Techniques & Treatments

Your B.E.S.T practitioner has been specially trained to recognize and work with your specific health condition by locating and addressing the cause. If you don't correct the cause of your health concern, you may never reach optimum health.

The Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.) is a technique which is widely used by health care practitioners all over the world who practice mind/body healing, and who recognize that the body is more than the sum of its parts. It's a system of health care that is truly state-of-the-art in balancing Body/Mind/ Memory/Soul energy fields. When these energy fields are out of balance, symptoms develop and health deteriorates. Many factors affect the body's state of balance. Emotional issues of the past as well as the choices that we have made, or currently make in six essential areas: what we eat and drink; how we exercise and rest; what we breathe; and what we think all affect our energy field balance. When these systems are out of balance, they become exhausted. Symptoms such as pain and disease often develop.

Pain is the body's alarm system, alerting you that there is something wrong. Pain alerts the body to start the healing process. Pain from accidents or injuries - a cut, broken bone, torn cartilage, dislocated joint, or other physical injury - isn't bad. This pain helps to direct healing energy to the area it is needed by your body.

The fastest way for your body to stop hurting is to balance the energy fields. This will allow you to repair and rebuild your damaged, painful condition. Often, an immediate response to the B.E.S.T procedure is relief from the pain. This will help you feel as good as possible as soon as possible. However, many of the people that are here to have their bodies balanced don't necessarily have pain. Our experience has shown that by keeping your body balanced, it not only can get rid of pain, but more importantly, it will allow your body to function much more efficiently and actually repair and rebuild the damage from nutritional, physical, or mental stress.

Emotions and thoughts play a big role in your health.

Think about something that you really hate or someone that really bothers you. It is actually possible to increase your heart rate, tense up your shoulders, bring on a headache, or make you sick to your stomach by just thinking about it! Or, try this. Think about a bright yellow lemon. See it in your mind's eye. See the yellow skin. Now, picture cutting it with a knife right down the middle. Then squeeze it into a spoon. Now, slowly place the spoon of lemon juice into your mouth on top of your tongue and swallow it! Can you see how what you can think can actually change your bodily function? Did you swallow from the sour juice?

Your thinking (mental stress) can change the way your body functions. That can be either positive or negative depending on your thoughts. What you think about is probably the most important factor in regard to your overall health.

It is important to understand that everything the body does is for the sole purpose of survival right now. It isn't designed to be sick or healthy. It is designed to survive the conditions of the moment, and it deals with these conditions by responding to the greatest threat to survival first. We call this top priority.

You may feel terrible, but your body is doing the best it can under the circumstances that you provide for it. If something isn't done to update the current status of the threat, it may keep responding over and over until that particular system becomes exhausted. That's when you have symptoms like pain or disease.

B.E.S.T. updates physical and emotional memory.

By touching certain pressure points, in the proper sequence, and having you think about specific memory stress, we have found that your body begins to re-communicate with your brain. Of course, your brain controls all functions in your body. When they work together, body balance, restoration of health, and feeling good are welcome results.

When the procedure is finished, your legs should measure even in length; your arms will be strong. This means that your body is balanced. Clinical experience has shown that by stimulating these specific pressure points as part of the B.E.S.T procedure, that your body can not only begin to feel better, but can actually begin to repair and rebuild. The rebuilding and repairing are the necessary steps to regaining good, pain-free health. By combining your improved choices in those six essential areas with this updated mind/body balance, a winning combination is certain to follow. By taking this approach, you are taking steps to learn to maintain this balance in the days, weeks, and months to follow.

With the B.E.S.T approach, we believe that there are virtually no conditions that your body cannot overcome or show improvement in. By balancing your body with B.E.S.T, we are attempting to do everything we can to allow your body to heal, to repair, to rebuild, and to again gain health.

Take it one step at a time.

Changes in the choices that we make in the six essential areas must happen gradually. The nutritional changes can often be the most uncomfortable, and the thinking changes the most difficult. Take your time, and ask for help! For nutritional stress, we recommend natural, whole food supplementation to help you. Nature has the ability to put things together in ways that seem to be the most beneficial to our bodies. Should you have problems with gas, indigestion, or bowels, be sure to mention this. We have more information on making better choices in these six essential areas to make these changes easy and healthy!

YOUR CHOICES MATTER

The choices you make in six essential areas determine whether you follow a lifestyle that results in permanent good health or one that can lead to distress, illness, depression . . . an unbalanced system that leads to disease.

The six essential areas, and guidelines to help you make healthful choices are:

1. What you eat. Your diet should consist of approximately 75% fruits and vegetables and 25% everything else. This keeps your body alkaline (its natural state) instead of acidic, and helps prevent injury and disease.

2. What you drink. Avoid stimulants such as coffee and alcohol. Drink mostly fruit juices and pure water.

3. How you exercise. Get 30 minutes of whole body exercise three times a week. Help your body stay flexible. You'll be surprised at how good it feels and how the tendency to suffer injuries is reduced.

4. How you rest. Good sleep every night is essential to your body's ability to heal and recharge itself. Avoid stimulants and heavy meals before you go to sleep.

5. What you breathe. Clean, smoke-free air is also essential to permanent good health. If you can smell the air you breathe, it is probably not healthy.

6. What you think. Stress can be a killer. It also can cause your muscles to tighten up to the point that injuries and pain become more likely. Find ways to think calming thoughts, at home and at work. It pays big dividends in good health!

B.E.S.T. is a physical yet non-forceful, energy balancing procedure used by the hands to reestablish the full healing potential of the body using its natural healing abilities. B.E.S.T. removes the interference and/or distractions that are demanding the attention of the healing power; thereby causing the imbalance in the autonomic nervous system, and ultimately leading to disease.

Researched at major universities, taught in association with many chiropractic colleges and in professional continuing education seminars, B.E.S.T is recognized by the health care industry as an effective healing science.

Information For Patients

Q: What is acupuncture?

A: Acupuncture is the insertion of fine needles into the body at specific points shown as effective in the treatment of specific health problems. These points have been mapped by the Chinese over a period of two thousand years. Recently, electromagnetic research has confirmed their locations. 

Q: What problems can be treated by acupuncture?

A: The World Health Organization has said that acupuncture is suitable for treating the following:

1. Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders:Toothaches, pain after tooth extraction, earaches, sinus inflammation, nasal inflamation or dryness.

2. Respiratory Disorders: Uncomplicated bronchial asthma in children or adults.

3. Gastrointestinal Disorders: Digestive tract problems, hiccups, inflammation of the stomach, chronic duodenal ulcers, inflammation of the colon, constipation, diarrhea, dysentery caused by certain bacteria.

4. Eye Disorders: inflammation of the conjunctiva, inflamation of the central retina, nearsightedness (in children), and uncomplicated cataracts.

5. Nervous System and Muscular Disorders: Headaches, migraines, certain facial paralysis or nerve pain, partial weakness after a stroke, inflammation of nerve endings, bed wetting, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, sciatica, low back pain, and osteoarthritis.  

Acupuncture has been used for centuries in China to treat many other problems, such as knee pain, sprains and strains, and most gynecological complaints.

Q: How deep do the needles go?

A: That depends upon the nature of the problem, the location of the points selected, the patient's size, age and constitution, and upon the acupuncturist's style or school. Usually, needles are inserted from 1/4 to l inch in depth.

Q: Does it hurt?

A: If your practitioner has obtained the correct stimulus of the needle, the patient should feel some cramping, heaviness, distention, tingling, or electric sensation, either around the needle or traveling up or down the affected meridian, or energy pathway. In Chinese, acupuncture is bu tong, painless. Some Western cultures may categorize these sensations as types of pain. In any case, if you experience any discomfort it is usually mild.

Q: Are the needles clean?

A: The best practice among acupuncturists in America today is to use sterilized, individually packaged, disposable needles. Needles should not be saved and reused for later treatments. This eliminates the possibility of transmitting a communicable disease by a contaminated needle.

Q: How does acupuncture work?

A: Modern Western medicine cannot explain how acupuncture works. Traditional acupuncture is based on ancient Chinese theories of the flow of Qi (Energy) and Xue (Blood) through distinct meridians or pathways that cover the body somewhat like the nerves and blood vessels do. According to ancient theory, acupuncture allows Qi to flow to areas where it is Deficient and away from where it is Excess. In this way, acupuncture regulates, and restores the harmonious energetic balance of the body. In Chinese there is a saying, "There is no pain if there is free flow; if there is pain, there is no free flow."

Q: Are there different styles of acupuncture?

A: Yes, there are. Acupuncture originated in China but spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, the British Isles, and America. In different countries, different styles have developed based on differing opinions as to theory and technique. Patients should talk to their practitioners about their particular style and learn as much as possible about the treatment being proposed.

Q: What criteria should one use in choosing an acupuncturist?

A: Patients should ask about where the practitioner trained, how long the training was, how long he or she has been in practice, and what experience the practitioner has had in treating the patient's specific ailment.

Acupuncture is a licensed and regulated healthcare profession in about half the states in the U.S. Ask your practitioner if your state requires a license to practice. In states that do not currently require licensing, patients should ask their practitioner if they are certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists. Acupuncturists who have passed this exam are entitled to add Dipl.Ac.  (Diplomate of Acupuncture) after their name.

Q: How many treatments will I need?

A: That depends upon the duration, severity, and nature of your complaint. You may need only a single treatment for an acute condition. A series of five to fifteen treatments may resolve many chronic problems, degenerative conditions may require many treatments over time.

Q: What should I know about the proposed treatments?

A: Your practitioner will explain the nature of your, problem and what treatment he or she is recommending. Your practitioner will tell you what benefits and risks there are to the proposed treatment, what other treatment options are available to you through this practitioner or by referral to another practitioner or physician. 

If you agree to go ahead with the treatments, your practitioner will tell you what progress to expect, what to do if you don't experience that progress and what to do if you feel worse.

Q. Is there anything I need to do before receiving an acupuncture treatment?

A: Yes, the following suggestions will help you get the maximum benefits from your treatment. 

1. Maintain good personal hygiene to reduce the possibility of bacterial infection.

2. To prevent loss, do not wear jewelry.

3. Wear loose clothing. Women should not wear one-piece dresses. Avoid wearing tight stockings.

4. Avoid treatment when excessively fatigued, emotionally upset, or shortly after sex.

Q: Is there anything I need to do while receiving acupuncture?

A: Yes, again.

1. Relax. There is no need to be frightened. Ask your practitioner any questions you have along the way so that you can get the most benefit possible from the treatment.

2. Do not change your position or move suddenly. If you are uncomfortable, tell your practitioner.

3. Some people experience dizziness, nausea, cold, sweat, shortness of breath, or faintness during treatment. This often occurs if you are nervous. Inform your practitioner immediately so he or she can readjust or withdraw the needles. Also let your practitioner know if you feel an increasing amount of pain or burning sensation during the treatment.

4. If you find your treatment unbearable at any point, be sure to speak up so that your practitioner can make the proper adjustments or stop the treatment.

Q: What can I expect after treatment?

A: You may note a spot of blood at one or more of the needle sites and/or a small bruise could develop. These should not be harmful, but please talk to your practitioner if you are concerned.

Patients often experience the most dramatic results in the first treatment. Some patients experience an immediate total or partial relief of their pain or other symptoms. This relief may last or some pain may return. In a few cases, there may be no immediate relief only to notice the pain diminish over the next couple of days. Generally, you should expect to feel better.