and has been often referred to as alternative medicine yet you know it's been around for debatably five thousand years so western medicine that's only three hundred years is arguably be alternative yeah i was having some like hormonal problems some different health problems that i've had while i've had some issues with my leg because i had an injury i was dealing with some things i mean just some some sort of like stuff along those lines i was like trying to figure out you know sort of the best way to go about  g and you know a lot of people said you know acupuncture is you know a really good solution of this problem so i was really interested came here and just the process of like you know not only the acupuncture itself but being able to talk to bill and every than what the patient has put on their form really what what acupuncture is doing is it creating micro trauma to the body every time i insert a needle through your skin now of course i'm gearing up making it comfortable for you yet i can't trick your brain you know the brain knows that there's a foreign object through the skin and the points that i choose our respective either to the patients chief complaint or what i have objectively noticed in their t and pulse that requires me to encourage the body to heal or balance something i think a lot of people are afraid of and they hear needles and they're all it's a needle but it's not a it's not like when you get lab work done it's not like that and i'm not a big needle person either a blood but just close your eyes if you close your eyes she's got relaxing music you know the essential oils and everything and yeah it doesn't h doesn't hurt at all acupuncture needles are very different from the type of needles that most people are used to most people are very used to hypodermic needles which we use for injections or for drawing  and the chief difference between those and acupuncture needles is that these are solid and hypodermic needles have to be hollow because they're a conduit acupuncture in sarasota is something that we see a lot of and that's because we're fortunate enough to have a really great acupuncture school here so when i was graduating i really wanted to set myself up to offer acupuncture in a way in which people could afford it to receive the best effectiveness from it and what i see often in sarasota is that sometimes the price point for acupuncture maybe doesn't lend itself to our entire target market and the target market for acupuncture is everybody so the difference about what we do here versus another acupuncture office that you might find in sarasota is that we offer a community whole pay scale so that means that a patient can pay whatever they feel they can afford for their treatment talk to them you know get a good of you know sort of you know get an idea of you know how they operate here and i think like honestly just meeting bran and being able to talk to her and just see how you know how much she i guess the passion that she has for what she does i don't know i think a lot of story i often find my smaller successes in people having a greater understanding of their own body chemistry in their own health because that's what breeds patient compliance when they're not me office with me you know if i crux on the fact that i'm a success story behind every person then i am removing the fact that all i did with the needles was encourage their body to heal mark quickly you just feel better you know and that last some is not like like an hour you name when i start feeling kind of you know something else is going on i make an appointment i come in or some they just do it just for maintenance for some of it but if another new issue pops up i come in for that and we treat that i often joke with people that i have the best job in the world because here i get to you know play soothing music could have low lie you know provide this beautiful stationery but what i think a lot of people don't realize is that as i am treating someone back to me that they don't realize is so strong you know the this symbiosis of what i do is is is what really makes it not seem like work more knowledge than anybody i know and stuff like this so that's great and you know just really makes you feel at ease and is the most fulfilling for you know a lot of people come through the door here because it's a last resort you know i see a lot of people who have been at their wit's end of other you know care and it's it's the most flattering thing when people even just find sanctuary in you for listening to them so not that i would ever want to justify maybe my inability to help someone's chief complaint if i can provide medical knowledge like you know even  listening to their entire issue and maybe providing whatever type of diagnostics i can i really want to to pay it forward in that respect so i i have