Acupuncture to Relieve Back Pain
A variety of biomechanical stresses, including standing, poor posture, sitting for long periods, and heavy lifting without proper alignment can cause back problems. Back issues can also be caused by injuries, acquired conditions, and diseases. While the causes of back pain are usually physical, it is important to understand that emotional stress can play a significant role in the severity of the pain and how long it lasts. Untreated depression and anxiety can also make back pain feel worse.
How Back Pain Affects your Life
Almost everyone experiences some form of back pain every now and then. Whether mild or severe, short-term or long-lasting, back pain can greatly affect a person's daily life:
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Keeping you from exercising, which can lead to weight gain that further aggravates the back pain
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Affecting your sleep patterns, which can make you short-tempered and make it harder to endure the pain
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Causing depression - 19% of patients who live with chronic back pain are diagnosed with depression
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Challenging your ability to sit for long periods of time
- Lossing time at work or play
Back pain can be so wearing on the sufferer that they tend to be irritable and have very low tolerance levels for the challenges of daily life.
How Balance Acupuncture Treats Back Pain
Balance Method Acupuncture can often immediately help ease low back pain. After a few pins are placed in parts of the limbs that correspond to the back, the patient may move the back with less pain. The patient then rests for about 40 minutes with pins in place. Treatment is repeated daily until the pain level stabillizes at much lower level. Treatment is then repeated multiple times a week until the pain is completly gone. Then two follow up treatments are given to stengthen the back futher to prevent re-injury in the future.
Acupuncture is a natural, non-surgical, non-drug approach to treating back pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have well-documented detrimental effects on your system, including gastric irritation and liver damage while acupuncture has no side effects. And in my experience patients have be happy and sometimes amazed at the results they get from Balance Method Acupuncture.
Experience Matters
Back pain is treated daily at Neighborhood Acupuncture. There are frequently three to four patients a day getting treatment for various forms of back pain at Neighborhood Acupunture. And each patient's pain is unique. We tailor treatments accordingly and guide you until your health goals are achieved.