Name: Dr Vitalis Acupuncture Auckland
Price range: $$

“I practised acupuncture for 7 years when I was a general practitioner” Dr. Laurie Jo Moore

I have consulted Vitalis for back and neck pain and believe that he is most skilful and effective clinician I have ever seen for musculoskeletal pain.

I have had a special interest in pain and I studied acupuncture myself in the US under a French Canadian anesthesiologist. I practised acupuncture for 7 years when I was a general practitioner and I also saw many chiropractors and osteopathic doctors over the course of years. Vitalis is, without question, able to accomplish a more effective response than anyone I have ever seen.

Dr. Laurie Jo Moore

“I haven’t been able to find anyone of Vitalis’ standard” Jeremy Stanford, Melbourne, Australia

I was in Auckland for Christmas last year, on holiday from Australia, and I put my back out so badly I could hardly get off the bed. It was the worst back pain I’d ever experienced. I picked Dr Vitalis out of the phone book, and thankfully, he was open between Christmas and New Year. He promises that you will feel an improvement after the first treatment, and he lived up to that promise in spades. I was astounded how quickly he was able to relieve the back pain and put me on the path to recovery. With a combination of acupuncture and manipulation, after just two sessions I was feeling 70% back to normal. If I didn’t have to return to Australia, I’m sure he’d have got me back to 100% with another session.

I get regular osteopathic treatment in Melbourne but haven’t been able to find anyone of Dr Vitalis’ standard over here. This year I returned to Auckland and prebooked to see him just to keep my back in order and for him to treat an Achilles problem I have. With acupuncture, he again worked wonders this time on my foot. I’d highly recommend Dr Vitalis to anyone.

Jeremy Stanford, Melbourne, Australia

“Western medicine informed me that there was nothing I could do but wait”

I was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, paralysis on the right side of my face. My eye was stuck open, my mouth drooped causing me to dribble, and I had no movement in the right side of my face from top to bottom. I awoke one Sunday with my face like this.

Western medicine (courtesy of 1 Emergency Doctor, 1 GP, 1 Neurologist and 5 days of research through medical websites) informed me that there was nothing I could do but wait, and it could take anywhere between 3 months and 3 years to come right with a possibility that I could be like this for the rest of my life.

You were the 3rd Chinese medicine acupuncturist, I called, and the only one that provided hope for me in the first phone call “yes I have treated it, yes I can help” was your response.

You promised very little in the first session except that you could help.

The second session I asked why you were so confident that you could help when western medicine had said there was nothing that could be done. You smiled and told me I’d be better in 10-15 sessions.

I think it was about 13 or 14 sessions later and you said “now you know why I was so confident”. You were right! My face was back to normal in less than 6 weeks!