What Acupuncture Treats
Many people are curious about what Acupuncture treats. For one thing, it is more effective for pain than most medication. Sometimes it’s called dry needling. In either case, it has a well-earned reputation for releasing muscle trauma and diminishing inflammation from arthritis; it can relieve stroke symptoms and, over all, is very relaxing. This is due to the fact that as acupuncture releases muscle tightness, it also moves toxins out of the body through the venous bloodstream. The following is a partial list of what Acupuncture treats. Many insurance carriers cover acupuncture, To find out if yours does as well, Please contact us.
- Ankle Pain
- Bell's Palsy
- Bursitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Contusions
- Facial Spasm
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen Shoulder
- Fertility Issues
- Golfer's Elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Hip Pain
- Knee Pain
- Lower Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Periarthritis of the Shoulder
- Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
- Post-Operative Pain
- Radicular & Pseudoradicular Pain Syndrome
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- 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)
Daniel Bernstein has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1995. It was at the New York Center for Pain Management that he learned many methods to help people get relief for post-operative pain, sports related trauma, muscular pain and repetitive stress. Acupuncture can stimulate the body’s own anti-inflammatory hormones thus providing relief from sciatica, arthritis, or even crippling migraines.
Studies suggest that acupuncture is more be effective, and safer than, surgery, steroids, NSAIDs, injections and anticonvulsant drugs to treat pain without side effects or risk. Acupuncture can:
- 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