Chronic pain can affect your life in a variety of ways. And, conventional treatment methods don’t always offer the relief you’re looking for. Amla Healing Arts offers holistic treatment options for pain management in Bergen County that may benefit you.
Holistic pain management is a comprehensive approach to relieving symptoms of pain. However, instead of treating only the symptoms someone is experiencing, holistic pain management emphasizes healing the mind, body, and spirit to achieve meaningful, long-lasting results.
Essentially, holistic medicine is about uncovering the root causes of pain—whether the pain is from a physical condition or stemming from emotional stress—and helping heal that source of pain to achieve total wellness. Rooted in ancient traditions, holistic medicine can integrate seamlessly with conventional Western medicine to help an individual cultivate a life of mental, physical, and emotional wellness.
Furthermore, if you aren’t seeing the results you’d like from traditional medicine, holistic medicine can help bolster the effects of your treatment regimen, or promote healing and wellness where conventional treatment has been ineffective. For pain management, holistic medicine offers several options that may be beneficial for you.
The goal of holistic medicine when it comes to pain is to restore imbalances in your body through an all-encompassing method that takes your unique complexities into account. By treating your whole person instead of just pain symptoms exclusively, holistic medicine can more effectively help you reach long-term recovery.
The following are holistic pain management treatments you may benefit from.
If you experience ongoing back, neck pain, or both, acupuncture could be a helpful treatment option for you. Dating back to 6000 BCE, acupuncture involves inserting thin, tiny needles into specific acupuncture points that help stimulate the central nervous system. Acupuncture can help stimulate the immune system, improve circulation and blood flow, as well as help release hormones that support a body’s response to injury or stress. These hormones are called endorphins, which are our body’s natural pain-killing chemicals.
In addition, acupuncture can boost our serotonin, (a chemical that’s responsible for regulating our mood), and as a result, relieve built-up anxiety and stress. Over time, chronic stress or anxiety can cause symptoms of pain to grow worse and create lasting inflammation in our bodies. Acupuncture can be an effective treatment because of its ability to help alleviate and heal both our physical symptoms and our emotional ones.
Each acupuncture session will last around 30 minutes to an hour. While it may take a few sessions of acupuncture for you to begin experiencing its benefits depending on your condition, you may see benefits after 6 treatments or fewer.
Nerve pain or repetitive motion injuries can greatly benefit from myofascial bodywork. Myofascial is a massage therapy technique that can help release tension and stress on both nerves and tendons without needing invasive surgical procedures. Though, it can be especially helpful for post-surgical issues.
Myofascial employs similar strokes as classic massage therapy, but involves slower movements coupled with deeper, more concentrated pressure in areas of tension or pain in order to reach the sub-layer of muscles as well as the fascia (connective tissue around muscles).
Sometimes, we can accumulate tension in our bodies without even realizing it. And after a while, that tension turns into chronic pain. Myofascial release therapy can help unlock areas of lasting tension, and calm symptoms of pain.
From acupuncture to myofascial release therapy, Amla Healing Arts offers a wide range of treatment options that can help relieve symptoms of pain. By focusing on the root cause of your symptoms, we can help you achieve long-term results that rejuvenate your body and spirit. If you’re experiencing symptoms of pain and conventional treatment methods haven’t worked for you, book an appointment with us today.
