Pain Conditions Treated - Salem, OR

Acute and Chronic Pain

Chinese medicine works very well treating variety of pain conditions. Based on a type of condition, you can chose from different remedies(Acupuncture/Herbal medicine/Asian bodywork) that we offer. For the better results you can combine them. But specifically with pain, we quite often surprise patients when we are able to demonstrate very quick result with Acupuncture treatment. It won't guarantee complete recovery that soon, but our goal is to reduce the pain by 80% by the end of each visits. And we would like to continue until the condition is stabilized, meaning no more symptoms, "NO MORE PAIN" . Entire duration of treatment will vary based on the severity of the condition to begin with, the speed of treatment how often we can apply therapies(Acupuncture/Herbal medicine/Asian bodywork) and also each patient's life style. So it may take a few visits or it may take multiple visits, even 10, 20, 30 or more. Also there are some conditions that we can only help with pain management/control due to underline health issue.

Acute

If the condition is not due to structural problem such as broken bones, torn muscles or torn ligaments,and all the other conditions that requires surgical repair, we suggest immediate start of treatment for better and quicker recovery. Basically, we treat all the acute conditions that do not require surgical repair. Location of pain can be any where from head to toes. And we would like to take care of it before the condition goes into chronic stage, which is even harder to completely get lid of.

Pain can be nociceptive, neuropathic, or psychogenic type. Due to the nature of condition being acute, treatment result from the initial visit typically won't be a long lasting one yet. That is why we ask patients to come for frequent sessions at this stage rather than waiting for a while to see what each visit is doing. We know what is doing, so we don't have to wait. We would like to finish the goal to be achieved rather short period of time by doing multiple treatments in a week.

Chronic

There are people who have been having pain issues over years. For example, headache for 20 years, neck pain for 18 years, lower back pain for 40 years and so on. Those are really really chronic while there people who had these type of issues, let's say a few to several. One thing that we can say is that if those conditions do not get treated, then they will become really really chronic. Conditions typically we do wonders are the ones that their pain intensity fluctuate depending on the day. Those are typically described by patients "comes and goes" or " achy, sore but not pain". But when they are in flair stage, intensity of pain shoots up quite high. We treat other chronic pain issues, but we need to analyze each case since the level of the problems is not the same between patients.

Chronic pain patients often present depression as well, due to long term restrictions in what they can do in daily life. Sometimes they may not have pain, but depressed due to the drugs that they are taking to control their pain issues. Our treatments can help with the both physical and mental struggles that those patients are facing.

Arthritis (Joint pain & Tendonitis/Bursitis)

Most people do not know that Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can help with Arthritis. Arthritis, this word simply means inflammation of joint(area). Once it is diagnosed, some people are reluctant to do anything about it except taking drugs which may cause such serious side effects as gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding, tinnitus, blurred vision, dizziness and headache. While ago, we saw many people ended up taking Cox-2 inhibitors with good result of controlling the pain, however, they are pulled out of the market due to significantly higher risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke.

Having said that, our medicine offers significantly fewer side effects. For optimal treatments, we can apply integrative use of herbs, acupuncture and Tuina therapies. Our approach targets both the symptoms and the causes of pain. Often we achieves immediate and long term success. Difference is that, due to the nature of this medicine, we carefully evaluate the type of your body disharmony and influenced acupuncture meridian. Then we start correcting any imbalances we found in each case.

Auto Injuries

Symptoms which are manifesting from Auto accidents varies based on how the crash took place. Typical sites of pain are head, neck, should back and also chest, where the seat belt was at the time. This type of acute onset is better to be treated soon after the accident. Once we start working on , typically we get good success with good results. We want to make sure that it is completely treated and no more symptoms before you stop the course of treatments. We don't want to see any reoccurring of symptoms in the future unless you re-injured. Some people presents mental side of symptoms, such as insomnia, anxiety and depression. We treat those symptoms well also, since our treatments works on the mental aspect of the body.

Back, Neck, Shoulder Pain

This is one of the most commonly treated condition at our clinic and we do very well. Because we treat those conditions so often, our success rate is very high. As we mentioned, if it is acute injury with so much inflammation and tissue damage we may not see big relief from first treatment. That is why we recommend, especially acute stage, multiple visits in a week in earlier stage of treatment. But in a week or two, we would like to start seeing big relief from pain. Also we might recommend patients to combine with formula for better and quicker result. If it is already in chronic stage, we want to treat also in a very frequent pace to get the job to be done sooner.

However, if the condition is due to structural issue, it may either take a long time or we may have to refer for surgical repair. If the pain is not changing at all after 4 to 5 sessions, we will reevaluate. As we explained in Acute/Chronic pain section, we would like to see at least 80% of pain reduction at the time of service each time and we would recommend you to continue until pain is completely gone to make sure future no-reoccurrence. Entire course of treatment will be determined based on the severity of the condition.

Bell's Palsy

We get high success with Bell's palsy. It is a neurological disorder and diagnosed well by Western medicine physicians, but they not successfully treated. So typically the condition continues to be deteriorating, creating more debilitation and suffering. Depending on the size of affected area and severity, prognosis of the condition varies. However, it is not rare to see instant relief with acupuncture treatment. This is also a kind of condition that we need to make sure that there is no leftover areas with symptoms. Herbal formula works well to treat Bell's Palsy also. This is one of the conditions that we strongly recommend to start treatments after initial onset.