Pain that won't pick a place or a time
The ache that’s always somewhere. The stiffness that outlasts the stretch. The flare that shows up right before the trip you planned. Chronic pain rarely stays in one place, or on one schedule.
Chronic Pain · Fort Lauderdale
The pain became background noise. You stopped mentioning it. That doesn’t mean it stopped.
Aching backs, stiff joints, throbbing heads, tendons that never quite heal. You have done the rounds: pills, rest, physical therapy, the chiropractor, one specialist after another, another scan, another prescription or injection, the side effects, and relief that never quite holds. There is a different way to treat chronic pain. We do not set out to mask the signal. The work is aimed at the tissue and nerves themselves, at helping the body do its own repair rather than covering the pain over, and at the several things driving a case, not the one spot that hurts.
1 in 5 U.S. adults live with chronic pain
Since 1994 practicing in Fort Lauderdale
Physician referrals welcomed Coordinated care alongside your medical team
The Real Problem
Chronic pain steals more than comfort
Three layers of the same problem, what the body feels, what it does to you, and why it’s wrong to leave it there.
Life quietly rearranged around the next flare
The quiet recalculating of every plan around how you’ll feel. The friends you see less. The tasks you now ask someone else to do. The creeping sense that this is just what your life is now.
A refill and rest aren’t a plan.
You shouldn’t have to choose between being in pain and being yourself. “Managing symptoms” is not the same as being treated. You deserve more than a prescription refill and a suggestion to rest.
The villain isn’t your doctor. It’s the playbook.
Nobody upstream is paid to ask whether the tissue and nerves themselves can be helped. That is the gap this clinic exists to close.
The standard system has one move for chronic pain: mask the signal. NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, cortisone shots, and eventually a referral to “just live with it” or wait for surgery.
Conditions We Treat
Your pain has a story. We treat it accordingly.
No two of these are the same. Each treated as its own case, not a general prescription.
Neck, Back, Shoulder & Knee Pain
Different joints. The same fix: treat the tissue, not just the ache.
Read more →Headaches & Migraines
Stop planning your life around the next one.
Read more →Fibromyalgia
The diagnosis that took years deserves a plan that doesn’t.
Read more →Osteoarthritis
Between medication and surgery, there’s a gap. We work in it.
Read more →Elbow Pain
A small tendon. A big problem. A real fix.
Read more →Heel Pain & Plantar Fasciitis
Stop bracing for the first step out of bed.
Read more → How It Works
Every therapy aimed at one target: the tissue causing the pain.
Acupuncture
Targets the nervous system’s amplified pain signaling itself, the reason pain persists long after tissue should have calmed down. Turning that amplification down is what gives the tissue-level therapies room to work.
ATP Resonance BioTherapy®
Microcurrent at millionths of an ampere, FDA-cleared for the symptomatic relief of pain. We use it to support cellular ATP production, the energy tissue needs to repair, while calming inflammation in strained muscles, joints, and tendons. Most patients feel nothing during the session itself; any easing of pain tends to build gradually, over weeks.
O3 ReBoot Therapy®
Ozone-based regenerative therapy that boosts oxygen delivery and microcirculation to tissue starved by inflammation and old injury. Chronic pain is, in large part, a supply and repair problem; O3 ReBoot works on both.
Your Guide
We’ve heard this story. Thousands of times.
Patients arrive here carrying the same two things: a bag of medications and the sentence “you’ll just have to manage it.” Susan Mitchell has spent more than three decades proving that sentence wrong, 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.
The pain that outlasted the playbook
The stubborn, “nothing has worked” pain is most of what walks through this door. Years of those cases have taught her where standard care tends to stop, and what to try when it does.
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
Progress is checked against the baseline taken at your evaluation; when the numbers move, the plan moves with them.
Your goal
The finish line might be a pain level, or a specific activity you want back. We define it with you, not for you.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your condition, then we discuss the investment in person.
What’s at Stake
Untreated chronic pain does not stand still
Pain that goes untreated tends to spread. Compensating joints take on strain they weren’t built for. Guarded muscles weaken, and avoided activity becomes lost capacity. Sleep erodes, mood erodes with it, and the version of your life organized around pain becomes the only version you remember. The window to address it directly is now, not after it’s spread further.
What Success Looks Like
Imagine what so many of our patients describe…
A full night’s sleep
No 3 a.m. repositioning. No reaching for the heating pad before you’re even fully awake.
Down the stairs like it’s nothing
No gripping the railing. No mental math about which knee goes first.
On the floor with the grandkids
Sitting down, and the actual hard part, getting back up, without a second thought.
A full day on your feet
Standing at the sink, the counter, the register, without shifting your weight every few minutes.
Patient Outcomes
In their words
Individual results vary. These reflect specific patients’ experiences and are not typical or guaranteed outcomes.
Questions, Answered
Frequently asked questions
The clinic treats chronic neck, back, shoulder, and knee pain, along with elbow pain, heel pain and plantar fasciitis, headaches and migraines, fibromyalgia, and osteoarthritis, each with its own tailored protocol. If you don’t see your condition listed, call us; many chronic pain conditions share the same underlying mechanisms.
It depends on the tissue and nerve involvement, which is why we evaluate first. Tissue can and does heal, and nerve signaling can and does calm down, when circulation, cellular energy, and inflammation are addressed directly, that is precisely what the protocol targets. Where damage is too advanced, we say so at the consultation.
General-purpose acupuncture is not a chronic pain 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. We work alongside your prescribing physician. Many patients reduce medication over time in consultation with their doctor as symptoms improve, but that is your physician’s call, never ours alone.
Patients who respond typically log their first measurable changes during the initial intensive phase. Durable improvement is built across the rehabilitation phase, tissue repair can happen, but it is not fast.
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.
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
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Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.
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