Holistic pain treatment

Many people arrive at acupuncture when they have reached their limit of taking daily painkillers, when other pain treatments haven’t worked for them, or when the time comes that they can no longer bear the accumulated impact on their life.

Often, long lived with pain conditions begin to cause stress, depression and anxiety; increasingly inhibiting your ability to do the things you love. After a while, it’s not just about the pain anymore, it is far further reaching. This is why holistic treatment is so important. Treating only one aspect of a persons pain picture ignores and neglects the rest. Acupuncture sees the whole picture. It is not just about relieving physical pain, but bringing balance to the entire being.

Pain can be the product of an acute impact or injury.

In these cases, targeted treatment to the local area may speed repair. Often, however, the experience of physical pain is found to have an associated emotional component. Emotional stress influences the way we hold ourselves, the way we stand and the way we breath. This, in turn, affects the tension in the muscles. You simply cannot have an emotional experience without a physiological response. With this in mind; acupuncture considers the root of the problem as well as the problem itself.

Have you become used to a level of discomfort and now consider it normal?

Many do, whether it be pain, impaired mobility, digestive abnormalities, disturbed moods or anything else. It doesn’t have to be normal, it doesn’t have to stay that way.