BECKLEY, WV (WOAY) – When Dr. Casey Korczyk started receiving acupuncture at age 16, she was hooked.
She said she always knew her passion was to open a clinic like On Point Health and Wellness, which is now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
“I couldn’t have done this in any other small town. The help and support I’ve received has been amazing,” says owner and acupuncturist Korczyk, “and my patients are so happy. It’s nice to be able to bring a slice of wellness to a community that hasn’t had it before.”
Her clinic was a dream scenario, according to the doctor, but now she is in disbelief.
“Ten years ago, I started alone in a room in a doctor’s office and have continued to expand since then,” Korczyk says, “and now I own a 10,000-square-foot building with a large collaboration with other therapists and people who are passionate about health and holistic health.”
When Ms. Korczyczk first asked her mother if she could have acupuncture years ago, she said her mother gave her a look that said, “What are you talking about?”
“And now it’s so interesting to talk to people and for people to come into the clinic and experience it for the first time, because it’s not that prevalent in West Virginia yet,” she said.
Korczyk specializes in sports acupuncture and general medicine, treating everything from allergies to childhood colic, insomnia, and PTSD in veterans. But her real passion is pain and orthopedic injuries. She works with six licensed medical massage therapists to holistically diagnose health conditions. And she’s just started offering neurofeedback.
“The combination of neurofeedback and acupuncture is something I’d really like to try. I also offer infrared saunas, salt rooms which are really effective for allergies and respiratory conditions, ionic food soaks, cupping and hyperbaric oxygen chamber sessions,” the doctor said. “I also have yoga, I do group training (personal training) – so I do a little bit of everything, and I haven’t finished exploring all the other things I could add to the clinic yet.”
What alternative medical fields are not here?
“This isn’t about putting somebody on a pill and trying to bring it to West Virginia. If someone comes in with a sprained ankle or something, they can’t sleep or they have digestive issues, we can address that,” Korczyk said. “So we treat the whole body, which is very rare in Western medicine.”
The doctor says she remembers being told in school that “you’ll never get male patients, because men don’t want to ask for help,” but many of her patients are veterans or active duty men.
“I think the biggest surprise is that this has even taken off in West Virginia,” Korczyk said of his business.
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