KWAN TIK WAN

"My Healing Journey" --- I'm so happy to have met a passionate Master Acupuncturist! A true professional. I've dealt with Chronic Pain most of my life having to take loads of different opiods to manage a little of my pain levels and have been mostly bedridden the last 15 years or so. This has only been my 11th session and I've been able to work 1 day last week, do 3 loads of laundry and cook supper 4 times. Finally! I see hope at the end of the tunnel. I'm now on 1/2 my pain medications & muscle relaxers. I haven't had a migraine in over a month. I feel happier, I think clearer and sleep better. I will be sure to update everyone soon.---------Part 2 - it's now my 14th session with my friend Al, I've gone 1 week without any pain killers and 1/3 of my muscle relaxers. My energy is amazing, I'm up running around 8 hours at least. I was bedridden for about 15 years, my wonderful husband has been also my nurse and homemaker. I'm slowly coming back alive again. My husband and I have been self employed and I was the Sales Trainer/Motivator, talking - eating caused me to get migraine attacks. I have a diseased TMJ - shattered joints. Also I have a torn ligament between my C 1-2 vertebrae plus my bottom vertebrae in my spine has been narrowed which is pinching nerves down my legs. I need to thank Al as he brought up about my special Nurse who referred me to him, shes just a beautiful soul knowing I needed much more help then to just keep going to the emergency for Pain Injections. I prayed for more help somehow and she was my hopeful messenger who answered my prayers. My husband made appointments the following day.
I'm back out Preaching the Good News of Jehovah God the Almighty, plus I'm able to attend my Kingdom Hall again! It's so nice to start seeing my brothers and sisters! Hallelujah!!! Today, I'm washing sliding doors, I'm oven cleaning, I feel fantastic! Thank-You Very Much Lucille! Al you are a Perfect 10 out 10, your a Pain Eraser!
I'll be back to update soon.

Long overdue review! I had some annoying foot pain for over a month. I emailed Al on December 31st and surprisingly received his response next day early in the morning! I can't believe how much he cares about his patients! He even offered to take me in on Jan 1, which was supposed to be a holiday! Long story short, he listened to my story, my concerns, and after that one visit, my pain is 80% gone without any medication at all! Like Al said, your body can heal yourself!

To say Al Kwan helped me out of a mystery, a lot of debilitating pain and stress would be an understatement.Cure would be the term I prefer to use, what a difference knowing there is someone who can and does make a difference, get yourself on the road to an empowering experience and if you have "pain like hell go see Al"! Al also treated my Dachshund successfully.

My story starts with pain that started in my front right chest/peck area over 2 years ago for no apparent reason. There was no fall or accident that I was aware of that would have triggered the pain. The pain started out as a nuisance and then gradually grew much worse over time. The pain in my chest/peck area worsened to the point where it hurt to sneeze or cough, and spread into my right shoulder blade, under my armpit, and I also had numbness, pain, and tingling in my right hand. My pain level on a scale of 1-10 would have been most days a 7 to 8.

After dealing with this pain for almost 2 years I finally went to the doctor and they did blood work and an ultra sound on my shoulder to test for damage or arthritis. An x-ray showed minor arthritis in my neck but nothing that would be causing the pain I was experiencing. The good news was that the results of the tests showed no issue with my shoulder and my blood work was perfect. The bad news was that I still had no answers as to why I was in so much pain. My doctor suggested trying a massage therapist. So I ended up going to see a chiropractor and a massage therapist. The massage did little to help my pain. The chiropractor over a period of 7 months, brought improvement but it seemed to only help to a point and then there was no further improvement.

I was very discouraged and didn't really know what I should do when a friend mentioned about how acupuncture had helped her elderly mother. So when i went to my next chiropractor appointment I told the doctor that I was considering trying acupuncture and asked her if she knew anyone that I could go to. She suggested that I go see Al Kwan as she had sent a few other patients there and they had shown improvement.

So I booked an appointment with Al Kwan. I had never had any kind of acupuncture done before and to be honest was very skeptical about it. But I was in pain and out of ideas, so I went because I figured I had tried everything else. At my first appointment Al listened to my story and then told me that we would figure this out together and get me healthy again. I told him my pain level on a scale of 1-10 was about a 6 or 7.

To make a long story a little shorter, I began to have less pain after the 2nd appointment with Al. It was after about 5 appointments that I came across a blog on the internet written by a doctor who is a physiotherapist. I came across an entry where the doctor was talking about the pectoralis minor muscle which is the smaller mucscle located behind the large pec muscle. This blog discussed the pain and syptoms involved with a strained pectoralis minor and I remember thinking to myself how all the symptoms and pain seemed to fit my pain and symptoms. So I printed the stuff off and brought it in for Al to see. He read through it all and together we decided to focus our next acupuncture treatments on the pectoralis minor muscle.

It was after the next 3 appointments with our new area of focus that I really began to notice a difference in my pain. There was no more numbness or tingling in my hand and fingers for the first time in 2 years, and my pain level in my shoulder and chest on a scale of 1-10 was now a 1. To say the least I was so very happy to finally see light at the end of the tunnel.

I continue to see Al, but only twice a month now. I think over time I will only need to come to see him once in awhile as I continue to make a full recovery. I can't say enough about Al. I highly recommend him. If I had not made that first appointment to see him Iam sure that I would be still be in constant pain.

Al, you turned a skeptic into a believer of acupuncture! Thank you!

He is absolutely amazing, I have for 17 years migraines, vertigo, digestive problems, and many more problems. Modern Medicine for me was not able to figure out or cure the issues only mask them causing more problems with the side effects of the drugs. I have gone to Albert for 13 weeks now for a 1 hr visit and I can say I have not had one migraine since, were I used to get 1-2 a week, my vertigo is under control and my digestion is almost perfect! I have lived with feeling like garbage for 17 years, it only took 13 visits and I feel great, I didn't know it was possible to feel this good. I can't wait to see how I improve over time, and find out all the amazing things I have been missing out on. Acupuncture is not invasive and not drugs and you feel great after, I keep asking myself why I didn't do this before. Thanks Albert for healing me and continuing to heal me.