After hearing many reports of how much acupuncture has helped a lot of people, we decided to try some TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) for my daughter. She is in remission from RSD right now, thank God!, but has a lot of leftover pain and fatigue from being in a surgery boot for 9 months, and going thru many, many surgical treatments (spinal blocks, Bier blocks, etc), and she has a whopping case of plantar fasciitis (they can't even use their hands at PT - they have to grind into her foot with a metal rod).

I'm pretty open-minded about many things, and I don't by any means think that Western medicine is a be-all-end-all solution to the problems of the world, although I think it is better at things like surgeries, so we asked around and found a doctor that came highly recommended, and went to see her Tuesday. We had a two-hour appointment, which included a lot of questions about many, many things (I appreciate that part; it wasn't just a cursory few questions), plus acupuncture and a reflexology massage that lasted 45 minutes. She's been through so many "rough" treatments (PT, surgeries, etc) and it was so nice to just see her relax during a treatment. I think these "gentler" treatments might be a good addition to the other treatments. She responded well, and we're going back on Saturday for more treatment.

So has anyone else had experience with this kind of thing?

Thanks!