Q How soon after starting treatment will I notice a difference?
A We usually work in units of one to three months. Numbness from posture and muscles often changes within a few weeks, while long-standing peripheral nerve problems take longer. Before numbness disappears, the area narrows and the intensity thins out first.
Detailed Answer
Recovery usually arrives in this order: waking less at night, numbness lasting fewer hours, and the numb area growing smaller. Expecting it to vanish in a day makes improvement feel like failure. In an actual case, sleeping through the night without waking was the change that came first, around three months in.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Returning to your old posture after improving narrows the passage again. We consider the period of holding the new habits after you feel better to be part of the treatment. That is what stops it from returning with every change of season.
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