Pain
Acupuncture can treat a wide variety of acute and chronic neuro-musculoskeletal pain disorders including:
- Ankle pain
- Bell’s palsy
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Contusions
- Facial spasm
- Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
- Frozen shoulder
- Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Gouty arthritis
- Hip pain
- Knee pain
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Periarthritis of the shoulder
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Post-operative pain
- Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
- Rotator cuff syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Shingles (post-herpetic neuralgia)
- Shoulder pain
- Spine pain, acute and chronic
- Sprain (muscle)
- Stiff neck
- Strain (ligaments)
- Stroke
- TMJ syndrome
- Tendinitis
- Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
- Tenosynovitis
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
Acupuncture is famous for its ability to treat pain conditions, with a lot of recent research confirming and explaining the mechanisms that create such amazing results. It has been shown to stimulate the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers. This effect is cumulative, meaning patients tend to feel greater and longer-lasting relief with each successive treatment. Acupuncture also causes the release of anti-inflammatory and anti-stress hormones. Modern MRI studies have even demonstrated that classical acupuncture point combinations traditionally used to treat pain trigger specific changes in the areas of the brain associated with pain messages.
Yet unlike many pain medications that focus solely on treating the pain itself, acupuncture is also able to affect the underlying causes of pain. Effective treatment is able to relax the spasming hypertonic muscles that are so often found with pain conditions while also rebalancing all the muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are affected by an injured area. The ability to rebalance the structure of an injured area is critical to permanent recovery from a pain condition that has become chronic. Additionally, acupuncture has also been shown to increase blood flow which can drastically decrease bruising, swelling, and overall healing times.
We regularly combine acupuncture with several other modalities to suit each particular case such as tuina (Chinese medical massage), cupping, moxibustion, TDP heat therapy, internal and external herbal formulas, gentle electro-stimulation, and stretching.
If you have any questions, we would be happy to do a free phone consultation to determine whether acupuncture is the right treatment for you.
Hear From Our Patients
I have been going to Family Acupuncture & Wellness for almost three years now. I’m a disabled Veteran living with severe chronic pain. On top of that I was in a bad car accident not long before I started seeing Family Acupuncture. I believe with every fiber in my body and my Heart that Family
I have had neck problems all my life. A couple years back I was experiencing a lot of pain and pinched nerves. I went to almost a year of chiropractic with no tangible results. I then went to my physician and he assigned me some muscle relaxers and 3 months of physical therapy with no results.
When I first started seeing Adam for acupuncture and chinese herbal medicine, I was very sick, in alot of pain, and depressed. The treatments Adam provided greatly enhanced my quality of life and gave me the jumpstart I needed to regain my health and vitality. As an aside, Adam has a wonderful bedside manner
Dear Adam:
When I suddenly developed a severe pain in my right knee, nothing I did to relieve it worked for me. I had recently started to exercise, and was depressed that this would prevent me from continuing my quest to get healthy again
