Acupuncture Treatments
Acupuncture for Pain NYC
People getting acupuncture for pain are often surprised at how painless it all is. The tiny, hair-thin pins create a histamine response on the body to help release its own anti-inflammatory hormones. If you suffer with arthritis, pain or sports trauma you’re bound to get physical relief with acupuncture. Dr. Bernstein began his career at the New York Center for Pain Management, where he was the director of acupuncture. He treated, and cured, people with neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, migraine, carpal tunnel pain, migraines. Indeed, over the last 27 years he has treated over thirty thousand patients for a myriad of issues.
Although his reputation is for using acupuncture to treat all sorts of pain and trauma, since 2010 Dr. Bernstein has in more recent years focused, when appropriate, on underlying emotional disorders that accompany physical symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, and “Fight or Flight” syndrome. He is also considered by many in his field to be the foremost expert on the treatment of underlying emotional issues that come with sleep disorders. Toward that end, he has written an Amazon bestseller: Rewired for Sleep: the 28 Day Insomnia Repair Program, He has helped thousands of people around the world who suffer with insomnia, pain and anxiety, to get a good night’s sleep night after night.
When it comes to using acupuncture for pain, his knowledge is second to none. If you are struggling with insomnia, pain, anxiety, or digestive issues and want to find out more, Please contact us here.
- Pain: Ankle, Hip, Knee, Lower Back, Neck
- Bell's Palsy
- Bursitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Contusions
- Facial Spasm
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen Shoulder
- Fertility Issues
- Golfer's Elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Digestive Issue
- Stress
- Osteoarthritis
- Periarthritis of the Shoulder
- Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
- Post-Operative Pain
- Radicular & Pseudoradicular Pain Syndrome
- PTSD
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sciatica
- Spine Pain, acute and chronic
- Sprain (muscle)
- Stiff Neck
- Strain (ligaments)
- Stroke
- TMJ Syndrome
- Tendonitis
- Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
Studies suggest that acupuncture for pain is more be effective, and safer than, surgery, steroids, NSAIDs, injections and anticonvulsant drugs to treat pain without side effects or risk. Over the last twenty years, Dr. Bernstein has written numerous articles on the treatment of pain including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Relieve Back Pain, Neck Pain and even the terribly fearsome migraine headaches that cripple many people. Acupuncture is known to engage the body’s naturally occurring chemicals known as endorphins, which reduce pain and promote a sense of well-being. For this and other reasons acupuncture is wonderful for sports pain and trauma relief. For that reason alone acupuncture for pain can help:
- Promote faster healing by improving blood flow to affected area
- Lessen bruising
- Reduce swelling and inflammation
- Decrease/eliminate pain altogether
- Increase the range of motion and flexibility of the affected joint
- Decrease muscle spasm