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Acupuncture Can Help Patients with Pain Management

By haticeda | Published February 28, 2017

Acupuncture Can Help Greatly In Pain Management

I’m sure when you hear the word acupuncture you can’t help but visualize tiny needles coming out of the skin. For some, it’s fascinating, for others a little scary, and if you’re afraid of needles, it’s most likely terrifying. As unconventional as it may seem, acupuncture is a form of treatment.

It is an old form of outmoded Chinese Remedy, which has been in practiced for centuries. Ever heard of the term “Chi”? Well, Chi is a theory that holds that energy flows all over our bodies through passageways known as meridians.  When your Chi is out of balance it is believed, you will develop an illness. The practice of acupuncture was started as a way to help bring balance to the Chi.

Other than needles, an acupuncturist may choose to incorporate heat, electrical current or pressure during treatment.

 

Acupuncture & Pain Management

Pain occurs usually as a result of stress, emotional upheavals, physical injury or illness. Traditionally people would automatically go to chiropractors or physiotherapists when they started having pain in their back, neck, head and legs. These are the most common areas where body pain is experienced. However, we are seeing an increasing number of individuals going for acupuncture as an alternative way of treating their body pain. Research has shown that Chinese acupuncture helps in relieving both chronic and acute pain in patients. More so, it gives long lasting results that enable the energy to flow normally in patients. One of the reasons it’s preferred by many is because unlike modern medicine, acupuncture does not have adverse side effects.

Acupuncture can effectively treat people suffering from osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, menstrual cramps, tension headaches, lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) to mention but a few.

How It Works

The responses of acupuncture in the body in relation to pain include the release of serotonin from the hypothalamus and upper brain stem. Acupuncture also stimulates the release of the endogenous opiate such as endorphin, endomorphin, dynorphin, and encephalin. When these chemicals are released into the blood stream they can help in relieving pain.

In patients whose pain is more psychological than physical, acupuncture plays an important role in encouraging the release of neurohormones such as glutamate, the neurotrophic factor, g-aminobutyric acid, and neuropeptide Y. When these hormones are released, they create a euphoric sensation in the patient thus helping treat the psychological aspects of the pain they are experiencing.

 

 

 

 

 

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Sciatica Patients can find Relief with Acupuncture

By haticeda | Published February 20, 2017

Sciatica is a medical condition characterized by pain going down the leg from the lower back.This pain may go down the back, outside, or front of the leg. Typically, symptoms are only on one side of the body. Certain causes, however, may result in pain on both sides. Lower back pain is sometimes but not always present. Weakness or numbness may occur in various parts of the affected leg and foot

About 90% of the time sciatica is due to a spinal disc herniation pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots. Other problems that may result in sciatica include spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, piriformis syndrome, pelvic tumors, and compression by a baby’s head during pregnancy. The straight-leg-raising test is often helpful in diagnosis. The test is positive if, when the leg is raised while a person is lying on their back, pain shoots below the knee. In most cases medical imaging is not needed. Exceptions to this are when bowel or bladder function is affected, there is significant loss of feeling or weakness, symptoms are long standing, or there is a concern of a tumor or infection.Conditions that may present similarly are diseases of the hip and early herpes zoster before the rash appear.

Acupuncture has been proven to be very effective in treating sciatica.

 

  • Acupuncture helps reduce the pain of sciatica. Sciatica causes the muscles in your body to tense up and hold, which leads to fatigue, chronic pain, and stress. Acupuncture relaxes   the body and releases your muscles from the tension.

 

  • Acupuncture helps foster a positive chemical balance in the brain. By releasing much-needed endorphins, acupuncture can aid in the healing process, both mentally and physically. Relaxing your mind can help take it off of the chronic pain and allow you to focus elsewhere.

 

  • Acupuncture deals with the nervous system, and sciatica travels along damaged nerves. Taking medication is applying a blanket treatment to something specific, whereas acupuncture pinpoints and gets to the heart of the pain and the problem.

 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatica

 

 

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Home of Lifetime Acupuncture – A History of Deer Park in Town Of Babylon

By haticeda | Published February 16, 2017

Lifetime Acupuncture opened its doors in May 2015 in Deer Park, NY. A beautiful part of town of Babylon.  Our Deer Park office has been very convenient for our patients with easy commute from Dix Hills, Commack, Islip, Lindenhurst, Bayshore, Brentwood, Huntington, North Babylon, West Babylon and surrounding places. We are proud to be part of the community and provide excellent Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine to our patients in Long Island.

Below is some fun facts about Deer Park:

History

Deer Park is a residential hamlet located in the pine barrens in the northeast corner of the town of Babylon. It grew out of Jacob Conklin’s 1610 settlement of the Half Way Hollow Hills, later Wheatley Heights. Charles Wilson started what is now Deer Park in 1853 about eleven years after the Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1842-when he established a large and productive farm. A post office was opened in 1851, closed in 1872 and re-opened on July 1, 1873. Deer Park had an elementary school in 1874. Prior to 1923, the Deer Park School District took in Deer Park and Wyandanch.[2]

Farming was a staple of this small town for most of its history. Known as the “fruit basket” of New York state, the area was also famed for its dahlia cultivation. It was not until the effects of the post-World War II boom reached Deer Park that its economy ceased to be agricultural.

Deer Park had two industries before 1940: the Walker and Conklin firm baked red bricks in West Deer Park (now Wheatley Heights), and the Golden Pickle Works (1902) prepared pickles in Deer Park. Deer Park was the locale of the Edgewood State Psychiatric Hospital (1938–1969)-originally a tuberculosis sanatorium, and later an Army hospital during World War II. The Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation established a factory in Deer Park in 1956.[3]

 

Tanger Outlets at the Arches

There are many famous individuals who made Deer Park a part of their lives. The area has been visited by actor Alan Alda, Sen. Jacob Javits, Sen. Robert Kennedy, singer Ethel Merman, actor Donald O’Connor, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Comedian and nightclub owner Rodney Dangerfield was born and raised in Deer Park.

Deer Park is reputed to have been the favorite summer spot of President John Quincy Adams, his favorite vacation destination from 1835 until his death. However, this fact has never been verified.[3] The John Quincy Adams Elementary School, opened in 1963, is said to be located on the actual Adams estate.[4]

On October 22, 2008, the $300 million[5] Tanger Outlets at the Arches opened.

 

Geography

Deer Park is located at 40.760698° north, −73.330072° west, in the northeast corner of the town of Babylon.[6] It is bordered to the west by the Babylon hamlets of Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights, to the north by Dix Hills in the town of Huntington, to the east by Brentwood and Baywood in the town of Islip, and to the south by the hamlet of North Babylon.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16.0 km2), all land.

 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Park,_New_York

 

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Acupuncture can provide relief for Knee Pain Sufferers in Long Island, NY

By haticeda | Published February 14, 2017

Acupuncture has been shown to be very effective for certain types of knee pain.  It has been shown that arthritic and joint knee pain of many patients have been relieved effectively.

One study performed in 1999, compared Acupuncture to ice massage and transcutaneous nerve stimulation for patients with osteoarthritis. Study found that Acupuncture was more effective and decreased the pain levels in the knee.

Another Study in the same year showed acupuncture helped patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome in weekly treatments.

Other studies showed acupuncture is beneficial in reducing knew pain and knee related problems. Acupuncture can also help for patients that are waiting for knee surgery.

 

Source (Full Article can be found on): www.acupuncturetoday.com

 

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If you live in Long Island, New York, Acupuncture Can help with your Back Pain

By haticeda | Published February 11, 2017

Almost 80 out of every 100 people will experience back pain at some point in their life. Back pain is causing many people to look for medical options. It is reported acupuncture is most searched for back pain. It is also reported that back pain is one of the most effective conditions Acupuncture can help with.

There are many researches on effectiveness of Acupuncture. However a recent review of 22 acupuncture studies showed that it provided short-term relief from chronic back pain. It also showed there was greater improvement in pain for people who got acupuncture compared to those who received a “sham” treatment. Other studies have found, though, that sham acupuncture can be as effective as actual acupuncture. Those studies also found that, compared to standard treatment, both actual acupuncture and sham acupuncture are more effective.

 

How Acupuncture Works on Back Pain:

Chinese medicine is a 5000 years old healing modality. Acupuncture involves inserting ultimately thin needles at strategic points of the body. These points are connected by pathways called meridians, which create a flow of energy called Qi (pronounced “chee”). Stimulating these points corrects the imbalance of qi and improve the flow of energy.

Acupuncture simulates the nervous system. This Simulation causes body to  release beneficial chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. These natural chemicals either alter the experience of pain or produce bodily changes that promote a sense of well-being.

Acupuncture also help by:

  • Triggering body to generate more endorphins which kills pain.
  • By boosting body’s immune system to work efficiently.
  • Triggering the release of natural opioids. Opioids reduces pain and provides sound sleep.

 

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