Built over two decades of clinical collaboration.
AcuGroup co‑founders Franco and Jonah have each been helping people get out of pain for over 25 years. When they met in 2005, they quickly recognized how much they had in common: their strong backgrounds in massage, dry needling and trigger point acupuncture, their integrative approach to pain care, and their practical focus on what works. They’ve been working together ever since.
Jonah Hershowitz & Franco Garritano,
AcuGroup Co-Founders
The AcuGroup Method grew from Franco and Jonah’s collaboration, resulting in a patient experience we’re proud of, and a standard of care that only gets better over time.
Every visit is focused entirely on you. Assessment and treatment are precise, showcasing our experience and skills as detectives and technicians. We set goals with you, evaluate progress at defined milestones, and guide you on what to do between visits.
Ten principles guide our method—how we assess and treat every patient, and how we train every AcuGroup provider.
Our courses of care are built on clinical evidence and decades of experience treating pain. We use standardized scales at appropriate intervals to measure how you’re progressing. Treatment adapts as you improve or things change, at the pace tissues and systems need.
Pain and function depend on more than muscles and joints. They depend on the nerves that sense, direct movement, and carry signals, and on the brain that interprets them. We treat with precise needling and teach you what’s driving your pain and what to do to improve function and dial down pain.
These principles aren’t a philosophy statement—they’re how we run the practice. Every provider who joins AcuGroup trains in the method directly. It’s how we make sure the care you get is the care we’ve refined over 25 years, consistently, across our team.
