Oaktree Chiropractic Acupuncture Chinese Medicine

Have been going here for a month for Chiropractic care and I feel 100x better than before!
It all started at the Women’s Show — Oaktree had a booth and offered free assessments with a discounted rate for your first two visits.
I got my assessment and decided to visit the clinic (for lack of a better word — its not very clinic feeling) on Lisgar Ave. near Metcalfe.
Let me start out by saying that Dr Emilie and her husband Martin are the sweetest people and run the clinic themselves with the help of a few other specialists. Dr Emilie is the Chiropractor and Martin is the Acupuncturist — they live in the house where the clinic is with their three kids which makes the clinic a very comfortable place to be (although they live upstairs and I’ve never seen their kids, haha)
My first visit was for Xrays and a medical questionnaire to ensure that my treatment would be created and tailored to my specific needs.
The second visit was a group setting to get an idea of what chiropractic care does for your body. I’m obvs not a specialist, but the premise is that your spine controls everything about you because it houses all of your nerves and such in your spinal cord. She then takes you individually to give you the results of your xrays and then presents you with the course of action she wants to take for your care. Usually 3x/​week for the first few months, then 2x/​week a month or two, then down to 1x/​week for the next few months. You are able to get an assessment right away after she gives you your results during your second visit to kick off the treatment. (definitely do this!)
After my assessment, xrays and the results of my xray, and my first alignment, I started my course of treatment given the freaky posture I had (that I really didn’t think was so bad, but the back pain I had for the last year prompted me to get xrayed and holy guacamole does the xray ever speak for itself).
EXCITING THING HAPPENED TO ME: After my FIRST treatment the back pain that I have been dealing with for the last year and a half was GONE! I obvs didn’t think it would last, yes, I’ve gone to massage therapists and physiotherapists MANY times for the EXACT same issue, and it helped, but was never fixed. But it’s been a month, I have been going regularly, I have yet to be in any kind of pain. I am so thrilled with the treatment I’ve gotten. I am still on my course of treatment and am loving it.
The alignment room is right off of the reception and there are two waiting areas; one in the reception room for everyone (chiro and acupuncture clients (and whoever else is in the house)) and one just behind a frosted window from the chiro tables (2). There are always a few people waiting for their alignments, 4 chairs behind the frosted window and 2 people laying on the tables at a time (one being worked on and one relaxing before their alignment. The funniest thing I find about going, is the comments you hear from people getting aligned! I absolutely love it! Some people are quite vocal and obviously REALLY enjoy their adjustments (you will to, don’t worry) I’ve heard funny things from «oh yeah, that’s my favourite spot» to «oooohhhhhhh that felt goooood».
Read some more below to and definitely check out the website to get more info on what and how they do it.
More about the clinic and the doctors:
Dr Emilie approaches her treatment with very thoughtful ideals — she can help with not only aligning your spine to reduce pain and tension in your back, but it can also help improve your immune system, it can take pressure off of your nerves which control your bladder even and many more things that I couldn’t eve begin to relay given I was so impressed with the thought that chiropractic adjustments can help with bed wetting in kids, haha.
She is licensed to treat everyone; men, women and children, from small babies to the elderly, pregnant and otherwise.
She is not the only chiropractor in the office though — on Monday’s and some sporadic days when Dr Emilie has training or seminars — Dr Vanessa takes care of the adjustments in the clinic. Dr Vanessa is just as wonderful as Dr Emilie and they really try to connect with their clients in the short time you’re together.
Chiropractic care has specific hours given all of the patients they sees, and the fact that Dr Emilie is inviting her clients into her home, so they will treat people for a few hours mid-​late morning (I think 11-:12:30)and mid to late afternoon (3:30−5:30 ish) I’m assuming because most of their clients come from downtown — this lets them come in on their lunch hours and on their way home from work.
They are very flexible with timings for appointments — if you’re early or late just shoot them an email and they do their best to accommodate, and given that an adjustment only takes about 2 minutes this is easy for them to do!

I have to agree with Vera D. on the business side of things, she is right on.
I also have to say that after consulting with many other acupunturists, the yearly plan is NOT the way to go (3x/​week for X weeks, 2X/​week for X weeks, then 1X/​week for the rest of the year). Going once a week for acute problems is enough. The rest is useless overpricing and overkill. (talking roughly 3500 $ for the year, or 50 $/​treatment)
Another thing I do not agree with: you do not get a private room in which you get your treatment ie you are in a room with 3 chairs and chances are you are getting your treatment at the same time as others. No privacy. The treatments are solely done in chairs, which means no needles in the back or the middle section. Only arms, lower legs and head. I’ve had needles in the lower abdomen and back and those helped me a great deal on my FIRST treatment in another clinic, whereas it doesn’t seem like I am going to get at this place.
Not only that… I was going there for a specific issue. The lady sitting beside me was coming in for a completely different issue and and checked where she got her needles. It was very similar to where I got mine.
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Acupuncture treatment shouldn’t be a one treatment treats all type of thing. I really didn’t understand why our treatments looked so alike, so… generic.
Many of my punctures ended up bleeding a bit, that was a first. And as I said, I’ve had acupuncture before. I don’t think that is supposed to happen. 1 needle in the lady beside me bleed even more than mine and I was a bit shocked.
They also talked about a double treatment. 1 treatment is usually about 20 minutes. A double is 40, but after 20 minutes, they would take out the needles and use the same one in different locations. It as been proven that needles should be used only once, as the tip is slightly blunt after the first insertion, which could cause more pain on the second insertion. I personnaly think that this practice is unaceptable, but that is me.
Staff is nice, warm and very welcoming, but I will not be going back, as I do not agree with many of their practices.

**** Review is based on the way they conduct their business NOT on the actual treatment.
So I saw this on livingsocial and I called them to find out how long each session is etc. .
The living social deal is 29 for three Acupuncture or Chiropractic Sessions with Initial Consultation.
Turns out you would have to make FOUR appts: 1 for the consultation which is a HOUR and you CAN NOT get treatment the same time, you would have to reschedule an appt for the actual session (acupuncture is 30 min each session)
if you are busy like me, have limited access for transportation, and is currently in pain there is no way I want to spend a hour talking to a dr and NOT get treatment the same day and have to be sent home in pain and then wait to book another appt to actually get treatment.
BTW, I get acupuncture done and I always get my treatment done the same day (including consultation). Is this an Ottawa thing? UGH.
Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous!
So I guess if you have unlimited time and NOT in pain, feel free to see them! Good day!
Also, they have weird hours
Monday 6:50AM — 10:20AM & 2:10PM — 6:20PM
Tuesday 2:10PM — 6:20PM
Wednesday 2:10PM — 6:20PM
Thursday 6:50AM — 10:20AM & 2:10PM — 6:20PM