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ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT FOR ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN
Pain is an unpleasant sensory or emotional response to a stimulus related to actual or potential tissue damage.
It is one of nature’s earliest signs of dysfunction, disease, or illness. Pain is a part of human behavior and one of the basic elements that ensure survival in a very hostile environment. The concept of pain is linked to the experience of pain.
The three phases of pain:
- Immediate pain (Nociception), mostly sensory
- Acute pain: injury, inflammation, “wet” type of pain, “sharp”
- Chronic pain
It is a purely subjective feeling, difficult to define, describe, or explain to others.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Acupuncture is recommended alone or in combination with other modern therapeutic and diagnostic methods. Acupuncture is not a panacea. Every doctor knows their patients, and their first priority is their patients’ treatment and safety!
LEARN HOW
Pain is affected by the coexistence of anxiety, depression, or the patient’s expectations. It is a multidimensional experience that depends on the physical characteristics of the stimulus combined with the patient’s emotional or cognitive state. The result is a behavior based on the interpretation of the event, which is influenced by current or past experiences. Pain is defined as lasting longer than the usual duration of an acute illness or injury (more than six months). It is related to chronic pathology or persists after recovery from an illness or injury.
Chronic pain due to organic disease is effectively treated by addressing the underlying disease. Chronic pain is continuous, deep, stabbing, or poorly localized. The patient may be tired, depressed, withdrawn, while the autonomic symptoms present in acute pain are absent.
Acute pain is more common in: lower limbs – head.
Chronic pain is more common in: the lower back.
Depending on the disease’s pathogenesis and the patient’s symptoms, acupuncture points are selected. Both local and distal points of the area and meridians (imaginary lines running through the body) that are affected are used.
The needles remain for thirty minutes. There is a reduction in muscle spasm, pain, and improvement in mobility, often from the very first treatment. As with any natural method, there may be an initial aggravation. Thus, in some patients, the intensity of some symptoms may slightly increase and then begin to decrease from the 3rd–4th treatment.
In acute cases, it is possible for the patient to be fully relieved after the very first treatment.
In contrast, a syndrome that has lasted a long time and has undergone numerous treatments requires careful management and more time for recovery. In chronic cases, it is advisable for treatment to be repeated twice a week. In this case, improvement of symptoms is expected after the 5th–6th session, and a total of 15–20 sessions may be needed.
Chronic pain is a serious medical problem, both diagnostically and therapeutically. It is the result of many factors, with the patient’s psychology and the relationship of trust with the treating physician playing a very important role. Careful investigation and diagnosis, and the appropriate combination of therapeutic methods, are required for positive results.
Acupuncture is a method without serious side effects that acts on both the physical and emotional level of the individual.
Thus, it significantly contributes to the improvement of pain, functionality, and the emotional state of the patient, and has very good results in the majority of people treated with this method.
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