Rehabilitation

Acupuncture has been long recognized as an effective treatment for pain. Studies have found that acupuncture is an effective alternative to drugs in the treatment of chronic pain, including chronic back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, chronic headache, and shoulder pain. The use of acupuncture for pain relief is more and more prevalent as doctors and patients seek drug-free treatment strategies as the dangers of opioids and opioid addictions become widely known.

The CDC has called deaths from opioids (e.g., drugs like codeine, morphine, OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin) an epidemic, and recommends that doctors turn to alternative treatments such as acupuncture for pain relief.

Many cancer patients use acupuncture as an adjunct treatment to deal with the discomfort of the standard cancer treatments (e.g. s, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery). It can also help reduce patient’s nausea and vomiting episodes during their cancer treatments.

Other conditions that acupuncture has been effective in treating are dysmenorrhea (especially painful menstrual cramps), low back pain, knee pain, headache and migraines, and chronic idiopathic pain.

Trauma or repetitive stress syndromes involve the musculoskeletal system and its soft tissues. This is the case in sports or work-related injuries, or auto accidents and surgical interventions. These traumas result from falls, blows, sprains/strains, collisions, compressions crushing and disruptions of the healing processes due to inflammation.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) sees trauma as disrupting energetic homeostasis and causing imbalances. This disruption causes a blockage of energy (qi) and blood flow, resulting in pain and movement limitation. TCM therapies remove these blockages. From a western perspective, TCM therapies decrease pain, decrease inflammation, promote healing and regulate the immune and endocrine systems.

Our evidence-based approach to rehabilitation is effective in the treatment of both acute and chronic pain, as well as complex rehabilitation from severe acute or degenerative diseases and substance dependence with the addition of neuro-acupuncture.