Detroit Community Acupuncture is dedicated to providing simple, affordable, individualized acupuncture treatments in a comfortable (and comforting!) community setting. Our sliding scale is $15 – $35 per treatment (you decide what to pay on the scale). Call us at 313-831-3222 to schedule or for more information.
The Community Acupuncture model is a “social business” model, as inspired by the work of Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. More FAQs about Community Acupuncture are answered here.
Why Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a gentle, comfortable treatment that has been used safely for thousands of years, in many countries, for all kinds of ailments: from back pain to ankle sprain; from indigestion to anxiety & depression; from PMS to everyday stress. Like most other healthcare modalities, acupuncture is a therapy that requires a course of treatment (for more about acupuncture, see Info for New Patients).
From the traditional perspective, acupuncture works by rebalancing the flow of energy in the body. From a modern scientific perspective, lots of studies have been done, but none of them have answered that question completely. From our practical perspective, we at DCA are less concerned with how it works, because we see how much it does work. Moreover, you don’t have to believe in it for it to work (acupuncture has been used with good results on animals), and you don’t have to change your beliefs. Acupuncture is not a religion, or witchcraft, or magic; it is a centuries-old, empirically-based therapeutic system. For more information about acupuncture, check out the NIH website.
Why Community?
Detroit Community Acupuncture is part of the growing Community Acupuncture movement, which is committed to a vision of affordable, egalitarian community healthcare. At Community Acupuncture clinics, we mostly treat people in recliners, clustered in a quiet and soothing space. Treating patients this way has many benefits: family members and friends can come in together for treatment; many patients find that it decreases the sense of isolation that often comes with illness; and (best of all) a kind of “collective energy” happens which makes individual treatments more powerful.
Patients help create the soothing and supportive atmosphere of the clinic by relaxing together. This sort of collective stillness is rare in our very busy and often stressful lives! Many patients say it is the only time they get to do “nothing”; this “un-doing” is part of the healing process.
About the Acupuncturist:
Nora Madden
I was born and raised in Lansing, and am delighted to be back in my home state after spending a decade and a half in California, where I fell in love with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. I studied at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, and passed the stringent California Acupuncture Licensing exam in 2002. I moved to Santa Cruz, where I had a part-time private practice until founding a Community Acupuncture clinic, Grassroots Acupuncture Project, with three delightful colleagues. I moved to Detroit in July, 2008, where I live with my partner and a clowder of cats.