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For many of us living with some form of chronic pain is a part of
our everyday life. When we take into account back pain, arthritis,
repetitive stress injuries, and sports injuries we realize that the
majority of us are often managing some sort of painful condition.
Unfortunately, the help we receive when we visit our primary doctor
is often minimal and fails to get to the root of the problem.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approaches the treatment of painful
conditions in an entirely different way. TCM recognizes that there
are many subtleties to the types of pain we experience and many reasons
why our bodies are unable to heal themselves. Masking the symptoms
is not enough. The pain will never truly go away until the tissue
is healed and the underlying factor impairing the body's natural
ability to heal is removed. This type of targeted and supportive
care requires a very sophisticated system of diagnosis and specific
treatment. TCM differentiates pain according to where in the body
it is located, what type of pain is felt (sharp, dull, shooting,
etc), what factors make it better or worse, and according to other
imbalances in the patient's constitution. Through this very specific
classification of the painful condition, targeted and supportive
care can be prescribed. The result is individualized treatment plans
for the specific patient that often lead to dramatic and rapid reductions
in their pain. Commonly used treatment modalities for pain are acupuncture,
Chinese herbal medicine, bodywork, rehabilitative exercise, dietary
modification, and relaxation techniques.
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Painful
conditions, which often respond well to care are:
Low back pain
Rheumatoid arthritis
Osteo-arthritis
Chronic neck and shoulder pain
Carpal Tunnel
Repetitive Stress Injuries
Fibromyalgia
Ileo-Tibial Band Syndrome or IT Band pain
Plantar Fascitis
Athletic Injuries
Lateral or medial epicondylitis or Tennis Elbow
Menstrual Pain
Headaches and Migraines
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