Have you considered treating the pain, swelling and stiffness of arthritis with acupuncture? Even the reaction to weather changes, which was known in the old days as "rheumatism", can be reduced with properly applied moxabustion and dietary changes in accordance with Oriental theory. Traumatic arthritis can sometimes be helped very well when the treatment is begun very soon after the injury occurs.
My own experience suggests that acupuncture and Chinese herbology are more effective and much less unpleasant and dangerous than surgery, steroids or NSAIDs to treat arthritis. Compared to these methods of treatment, acupuncture therapy also has many fewer side effects.
Acupuncture therapy and herbal medicine prepared from different herbs and roots have proved to be useful in helping the painful symptoms of complex physical disorders like arthritis.
Treating arthritis with acupuncture should be seen as a long term process, especially if the condition has been present for many years. Chronic arthritis can develop if the early symptoms are not treated. The treatment has to be individualized to your particular imbalance, and this takes time and experience. If there is a structural problem, acupuncture will not reverse the deformity. Patients facing immediate surgery because the joints have completely broken down should look to acupuncture to help them prepare for surgery and relieve pain and help rehabilitate after surgery. Please visit our site to obtain information on treatments for pain in joints, muscles and tendons, as well as arthritis, with traditional Oriental medicine.
Time will prove that traditional methods of treatment like acupuncture, help to reduce the suffering of conditions like arthritis at a reasonable cost and with a minimum of risk and side effects.
Dr. L.B. Grotte, M.D., was the first physician in Ohio to be board certified in both acupuncture and Chinese herbology. He has practiced Oriental medicine in Cleveland for more than 27 years. To find out more about the treatment of arthritis and joint pain, as well as other endocrine and neurologic disorders, call us at 440-461-7488 or visit our website for more information.
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