Acupuncture Treatment for Preventative Care
Many
people tend to know where the weakness of their bodies lie. Maybe a bad
back, headaches and shoulder tension that always occur under stress or
maybe the digestive system goes awry. Rather than wait until these things
are at their worst, successful treatment can reduce the amount and
intensity of episodes. It is logical to think that the longer you have had
a condition, the longer it will take to treat. On the other side,
preventing a problem and keeping it a bay before it worsens normally
requires relatively infrequent treatment.
With increasingly with improved testing and scans etc, we also are able to
see progression towards many conditions such as arthritis or osteoporosis.
Again rather than wait until they get bad and are more difficult to treat,
why not deal with them now?
Case Study 1
Bill suffered with a reoccurring back problem. Every 3 or 4 months it
would flare up, causing pain and making him miss work. He was initially
treated for 4 or 5 sessions which resolved the acute problem. 6 months
later he was back and process repeated to the same effect. After the 3rd
episode, he was persuaded to come in more routinely when he didn¡¯t have
pain, once a month initially then every two months and so on. He now comes
once every three months and has not had an acute episode for two years. In
conclusion he comes 4 times a year and has no pain, rather than leaving it
until it flares up and ending up coming for 5 sessions more than once a
year.
Preventative treatment with acupuncture is both cost effective and
successful.