Back and neck pain
Chronic tension, sciatica, the desk-job ache that never fully resolves.
Acupuncture · Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pain that comes back. Sleep that doesn't. Stress your body started keeping score of. Acupuncture treats the system underneath the symptom, and the first visit is unhurried by design.
What brings people in
Most people come for one thing and stay for three. Here's what fills the schedule.
Chronic tension, sciatica, the desk-job ache that never fully resolves.
Frequency, intensity, and the days you lose to them.
Falling asleep, staying asleep, waking at 3am wide awake.
A nervous system stuck in the on position, and what that does to everything else.
Painful or irregular periods, PMS, perimenopause, fertility support.
Bloating, reflux, IBS, and the food list that keeps getting shorter.
Post-surgical healing, sports injuries, range of motion that stalled out.
Tired in a way that sleep doesn't touch.
Not on the list? Ask anyway. Acupuncture works on the whole system rather than a single complaint, so the answer is often yes.
Your acupuncturist
Sarah Farris practices acupuncture in Tulsa. She came to it the way a lot of her patients do, which is to say she ran out of other options first: she was pregnant with her second child when another driver hit her car, and acupuncture was the only thing that gave her real relief in the months that followed. She has been a believer ever since.
She feels what other people are carrying more than most do, which is an inconvenient trait in most jobs and close to the whole point of this one.
She treats one person at a time in a quiet room. No rushed intake, no assembly line. You'll leave the first visit knowing what she thinks is going on and what the plan is.
Your first visit
If you've never done this before, here's exactly what happens. Wear loose clothing.
Full history. What hurts, what you've already tried, how you sleep, what you eat, what you actually want out of this.
Pulse, tongue, and how you move. This is how Chinese medicine reads the system rather than the symptom.
Hair-thin needles, placed according to what she found and what you are working on. You rest while they do their work. Most people fall asleep.
What she found, how often to come back, and anything simple to do at home. No packages pushed on you.
Pricing
Straightforward prices that are posted. No insurance billing.
Consultation, exam, and full treatment. Plan on 90 to 120 minutes.
About 50 minutes.
For conditions where a course of treatment does the work.
Card processing for HSA and FSA accounts is being set up now and will be available soon. If cost is the thing standing in the way, say so when you call or text.
Questions people actually ask
The needles are about the width of a hair, and nothing like the ones used for shots or blood draws. You will not feel most of them go in. When you do, it is a quick pinch at first, then a dull heaviness or warmth around the point. That sensation is the treatment working. Most people fall asleep during treatment.
It depends on how long you've had the problem. Recent injuries often turn around in a few visits. Something you've carried for years usually needs weekly visits for a month or two before spacing out. You should feel some change within the first two or three treatments, and if you don't, she'll tell you rather than keep booking you.
Soon. Card processing for HSA and FSA accounts is being set up now and is not live yet. Once it is, you can pay with the card at the time of the visit. Either way you get an itemized receipt for your records.
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