If you are reading this section, you are probably suffering with pain or you may know someone who is. Please continue reading, because this page contains very important information on pain. Please keep in mind that several top insurance companies have plans that cover acupuncture for the treatment of pain. If you have insurance coverage, please visit the insurance section of this site after reading the information on this page.
Because the cause of pain can vary from patient to patient and effective treatment methods vary as well, it is important to have a wide range of treatment modalities available to you. Below is list of the different treatment methods that are available at Highpoint Healing & Wellness.
Adjunctive Therapy
Acute pain is the most common symptom for which patients seek medical evaluation. New pain complaints result in 40 million visits to the doctor annually, and 45% of persons in the United States will visit a doctor for pain at some point in their lives. The prevalence of various chronic pain syndromes in the United States is estimated to range from 2% to 40%. Approximately 75 million persons in the United States live with “serious pain,” and nearly 50 million are partially or totally disabled by pain.
According to Western science, pain is associated with complex inter-relationships between the nervous system, spinal cord, thalamus, higher brain, neuro-peptide substances and emotions derived from cultural and past personal programming. Traditional Asian medical systems relate pain more to short-term or longstanding blockages in the flow and integrity of Blood, vital energy (Qi). In either case, pain can be viewed as a kind of alarm, an urgent message from the body-mind-spirit entity that something is out of balance in the system, and must be corrected to maintain health and homeostasis, or even life itself. In this way pain is useful, in fact a lifesaver at times, when it alerts us to take urgent action for survival and self-care. Yet in a lot of cases, pain becomes a self-perpetuating experience that remains long after the actual damage to the body is resolved. In some cases, such as with fibromyalgia or some neuropathies, severe pain can arise when there is no apparent injury to the body. It is these chronic pain cases that most challenge the Western pain paradigm.
One of the great contributions Oriental Medicine has made is the understanding of the Root and Branch of pain (and other disorders). In its simplest form, the Root refers to underlying causative factors that pre-dispose a patient to pain. These may involve longstanding emotional upsets and repression, viral or parasitic effects, organ imbalances, unresolved old injuries, or hereditary influences. The Branch of pain refers to the actual sensations of pain, restricted range of motion, joint degeneration or vertebral mis-alignments. The sensation of pain can be associated with any dysfunctional bodily system, not just the nervous system.
Acupuncture
Almost all pain related conditions can be effectively treated by acupuncture . It has been shown the Acupuncture increases the level of endorphin, the body’s natural pain killer. When a pain symptom is caused by an internal illness, herbal medicine may also be given to further treat the condition. The most common pain symptoms include
- Migraine and headache
- Acute muscular injury
- Arthritis pain
- Bone spurs
- Chronic pain and stiffness in neck, shoulder, elbow, arms, back, knees, feet, ankle, leg, etc
- Pain from auto accidents and sports related injuries
- Pain from endometriosis, PMS and fibroid
This is just a partial list of pain. If your pain is not listed, please feel free to contact us.
Biopuncture/Biomesotherapy for Pain Management
The medicines used for biopuncture have been formulated according to the most recent knowledge acquisitions in the field of Neurology and Physiology. Their structure combines 20 years of experience in Homeopathic Pain Management and Acupuncture with a cutting-edge formulation.
A particularly distinct and innovative characteristic of the ampoules used for pain management is that they have been designed taking account of the Laws of Acupuncture/Neuroreflexology. Like a needle in an acupuncture point, the injectables for Pain Management activate reflex responses, thereby releasing anti-pain chemical mediators. The therapeutic effect is usually immediate in acute and progressive pain and constant in chronic pain.
Pain Management ampoules are homoeopathic injectable medicines registered for intramuscular, subcutaneous or intradermal injection use and registered with the FDA.
They have been studied particularly for mesotherapy or intramuscular use.
Their special formulation, based on the laws of Homeopathy (dilution and potentization of the raw ingredient), gives these medicines the following benefits:
- No local or general allergic reactions
- No adverse side effects in the short and long term
- No contraindications
- Safe use during pregnancy
- No interaction with other drugs
