Privacy, Use, and HIPPA Policy
We respect your privacy and take care to ensure that your personal information is protected. This Privacy, Use and Hippa Policy applies to all users of our platforms and services.
By accessing or using our services or providing information about you to us in connection with them, you agree to the terms and conditions of the most recent version of this Policy.
When you visit our website and do not fill out and forms, you may browse anonymously. Information that you do provide will be used to provide appropriate health care, and is subject to this Policy.
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of our patients’ personal health information. We are required to provide patients with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to personal health information. By using our services, you agree our privacy policy. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Policy as necessary.
We may make uses and disclosures of your personal health information as necessary for your treatment. Health professionals involved in your care will use information in your medical record as well as information that you provide.
We may make uses and disclosures of your personal health information as necessary for payment purposes.
We may use and disclose your personal health information as necessary, and as permitted by law, for our health care operations. For example, to improve patient care.
We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about your treatment or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
We are permitted and/or required by law to make use and disclose your personal health information without your consent in the following instances:
You have the right to request personal health information be amended or corrected. We are not obligated to make all amendments or corrections as requested. All amendment requests must be submitted in writing, with signature. They also must state the reasons for the request.
You have the right to be notified if your personal health information has been affected by a breach.
We are not obligated to secure a written authorization in order to disclose your personal health information for workers’ compensation purposes.
Our website uses a standard technology called cookies. A cookie is a text document, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit most websites, the site’s computer requests permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser. Your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Our site uses cookies to differentiate you from other users and also allows you to view pages without logging in. Cookies allow us to calculate the number of people visiting our website and they can tell us which areas are most popular. This helps us to improve the content we post. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you. We do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
We may use reviews on our website. If you wish to leave a review, you may designate it as anonymous or you may attach your name. If you chose, you may also attach a photo. This photo would be used in conjunction with the review and persons viewing this website or our social media will be able to see the photo, review and name.
Many forms of email are not secure modes of communication. Some of the information you enter on our website may be transmitted by Secure Sockets Layer. This provides increased security.
We protect covered health and medical information as required by HIPAA and applicable state law. Similarly, we may use covered health and medical information as permitted by HIPAA and applicable state law.
Dry needling uses very small diameter needles which are inserted through the skin into affected structures in order to provide relief and healing. As with any needle puncture, there are risks involved. Generally, dry needling is a safe and evidenced based practice with minimal risk. Risks may include soreness, stiffness, bruising, bleeding. In very rare cases, there have been cases of pneumothorax, nerve puncture, or spreading of an internal infection. In cases of infection, the organisms are typically already under the patient’s skin and flared up by insertion of the needle which stimulates blood flow and not by the needle pushing an organism into the skin.
There are certain diseases which do not respond well to needling and times when it is not advised, such as if a person has uncontrolled bleeding issues.
Dry needles are typically 0.18-0.3mm in diameter. Facial needles are smaller. As a comparison, vaccine needles are typically 0.64mm and typical injection needles are 0.8mm thick. Blood donation needles are 1.6mm thick.
Dry needles are 1/3 to 1/2 the thickness of vaccine needles.
Speak to your practitioner if you have any concerns before your treatment. If dry needling is not advised, there may be other treatments offered or referred. These may include stabilization training, manual therapy, cupping, flexibility, neurological re-education or a referral to the appropriate practitioner for your ailment.