Sacramento Neoclassical Acupuncture

I have been going to Dorel for over ten years now. He has been a life saver for me. Ten years ago, when western medicine did not help me, Dorel offered me hope and comfort to solve bad back pain and digestive problems. After a few sessions, I felt reenergized. I have been going back to Dorel ever since. I am a professor of anatomy and physiology so I fully understand how my body works; I appreciate Dorel’s objective approach to addressing my body’s needs based on what his examination tells him. I have observed him expand and improves his practice of acupuncture and wholistic medicine over the years and he has never failed to help me. Dorel’s current location is a new, nice and welcoming place for anyone to heal.

I had a fabulous patient experience with Dorel's treatments several times for a painful frozen shoulder and for edemas in my legs. The results have been excellent. As a physician and a research professor at UC Davis School of Medicine, I am very cautious about the possibility of placebo effects in patients. Professionally, for me a good outcome is not solid unless it has been repeatedly shown to be good. In four different instances across the past 5 years, a single treatment for my frozen shoulder had consistently "unfrozen" my shoulder and reduced my pain from a 9 (on a Likert scale) down to a 1. We seldom achieved that therapeutic success at even at UCD with opiate pain blockers. Moreover, Dorel is a rare provider who genuinely care sdeeply about his patients and who takes much time to inquire, listen, explain, and follow up to the point that his service $ compensation is watered down to less than a pittance. I highly recommend Dorel as an amazingly effective healthcare provider, scholarly health educator, and a compassionate human being.

I’ve been treated by Dorel for the past 10 years, for different kind of symptoms. Every time I’ve had positive results. I like Dorel mostly because he’s not doing the traditional acupuncture. Where I feel like a pincushion. For example, he or she will ask, “Where does it hurt?” Then he or she just place a needle where it hurts. I think I can do that myself. Not the most effective method. I think Dorel also uses the Chinese five energy elements for healing. I’ve sent many of friends and family to him all with positive results. Thanks Dorel for all years of positive treatments. Steve.