How many times have you said this? I am sure most of us have been there done that. We simply bent over to tie our shoes or sneeze the wrong way and bam!! our back feels like an elephant just stepped on it.
From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) point of view there can be lots of causes for this, but mainly it is due to an imbalance in the body. Simple, yes, and definitely treatable and fairly quickly. It could be a combination a sudden event, but because you had been run down, stressed or tired, the body is saying I can’t handle this. Now you are bent over like a pretzel, wondering how long it will take to get upright again.
Good news!! acupuncture and herbal medicine can treat this at the time it happens, no need to wait for the swelling to go down. We can use the distal parts of your body to treat the affected area. Yes, we can treat the affected area if you are okay with that, but if it hurts to much, we have other options.
Not only will TCM treat the acute problem, but we will treat the root of it as well. We need to balance the body so it will not react this way again. Any pain, in TCM, is usually do to qi and blood stagnation. We can move the qi and blood reducing the pain and then treat the underlying issue. Is it because the muscles are weak, do you have a slow digestive system that isn’t feeding the muscles appropriately? Is the majority of your diet fast food? Are you overworked and over stressed? Are you going through menopause causing a hormonal imbalance? Do you eat a lot of cold foods or maybe you are always cold? Maybe you have had a recent blood loss due to traumatic injury, postpartum or menstruating and the body just doesn’t have enough nutrients. All these things set up the body for a deficiency which will result in symptoms if it goes untreated for too long.
Perhaps you are asking yourself, how am I going to lie down for a treatment? Don’t worry we can treat you sitting or even hunched over. As long as we have access to hands and feet, we can treat.
Maybe you are saying needles scare me, I get it, but truly they are very small needles, no bigger than a strand of hair, but really if that is what is holding you back, that’s okay, we can use herbal formulas to help get you back upright. It may take a bit longer, but very effective. If we combine acupuncture and an herbal formula that would be even better.
Give us a call and let us at Poke A Dot Acupuncture get you back upright and pain free!
