by Karen Nunley | May 4, 2020 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, General Acupuncture, Managing Stess, Women's Health
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Do you have episodes of chronic abdominal cramping and pain with diarrhea and/or constipation? If, so you might have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Affecting 20% of the population, IBS can be unpredictable and embarrassing. Symptoms are...
by Karen Nunley | Feb 10, 2020 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment
It’s no secret that acupuncture can help patients deal with chronic pain, and more. In a review of 29 studies, acupuncture relieved pain by about 50%. In fact, the 3,000-year-old healing technique of Traditional Chinese Medicine has even been endorsed as a...
by Karen Nunley | Jan 27, 2020 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment
If you’re finding it difficult to relieve pain, you might want to try a few of these approaches. Diet Diet and exercise have been shown to help a lot of things, and believe it or not, watching what you eat can actually also help you reduce headache and migraine...
by Karen Nunley | Dec 16, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Managing Stress, Women's Health
A recent study compared the effectiveness of acupuncture with fluoxetine (generic Prozac) in the treatment of fibromyalgia. After four weeks, the acupuncture group was markedly better than the control group in the number of tender points. At the end of one year of the...
by Karen Nunley | Nov 18, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, General Acupuncture
A recent NCCAM-funded study, employing individual patient data meta-analyses and published in the prestigious Archives of Internal Medicine, provides the most rigorous evidence to date that acupuncture is helpful for chronic pain. This massive multi-year study of...
by Karen Nunley | Nov 4, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, General Acupuncture
New research concludes that acupuncture is effective for relieving pain of the neck and lower back. Researchers studied the effects of acupuncture on injured neck and low back discs. Often with this type of injury, there is local pain plus nerve pain that radiates...
