How often to come for treatment, and when visits are reduced

Overview

Neurotherapy (LMNT) follows one simple ladder for how often a patient comes. For the first few weeks, treatment is taken daily. Then, as the body improves, visits move to alternate days, then two days a week, then one day a week.

What moves a patient down a step is the body, not the calendar and not convenience. The therapist checks the pain points and steps down only when the findings show real improvement, writing the date and the reason on the card.

The ladder is the usual pattern, and a few named treatments keep their own rhythm. Some are given on alternate days by design. In rheumatoid arthritis, the older practice of alternate days has changed, and treatment may now be daily if needed; once the finger pain has gone completely, once or twice a week may be enough.

People who do not digest fats well may keep a treatment once or twice a week to help prevent gall stones. This is the clearest example of maintenance, meaning low-frequency treatment that stops a known weakness from returning. Maintenance is offered only where it is actually named, not out of habit.

Some breaks are pauses, not progress. A period pauses treatment for four days. A finding may end one session early. After an injury, some treatments wait until the area has dried and settled. And a patient who misses a couple of weeks does not resume on a lower step: she is examined again from the beginning.

Key points

• Daily first, then alternate days, then twice a week, then once a week.
• The body's improvement decides each step down, not the calendar.
• Some named treatments follow their own rhythm.
• Maintenance is offered only where it is named.
• A pause or absence is not a step down; after a gap, examination starts afresh.

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This topic is part of: Weeks, Not Sessions: How a Neurotherapy (LMNT) Course Is Planned