Acupuncture Treatment for Pain Management
Are you troubled by back, neck or joint pain? Find relief, naturally.At some point, we have all felt a type of pain. Whether your pain is new, like an injury or pain is chronic like back pain or migraine headaches, Bergen County Acupuncture and Wellness has therapies to aid the healing process and pain management. Our treatment using acupuncture can help provide relief and aid in recovery as an alternative or supplement to medications and surgery.
End your pain and suffering. We can help find the cause and develop a treatment plan.
About Acupuncture
The benefit of acupuncture is that it can be a healing tool for so many different kinds of pain and pain that arise from different sources. Acupuncture treatments help increase blood circulation and nerve communication, balancing hormones and decreasing inflammation, which can be highly responsible for pain from either a stress perspective or from physical trauma.
Acupuncture’s ability to promote balance is also beneficial for gut dysfunction leading to pain since the gut has such strong influences on the brain and body. Receiving acupuncture is a very conservative way of approaching pain management and it can be even more effective when paired with other techniques such as massage, cold laser therapy, cupping, nutrition and meditation.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is extremely helpful on its own, but even more potent when used in conjunction with acupuncture treatment. At Bergen County Acupuncture and Wellness, we believe working through muscle tension can have a profound effect on a person’s emotional and physical state. The increase of blood flow to areas of tension through massage can significantly reduce pain and inflammation in areas of injury and in the regions of the body where we tend to hold stress.
Finding the Cause of Pain
When we experience pain it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint where the pain is or what type of pain it is, and that’s ok. There are so many different kinds of pain, but to name a few there is acute, chronic, psychosomatic (i.e. stress of many different levels), and systemic inflammation (i.e. autoimmune disease). When we are suffering from pain how do we know what it’s coming from and what do we do?
There are so many different forms of physical and mental therapy out there and it is important to find what works best for you. A very important question to ask yourself is how you feel about your pain. Do you want to overcome it? Do you identify with it? Will you work hard to feel better? All of these factors, no matter how emotional they may be, are extremely important in your success to feel better and they can help guide you to the right professional.
Sometimes using the most conservative and noninvasive approach may not be enough and that is when seeking a pain management specialist may be needed. This may include trigger point therapy, cortisone injections, regenerative medicine, etc. It is important to understand that in order to maintain a pain-free state, you must also maintain a continuous course of treatment like acupuncture, massage, cupping or cold laser. Injections do not solve the underlying issues that started your pain in the first place. Instead they act as a tool to bring down inflammation and pain. This enables you to progress through your other courses of treatment much quicker.
Breaking the pain cycle is very important for your well-being whether it is from a mental or physical perspective. The body can become hypersensitive to stimulus and result in feeding the pain cycle resulting in more chronic pain issues. At Bergen County Acupuncture and Wellness, our staff can help treat your pain so you can go on living life!