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Acupuncture is a 5000 year old form of treatment
considered part of eastern medicine. The primary focus of
acupuncture is to create balance in the body.
Western medicine, or biomedicine, is primarily
concerned with specific diseases and their causes. Diseases may
affect various parts of the body, but are generally focused on a
specific cause or area. Eastern medicine uses an alternate view
that considers the person in as a whole. It takes the patient’s
general constitution and symptoms, and then organizes the findings
with descriptors to create an understandable configuration of
disharmony. Based on this information, the practitioner generates a
unique treatment protocol tailored to bringing the pattern of
disharmony into balance.
Acupuncture philosophy uses a concept of meridians as
the method of diagnosis and treatment. Meridians are named for
organs and regions of the body and used as part of the descriptor
system to better understand movement of energy or “chi” throughout
the body. Meridians may have decreased, increased, or blocked
energy or “chi” at a point or points along the meridian. Treatment
is then geared to specific points to help create a balanced flow of
energy throughout the meridians.
Acupuncture is traditionally treated with the use of
needles. While the needles vary in size, they are generally are
very thin. For this reason, the vast majority of people report that
they don’t feel anything when the needle is inserted. A few people
sometimes state they feel a “mild pinch” upon insertion and then
nothing once the needle was in. Overall acupuncture is a relatively
painless and relaxing experience.
Acupuncture has been recognized by the World Health
Organization as an acceptable form of treatment for a wide variety
of common and uncommon health complaints. Acupuncture has been
effectively used to treat many common conditions such as neck and
back pain, radicular pains (sciatica, pinched nerves), general
aches/pains, fatigue, high or low blood pressure, fertility, and
many other conditions.
For more information please contact DuPage
Health and Physical Therapy Center. We can assist you with
any further questions.
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