Joint Pain & Acupuncture
Joint pain is a very common ailment among Americans. Most the most common areas of joint pain are: shoulder joint pain, knee pain, wrist joint pain, big toe and thumb joint pain, joint pain in the finger joints, and hip joint pain. When looking for relief, Western Medicine offers limited treatment options for the management of joint pain: rest, medications or surgical options. All of these Western options have serious drawbacks that my be unacceptable for many people.
In many cases joint pain is actually “referred pain”, which means that it is pain that is coming from the muscles that articulate the joint; meaning there may not actually be a problem with the joint itself. For these cases the brain cannot tell the difference between an injury to the joint itself and the muscles that support the joint. For the cases of joint pain related to the muscles that act upon a joint Dry Needling can be a helpful therapy.
Some of the many pain conditions that dry needling can effectively treat include:
- Back pain
- Joint pain: Knee, Shoulder, Elbow, and Wrist
- Facial pain including Trigeminal Neuralgia and Bell’s Palsy
- Pain due to tendon or ligament tears
- Headaches
- Neck pain
In summary, dry needling is very effective for the treatment of joint pain and much safer than other methods of treatment. Results are generally seen in 1-3 treatments. Often, rehabilitation exercises are given at the same time to strengthen the effected area.
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