Chronic pain relief that starts
at the first visit.
Dry needling and acupuncture in one visit, releasing the trigger points behind the pattern and reducing the sensitivity that sustains chronic pain.
5.0 · 62 reviews on GoogleTreated, you plan a week, sleep through the night, and stop explaining your body to every new provider.
Seek urgent medical care first for:
unexplained weight loss, fever, or night sweats with the pain,
pain that wakes you and does not ease with position,
new weakness or numbness,
loss of bladder or bowel control,
or a new lump or bone pain with a history of cancer.
First visits are typically $300, follow-ups $250. Acunatomy is out-of-network with all plans; HSA and FSA cards are accepted, and a superbill is provided for reimbursement. Coverage and costs, explained.
"Before coming to Acunatomy, I had tried everything — massages, chiropractors, you name it — but nothing truly relieved the deep tightness and pain caused by muscle knots. That changed when I started seeing Eugene. Each session is more than just treatment — it’s an education in how your body works. I always leave feeling better informed, more mobile, and genuinely relieved."
Does acupuncture treat chronic pain?
Yes. Across 39 trials and 20,827 patients, acupuncture beat sham treatment for every condition studied, and the benefit held at one year. Pain that persists makes the nervous system more excitable, so pain spreads and is set off by less, and active trigger points keep feeding it. Dry needling releases the muscles that keep the pain signal running and acupuncture restores the nervous system's normal sensitivity.
Vickers et al., Journal of Pain, 2018 · Woolf, Pain, 2011
A typical treatment timeline.
Sleep and energy typically improve early.
What resolution looks like for chronic pain.
Explaining it to every new provider.
Nothing left to explain.
A body that hurts at random.
Days that go as planned.
Accepting this is just your body now.
Your body, itself again.
Common questions about chronic pain treatment.
No. Age-related changes are real, but pain is not their inevitable consequence: in 3,110 people with no back pain, scans showed disc degeneration in 37 percent at age 20 and 96 percent at age 80. What creates pain is dysfunction: trigger points, a sensitized nervous system, and compensation patterns. Those are treatable at any age.
Yes. In the Cochrane review, acupuncture reduced pain and stiffness in fibromyalgia compared with usual care; against sham needling the margin is smaller, and a 2019 pooled analysis of ten trials found real acupuncture ahead of sham for pain and sleep. Dry needling addresses the trigger points that refer pain into the tender areas. Results are gradual and cumulative.
It can, briefly. Soreness for a day or two is the common after-effect, and long-standing, sensitized pain is more prone to it, so sessions are paced: fewer points, lighter dosing, then progression as the nervous system becomes less sensitive. Serious complications are rare. The soreness is not the pattern getting worse; it is the muscle responding to release.
Migrating pain is a hallmark of trigger point involvement. Trigger points refer pain to distant areas in predictable patterns, and when one resolves, the next most active one becomes noticeable. That is progress: the dominant pattern has cleared, and treatment works through the layers in order.
Yes. With enough time, the pathways that carry pain become more excitable: signals grow stronger, nerves fire more easily, and pain continues after the tissue has healed. This is central sensitization. It is not imaginary, and the research word for it is reversible; reducing it is what acupuncture does in these visits.
Because stress and poor sleep turn up the volume on the entire nervous system, and pain rides that volume. Muscles hold more baseline tension, and unrefreshing sleep removes the tissue’s recovery window. This is physiology, not weakness, and it is why treatment addresses the system as well as the sore spot.
Where does it hurt?
Or find it on the body →Your pain can be traced.
Let’s start.
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Out-of-Network Insurance Accepted: Horizon BCBS · Oxford · UnitedHealthcare · Cigna · Aetna · Self-Pay Available