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Hi, I'm Doctor Filardo, I'm certified in Acupuncture and we're here with Expert Village on their
behalf and in our next segment we're going to talk about which doctor should you go to
to get acupuncture done. There's a lot of speculation about who's good and who's not
good, what the education is and what the time and practice is, and the experience. So, I'm
going to go through a few things that might help in choosing an acupuncturist, or someone
that performs acupuncture. One of the things I think the best way to determine is, go to
someone that you trust. You know, go to someone that you might have gotten a different service,
or somebody that they know on a referral basis. That always, kind of eliminates some of the
crowd that way. And, then the second thing you can go into different forms of school.
You can go to a DC, a Doctor of Chiropractic which I am, and we're certified in acupuncture
so we took the necessary schooling to perform acupuncture. And then there's also a licensed
Acupuncturist. And, so a licensed acupuncturist aren't physicians but they're very well trained
in acupuncture. Then there's Acupuncture Physicians, which are actual doctors, they've taken the
right amount of hours to become a doctor of acupuncture. And then there's medical doctors
that do acupuncture as well, and there's DO's that do acupuncture. If you're already an
existing doctor, it's a certification to get acupuncture versus a licensed acupuncturist
and an acupuncture physician. And, I think it comes down to trust, the comfort feeling
that you may have through the office. Because acupuncture is pretty much, if you're doing
it the way the Chinese taught it, you're doing it all the same in the different professions.
I mean, if it's taught the way it should be taught, then you're going to get it, that's
going to be similar. But then it comes down to the physicians accuracy and diligence in
getting to be very good at what he or she may be doing. So, I think that'll help in
the sense of who to go to.