Western medicine, while peerless at dealing with acute, life-threatening problems, primarily deals with the disease end of the spectrum (only about 1% of all health complaints). If you have a chronic problem, you typically have two options: medication or surgery. Medications come with side effects; your body acclimates to medication, making them less effective over time, and medications don’t work for everyone. Surgeries help many people, but many also suffer from complications or find the surgery does not provide relief. Back surgeries, for example, have up to a 46% failure rate. That’s basically a coin toss for undergoing something that could even make things worse.
Acupuncture triggers the body to heal itself
Here’s the truth: The body is the only thing that can heal the body. If something is wrong or the body is not healing, something has gotten in the way. You can fracture your femur, the biggest bone in the body, and your body will knit the bone back together on a cellular level in about six weeks. So why can’t your body deal with your back pain or your migraines or your digestive issues? It’s because something is stopping the body from doing what it is supposed to do.
At Princeton Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, we use time-tested diagnostics along with cutting-edge methods to quickly and accurately diagnose what is preventing the body from healing itself. Once those problems are addressed, lasting healing can take place.
Safe, sterile, single-use needles marshal profound healing responses
The insertion of an acupuncture needle causes a number of responses from your body. The body does not know that we are using a single-use, sterile, disposable needle. It will react like it is an infected splinter, marshaling an immune response to heal the damage, fight the perceived infection, and remove damaged tissue. Now, it does not just send these healing factors to the tiny area where the needle is inserted. Rather, the whole area is on shared blood supply, so the entire area gets a boost of these healing factors. So, if you have an issue in the elbow, inserting needles in this area will prompt the body to pay attention to this area, finally healing the problem. Needles along the spine will stimulate the nerves that go to different body areas and even your internal organs.
When we add electric stimulation, we can affect the body in even more profound ways. Different frequencies induce the body to produce different neuro-chemicals, such as serotonin and endorphins, to help regulate the body and reduce pain. Modulating the nervous system can put the body in a better state to function and heal better. Finally, electrons (negatively charged particles) are introduced into the body, and these particles are crucial to healing the body.
If you are ready to finally get to the root of the issue that is causing your health problem and not just mask symptoms, acupuncture is a profound way of getting you on the road to recovery.