Pain Teatments

Acupuncture is an Eastern medicine treatment that has been practiced for at least 3,000 years. This approach involves the insertion of tiny needles in specific positions across the body.

Many people are concerned that acupuncture needles will hurt. This concern is very understandable since most patients have previously only been exposed to hypodermic needles (shots) that definitely do hurt. As opposed to those larger, standard needles, in acupuncture we use needles that are exceptionally thin and fine. 

Some patients feel a sensation for a few seconds when the needle is placed, but we guarantee that every patient will be comfortable during the treatment. In fact, it is not uncommon for a patient to fall asleep on the treatment table!

Acupuncture uses a number of the body’s different healing mechanisms to treat a wide variety of pain conditions and internal diseases. When a needle is inserted, it stimulates the release of powerful pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory substances from the brain. It also changes the way the brain responds to pain and can modify internal organ function to treat many complex diseases.

Acupuncture also induces local effects, including relaxation of contracted muscles and an increase in blood circulation.The Eastern medicine approach to a medical problem is very different from that of Western medicine. Eastern medicine takes into account the wonderful complexity and uniqueness of each individual. 

Instead of being a system of medicine that merely treats the symptoms, as is common in Western medicine, acupuncture is a patient-centered system where you are seen and treated as an individual—a whole person. Though acupuncture is the most commonly method used for VA in our office, some people, including children, prefer needle less treatments. This type of treatment may include, lase, acupressure, cupping or massage with a tool or theragun tool.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established treatment for decompression sickness, a potential risk of scuba diving. Other conditions treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy include serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and wounds that may not heal as a result of diabetes or radiation injury.

In a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the air pressure is increased two to three times higher than normal air pressure. Under these conditions, your lungs can gather much more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure.

When your blood carries this extra oxygen throughout your body, this helps fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing.

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Your body's tissues need an adequate supply of oxygen to function. When tissue is injured, it requires even more oxygen to survive. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the amount of oxygen your blood can carry. With repeated scheduled treatments, the temporary extra high oxygen levels encourage normal tissue oxygen levels, even after the therapy is completed.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat several medical conditions. And medical institutions use it in different ways. Your doctor may suggest hyperbaric oxygen therapy if you have one of the following conditions:

• Post COVID Fatigue
• Brain abscess
• Bubbles of air in your blood vessels (arterial gas embolism)
• Burns
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Crushing injury
• Deafness, sudden
• Decompression sickness
• Exceptional blood loss anemia
• Gangrene
• Infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death
• Nonhealing wounds, such as a diabetic foot ulcer
• Radiation injury
• Skin graft or skin flap at risk of tissue death
• Traumatic brain injury
• Vision loss, sudden and painless