you sleep, etc.

It needs to be noted here that acupuncture is not

magical. It works by physiological principles with

the intent of getting the body to work efficiently.

Lets give an example to help you understand.

Imagine you have broken your arm. A broken

bone can take any where from 3 – 10 weeks to heal.

If you go to see your doctor, and or go to the

emergency room every day, can you speed up the

healing of the bone to only two weeks? The

answer is no. Tissues take a certain time to heal and

you cannot cheat on that. Nor can acupuncture

speed up the time it takes to heal beyond the body's

natural capacity. What you can do is take the

necessary steps to make sure everything is working

as efficiently as possible so that you are closer to