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Autoimmune Care · Fort Lauderdale

Your labs are stable. That doesn’t mean every symptom is.

Rheumatoid arthritis that still stiffens every morning. MS fatigue a stable MRI doesn’t explain. A gut, a joint, an ear, or an immune system that’s still loud even when your specialist’s numbers look good. Standard care for autoimmune and immune-related conditions often means managing disease activity system-wide, while day-to-day symptoms are left to medication alone. There is a different way: treat the local inflammation, circulation, and nerve signaling directly, alongside the specialist already managing your disease.

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24M+ Americans living with an autoimmune or immune-related condition
Since 1994 practicing in Fort Lauderdale
100+ patient reviews on Google →
Physician referrals welcomed Coordinated care alongside your medical team
The Real Problem

Autoimmune conditions steal more than a diagnosis

Three layers of the same problem, what the body and immune system are doing, what it does to you, and why it’s wrong to leave it there.

What’s Happening

No two days play by the same rules

Joints that flare without warning. Fatigue no amount of sleep fixes. Skin, gut, or inner-ear symptoms that don’t follow a predictable schedule. Autoimmune and immune-related conditions rarely look the same from one patient, or one day, to the next.

How It Feels

Invisible until it isn't

Planning around good days and bad days. The quiet exhaustion of a disease that’s invisible until it isn’t. The frustration of “your labs look fine” not matching how you actually feel.

Why It Matters

Stable isn’t the same as well.

Systemic disease control is not the same as day-to-day relief. You deserve more than a stable lab report while the actual symptom running your life goes untreated.

The villain isn’t your specialist. It’s the gap between their metrics and your daily symptoms.

Nobody upstream is paid to ask whether that local inflammation and nerve signaling can be actively treated in the meantime. That’s the gap this clinic exists to close.

The standard system’s job is to control disease activity system-wide, and it does that well. What it’s not built to do is treat the specific joint, gut, ear, or fatigue pattern bothering you today.

How It Works

Every therapy aimed at one target: the inflammation standard care leaves behind.

Acupuncture

Targets the amplified pain and nerve signaling that persists even when systemic disease markers improve, the reason relief doesn’t always follow a stable lab report.

ATP Resonance BioTherapy®

Microcurrent at millionths of an ampere, FDA-cleared for the symptomatic relief of pain. We use it to calm inflammation in affected joints, skin, and irritated nerve tissue, while supporting the cellular repair autoimmune flares interrupt. Most patients feel nothing during the session itself; any changes tend to build gradually, over weeks.

O3 ReBoot Therapy®

Ozone-based regenerative therapy that boosts oxygen delivery and microcirculation to tissue affected by chronic inflammation, and supports the body’s own regulatory response. A supply and repair problem, addressed on both fronts.

Your Guide

We’ve heard this story. Thousands of times.

Patients arrive here carrying the same two things: a folder of specialist notes and the sentence “your labs look good.” Susan Mitchell has spent more than three decades treating the gap between that sentence and a hard day, not with promises, but with a protocol.

Susan Mitchell, AP is a Florida-licensed Acupuncture Physician and clinical director of South Florida Acupuncture in Fort Lauderdale. She combines acupuncture and ATP Resonance BioTherapy®, with O3 ReBoot Therapy® added, into a single coordinated protocol, tailored to each patient’s case.

When the labs look fine and you don’t

The “my numbers are normal but I still feel terrible” cases are most of what walks through this door. Years of them have taught her where systemic disease control stops and daily relief has to be built.

Susan Mitchell, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Susan Mitchell, AP

Clinical Director · 30+ years

You’re Not a Case Number

Your protocol, personalized

Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set as a plan at your evaluation, built around your case. We hold to that plan for the most part, and adjust it as needed when your response calls for it.

Severity & duration

How long you’ve had it and how far it’s progressed sets your starting intensity.

Your response

Your baseline is taken at the evaluation; flare weeks and good stretches both show up in the numbers, and the plan follows them.

Your goal

For some cases the finish line is fewer flare days; for others, a steadier week. We define it with you, not for you.

A timeline of a plan's visit cadence. Each mark is a visit. The marks are close together and heaviest through an intensive phase, space out and lighten through a consolidation phase, and are furthest apart and lightest through a reinforcement phase: care tapers as the plan progresses. Your plan is set at your evaluation. Frequency steps down as your measured progress allows, and it can step back up again if needed. This describes how a plan is shaped over time, not a promise about results.

Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your condition, then we discuss the investment in person.

What’s at Stake

Untreated symptoms don’t wait for disease activity to change

Joint pain, fatigue, skin flares, gut symptoms, and inner-ear attacks can each compound on their own timeline, regardless of what your labs show. The earlier local inflammation and nerve signaling are treated directly, the less they tend to spread into other systems and routines.

What Success Looks Like

Imagine what so many of our patients describe…

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A morning that loosens up faster

Less time spent working through stiffness before the day can actually start.

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An afternoon without the crash

Energy that lasts through a normal errand, not just the drive there.

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Skin that isn’t running the calendar

Fewer flares to plan clothing, or plans, around.

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A meal, or a room, that doesn’t require a mental map

Less scouting the exit or bracing for the next attack, just being there.

Patient Outcomes

In their words

Individual results vary. These reflect specific patients’ experiences and are not typical or guaranteed outcomes.

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Questions, Answered

Frequently asked questions

The clinic treats rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, IBS and related digestive disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and Meniere’s disease, each with its own tailored protocol. If you don’t see your condition listed, call us; many autoimmune and immune-related conditions share underlying mechanisms in inflammation, circulation, and nerve signaling.
We treat the local inflammation, circulation, and nerve signaling behind your day-to-day symptoms. Your specialist manages the disease-modifying medication; nothing there changes except through them. The two work together, not in competition.
No. The therapies are non-pharmaceutical and work alongside your medication. Any changes to your prescribed treatment remain your physician’s call, never ours.
General-purpose acupuncture is not an autoimmune protocol. Your program combines acupuncture with ATP Resonance BioTherapy® and O3 ReBoot Therapy® in a staged, personalized clinical structure with progress measurement, a fundamentally different intervention.
No. Autoimmune conditions have complex genetic and immune-system causes, and no acupuncture or lifestyle approach can be shown to stop one from developing. What we focus on is different: for people already living with an autoimmune diagnosis, we work alongside your specialist to help manage day-to-day symptoms like pain, fatigue, and flare discomfort. If you’re concerned about your risk for an autoimmune condition, that’s a conversation for your physician.
Patients who respond typically log their first measurable changes during the initial intensive phase; durable improvement is built across the maintenance phase that follows. Autoimmune and immune-related conditions can respond more gradually than a single acute injury.
The consultation is real clinical time: your history, a pattern assessment, and a decision about candidacy. Charging for it keeps it exactly that, rather than a pitch with a clipboard. Sometimes the decision is that you’re not a candidate. The fee covers that answer too.
If that feels right to you, absolutely. Many patients simply book; no referral or permission is needed. Either way, the evaluation gives you something concrete to bring to that conversation: a read on your case and a specific plan, rather than a general idea.
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Your body has been sending the message for a while. Answer it.

Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.

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3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306

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