A disease that moves
Swelling, stiffness, and pain that shift between joints (hands, wrists, knees, feet), often worse in the morning and easing partially as the day goes on. Flares can appear even when disease-activity markers look stable.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Your labs look controlled. Your joints didn’t get the memo.
The morning stiffness that takes an hour to work through. The swollen knuckles that make a jar lid feel impossible. Your rheumatologist has your RA on a DMARD or biologic, and your bloodwork looks better, but the joint pain and stiffness haven’t fully let go. There is a different way to support rheumatoid arthritis: treat the local joint inflammation and nerve irritation directly, alongside the medication managing the disease itself.
- Practicing in Fort Lauderdale since 1994
- Referrals from rheumatologists welcomed
Why controlled bloodwork doesn’t always mean controlled pain
Planning around good and bad days
The doorknob you turn with two hands. The walk you cut short because your knee flared without warning. The quiet exhaustion of a disease that’s invisible on the days it doesn’t want to be.
Systemic control isn’t the same as local relief
Escalating the systemic medication is a serious decision your rheumatologist weighs carefully, and a hurting knee shouldn’t have to wait on it. You deserve a direct option for the joint itself in the meantime.
The gap in standard rheumatoid arthritis care
The standard playbook is a DMARD or biologic, monitored through regular bloodwork, plus NSAIDs for flares. What’s often missing is direct, local treatment of the inflamed joint tissue and irritated nerves causing day-to-day pain and stiffness.
Treating the joint in front of you, not just the disease behind it
Patients arrive here already under a rheumatologist’s care, with disease activity reasonably controlled but persistent joint pain, stiffness, or swelling that hasn’t fully resolved. Her starting questions are not about the disease overall: which joints are costing you the most, and what does a flare week actually look like for you?
The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses the amplified pain signaling that can persist in joints even when systemic inflammation markers improve. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® stimulates cellular repair in irritated joint tissue and supports recovery from flares. O3 ReBoot Therapy® reduces inflammation and improves circulation in affected joints.
How we work with your doctor
Nothing changes with your DMARD or biologic except through your rheumatologist. Physicians across Broward County send us the rheumatoid arthritis cases whose joint pain a controlled lab report doesn’t settle, and many patients simply send themselves.
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
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$45 initial consultation
Bring your rheumatologist’s current treatment plan and which joints bother you most. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.
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Personalized protocol
A plan built around your specific joints, flare pattern, and current medication. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.
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Reclaim your life
The jar lid. The full walk. Mornings that don’t take an hour to loosen up.
What a Kind Morning Feels Like
Hands that start when you do
A button fastened without a running start.
A jar, a key, a kettle, no strategy required.
Joints that agree with your lab work.
Untreated joint pain compounds, even with disease control
Persistent pain and guarding in one joint changes how you move, straining the joints around it, a stiff wrist changes your grip, a guarded knee changes your gait. Treating the local pain directly, alongside your systemic medication, may help prevent that spread.
Questions, Answered
Rheumatoid Arthritis FAQs
No, the therapies are non-pharmaceutical and work alongside your medication, never as a replacement for it. Any changes to your prescribed treatment remain your rheumatologist’s call.
Yes, systemic disease-activity markers and local joint pain don’t always move together. We focus on the local inflammation and nerve irritation causing your day-to-day symptoms.
Many patients use it both for flare support and for the baseline stiffness between flares; we’ll discuss what’s appropriate for your current disease activity at the consultation.
No, it’s complementary, PT builds strength and joint mechanics over time, while our therapies target inflammation and nerve signaling directly.
In general medical terms, rheumatoid arthritis is often described in stages: an early stage with inflammation of the joint lining, a second stage as inflammation affects cartilage, a third as it affects bone and causes more pain and swelling, and an advanced stage involving joint damage. Your rheumatologist is the right person to assess what stage applies to you.
The shoulder is one of the areas people ask us about. Our focus is on local joint discomfort and the surrounding muscle and nerve irritation, and patients who respond typically describe changes in comfort and ease of movement rather than changes to the arthritis itself. We work alongside your rheumatologist and any physical therapy you’re doing.
Testing is done by a physician, usually a rheumatologist, not by us. It typically combines a physical exam with blood tests, such as rheumatoid factor and anti-CCP antibodies and inflammation markers, and sometimes imaging. If you think you may have RA, a medical evaluation is the right first step.
Yes, and many patients arrive exactly that way. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
Book Your Consultation
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
Physicians
Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.
New Patient Offer
$45 Initial Consultation
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We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.
No referral required · We coordinate with your physician.