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Multiple Sclerosis

Your MRI is stable. Your fatigue and numbness aren’t.

The fatigue that hits by early afternoon no matter how much you slept. The numbness or tingling that comes and goes in a hand or leg. The balance that’s just a little off some days. Your neurologist has you on a disease-modifying therapy, and your scans look stable, but the day-to-day symptoms are still running your life. There is a different way to support multiple sclerosis: treat the nervous system’s circulation and signaling directly, alongside your DMT.

Why a stable scan doesn’t always mean a stable day

What’s Happening

Symptoms that don’t match the imaging

Fatigue, numbness or tingling, balance and coordination changes, muscle weakness or spasticity, symptoms that can fluctuate day to day even when MRI findings haven’t changed.

How It Feels

Living around an invisible disease

The nap you have to schedule into every day. The explaining, again, that you don’t “look sick.” The quiet grief of energy and function that used to be reliable and now isn’t.

Why It Matters

Disease-modifying therapy manages progression. It doesn’t manage Tuesday.

A DMT protects the years ahead; it wasn’t designed for this week’s fatigue. You deserve care scaled to the week you’re actually living.

Disease-modifying therapy and MRI track the long arc of multiple sclerosis: disease activity measured over years, from year one through follow-up and years on, where the scan may not have changed. Meanwhile, this week carries fatigue, numbness, balance changes and weakness, fluctuating day to day. A scan that hasn't changed and a week that's hard are not a contradiction: they are measured on two different time horizons.

The gap in standard MS care

The standard playbook is a disease-modifying therapy plus symptom-specific medications (for fatigue, spasticity, or pain) added on as needed. What’s often missing is direct support for the nerve circulation and signaling that drive day-to-day symptom fluctuation.

Built for the symptoms the scan can’t see

Patients arrive here already on a DMT, with disease activity reasonably controlled but persistent fatigue, numbness, or balance issues that affect daily life. The DMT stays untouched. What gets measured here is the week: how far the energy stretches, how steady the footing holds.

The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses nerve signaling patterns in affected limbs and supports balance-related symptoms. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports the cellular energy production fatigued nerve tissue needs. O3 ReBoot Therapy® supports circulation and oxygen delivery to affected neural tissue.

How we work with your doctor

Nothing changes with your disease-modifying therapy except through your neurologist. Physicians across Broward County send us the MS cases whose fatigue and numbness a stable scan doesn’t reach, 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 current DMT and which symptoms affect you most day to day. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.

  2. 2

    Personalized protocol

    A plan built around your specific symptoms (fatigue, numbness, balance) and your current treatment. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.

  3. 3

    Reclaim your life

    An afternoon without the crash. Steadier footing. Fewer days planned around energy you don’t have.

Illustration of a person carrying groceries up a step with steady energy
What a Good Day Feels Like

Spend your energy on the day, not on getting through it

Groceries carried in, in one trip, without the math.

Energy left over at dinner.

A body that agrees with the scan for once.

Unaddressed symptoms narrow daily life, even with stable disease

Fatigue and mobility symptoms that go unaddressed tend to shrink what a day can hold, fewer errands, shorter outings, more naps. Supporting circulation and nerve function directly may help preserve function and energy day to day, alongside your disease-modifying therapy.

Questions, Answered

Multiple Sclerosis FAQs

No. The therapies are non-pharmaceutical and work alongside your DMT, never as a replacement for it. Any medication changes remain your neurologist’s call.
Many patients seek treatment specifically for fatigue; we evaluate your case and build a protocol aimed at supporting energy and nerve function.
Your neurologist first, always, active relapses need physician evaluation and, often, treatment adjustment. We support ongoing, day-to-day symptoms alongside your neurological care.
We review your full medication history at the evaluation to confirm candidacy before beginning any treatment.
For most people, acupuncture is well tolerated and is not known to worsen MS. That said, everyone’s situation is different, so we adjust care to how you’re feeling, especially around heat sensitivity or fatigue, which some people with MS notice. If you have any concern, we’d rather you check with your neurologist first.
Some people with MS come to us hoping to feel steadier or less limited by fatigue and stiffness that affect movement. Patients who respond typically describe changes in comfort and day-to-day function rather than changes to the disease itself, and results vary from person to person. We work alongside your neurologist and any physical therapy you’re already doing, not in place of them.
MS is diagnosed more often in women than men, and many women experience common MS symptoms like fatigue, numbness or tingling, vision changes, and balance difficulty. Some also notice symptoms shifting around hormonal changes. Your neurologist is the right person to sort out what’s driving your specific symptoms. On our side, we focus on helping you manage day-to-day discomfort and fatigue alongside your medical care.
Yes, and many patients arrive exactly that way. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
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