BECKLEY, WV (WOAY) – Dr. Kacy Korcyzk started getting acupuncture at age 16 and fell in love.
She says she always knew her passion would be to open a clinic like her ‘On Point Health and Wellness’ and now she’s celebrating its 10th anniversary.
“This could not be done unless it was in a small town like this. The backing that I have, the support that I have — it’s pretty incredible,” said owner/acupuncturist Korcyzk. “And the patients, they truly love it. And it’s nice that I get to kind of give this piece of health to this community that hadn’t had it before.”
According to the doctor, her clinic was a wildest-dream scenario, and now she has a pinch-me moment.
“I started on my own ten years ago, just in a room at a doctor’s office, and then kept expanding,” Korcyzk said. “Now we have a 10,000 square foot building with a huge collaboration of other therapists and people that are really passionate about wellness and holistic health.”
All those years ago when Korcyzk first asked her mom if she could get acupuncture, she says she looked at her like ‘what are you talking about.’
“And now, you know, it’s so funny to talk to people and get to have people come into the clinic and experience it for the first time because it’s really not widespread in West Virginia,” she said.
Korcyzk specializes in sports acupuncture, as well as general medicine and sees everything from allergies to pediatric colic, insomnia and PTSD in veterans. But her real passion is pain and orthopedic injuries. She collaborates with her six licensed medical massage therapists to give a whole health picture. And she just started offering neurofeedback.
“A combination of neurofeedback and acupuncture is something that I really want to try and explore. We also offer infrared sauna, the salt room, which is really good for allergies and respiratory illnesses, ionic food soak, cupping and hyperbaric oxygen chamber sessions,” the doc said. “We also have yoga and we do some group training (personal training) as well. So yeah, a little bit of everything. And I’m not done exploring all the other things I can add to the clinic.”
What alternative health fields do we not have here?
“That isn’t pushing a pill on someone and (let’s) try to get that into West Virginia. Even if someone comes to me with, like an ankle sprain, if they’re not sleeping or have digestive issues we can also tackle that,” said Korcyzk. “So it’s treating the whole body — which is really unusual in Western medicine.”
The doc says she remembers in school they said, ‘You’re never gonna get male patients, men don’t like to seek help.’ Yet so many of her patients are veterans and active men.
“Surprising that this even took off in the first place in West Virginia is the biggest thing, I think,” said Korcyzk, of her business.
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https://on-pointacu.com/
