PrimeCare Acupuncture Clinic is a Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic at 548 Ferguson Street in Hokowhitu, Palmerston North. It focuses on pain management, sports injuries, gynaecology and boosting the immune system. Treatment combines acupuncture with tapping, an infrared lamp, electrical muscle stimulation and spinal realignment, and the plan is tailored to each person. The website says the aim is pain relief that lets people get back to the things they want to do.
Customers describe the practitioner, Matthew, as thorough, caring and patient. One reviewer said treatment eased nerve entrapment and migraines, and another said headaches eased within weeks of the first appointments. A reviewer whose mother could not lift her arm after surgery said her mother regained full movement after a few months. Another said her 11-year-old daughter, nervous at first, was explained the process and was pain free after nearly a year of other treatment with little result. Others describe the clinic as calming and the sessions as relaxing. One reviewer said earlier acupuncture had been less thorough. Our pick in Hokowhitu for acupuncture aimed at pain and sports injuries.