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New Patients
Your care starts with understanding the whole picture.
At Blue Root Health, we believe your symptoms are connected—and understanding those connections begins long before your first treatment.
You don't need to know which treatment you need before you arrive. That's our job to help determine.
Welcome to Blue Root. We're glad you're here.
Schedule Your First Visit
Before Your First Visit
A little preparation helps us make the most of our time together.
Your first visit is intentionally different.
Rather than beginning with a treatment based only on the symptom that brought you in, we take time to understand your health history, what has changed, what your body has been communicating, and the patterns that may connect seemingly unrelated concerns.
Once your appointment is scheduled, you'll receive your New Patient Intake through Jane, our secure healthcare platform.
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Arrive 10 Minutes Early
A Blue Root Health associate will welcome you, orient you to the practice, and review a few important details before your visit begins.
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Prepare for Your Visit
- Eat a light meal rather than arriving on an empty stomach
- Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing that allows access to your arms, legs, and abdomen
- Bring relevant medications, supplements, recent testing, imaging, or diagnoses
Our intake is intentionally comprehensive. You'll be asked about more than your primary concern because symptoms that may seem unrelated can provide important information about the larger patterns affecting your health.
Your practitioner personally reviews your intake before meeting with you, so thoughtful, complete answers allow us to arrive prepared and use your time together more meaningfully.
Your First Visit
This is where we begin connecting the dots.
Your initial consultation is approximately 45 minutes and is dedicated to understanding you—not simply the diagnosis or symptom written on your chart.
Your practitioner will review your health history with you and ask focused questions based on the information you provided before your appointment.
We'll talk about what you're experiencing now, how it affects your life, what has changed over time, what you've already tried, and what you most want to improve.
Some questions may be different from what you're accustomed to in a conventional medical visit. That's intentional.
Sleep, digestion, energy, temperature, pain, stress, hormones, emotions, and other seemingly separate experiences can provide meaningful information when considered together.
Chinese medicine looks for relationships and patterns throughout the body.
How We Assess Your Health
More than one piece tells the story.
Your health history and conversation are combined with traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic methods to develop a more complete understanding of your individual pattern.
Pulse Diagnosis
Your practitioner will feel the pulses at both wrists. Chinese pulse diagnosis evaluates much more than heart rate. Qualities such as strength, depth, rhythm, and character provide another layer of information about patterns within the body.
Tongue Diagnosis
You'll also be asked to show your tongue. Its color, shape, moisture, coating, and other characteristics are considered alongside the rest of your assessment.
Physical & Pattern Assessment
Your practitioner may also assess areas of pain, tenderness, tension, temperature, or other physical findings relevant to your concerns.
No single finding determines your care.
Your history, symptoms, conversation, pulse, tongue, and physical findings are considered together. It is the relationship between these pieces that helps us identify the patterns we want to address.
Your Personalized Plan
You should understand why we're recommending your care.
After your consultation, your practitioner brings everything together to determine the most appropriate direction for you.
Depending on your individual needs, recommendations may include acupuncture, custom Chinese herbal medicine, functional testing, ozone therapy, Prolozone, injection therapies, or other services available through Blue Root Health.
Your care is individualized to you and may evolve as your health changes.
We want you to understand what we're seeing, why we're recommending a particular direction, and what we're working toward—not simply leave with a list of things to do.
When Does Treatment Begin?
You have options.
Begin the Same Day
If you would like to begin immediately, you may schedule your first treatment for the same day as your consultation, subject to availability.
Take Some Time
You may choose to go home, read through your recommendations, and return later that week or the following week to begin treatment.
There is no pressure to decide everything during your first visit.
A Different Kind of Care
Your symptoms are connected. Your care should be too.
Blue Root Health is a small, private holistic health practice. That allows us to spend time understanding each patient individually and to look beyond isolated symptoms.
There is no standard protocol that every patient receives.
Two people can arrive with the same diagnosis and leave with very different recommendations because their histories, bodies, patterns, and needs are different.
That's the point of personalized care.
You don't need to arrive knowing whether you need acupuncture, herbs, testing, ozone, or something else.
Start by telling us what's happening.
We'll begin there.
Before You Schedule
Good to know.
Private Pay Practice
Blue Root Health does not bill insurance directly.
Superbills
For eligible services, we are happy to provide a superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Coverage and reimbursement are determined by your individual insurance plan.
Have Questions?
Our team is happy to help you determine the best place to begin.
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