# Yang Acupuncture Clinic, Gaithersburg: an acupuncture clinic in Gaithersburg (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/md/gaithersburg/yang-acupuncture-clinic-gaithersburg-md. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-07. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/md/gaithersburg/yang-acupuncture-clinic-gaithersburg-md ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuxdf2540hplyeqdf9gyk3jq%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuxdf2540hplyeqdf9gyk3jq%2F1.jpg) ## In short Yang Acupuncture Clinic is an acupuncture clinic in Gaithersburg, MD. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Acupuncture clinic | | Address | 981 Russell Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA | | Hours | Mon 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Tue · Wed 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Thu · Fri to Sat 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (301) 275-9958 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.6 across 9 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 6, 2026, 8:30 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 981 Russell Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Description | The best acupuncturist with over 30 years experience is in Gaithersburg and Frederick, MD, please call 301-275-9958. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Tue Closed · Wed 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Thu Closed · Fri to Sat 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Yang Acupuncture Clinic | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (301) 275-9958 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/yang.chenxi.acupuncture | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.chenxiyangacupuncture.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for None of the 5 reviews we've read names a service yet. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Yang Acupuncture Address: 981 Russell Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA. Phone: (301) 275-9958. Hours: Mon 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Tue · Wed 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Thu · Fri to Sat 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Yang Acupuncture on its Google Business Profile: "The best acupuncturist with over 30 years experience is in Gaithersburg and Frederick, MD, please call 301-275-9958." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## Reputation 4.6 average across 9 reviews: Google 9. (Confirmed, read October 6, 2026.) This clinic is noted for its effective acupuncture treatments but has faced criticism for billing and insurance handling. (AI guess, from 9 reviews.) ### What people like - Holistic health approach including diet and sleep recommendations - Effective acupuncture for pain relief - Clean and sanitized clinic environment ### What people do not like - Confusing billing practices and insurance discrepancies - Inconsistent appointment durations ### Press No press story about Yang Acupuncture found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Yang Acupuncture Yang Acupuncture hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### numbing here, do you have to ask for it? No answer yet ### what do I actually do when I get to Yang Acupuncture? No answer yet ### prices round here, anyone got a number No answer yet ### Turning up at Yang Acupuncture in Gaithersburg for the first time, what happens? No answer yet ### recovery after Yang Acupuncture, what do people actually say? No answer yet ### financing here, is there any? No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### planning a Tuesday visit, is that a wasted trip No answer yet ### quietest day to hit this place? No answer yet ### is there someone in particular to ask for here? No answer yet ### anyone had trouble parking round here? No answer yet ### Why do people rate Yang Acupuncture? No answer yet ### Do they post anywhere? No answer yet ### best acupuncture clinic in Gaithersburg, MD No answer yet ### Yang Acupuncture or Montgomery Wellness? No answer yet ### cheaper than Yang Acupuncture in Gaithersburg without it being sketchy? No answer yet ### anything people actually moan about here? No answer yet ### never been, is it walk in or appointment only No answer yet ### anywhere on Russell to sit while I wait No answer yet ### how far out is Yang Acupuncture booking right now? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Yang Acupuncture We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Yang Acupuncture. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 6, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 25 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Acupuncture clinics on the registry run 20 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Yang Acupuncture scores 25. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Yang Acupuncture | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 43 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 73 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about an acupuncture clinic When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place." ## How to choose an acupuncture clinic in Maryland, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice. - Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the Maryland medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free. - Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license. - Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area. - Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Yang Acupuncture if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Yang Acupuncture | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Yang Acupuncture Clinic | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.chenxiyangacupuncture.com/ | Subject of this page | | Gaithersburg, Maryland | City | #city | Nothing found | City Yang Acupuncture is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the acupuncture clinics in Gaithersburg, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best acupuncture clinics in Gaithersburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/gaithersburg/acupuncture-clinic - Best businesses in Gaithersburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/gaithersburg ### Nearby - /rockville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/rockville - /bethesda: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/bethesda - /north-bethesda: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/north-bethesda - /annapolis: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/annapolis - /potomac: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md/potomac ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Maryland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/md ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Yang Acupuncture Clinic. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJiZVo4_wttokR0MThuiQJApE (accessed Oct 6, 2026)