At Coquitlam Wellness Centre, our certified acupuncturist will first have a detailed discussion with the patient regarding their health and medical history. In the first session, the therapist may do a physical assessment of the shape, coating, and colour of your tongue, and check your pulse rate, besides some other basic health checkups.

This assessment helps the acupuncturist to devise a suitable treatment plan for the patient, one that helps in addressing their specific condition.

A comfortable treatment table is laid out for the acupuncture treatment. The acupuncturist starts the treatment by stimulating select acupoints on different parts of your body. Most patients report minimal or zero discomfort during the treatment because our therapists are extremely gentle when placing the fine needles in your skin. These needles typically need to be retained in the body for a certain period of time (usually 5 to 30 minutes) before being taken out at which time they are safely discarded.