Injury & Post Operative Pain
If you have suffered an injury, want to avoid surgery, or would like to speed your recovery from a necessary surgery acupuncture can help. Usually an individualized treatment protocols that combines Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Exercises, Massage and Nutrition that maximizes your healing potential for a wide variety of conditions and syndromes including, but not limited to:

Post Surgical Pain Syndromes
Auto Accident Injuries
Work Related Injuries
Sports Injuries
Orthopedic Surgeries
Gynecological Surgeries
Oral Surgeries
Cosmetic Surgeries

Injuries occurring from sports, work or auto accidents and surgical interventions are due to trauma or overuse syndromes involving the musculoskeletal system and its soft tissues. Trauma to these soft tissues, including ligaments, tendons and muscles are generally the result from falls, blows, sprains/strains, collisions, compressions crushing and disruptions of the healing processes due to inflammation.

How Acupuncture Works
From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, trauma disrupts energetic homeostasis and can cause both short and long term imbalances. Pain and dysfunction result from a blockage of energy (qi) and blood flow. TCM therapies function to remove these blockages. From a western perspective, TCM therapies decrease pain, decrease inflammation, promote healing and regulate the immune and endocrine systems.

It should be remembered that the rehabilitation of the injured is both physical and psychological. The physiological impacts of injury and surgery are similar. Both are traumas which can lead to pain, inflammation, swelling, digestive disorders and emotional changes. Many surgical patients suffer from pre-operative anxiety and post-operative pain, inflammation, nausea, constipation, vomiting, headache, and fatigue. Post surgical pain syndromes and addictions to prescribed pain medications are also a contributing factor in physicians/surgeons making referrals to acupuncture. The positive outcomes of acupuncture in an Injury Rehabilitation & Post Operative Pain Program include:

Pain Management
Decrease Inflammation
Decrease in Pre-Operative Anxiety
Reduction of Inflammation and Swelling
Reduction of Nausea and Vomiting
Regulation of Digestive Function
Reduction of Need for Medication
Reduction of Scar Tissue
Decreased Healing Time
Increased Rates of Full Recovery