Top Ten Reasons to Visit Merritt Acupuncture & Wellness
Fluency in Eastern and Western Medicine
All of our practitioners have strong backgrounds in Western medical training and are the best at explaining your test results to you or translating your Oriental medical diagnosis into Western terms or vise versa. Our practitioners are committed that you understand what is occurring with your health and can explain it from the simplest level to the most complex.
Insurance Billing
We file insurance so that you don’t have to. We will inquire with your insurance company as to if you have coverage and will file all paperwork for you if you do, and will follow up with the insurance companies to make sure your claim goes through.
Certified Nutritionists
We have additional certifications in Applied Clinical Nutrition. This is the use of nutrition to treat specific conditions and heal disease by giving the body specific food supplements (not isolated and incomplete vitamins like 99% of supplements on the market). Working with whole food supplements gives the body all the co-factors and enzymes for absorption that allows healing to occur. In our experience, we have found that adding nutritional supplements to many of our treatments has greatly increased the efficacy and speed of healing.
Specialty in Japanese Acupuncture
One of our practitioners specializes in Toyohari, an enormously effective Japanese form of acupuncture that is gentle enough that even children love it! For the needle-shy, this is the answer! Trained in Japan, Will Mitchell is on the National Toyohari Board, as well as the President of the Texas Toyohari Association.
Infertility
Chinese Medicine has a much higher success rate, and is faster and cheaper than high-cost fertility treatments. Our effectiveness rate is 96%, and we have worked with patients doing IUI or IVF, or patients who want to do this before they invest in Western treatments that aren’t as effective. We utilize hormonal testing as well as other modalities to treat effectively without “guessing”.
Hormone Testing
This is not just an acupuncture clinic – we work with Western labs to accurately and easily test many things – adrenal cortisol levels (which show adrenal function), all thyroid hormones, all female and male hormones, as well as food allergies, GI infections and parasites. These tests allow us to treat you quickly and specifically, without wasting time or money “guessing”.
Neurotransmitter Testing
Neurotransmitter testing is being used more and more by practitioners, psychiatrists and doctors to diagnose patients, rather than prescribing a pill and seeing if it works. This allows us to support patients who want to try something other than psychiatric drugs, to increase the efficacy of their existing regimen, or to see if what they’re taking is actually having the intended effect. These are simple urine tests that are clinically proven to be accurate and effective.
Chronic Pain: Sciatica, Carpal Tunnel, Arthritis, Low Back Pain, and Headaches
Chronic pain is more than just pain. Chronic pain that cannot be resolved with drugs can create stress and depression. We have extensive experience treating all aspects of chronic pain.
Stress and Anxiety
It has been shown by the AMA that 80% of people in the hospital are there because their stress has manifested as a chronic problem that now has to be more drastically treated. Acupuncture and massage have been shown to be one of the mo
st effective ways to limit the damages of stress and induce the relaxation response.
Hormone Imbalances: Thyroid, Menstrual Problems, Infertility, Adrenal Stress, and Blood Sugar Management
We use new, highly sophisticated testing to accurately gauge hormones where blood tests have failed in the past. Restoring function, our goal, is different than simply prescribing a replacement when something is missing (for example, Synthroid for reduced thyroid function). We test and treat functional disorders, where function of certain glands and organs has been lost, like thyroid, adrenal, blood sugar management, sex hormones, etc. and bring your body back to an optimal state of health.
Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease
These are serious diseases that can be greatly aided by specific nutrition, a comprehensive health outline, and someone who can take the time to explain in great detail how to manage, change, and improve these conditions. Our strong Western backgrounds make us the perfect candidates for helping you deal with your diagnoses, and you’ll certainly get more than a 10-minute consult and a prescription from us!
Certified Detox Specialists
Our practitioners are specially certified in Detoxification. This means that we are qualified to help people in various levels of health detoxify their bodies of toxins that can be causing negative effects in a variety of ways – symptoms of toxicity include fatigue, weight gain, rashes/skin disorders, sleep problems, hormonal fluctuations, mood swings, and more.
Allergies, Asthma, Colds, and Flu
We have a 99% success rate at resolving airborne allergies. Oriental medicine is also extremely effective at treating asthma. Chinese herbs, which are strongly antibacterial/antiviral, easily treat colds and flues.
Pediatric Treatments
Imagine your child is healthy enough to not need antibiotics; or that there are gentle and effective ways to get your child healthy if they are sick. We have solved chronic ear and sinus problems, rashes and dermatological problems, digestive problems and more. Children respond faster than adults to treatment too!
Dermatology
Skin problems that defy conventional treatment are nothing new to us. We resolve eczema, psoriasis, acne, and those hard-to-describe, “the doctor didn’t give it a name” skin problems too.
