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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

You slept nine hours. You still feel like you didn’t sleep at all.

The exhaustion that doesn’t lift with rest. The crash after a normal errand that puts you on the couch for two days. The doctors who ran the standard panel, found nothing definitive, and offered little beyond “manage your energy.” There is a different way to approach chronic fatigue syndrome: treat the underlying nervous system and circulatory dysfunction associated with the exhaustion, not just tell you to pace yourself.

Why “just rest more” isn’t a treatment plan

What’s Happening

Fatigue that doesn’t play by normal rules

Profound exhaustion unrelieved by sleep, post-exertional malaise (a crash after even mild activity), brain fog, and unrefreshing sleep, often following a viral illness, though sometimes with no clear trigger at all.

How It Feels

Rationing energy like a budget

Deciding whether today’s energy goes to the grocery store or a shower. The isolation of friends who stopped understanding why you cancel, again. The quiet fear that this is just what life is now.

Why It Matters

Pacing manages the crash. It doesn’t treat the cause.

Energy-pacing strategies help avoid post-exertional crashes, but a smaller budget is still a budget. You deserve treatment that tries to raise the ceiling, not more advice about staying under it.

The gap in standard chronic fatigue syndrome care

The standard playbook, once other causes are ruled out, is often energy pacing and symptom management, with few options aimed at the underlying dysfunction itself. What’s missing is direct treatment of the nervous system and circulatory patterns implicated in ME/CFS.

Treating the dysfunction, not just managing the budget

Patients arrive here after ruling out other causes of fatigue, often already pacing carefully with limited additional relief. The evaluation starts from your crash pattern, what triggers it, how long it lasts, what a good stretch looks like, and builds the plan against that baseline.

The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses the amplified nervous system signaling associated with post-exertional malaise and brain fog. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports the cellular energy production, ATP itself, that ME/CFS patients often struggle to generate efficiently. O3 ReBoot Therapy® improves circulation and oxygen delivery to fatigued tissue.

How we work with your doctor

Nothing changes with your medications except through your prescriber. Physicians across Broward County send us patients when pacing is the only tool they were handed, and many patients simply send themselves.

Susan Mitchell, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Susan Mitchell, AP

Clinical Director · 30+ years

You’re Not a Case Number

Your protocol, personalized

There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.

What shapes your plan

Severity & duration

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

Your response

Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.

Your goal

Symptom relief, or a return to the things you miss: we define the finish line with you, not for you.

Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.

The Plan

Three steps, starting with the consultation

  1. 1

    $45 initial consultation

    Bring your diagnostic workup and current pacing strategy. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.

  2. 2

    Personalized protocol

    A plan built around your specific crash pattern and current energy baseline. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.

  3. 3

    Reclaim your life

    An errand that doesn’t cost you two days. Energy that isn’t a strict, constant budget.

Illustration of a person waking rested and clear-headed at the edge of a bed
What Rested Actually Feels Like

Wake up and feel like you slept

Morning that starts with the day, not with recovery.

Energy that’s still there at four o’clock.

Nine hours that finally count for something.

Unaddressed, ME/CFS tends to shrink a life around the crash

Left unsupported, life can narrow around avoiding the next crash, fewer errands, less connection, less of what used to feel normal. Supporting the body’s energy production and nervous-system regulation directly, rather than only managing around the fatigue, may help widen what a day can hold.

Questions, Answered

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome FAQs

Pacing remains an important tool, but it isn’t the only option. We evaluate whether treating the underlying circulatory and nervous system dysfunction may help alongside it.
We start conservatively and monitor your response closely; treatment intensity is adjusted based on how you tolerate it, not a fixed schedule.
General-purpose acupuncture is not an ME/CFS protocol. Your program combines acupuncture with ATP Resonance BioTherapy® and O3 ReBoot Therapy® in a staged, personalized clinical structure, a fundamentally different intervention.
Given how sensitive this condition is to overexertion, we build up gradually and read your own response as we go, rather than working to a set timeline or expecting immediate shifts.
Yes, and many patients arrive exactly that way. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
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