Can Acupuncture Help Arthritis Pain?

A woman with acupuncture needles relieving arthritis in her shoulder.

One of the biggest benefits of acupuncture treatment is pain relief. Many patients who suffer from acute, neuropathic, chronic, and even radicular pain can sense relief from these treatments – so people who suffer from arthritis can also turn here for help.  Arthritis is one of the leading causes of disability in the US, and…

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Targeted Massages: Are They Beneficial?

Acupuncture for sports injuries

Massage therapy is one of the best ways to improve your health, comfort, and everything about your body. It is a good cure after physical accidents, where your body is left with injuries, because massaging targets the body’s soft tissue, and by manipulating this the lymphatic system is stimulated, which can ease injury effects on…

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Rebalancing the Microbiome with Herbs

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Aged garlic has been proven to positively affect cardiovascular function – but what about gut health? When we think of gut homeostasis, we immediately think of probiotics. But there are other natural ways to help rebalance the microbiome. Garlic has been a favorite of herbalists throughout the ages, known for supporting health in a myriad…

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A New Cure for Migraines: Acupuncture

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Migraine management is one of the hardest medical questions to solve in the modern world. Millions of people suffer from migraines daily – and the standard options remain to take a pain relieving pill and hope for the best, or to lie down in a dark room for a day, wasting opportunities and your time…

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How Massage Therapy Can Benefit You

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A stressful lifestyle can lead to unwanted side effects such as fatigue in muscles, various body pains, and emotional effects such as anxiety and depression. Luckily, there is a solution that is easy, non-expensive, and universal for all of those symptoms (as well as many more) – massage therapy. First, massage therapy is excellent for…

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Infertility – Can Acupuncture Help?

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Struggling with infertility is something one of every eight couples in the United States copes with on a daily basis. Many people have to turn to methods that can be invasive and even dangerous for a woman, including surgery, fertility drugs, and even in-vitro fertilization or using donor eggs – many fail to realize that…

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How Acupuncture Can Help With Weight Loss

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Losing weight is based on one overwhelming factor: balance. If one has a hormone imbalance or unmanaged metabolism and digestion, then it is more difficult to lose weight efficiently. Acupuncture helps relieve this imbalance by targeting pressure points on the body that lead directly to the glands that secrete these hormones or by preventing other…

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7 Surprising Benefits of Cupping Therapy

A woman getting a massage with glass jars on her back.

Cupping is a safe, traditional treatment that helps resolve chronic muscle tightness and pain faster than massage therapy alone. From Olympic athletes to pregnant pop-stars, people are rediscovering the benefits of cupping. Maybe you’ve even seen people at your gym or swimming pool with those tell-tale red circles on their backs and shoulders. It’s becoming more common for people…

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Acupuncture Neck Pain Finding

A woman experiencing relief from neck pain through acupuncture needles.

Acupuncture is effective for the alleviation of neck pain due to cervical spondylosis, a disorder caused by intervertebral disc degeneration. Researchers determined that electroacupuncture provides optimal therapeutic results when compared with manual acupuncture. Electroacupuncture produced a 96.67% total effective rate and manual acupuncture produced an 86.7% total effective rate. After completion of all acupuncture treatments,…

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Bay Ridge Acupuncture and Massage Helped People with Back Pain Walk and Bend Better

A person receiving acupuncture treatment for back pain.

Back pain sufferers who got electroacupuncture had improvements in walking comfortably, standing for longer periods, bending, and kneeling. A double-blinded randomized trial of electroacupuncture found it may result in a modest improvement in daily functioning for those with chronic back pain, though it provided little pain relief. Conducting Research for Back Pain Acupuncture in Bay…

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