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Traditional Chinese Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an essential component in the treatment of all pain
conditions. Here
is a brief outline of pain conditions that I have personally had enormous
success treating.
Acute Pain:
- Sports’ Injuries
Ligament and Joint Capsule
Sprains
Muscle and Tendon Strains
Muscle Tears
Disc Injuries
Shoulder Soft Tissue
Injuries
Runner’s Knee
Heel Spurs
Tennis Elbow
Golfer’s Elbow
Low Back and Neck Injuries
Surfers and Snow Boarders
Bruise Injuries
Trigger Point Pain
- Repetitive Use Injuries/Worker’s Comp Injuries
Carpal Tunnel
Tendonitis and
Tenosyonovitis
Wrist Pain
Hand and Finger Pain and
Numbness
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Brachial Plexus Syndrome
Nerve Impingement Syndromes
Neck and Low Back Pain
- Car Accident
Whiplash
Neck Pain
Mid-back Pain
Lumbar Pain
Headache, Dizziness, Nausea
following accident due to muscle pain
Chronic
Pain
- Musculo-skeletal
Arthritis, Osteo and
Rheumatoid
Chronic stiffness in back
and joints
Chronic tennis elbow
Heel Pain
Chronic Low Back and Neck
Pain
Fibromyalgia
Headache, Tension and
Migraine
Tendonitis
- Neurological and Visceral
stomach pain
trigeminal neuralgia
digestive pain
menstrual pain
premenstrual pain
post surgical pain
herpes simplex and zoster
pain
urinary pain.
How
Acupuncture Works for Pain:
Acupuncture is physical medicine, like Physical Therapy, Chiropractic
and Massage.
Acupuncture has been demonstrated to have very specific anti-inflammatory
properties. The insertion of the fine, hairlike acupuncture needle into the
body draws out inflammation from the local tissues around the needle by
“de-polarizing” the inflamed tissue. That is, the needle has the opposite
electrical charge as the inflamed tissue.
At the same time acupuncture stimulate
the body’s secretion of cortisol from the adrenal glands into the
blood stream. Cortisol is the body’s most powerful antiinflammatory, its own
natural Cortisone. This reduces inflammation throughout the body. Acupuncture also causes the secretion of Endorphins,
the body’s own opiate-like neurotransmitters. These help break the pain cycle,
allowing muscles which have tightened up in response to pain to now relax.
A major component of many pain conditions are
tight “hypertonic” muscles. This is the body’s natural, though
counterproductive response to pain and inflammation. Placing needles in
hypertonic muscles causes them to relax,
allowing for increased blood circulation and pain relief.
Another component in pain conditions are the
“trigger points,” specialized
neuromuscular cells
that, when activated due to stress or
mechanical factors like repetitive use or lifting a weight with a sudden jerky
movement, refer pain through the body. Trigger points are the cause of about
half of headache and body pains. Trigger
points are effectively “deactivated”
by the insertion of acupuncture needles.
Acupuncture treats far more than pain, however. In Chinese medicine, the energetic blueprint for disease is stagnation of Qi (a kind of
bioelectricalmagnetic energy) that under ideal conditions flows unhindered
through the 16 major channels or meridians in the body.
The beginning
point for the creation of a diseased state is when the flow of Qi through its
specific pathways (the channels)
is obstructed. In the case of
a uterine fibroid, for example,
before there was a fibroid there was an obstruction of the qi-energy
that should normally flow freely through the three channels that flow through
the uterus. Due to unmitigated stress, chronic menstrual blood stagnation,
attack of cold into the uterus, creation of excess heat in the uterus due to
emotional factors, or due to a congenital abnormality, the free-flow of qi
through the uterus was obstructed. This led to an obstruction of the blood (a
denser form of qi) and then of fluids
and other tissue until finally a fibroid was formed.
The treatment of disease with Acupuncture then, is based upon
opening the flow of qi through the
channels. This is
like allowing more water to flow into an irrigation channel in order to remove
a blockage created by mud, grass and debris. This
is what the placement of acupuncture
needles into the proper locations on the channels does. It
stimulates and unblocks the flow of qi, so that over time the pathological,
disease and pain causing stagnation of substance, whether blood, fluid, heat or cold, will follow.
This is the basic mechanism by which we use
acupuncture to treat so many diseases. If the qi obstruction is allowed to
fester over the long term, then the whole body becomes fundamentally
imbalanced. The hands and feet, which should be warm, become cold, the head
which should be cool becomes hot, the digestive tract becomes inflamed, the
mind can’t stop working at night, etc, etc. Where things should be relatively
dry, they become damp (yeast infections, respiratory infections, digestive
disorders), where they should be moist, they become dry (insomnia, psoriasis,
tendonitis, menopause).
Here is a
brief list of some of the non-pain conditions I have personally had success
treating with acupuncture:
Gastrointestinal: Abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome,
nausea, indigestion, ulcers, esophageal reflux, and weight reduction,
constipation, diarrhea
Internal: diabetes, high blood pressure, high
cholesteral, liver/gall bladder dysfunction, hepatitis, hemorrhoids,
Respiratory: Asthma, sinusitis, bronchitis, allergies,
common cold and flu, smoking cessation.
Gynecological: Premenstrual syndrome, menopausal syndrome,
menstraul pain and dysfunction, fibroids, cysts, endometriosis, menstrual
migraine.
Genito-urinary
and Reproductive:
impotence, low libido, excess libido, prostatis, bladder infections, yeast
infections.
Dermatological: Acne, psoriasis, eczema, herpes, shingles,
dry skin
Immune
System: Lupus,
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, herpes, hiv related syndromes,
Stress
Management:
Hypertension, insomnia, inability to relax, memory loss, headaches.tension and migraine, addictions
Psychological: Anxiety, panic attack, depression, mania,
eating disorders; anorexia, bulimia, overeating, addictions and substance
cessation.
We work closely with local OB/GYN and Internal Medicine doctors to provide you
with the safest and most effective Complementary and Alternative Medicine. If
you have any questions about Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, or any specific
health condition, please call Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. at 619.296.7591, or
email eyton@bodymindwellnesscenter.com. We offer a free 15 minute conultation by in
person, by phone, or email. For more info on how Chinese medicine works, please
check out the Traditional Chinese Medicine page on this website.
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