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Julie
 Apr 7, 08 - 1:39 PM |
Acupuncture maintenance treatments
I'm just wondering if any of you provide maintenance treatment sessions for your acupuncture patients and if so how many?We are finding it difficult to make a decision as to when to discharge patients when they obviously rely on their treatments to help them cope with life. 
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missie
Apr 14th, 2008 - 9:22 AM |
Re: Acupuncture maintenance treatments
I agree it becomes difficult to discharge patients as often this is the only treatment they have left, however I have found that by letting patients know prior to treatment that they will have a course of 6 sessions, then be referred back to the consultant for review and to assess the treatment, they are aware of the length of treatment from early on. Patient is then either discharged pending the assessment or given 2 follow up maintenance sessions at 3 months and 6 months. We discharge patients after that, but must confess its not easy as we still have a few patients who have been having treatment since 2003!  
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Carol Banks
Apr 16th, 2008 - 9:35 AM |
Re: Acupuncture maintenance treatments
Hi, I do a course of treatment and evaluate at the end and at three follow up If treatment is helpful and lasts for upto 12 weeks maintainance of x 2 sessions at three month intervals is done. If the patient reports success but does not make any behavioural change then I would not consider acupuncture an appropriate treatment strategy, the same if acupuncture only helps for a short period of time. Acupuncure is like giving a dose, and the effects in longer pain are rarely long term. |
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Kathy D
Apr 30th, 2008 - 4:30 PM |
Re: Acupuncture maintenance treatments
Our local policy is a course of 6 as an aid to rehab, and then discharge (OK for many patients, but there is the odd few that we would like to support for longer) The other option, of course, is teaching self acupuncture (talk to Glen, I know his clinic does this) |
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