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中医诊疗所
ヒューストン鍼灸
Acupuncture Pain Center, Houston, TX
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Chen XIA, LAc, PhD MD, PhD, Major in Aging Research, Kyoto University, Japan, 1999 Master of Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China, 1988 Bachelor of Medicine, Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China, 1982 Over 9 years of medical research at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine, TX Over 25 years experience in clinical and medical research in China, Japan and US Texas Licensed Acupuncturist |
Services Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine Free Counseling Phone: (713) 269-8755 E-mail: acuherbxia@yahoo.com 10427 S Post Oak Rd, Houston, TX 77035
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Acupuncture for Pain
Lower Back Pain
Sciatica
Neck Pain
Headache
Shoulder Pain
Knee Pain
Foot Pain
Wrist and Hand Pain
Elbow Injuries and Disorders
Overview
Pain is more common reason people visits acupuncture clinic in China and US, in history and now. Acupuncture is naturally, safety and effective treatment for pain relief and pain management; follow pain conditions are mostly have effective result by acupuncture therapy.
Low Back Pain
Back pain in the lower back or low back pain is not a specific disease; it is a symptom that may occur from a variety of different processes. The pain problem in up and low back is more common symptom. Back pain may occur from a variety of different processes. Mostly visitor with back pain in my office is musculoskeletal pain syndromes, injury or nerve root syndromes.
- Musculoskeletal pain syndromes that produce low back pain include myofascial pain syndromes and fibromyalgia.
Injuries: Spine injuries such as sprains and fractures can cause either acute or chronic pain. - Nerve root syndromes are those that produce symptoms of nerve impingement (a nerve is touched), often due to a herniation (or bulging) of the disc between the lower back bones.
In the early stage of low back pain, acupuncture mostly have good result for relief the pain, many acute low back pains can be reliefed after first treatment with one or few needles. The chronic back pain or stiffness may improve after few time of the treatment, some take more long time to get benefit. Acupuncture also can do pain management by couple times treatment between a year.
Sciatica
The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in human body, sciatic is a symptom of another problem involves the nerve, such as a herniated disc. The pain occurs along a pathway from low back to buttock, calf and foot, mostly happen to one side. Some case may feel numbness or muscle weakness.
Acupuncture treats both sciatic and low back pain may necessary; the moxibustion technique is often used for this kind of pain, mostly pain may relieved after couple times of treatment.
Neck Pain
Types
- Muscle strains - Overuse and stress often triggers muscle strains, become fatigued and eventually strained neck pain.
- Worn joints - Like the other joints in our body, neck joints experience wear and tear with age, which can cause osteoarthritis in neck. Neck (cervical) osteoarthritis can cause pain and stiffness in neck.
- Disk disorders - With the age increase, the cushioning disks between vertebrae become dry and stiff, narrowing the spaces in spinal column, disk also can herniate.
- Injuries - Often result in whiplash injuries, which occur when the head is jerked forward and back, stretching the soft tissues of the neck beyond their limits.
Symptoms
- Neck pain (may radiate to the arms or shoulder)
- Loss of sensation or abnormal sensations of the shoulders, arms, or (rarely) legs
- Weakness of the arms or (rarely) legs
- Neck stiffness that progressively worsens
- Loss of balance
- Headaches, particularly in the back of the head
- Loss of control of the bladder or bowels (if spinal cord is compressed)
Causes
A common cause of neck pain is muscle strain or tension. Usually, everyday activities are to blame. Such activities include bending over a desk for hours, having poor posture while watching TV or reading, placing your computer monitor too high or too low, sleeping in an uncomfortable position, or twisting and turning the neck in a jarring manner while exercising.
Traumatic accidents or falls can cause severe neck injuries like vertebral fractures, whiplash, blood vessel injury, and even paralysis.
Other causes include herniated disk, fibromyalgia (pain syndrome throughout the body), and arthritis. Meningitis, although much less common, can cause significant neck stiffness.
Like situation in low back pain, acute, early stage of pain onset or injury will be easy to cure or improve, in chronic or with long history, may need more long time to improve the pain. Now, more common cause is the stress, people work on computer with too long time.
Headache
Primary headache (three main types of headaches)
- Tension headaches - The pain like a tightening on both sides of the head, often result of stress or bad posture, causes tightening of the muscles in the neck and the scalp. This type of headache occurs mostly in women over age 20.
- Migraine headaches - The pains is intense and throbbing, often involve one side of the head, may sensitive to light or noise, more common in women. There are two types of migraine: migraine with an aura and migraine without aura. An aura is a group of symptoms that develop before the onset of the main headache.
- Cluster headaches - With non-throbbing and usually are felt on one side, some behind an eye.
Attacks may be triggered by:
- Tension in the scalp and neck muscles
- Allergic reactions
- Lights, loud noises
- Stress
- Alcohol
- Menstrual cycle fluctuations
None primary headache, result from another medical condition.
- Sinus headaches
- Hormone headaches
- Chronic progressive headaches, result of a head injury, trauma, or tumor.
Acupuncture treats the primary headache have quite effective result, some case in acute headache attack: the therapy may relief pain soon. Also, acupuncture help maintain and prevent headache.
The None Primary headache, acupuncture therapy may relief the pain but need original cause treatment for sinus or injury.
Shoulder Pain
Causes
Also called rotator cuff pain, the most common cause is when the tendons become trapped under this arch. The compressed tendons become inflamed or damaged. This may occur from general wear and tear as we get older, an activity that requires constant shoulder use like baseball pitching, or an injury.
- Frozen shoulder syndrome occurs when you don't move your shoulder because of pain or injury. The muscles or connective structures stiffen up inside the shoulder and make any motion painful and difficult.
- Inflammation of nearby tendons, such as those connected to the bicep muscles of your arms, from overuse or injury.
- Arthritis in the joints about the shoulder (gradual narrowing of the joints and loss of protective cartilage).
- Bursitis (inflammation of a fluid-filled sac, or bursa that lies between tendon and skin or between tendon and bone). Normally a bursa protects the joint and helps make movement more fluid.
- Fractures of the shoulder bones.
- Dislocation of your shoulder, which is when the ball-shaped head of your arm comes out of the socket.
Injury and Frozen shoulder syndrome are more common type can see in my office. Frozen shoulder syndrome is more often happen to people age around fifty years old, because the aging process, in China also called “fifty shoulders”.
Knee pain
Knee pain usually results from overuse, poor form during physical activity, not warming up or cooling down, or inadequate stretching. Simple causes of knee pain often clear up on their own with self care. Being overweight can put you at greater risk for knee problems.
Knee pain can be caused by:
- Arthritis -- including rheumatoid, osteoarthritis, and gout
- Baker's cyst -- a fluid-filled swelling behind the knee that may accompany inflammation from other causes, like arthritis
- Bursitis -- inflammation from repeated pressure on the knee, such as kneeling for long periods of time, overuse, or injury
- Connective tissue disorders such as lupus
- Dislocation of the kneecap
- Iliotibial band syndrome -- a hip disorder related to injury of the thick band that runs from your hip to the outside of your knee
- Infection in the joint
- Knee injuries -- may cause bleeding into your knee, which worsens the pain
- Tendinitis -- a pain in the front of your knee that gets worse when going up and down stairs or inclines
- Torn cartilage (a meniscus tear) -- pain felt on the inside or outside of the knee joint
- Torn ligament (ACL tear) -- leads to pain and instability of the knee
- Strain or sprain -- minor injuries to the ligaments caused by sudden or unnatural twisting
The chronic arthritis knee pain is very common in over weight and senior people, compare with other kind of treatment like pain medicine or surgery, acupuncture therapy is a safety and effective method to relief pain and management.
Ankle, Heel and Foot Pain
Foot pain can be caused by:
- Bunions -- a protrusion at the base of the big toe, which can become inflamed. Bunions often develop over time from wearing narrow-toed shoes.
- Hammer toes -- toes that curl downward into a claw-like position.
- Calluses and corns -- thickened skin from friction or pressure. Calluses are on the balls of the feet or heels. Corns appear on your toes.
- Plantar warts -- from pressure on the soles of your feet.
- Fallen arches -- also called flat feet.
- Broken bones
- Stress fracture
- Arthritis
- Gout -- common in the big toe, which becomes red, swollen, and very tender
- Plantar fasciitis -- see heel pain
- Bone spur -- see heel pain
- Sprains -- see ankle pain
- Bursitis of the heel -- see heel pain
- Tendinitis -- see heel pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Chronic gouty arthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Septic arthritis
- Heel bursitis (inflammation of the back of the heel) can be caused by landing hard or awkwardly on the heel, or by pressure from shoes.
- Achilles tendinitis is inflammation of the large tendon.
The risk of foot pain is increases with aging, when people with congenital deformities and diseases of the blood vessels, nerves, skin, joints, and hormones (e.g., diabetes).
The more often cause of foot problem in my office is heel and ankle pain by stress, over weight or injury, if foot pain related with low back pain, may need treatment both foot and low back pain.
Wrist and Hand Pain
Causes:
- Ligament sprains and tears
- Tendinitis
- Fractures
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Other diseases
Most wrist pain comes from arthritis or an injury to our wrist joint, but certain systemic diseases can also affect the bones and tissues in wrist. These include diabetes, gout, Paget's disease, leukemia, scleroderma and lupus erythematosus.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is common in people who perform repetitive motions of the hand and wrist, such as typing. The condition occurs more common in women than men.
Symptoms
- Weakness in one or both hands
- Numbness or tingling in the thumb and next two or three fingers of one or both hands
- Numbness or tingling of the palm of the hand
- Pain in wrist or hand in one or both hands
- Pain extending to the elbow
- Problems with fine finger movements (coordination) in one or both hands
- Weak grip or difficulty carrying bags (a common complaint)
- Wasting away of the muscle under the thumb (in advanced or long-term cases)
Like situation in neck and shoulder pain, now, more common cause in wrist and hand pain is overused hands in computer key board. Acupuncture needle can help a lot for pain relief and management.
Elbow Injuries and Disorders
Many things can make elbow hurt. A common cause is tendinitis, an inflammation or injury to the tendons that attach muscle to bone. This is a sports injury, often from playing tennis or golf, so another name is tennis elbow, also possible get tendinitis from overuse of the elbow.
Other causes of elbow pain include sprains, strains, fractures, dislocations, bursitis and arthritis. Treatment depends on the cause.
Acupuncture is helpful kind of treatment for elbow tendinitis or overuse.
Other Pain
Abdominal pain (acute intestinal obstruction)
Female, 60 years old, suddenly felt a morning of paroxysmal abdominal pain with vomiting, patients may be touched when the uplift of the abdominal mass, abdominal hold back inflation, when the patient or to a hospital seeking treatment, diagnosed as "acute intestinal obstruction", to be gastrointestinal decompression and transfusion therapy, but the pain diminished, and no defecation exhaust, to the patient seeking Chinese medical treatment that night, when the see the patient face yellow, and looked extremely tired, head is not open eyes, and asked in silence, forehead a cold sweat. Tell the family has been in three times previously due to intestinal surgery, this is no longer operative and called for acupuncture. Investigation; pulse Shen Fine, there is tenderness, rebound tenderness, abdominal tension is not obvious, traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis of intestinal junction.
Prescription; ① colon Yu. Small intestine Yu, chi liao, the middle level stimulation techniques. ② Changqiang points strong stimulation practices, leaving needle a few minutes.
After the treatment: acupuncture treatment, the patient requested defecation, stop pin, the first discharge foam-like stools, stool volume of medium, and may exhaust, after which the patient felt very significantly reduced abdominal pain and distension, abdominal pain totally disappeared after 20 minutes. The next day family members to sue patients have recovered to go to work. A few years later, a sense of abdominal pain, abdominal distention, nausea. Vomiting, pain can be seen when the intestinal type of uplift, but a small amount of exhaust defecation, the pain of each according to the abdomen, the mouth of food that is spit. Three hours before making acupuncture, take this into account for incomplete obstruction, with the former method of acupuncture patients immediately after the exhaust and the amount of discharge medium stool, abdominal pain was reduced, abdominal pain totally disappeared by the next day.