community acupuncture; AffORDABLE, aCCESSIBLE, aCUPUNCTURE

​WHY IS COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE IMPORTANT? 

• Affordable acupuncture that EVERYONE can use as part of their overall health strategy!
• Acupuncture is important to our health as individuals, families, co-workers, and community members, because it provides inexpensive, non-invasive relief from pain and suffering.
• Community Acupuncture defines and supports a mode of direct delivery of inexpensive care for people of ordinary incomes regardless of insurance coverage.
• Community Acupuncture provides a new model for healthcare and self-care empowerment.
• Community Acupuncture has at its heart a commitment to social justice and the deconstruction of barriers to care and health care resources.
• Community Acupuncture works on a sliding scale, allowing the patient to determine what they can afford to pay while opening the door for quality, consistent acupuncture treatment.
• Community Acupuncture treatments are performed in a group setting, while most acupuncturists in the U.S. treat patients on treatment tables in isolated rooms. Treating in the one-on-one setting is not traditional in Asia, where acupuncture usually occurs in a community setting, with simple treatments repeated more frequently.