Can Acupuncture help your pain?
Ben Specializes in Pain Relief
As your Acupuncturist, Ben Dyer, L. Ac., Dipl. Ac., specializes in pain relief, stress reduction, emotional/mental issues, musculoskeletal issues and addictions issues.
In Chinese medicine the practitioner looks for the underlying energetic patterns that are responsible for the problem. What are the underlying body, mind, spirit imbalances that initiated the specific manifestation of illness or pain? A careful look at the history and the diagnostic presentation will reveal your pattern of disharmony, which is then treated.
Successful Pain Treatment
Acupuncture is widely recognized for its ability to successfully treat pain. Pain is often an indicator of a problem somewhere in the body. Acupuncture works to treat the pain as well as the underlying condition, or conditions that may be developing. Acupuncture is a powerful and effective modality for treating pain. As it decreases the pain, it stimulates the body’s natural healing responses.
Acupuncture restores balance to the mind/body system and is a safe, natural and drug-free way to address a wide range of health concerns. The treatments are about reminding the body of its own natural healing responses. Thus, acupuncture is about treating the whole person, not just the disease or the symptoms, encouraging the immune and energetic systems to find health-promoting balance and harmony.
This also encourages a feeling of emotional well- being, increasing energy and vitality. In this way, acupuncture can also treat the emotional/psychological by treating stress, depression, anxiety, nervousness and addiction issues.
According to the World Health Organization, acupuncture can treat 104 different conditions, including migraines, allergies, high blood pressure, hypertension, back and neck pain, addictions, constipation/diarrhea, depression, sports injuries, etc. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) both recognize acupuncture as an effective treatment for:
| • Addiction: alcohol, drug, smoking | • Low back pain |
| • Anxiety | • Menopause |
| • Arthritis | • Menstrual irregularities |
| • Asthma | • Migraine |
| • Bronchitis | • Morning sickness |
| • Carpal tunnel syndrome | • Nausea |
| • Chronic fatigue | • Osteoarthritis |
| • Colitis | • Pain |
| • Common cold | • PMS |
| • Constipation | • Pneumonia |
| • Dental pain | • Reproductive problems |
| • Depression | • Rhinitis |
| • Diarrhea | • Sciatica |
| • Digestive trouble | • Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) |
| • Dizziness | • Shoulder pain |
| • Dysentery | • Sinusitis |
| • Emotional problems | • Sleep disturbances |
| • Eye problems | • Smoking cessation |
| • Facial palsy/tics | • Sore throat |
| • Fatigue | • Stress |
| • Fertility | • Tennis elbow |
| • Fibromyalgia | • Tonsillitis |
| • Gingivitis | • Tooth pain |
| • Headache | • Trigeminal neuralgia |
| • Hiccough | • Urinary tract infections |
| • Incontinence | • Vomiting |
| • Indigestion | • Wrist pain |
| • Irritable bowel syndrome |
