Acupuncture

Acupuncture Therapy Treatment, Milton, Ontario

Acupuncture therapy treatment is a 2,000-year-old Chinese treatment in which fine needles are inserted into specific points on the body. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists approximately four-dozen different conditions that can legitimately be treated by acupuncture. In 1999, the WHO published a document with guidelines for acupuncture therapy treatment training and safety in which they recommended 200 hours of formal training. Dr. Anna Neff, lead practitioner at True Health Chiropractic has received 300 hours of training at McMaster University through the Department of Anaesthesia.

Most patients from the Milton, Ontario area, who turn to True Health Chiropractic for acupuncture therapy treatment, do so to treat pain problems, particularly acute and chronic muscle and joint pain. These include but are not limited to acute sprains and strains; muscle pain; muscle spasm; arthritic pain; shoulder, neck and low back pain; tennis elbow; golfer’s elbow; carpal tunnel syndrome; plantar fasciitis; Achilles tendonitis; migraine and tension headaches. Acupuncture therapy treatment may also be of help as an extra treatment for digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, constipation and diarrhea, respiratory problems such as sinusitis and bronchitis, and uncomplicated psycho-emotional problems such as stress, anxiety and insomnia.

Contemporary medical acupuncture is a therapeutic intervention defined from a biomedical standpoint. It consists of the stimulation of the peripheral nervous system with acupuncture needles and electricity in order to induce the responses for the therapeutic purpose of treating pain, musculoskeletal dysfunction and selected states of functional dysregulation. For many of our Milton, Ontario area patients, this has proven to be a successful form of treatment for a variety of ailments.