Arthritis
According to Arthritis.org, arthritis affects more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children annually. If not treated, the disease can lead to chronic pain and permanent damage to joints and even some of the body’s organs.
If you suffer from arthritis, your doctor may have told you that the disease is “incurable” and “progressive,” and that there’s really nothing they can do about it. Most likely, they suggested pain medication and/or surgery to replace the knee, hip, or whatever joint is affected.
Here at Free Spirit Acupuncture and Wellness, we use the time-tested techniques of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat arthritis. We don’t just mask the pain with medication or do temporary surgical fixes; rather, we go to the source of the problem to address what’s actually causing it in the first place.
For example, one of our patients — a woman in her early 70s — was suffering from osteoarthritis and had only 5 percent range of motion in her neck. The most common type of arthritis, osteoarthritis is a degenerative form of the disease that wears away cartilage and leads to pain, swelling, and stiffness. One of the causes is your body’s overall pH being out of balance. When this happens, calcium is pulled from your bones and stored along with fluid in your muscles, joints, and other tissues.
Using safe and effective acupuncture to treat the pain, we worked with the patient to help her make the proper changes in her diet that would help her pull the calcium back and store it back in her bones where it’s supposed to be, reducing pain, swelling, and joint damage. I’m happy to say that after about three months or so, we were able to greatly improve her range of motion, and without any medications or surgery.
Another type of the disease we treat is inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis. This usually has to do with your digestive system, aka, your gut. When you eat the wrong kinds of foods or when your food is not being digested properly, it can destabilize your immune system. Again, by combining traditional acupuncture with proper nutrition, we can help you stabilize your gut and make sure your digestive system is working properly. By doing this we strengthen your immune system, which in turn reduces inflammation, swelling, and pain in your joints. Again, all without costly medicine or surgery.
Other types of arthritis we treat include psoriatic arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and gout, to name a few.
Arthritis doesn’t have to mean a lifetime of pain. It’s all about getting to the root cause and then treating it with safe, time-tested techniques that have been trusted by Eastern medicine for thousands of years. Contact us today to learn more about our arthritis treatments and how we can help you.
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