Each path is different. Both are available together when the time is right.
JAPANESE LICENSED ACUPUNCTURIST · AMSTERDAM
When conventional treatment reaches its limit — ultrasound-guided needling for musculoskeletal pain and movement-related symptoms when results are "normal" but symptoms remain.
Japanese Licensed Acupuncturist — Orthopaedic & Musculoskeletal Focus
Soichiro Funo is a Japanese licensed acupuncturist with clinical experience in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal settings — an unusual path that gives him the rare ability to think in both Western orthopedic and traditional acupuncture frameworks simultaneously.
Patients often come to Soichiro when pain persists despite physiotherapy, exercise, rest, or standard medical explanations. He works in close collaboration with physiotherapist Hide Kuwabara, offering a complementary clinical pathway. His approach combines Japanese acupuncture, musculoskeletal anatomy, ultrasound-guided precision, and functional movement assessment.
Ultrasound is used to visualize relevant anatomical structures in real time, allowing more precise and safer needle placement — not as a diagnostic substitute. For patients told their results are "normal" while symptoms remain, Soichiro offers a clinical framework and a precise plan.
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Real-time imaging for safer, more precise needle placement in complex anatomical regions — used to visualize structures, not as a diagnostic substitute.
Persistent pain, complex movement-related symptoms, and post-injury patterns that haven't resolved with physiotherapy or rest.
Structural injuries — read clinically, treated where Western tools have stopped.
Extending acupuncture to inflammatory, allergic, and immune conditions that resist conventional care.
| First appointment (60–90 min) | € 120 |
| Short follow-up (30 min) | € 65 |
| Follow-up (60 min) | € 120 |
| Extended session (90 min) | € 150 |
Working without insurance contracts — an invoice is provided for direct submission to your insurer. Ultrasound assessment included where clinically indicated.
Japanese acupuncture uses very fine needles and a gentle technique. Most patients find it essentially painless. Ultrasound guidance allows for precise, safer placement in complex areas.
Soichiro is a Japanese licensed acupuncturist with hospital-based clinical experience. Japanese technique uses significantly finer needles, with attention to both musculoskeletal and systemic patterns — a different framework than physiotherapy-based dry needling.
Soichiro is an independent practitioner without insurance contracts. You receive an invoice that you can submit directly to your insurer. Coverage depends on your supplementary policy — please check in advance.
Yes — this is one of Soichiro's focus areas. Many patients come to him after standard diagnostics found nothing definitive while symptoms persisted. He offers a clinical framework and a precise plan from the first session.
The first session is for clinical assessment — including ultrasound where appropriate. Treatment begins the same day.
The first session is for listening — your history, your pattern, your goal. Treatment begins the same day.
Please choose the treatment you would like to book.
Assessment, treatment and rehabilitation
Pain relief, balance and recovery
Advanced muscle recovery & performance