Everyone’s got their favorite places to hang out when they need something. If you’re craving comfort food, you’ve got your favorite restaurant. When you have a heavy heart, you head to your best friend’s house. Our patients at Raleigh Acupuncture know that it’s time to book an appointment at our clinic when they’re in pain. One of their most common ailments is nerve pain. You may have heard of conditions like peripheral neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, shingles, sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia, and bell’s palsy. These are all nerve-related pain syndromes. Our nerve pain acupuncture solution is safe, natural, and useful. Today’s blog post describes how it works.
Nerve Pain Acupuncture Solution
Nerves flare up, causing tremendous pain in different parts of the body. Sciatica, for example, causes pain in the hip, often radiating down the leg and into the foot. It is triggered when a bulging disc or muscle in spasm impinges (pushes against)
the sciatic nerve, causing excruciating pain. Acupuncture diminishes the impingement by reducing the bulging disc resolving the muscle spasm, in other words, by addressing the root cause of the problem.
Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy affects the feet and sometimes the hands. It causes numbness and burning sensations in the toes and feet. While diabetes is often a precursor to the condition, many people develop peripheral neuropathy without having diabetes. Doctors do not have an effective treatment for the disease, but they know that it is a nerve condition. The condition makes it extremely difficult to walk and function as an average person.
At Raleigh Acupuncture, we utilize a state-of-the-art protocol for resolving peripheral neuropathy that is highly effective. It has helped dozens of patients overcome this debilitating condition by calming the nerves in the feet. After a series of six to eight weekly treatments, patients can come just once a month for maintenance. The results are life-changing.
Shingles Relief
Shingles is another debilitating nerve-related pain syndrome. It is viral-based and often strikes when a person is under stress. Doctors prescribe antiviral medications and steroids, which help resolve the condition, but it is still quite painful. Afterward, people often suffer for weeks or months from debilitating nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia.
Our nerve pain acupuncture solution provides two benefits. First, it resolves the active shingles rash much quicker than if left to heal on its own. A good analogy is that getting acupuncture is like taking Tamiflu when you get the flu. It makes the condition go away much faster. Second, acupuncture resolves the residual nerve pain that can linger for weeks and sometimes months afterward. That’s because acupuncture has the uncanny ability to “quiet agitated nerves.” There is something about applying these small, sterile needles locally in the affected area that sedates the nerves. It’s uncanny.
Trigeminal Neuralgia Relief
Finally, acupuncture helps relieve trigeminal neuralgia pain. This is one of the most debilitating pain syndromes on the face of the earth, no pun intended. It is a nerve pain that affects the face’s three pathways across the eye, nose, and mouth. Patients feel a searing pain that can last from a few seconds to a few minutes, a pain so intense that it takes their breath away. Doctors treat this condition by severing the facial nerves, not an attractive option since it can lead to permanent facial paralysis.
Acupuncture, once again, works by quieting these jittery nerves. We treat locally, calming the overactive nerves. Our treatment has an 80% success rate. In other words, it’s always worth trying acupuncture first when you have this condition. We will treat you four times and see how you respond. If your response is positive, then we know you will heal, and we can continue treatment. Treatments are entirely safe, with no adverse side effects. It will either help or not. So you’ve got nothing to lose in trying.
Other Nerve Conditions We Treat
Many other pain conditions benefit from our nerve pain acupuncture solution. Some of these include occipital neuralgia (migraine-like headaches caused by nerve pain radiating into the head), vestibular migraines, and pinched nerves in the neck, hip, elbow, shoulder, wrists, and ankles. Nerve pain can rise anywhere in the body, and acupuncture can most often calm it down quickly and effectively.
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What our Clients are Saying
For the past 13 years I suffered from peripheral neuropathy in my calf, ankle and foot. I tried numerous medications, therapy with lights, neuromuscular massages and back decompression. I felt like I had stones under the ball of my foot. After the first couple of sessions with Dr. Mark, feelings returned to my calf, ankle and the “stone like feeling” under the ball of my foot began subsiding. Thanks to Dr. Mark, I am able now to walk without pain and discomfort. The extraordinary care and attentiveness I am receiving from Raleigh Acupuncture in treating my neuropathy is remarkable and I recommend them without reserve!
I’m a semi-professional weight lifter. I never had a problem until my hip went out doing squats. The pain was tremendous, like a sharp nerve pain down the back of my leg into the calf. It had sidelined me for two months while I tried unsuccessfully to work out the pain. Then a buddy suggested acupuncture. He had a similar hip pain and got relief at Raleigh Acupuncture. I went there and got treated. They told me to stop stretching until the injury was healed. I followed their instructions and got half a dozen treatments. The pain started easing after the first few treatments. I continued for another 6 treatments and was totally cured. I was able to get back to lifting with no residual effects of the injury. I’ve recommended this practice to a number of friends since that time and they all have had good experiences.
I have neuropathy that is a burning, tingling pain down my legs and into my feet. The doctor said there was nothing I could do besides pain medicine, since I am diabetic. The meds didn’t help much and made me feel groggy all the time. I tried acupuncture, after seeing a segment on Dr. Oz. I found Raleigh Acupuncture online and liked their website. They had a lot of useful information. The treatments were interesting. They used electric acupuncture on my legs and feet that felt like a tingling massage. They said it
would take a few treatments to start kicking in, and they were right. The burning pain slowly started to recede, and the tingling went away. I was truly amazed to feel such a difference in my legs and feet. I know so many people with neuropathy, and they are afraid to try acupuncture. I think they are crazy not to try it. What a difference not to be in constant pain anymore. I don’t need medication for my legs.
I woke up one morning and started getting these excruciatingly painful shooting electric pains on the left side of my face. My wife took me to the emergency room and they said I had trigeminal neuralgia. They gave me some pain medicine, but a nurse there suggested I try acupuncture. She had this pain once and it was cured by acupuncture. She gave me the name of Raleigh Acupuncture. When I explained the situation they took me in the same day. After just one treatment I started feeling better. They saw me every day for six days, at which point the pain was completely gone. What a life saver. I strongly recommend getting acupuncture for trigeminal neuralgia.