Acupuncture for Pain Management - Empower Acupuncture, Morden

The pain that won’t go away…

Somewhere around a quarter of adults worldwide are affected by chronic pain - somewhere in the region of 1.5 billion, and this was a study from 2006 in the US, so that number is likely to be even higher now!

Acute pain happens when we get hurt or injured, but the body is able to resolve the injury without any problems.

But with chronic pain, this pain continues after the injury has healed, with pain signals continuing to be transmitted well after the original damage has recovered.

Chronic pain has far reaching impacts beyond the pain itself, causing issues with sleep, increased medical intervention (often without benefit), and less ability to function and in extreme cases leading to loss of income and emotional and relationship damages.

Acupuncture and Pain

Acupuncture is probably best known for treating pain, and for good reason. In a Traditional Chinese Medicine model, acupuncture treats pain by moving blocked energy, or Qi. In a more biomedical model, research into how acupuncture works continues to be done, but the main idea is that acupuncture activates specific areas in the brain which help to control pain.

The most common types of chronic pain worldwide are low back pain, neck pain and headache and migraines. Large scale studies* have confirmed that acupuncture is effective in treating musculoskeletal and pain conditions such as headache, pain in the low back, neck, shoulder, knee and osteoarthritis.

Acupuncture can be useful for these, and other chronic pain conditions too. Click on the different conditions to find out more about how acupuncture works for each of those and what to expect in an acupuncture treatment.

Back Pain

Neck Pain

Headaches & migraines

(Coming soon)

Osteoarthritis

Frozen Shoulder

Fibromyalgia

Gout

Don’t let chronic pain get you down. Book now and let me help you feel better, move better, and sleep better!

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*Sample Studies

Weidenhammer W, Streng A, Linde K, Hoppe A, Melchart D. Acupuncture for chronic pain within the research program of 10 German Health Insurance Funds–basic results from an observational study. Complementary therapies in medicine. 2007;15(4):238-46.

American Specialty Health Incorporated Health Services Department. (2016). Acupuncture: Does Acupuncture Provided Within a Managed Care Setting Meet Patient Expectations and Quality Outcomes?, 1–12.

Yin, C., Buchheit, T. E., & Park, J. J. (2017). Acupuncture for chronic pain: an update and critical overview. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 1.