- **Persistent symptoms:** Pain, tension, sleep issues, or fatigue may motivate a complementary evaluation without abandoning conventional diagnoses and treatments, before making decisions.

Some individuals seek gradual support for activity, appetite, rest, and well-being during medically supervised recovery, before making decisions.

Patients wish to receive acupuncture in a regulated setting and understand indications, contraindications, and reasonable frequency, before making decisions.

The complete list is essential because herbs, supplements, and techniques can interact with anticoagulants or other treatments, before making decisions.

An integrative program can connect medicine, rehabilitation, exercise, and self-care around shared goals, before making decisions.

Traveling to China interests individuals who wish to experience traditional practices within institutions and with accredited professionals.

- **Persistent musculoskeletal pain:** Individuals wishing to explore acupuncture, movement, and rehabilitation as a complement to an existing diagnosis and medical plan, for individual physician evaluation.

Patients authorized by their surgeon who seek functional and symptomatic support without interfering with healing or medications, for individual physician evaluation.

Individuals with prior medical evaluation wanting a complementary program focused on habits, activity, and symptoms, for individual physician evaluation.

Patients seeking integrative techniques for relaxation and self-care, without replacing mental health care when necessary.

Some patients may explore acupuncture as a complement to functional therapy, subject to safety and realistic goals, for individual physician evaluation.

Individuals willing to share all their medications and accept that some formulas may not be safe or appropriate.

- **TCM evaluation:** May review symptoms and goals within a complementary framework, without replacing established medical diagnoses, according to individual physician evaluation.

May be considered for selected goals when no contraindications exist and the practitioner uses safe practices, according to individual physician evaluation.

May be combined with rehabilitation for mobility or tension, avoiding areas with recent surgery, fracture, or vascular risk, according to individual physician evaluation.

May be evaluated only with a complete medication list, quality control, and identification of potential interactions, according to individual physician evaluation.

Tai chi, qigong, or other practices may be adapted to balance, breathing, mobility, and individual tolerance, according to individual physician evaluation.

May coordinate habits, sleep, nutrition, rehabilitation, and symptomatic support around realistic, measurable goals, according to individual physician evaluation.

- **Case reception:** We collect diagnosis, goals, history, travel restrictions, and questions via form, email, WhatsApp, or document upload, with scope agreed in advance.

We review legibility, dates, coherence, and missing items to avoid presenting an incomplete record to an institution, with scope agreed in advance.

We translate the priority documents that the specialist or hospital needs to understand the case, with scope agreed in advance.

We prepare a concise timeline with findings, interventions, response, current medications, and still-pending decisions, with scope agreed in advance.

We research potentially relevant departments, institutions, and specialists without claiming formal collaboration or guaranteed access, with scope agreed in advance.

We deliver possible pathways, requirements, questions, limits, steps, and logistical considerations adapted to the information received, with scope agreed in advance.

We can organize a paid consultation with a Chinese TCM or rehabilitation professional, subject to acceptance, availability, documentation, and scheduling.

If the case advances, we coordinate appointments, interpretation, admission, mobility, documentation, and post-care support according to the contracted service, with scope agreed in advance.