Acupuncture Therapy

Acupuncture Therapy: The Basics, Benefits, and Cures

Acupuncture therapy is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves inserting thin needles into the skin at specific points on the body. Each point corresponds to an organ, emotion, or sense. A well-rounded acupuncture treatment plan can target these in unique ways other medicines can’t.

In addition to treating pain, acupuncture treatment is used for anxiety, depression, insomnia, headaches, migraines, nausea and vomiting, menstrual cramps, fertility problems, smoking cessation, and weight loss.

 

The Basics and Benefits of Acupuncture Therapy

Scientists do not fully understand the exact healing mechanism behind acupuncture therapy, but they believe it involves a combination of factors. One of those things is the release of endorphins, which relieve pain. Stimulating the nervous system is another, which can also help regulate mood, pain, and other bodily functions. It also helps you relax and relieve stress.

Although acupuncture treatment is generally safe, make sure you find a licensed acupuncturist in your state. It’s not uncommon for patients to endure side effects, especially since needles can cause mild pain or soreness.

Certain patients can also experience bruising, dizziness, lightheadedness, and nausea. A professional acupuncturist can help, as tailored and customized treatment plans are known to provide the best solutions. There are a variety of health problems acupuncture therapy can treat, and it’s usually very safe and effective.

 

Acupuncture Origins, Bodily Reaction, and Pain Management

According to Chinese medicine, energy flows through your body. Many believe disrupted “qi” (pronounced “chee”) causes imbalances in the body’s energy. By pressing sterile needles on acupuncture points throughout the body, some forms of acupuncture therapy restore qi balance. Meridians — also called energy-carrying channels — consist of hundreds of acupoints in the body.

By using needles, your body reacts, rebalances, or releases natural chemicals, including endorphins, your body’s own natural painkillers and neurotransmitters.

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to acupuncture treatment. There are some people who feel nothing at all, while others feel a dull ache or mild pricking. Others feel tingling or buzzing or feel warm or heavy. Acupuncturists sometimes twirl or move needles after inserting them. You might feel a slight increase in sensation at times.

A female model of needle insertion points for acupuncture therapy.

Acupuncture is mild and tolerable for most people. Be sure to tell your acupuncturist if you’re feeling pain. To make the treatment more comfortable, they may adjust the needles or use a different size of needle or technique.

You might feel relaxed or energized after acupuncture therapy. Pain or other symptoms also seem to be lessened. Although acupuncture’s effects can vary from person to person, most people find it to be a safe and effective treatment.

Acupuncture Therapy Can Cure a Variety of Ailments

Acupuncture therapy can help with a lot of health problems. It’s usually used for chronic (long-term) pain like arthritis, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, headaches, migraines, sports injuries, jaw pain, sinus congestion and facial pain, neuropathy, and menstrual cramps.

As well as alleviating chemotherapy side effects in cancer patients and reducing nausea during pregnancy, acupuncture treatment may also help with infertility, autoimmune diseases, colds and flu, irritable bowel syndrome, menopausal hot flashes, insomnia, anxiety, and depression.

Getting a ride home is always wise if you’re getting acupuncture therapy for the first time. If that’s not possible, try to rest for five to ten minutes before driving home. Your practitioner may advise you to take it easy following each session.

Your body may need a number of treatments depending on how severe your condition is. Most patients have an appointment once a week. Some people get treatment more often, while others get it less frequently. Our acupuncturists can recommend the right schedule for each patient.

 

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of acupuncture therapy options is available at Wellness and Pain. We offer conservative treatments, minimally invasive quick-recovery procedures, and surgery. With these, we can keep you free of problems by providing lifestyle education and home care advice to help you avoid and manage issues, quickly relieving the conditions inhibiting your life by using state-of-the-art acupuncture treatment.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to relieve pain, improve mobility and mental space, and improve your overall health.

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IV Hydration

IV Hydration Therapy: The What, How, and Why

IV hydration — also known as intravenous hydration — can speed up the recovery process and improve your overall health by boosting your body’s ability to absorb fluids and electrolytes through vitamin rehydration.

In fact, vitamin rehydration therapy involves a variety of vitamins and minerals. Among the most common are vitamin C, vitamin B12, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.

 

Today’s Unique IV Hydration Treatment

In a doctor’s office or hospital setting, IV hydration is a safe and effective way to replenish fluids and electrolytes. A needle or catheter is inserted into a vein to deliver fluids and electrolytes directly into the bloodstream. During this process, fluids are replenished and electrolytes are replaced.

Historically, patients suffering from dehydration, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, heat stroke, sepsis, and a host of other conditions can benefit from the use of this medication.

Fast forward to today, and now all types of individuals seek routine IV hydration for rapid rehydration, improved electrolyte balance, reduced dehydration complications, and overall health and wellbeing. Americans don’t get enough vitamins and nutrients from their diet to stay healthy and to look and feel good.

It’s different for everyone, but most people could benefit from more magnesium, vitamins B, B12, and C, zinc, and a host of other nutrients.

 

IV Hydration Through Vitamins, Nutrients, & Antioxidants

IV hydration plays a huge role in the lives and healthy lifestyles of so many adults today. Rehydration has the advantage of delivering vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants quickly and efficiently throughout your entire body.

You don’t have to wait hours and hours for your body to digest and benefit from vitamin pills. You feel the effects of IV hydration immediately after receiving it.

Individual needs determine which vitamins and minerals are used. There is generally no risk associated with vitamin rehydration therapy. However, if you have any underlying health conditions, you should speak to your doctor before starting any rehydration therapy.

You can make sure your immune system is prepared for anything by choosing to rehydrate. Nutrition and vitamin rehydration can help you stay healthy when combined with other commonsense measures.

 

Don’t Skip Your Usual Rehydration Routine

IV hydration is extremely beneficial, but remember that water is the best fluid for preventing dehydration. The over-consumption of caffeine or alcohol can cause dehydration.. You may also want to consume lots of fruits and vegetables, which contain heavy amounts of water.

In addition, dress in layers to allow you to adjust your clothing as the temperature changes. Avoid strenuous activity in hot weather and take cool showers or baths. Also be sure to drink plenty of fluids if you’re sick. You must replace fluids and electrolytes lost from bouts of vomiting or diarrhea.

If you want an extra boost beyond following a hydration-healthy routine, you should look into IV hydration. The process itself will take a different amount of time for each person, according to that individual’s needs. Generally, fluids and electrolytes are administered within 30 to 45 minutes (or one hour).

A young man receiving an IV hydration treatment, drinking water and sitting comfortably.

IV hydration provides your body with numerous benefits. In addition to replenishing nutrients that have been depleted due to illness, injury, or other factors, they also improve electrolyte balance, which is essential for many bodily functions.

This type of rehydration can also reduce inflammation — inflammation worsens a variety of health conditions — and improve your energy levels.

IV hydration therapy includes a number of vitamins, including vitamin C (which protects cells from damage and promotes immunity); vitamin B12 (which produces red blood cells and regulates nerve function); magnesium (which relaxes muscles and regulates blood sugar); potassium (which helps control fluid balance and blood pressure); and sodium (which regulates fluid balance and nerve function).

 

IV Hydration: For Those Needing the Extra Boost

Sometimes you just need a bit more energy to get through a busy day, week, or month — and IV hydration can provide it. You’ll feel 100-percent rejuvenated and ready for a big day or a big week with a blast of vitamins and fluids.

It’s important to remember that IV hydration involves delivering nutrients, vitamins, electrolytes, and antioxidants intravenously to restore and detoxify the body. Even so, drinking plenty of water and eating healthy on your own is always a wise idea.

For those who run fast, work hard, and play even harder, as well as for those who just need a random pick-me-up, being able to schedule rehydration therapy selectively on a flexible basis is an excellent opportunity. If you feel your body needs fast hydration and rejuvenation, schedule an appointment now to give it the nutrients and fluids it needs.

 

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of IV hydration treatment options are available at Wellness and Pain. We offer minimally invasive quick-recovery rehydration therapy to get you feeling great again. With these, we can help alleviate that lethargic and tired feeling you sometimes get — as well as other nutrition problems — by helping in the management of your hydration and vitamin intake properly.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to improve your range of motion, energy, and your health.

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Temporary leg numbness can happen for many reasons, from a herniated disc to crossing your legs too much. Alternatively, chronic leg numbness could be a sign of something more serious that involves your venous system.

You can get numbness in your leg from nearly a dozen things. Among the most common causes of leg numbness are poor posture, spinal stenosis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, diabetes, injury, multiple sclerosis, and even alcohol abuse.

You could have a problem with your blood vessels if you’re experiencing ongoing leg numbness without an easily known cause.

Two primary conditions can affect leg sensations: Venous Insufficiency and Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

 

Venous Insufficiency, Peripheral Artery Disease, and Leg Numbness

Let’s break down the leg numbness conundrum, step by step.

Blood vessels in your legs work hard. Taking blood back to your heart requires them to fight gravity and distance. Those tiny valves in your veins stop blood from spilling backward as the blood flows through them. Having these valves fail can cause blood to have a harder time going up, which can cause spider veins and varicose veins, as well as leg cramps and numbness.

One of the side effects of varicose veins is numbness, which is often accompanied by symptoms like aching, burning, and pressure. It’s alarming when your limbs go numb, and it can make your pain worse. Legs and feet with poor circulation can get varicose veins.

Because of poor blood flow, legs and feet suffer from oxygen deprivation when their nerves and tissues aren’t getting enough blood flow. Oxygen deprivation can cause numbness and tingling. Your brain gets confused when one of your sensory nerves is compressed from a cramped position. As soon as the pressure’s gone, the nerve starts working again, which results in the uncomfortable (and sometimes painful) pins and needles feeling. In addition to decreasing oxygen in your extremities, varicose veins can pinch or press on your sensory nerves. Because of this, you may feel numb and tingly.

When it comes to PAD, patients suffer from numbness in their limbs because of poor blood flow caused by narrow arteries. You can’t deliver oxygen-rich blood to your legs because you have atherosclerosis (fat deposits in your arteries).

Leg Numbness: What to Do and How to Fix It

Our first priority in treating your leg numbness is figuring out whether your blood circulation is damaged. We do this through a number of tests, a review of your symptoms, and advanced tools, such as a nerve conduction velocity/electromyography (NCV/EMG) test or an ultrasound, which helps us gain a better idea of what’s actually happening.

A doctor performing physical therapy on a patient to treat leg numbness.

Within 10 minutes, ultrasounds create images of the inside of the body. With this pain-free, non-invasive test, you can identify the source of leg numbness. With the help of a gel, sonographers move the device over the target area. The tissues and organs in your body bounce sound waves. The reflected sound waves then show on a computer screen as clear images. A doctor will use an ultrasound to determine why you are experiencing a numb feeling in your legs.

Our goal is to restore feeling to your legs by looking at your vascular problems. We usually start small with life changes and medications, but if your numbness continues, we may recommend something more aggressive.

The minimally invasive techniques we offer are vein ablation, massage therapy, and acupuncture therapy. One can get rid of numbness with these outpatient procedures by directing your blood to healthy vessels and tackling the affected veins.

We still want you to do your part, so follow our tips and make some life changes, like getting more exercise, wearing compression socks, and spending less time sitting.

 

Wellness and Pain is Here to Help

An expert should properly diagnose and treat leg numbness. Whether you’re experiencing numbness or pain, or a related feeling, Wellness and Pain can help. If it’s affecting your life, contact us or come see us right away. Your situation can be diagnosed easily with an ultrasound, and treatments can then be offered according to your situation. Living a more active life will make you feel better and put you on the course to better health.

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Swollen Leg Treatment

Swollen Leg Treatment: Start Tackling the Pain Today

Once you know what’s causing your swollen legs and painful symptoms, you can control your condition and live a healthier life through swollen leg treatment. Developing a treatment plan with your pain management specialist or doctor is crucial.

What’s the amount of time you spend standing versus sitting? Do you often feel tired, swollen, or heavy in your legs? Do you have difficulty walking or climbing stairs? It could be a blood flow and circulation issue that’s causing the problem. A comprehensive lifestyle and body treatment for your legs may be the answer to your pain and discomfort.

First, it’s important to determine what is causing your pain. Blood vein damage — specifically in your vein valves — cannot be reversed with treatment. However, you can have a much better quality of life if you work on reversing your symptoms with the right help from a pain management specialist. Chronic venous insufficiency cannot be cured, but with proper changes and treatment, you can manage your condition reasonably and safely.

 

Getting to the Point of Swollen Leg Treatment

Symptoms of chronic venous insufficiency include swollen legs and heavy legs syndrome, both of which require swollen leg treatment. It’s essential to have the right plan in place.

Blood flows back to the heart through your veins when it’s pumped through your body, and it’s pumped upward against gravity. Despite the elasticity of veins and muscles surrounding them, the valves inside your veins prevent blood from flowing backward, serving as a crucial tool in the body’s circulatory system. Your body circulates blood back to your heart through these vascular valves in both legs.

As vessels stretch, those valves cannot work as efficiently. Blood and waste products can pool in your legs, making them heavy, tired, or swollen. The valves in your veins may not function properly if they’ve lost elasticity over time.

Several problems, either individually or altogether, can cause chronic venous insufficiency, swollen legs, and heavy legs. Among them are heredity, aging, being a woman, pregnancy, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), overtraining syndrome (OTS), lumbar spinal stenosis, excess weight, sitting or standing for long periods of time, smoking, varicose veins, or restless legs. A pain management treatment plan can be helpful in this situation.

 

Symptoms and Pain: Swollen Leg Treatment

Despite the unpleasant symptoms caused by venous insufficiency, most of them are mild and can be controlled through a swollen leg treatment plan. The pain or muscle cramps may be accompanied by heaviness, itching, prickling, or tingling, as well as swelling. It’s possible for symptoms to worsen in hot weather.

Patients who have an insufficient venous system may develop varicose veins or damaged veins on the surface of their skin. Blood clots can form in areas where blood accumulates in some individuals, causing skin infections.

An elderly woman sitting on her couch and holding her swollen legs after standing all day.

Capillaries in your legs will burst if you don’t treat the pressure and swelling. Your skin may turn reddish-brown, particularly around your ankles. Ulcers and swelling can result from this. Ulcers like these are difficult to heal. Further complications can also occur when they become infected.

It’s always important to get a medical evaluation for swollen legs. The first time a patient consults a pain management specialist, health professional, or doctor is the beginning of a great start to a healthier you — so you can find freedom from the pain.

 

Swollen Leg Treatment: Reducing Risk and Lifestyle Choices

Through implementing a calculated swollen leg treatment plan, aided by your pain management specialist and daily lifestyle choices at home, you can relieve pain and discomfort:

  • Regularly get massages.
  • Take cold baths instead of hot ones. Your veins dilate when you’re hot, slowing down blood flow.
  • High heels and tight clothing should be avoided.
  • Avoid smoking.
  • If you’re standing, don’t stay in one position for too long. When you move your legs, your blood flow improves.
  • Don’t sit still — and exercise regularly. Losing weight, lowering cholesterol, and improving circulation are all benefits of being active. Don’t overdo it with your workout routine. However, the weight of your body will continually put more pressure on the veins in your legs if you don’t get in better shape.
  • Eat a healthy diet. In addition to varicose veins, obesity can cause diabetes and fatty deposits in the arteries.
  • Keeping your legs toned promotes blood flow. The best way to do this is to exercise through walking every day.
  • Elevating your legs can help. Reducing gravity’s impact eases blood flow directed back to the heart. It’s also helpful to massage the area at the same time.
  • Make sure your legs are not crossed when you sit.
  • Make sure you get enough sleep.
  • Make sure you wear compression socks or stockings. The pressure of these socks promotes blood flow to the heart.

Swollen legs are often difficult to treat with self-care at home if you’re not checking in with a pain management specialist. To successfully treat chronic venous insufficiency, you should consult a health professional.

 

Get on a Plan: Swollen Leg Treatment

Heavy legs syndrome can affect your quality of life if you don’t seek out the right swollen leg treatment. The news isn’t all bad, though. You can get stronger in the face of this health problem. You should consult a pain management specialist or doctor if symptoms persist over the long term.

It’s our goal to get you moving on your pain-free journey by reviewing your pain and symptoms, applying the right treatment, reviewing your medical history, and performing any necessary tests. By showing how blood flows through your veins, an ultrasound and other tests can diagnose your swollen legs. You’ll learn everything you need to know about vessel ablation, massage therapy, acupuncture, intravenous hydration, and so much more.

 

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of options are available at Wellness and Pain for swollen leg treatment. Here, we offer conservative treatments, routine visits, and minimally invasive quick-recovery procedures. We can keep you free of problems by providing lifestyle education, home care advice, and a comprehensive plan to help you avoid and manage issues, quickly relieving the conditions inhibiting your life by using cutting-edge techniques.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to relieve pain, improve mobility and mental space, and improve your overall health.

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Vein Ablation

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Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

Restless Legs

For most, restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sign of other issues. Often, people think you have to see veins actually bulge from your legs to seek help; this simply isn’t true. In reality, restless legs are usually the only sign of vessel disease for most people, which is cause enough to seek the best treatment for restless leg syndrome possible.

What Is Restless Legs Syndrome

At its core, RLS causes people to experience strong urges to move their legs. They kick and jerk without thinking it. Not to mention, it’s usually worse at night and while laying down. So, it can decrease their quality of sleep and wreak havoc on other areas of their lives.

People do not experience pain from restless leg syndrome. However, they do experience great discomfort from it. In the end, constant discomfort can have a large impact on mental health. RLS has multiple symptoms. However, it has a big one: It’s the need to move or fidget the legs.

Many people with restless legs syndrome also report symptoms that are associated with other conditions, like vessel insufficiency and varicose veins. The first, a condition that causes blood to pool in the legs. And the second, where veins are enlarged and twisted. Dr. Arad of Wellness and Pain uses several methods to treat vessel insufficiency and varicose veins. These methods are often the best treatment for restless legs as well.

A woman stirring in bed at the discomfort caused by restless legs syndrome.

Symptoms

As mentioned earlier, people do not experience pain from restless leg syndrome. However, they experience great discomfort from it. Drawn out over a long time, this is just as bad. Often, it’s described as:

  • Aching
  • Creeping / Crawling
  • Pulling
  • Itching/li>
  • Throbbing

In summary, restless legs syndrome is usually worse at night, which can make it difficult or impossible to sleep well. Symptoms can also change on a day-to-day basis with one day being worse than the next.

The Best Treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome

At Wellness and Pain, Dr. Arad uses vessel treatments to help patients with varicose veins or vessel insufficiency who also have restless legs syndrome. These treatments include:

Radiofrequency Ablation uses energy to heat the inside of the vessel walls, virtually removing damaged vessels by causing them to close.

Sclerotherapy uses a foam that causes scarring to close off problem vessels. The foam is injected into these vessels, resulting in blood flowing through healthy ones.

A better quality of life is possible. So is better sleep. It’s easier than you might think too. You have multiple options to take charge of your life, and Wellness and Pain has the expertise. Any amount of discomfort is worth seeking treatment for. After all, restless legs syndrome could be a sign of other issues.

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