SLC Qi Taps into Community-Style Acupuncture
"By offering a shared space instead of several private rooms, I reduce our overhead costs and can then provide an affordable, healing environment for everyone seeking the multiple benefits of acupuncture." says Dean Woolstenhulme, of SLC Qi.


SALT LAKE CITY, UT, June 12, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Long considered the norm in Asia, affordable, community-style acupuncture has found its way to downtown Salt Lake via SLC Qi (pronounced "chi").

Originating in China over 2500 years ago, acupuncture has become more widely accepted by the general public as an alternative to Western pharmaceutical-based medicine. The shared healing space philosophy and movement first gained popularity in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, where a groundbreaking new law mandates that heroin addicts must have received acupuncture for at least one year before methadone treatment will be considered.

The term "community-style" refers to acupuncture administered in a shared environment by a licensed acupuncturist, in this case SLC Qi owner, Dean Woolstenhulme, a master's degree graduate of ACTCM (American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine) in San Francisco.

After an initial consultation costing fifteen dollars, a treatment at SLC Qi is on a sliding scale basis between fifteen and forty dollars, whatever is affordable to the patient, making it possible for the patient to seek as much treatment as is needed to heal.

"By offering a shared space instead of several private rooms, I reduce our overhead costs while still providing an affordable and comfortable environment for everyone seeking the multiple benefits of acupuncture ..." says Woolstenhulme, "... and it has also been noted that treating patients in a group creates a meditative, relaxed healing energy space - it's a win-win situation."

Acupuncture has been used in the treatment of a variety of ailments from allergies to depression to pain management to side effects from chemotherapy and radiation.

Community-style acupuncture is now seeing marked growth; with over 135 clinics nationwide, including seven in Utah. The goal of community acupuncture is to make health care more accessible and affordable to everyone. Woolstenhulme hopes that by providing affordable acupuncture for the community in Salt Lake, the benefits will speak for themselves through word of mouth from satisfied patients.

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