How to stop playing whack-a-mole with your health

Drugs, injections, surgeries-- sometimes they offer a quick fix, but often they don't. Or they just play whack-a-mole with a fundamental health imbalance that keeps coming back, again and again.

It's an everyday occurrence for us acupuncturists to see patients who are at the end of the line with their treatment options. Sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Before we even place a single needle, the first order of business is to re-ignite hope in these patients.

Many chronic conditions-- such as chronic pain, migraines, allergies, chronic fatigue, anxiety, TMJ, sciatica, autoimmune arthritis, peri-menopausal symptoms, hormonal imbalances-- just don't have great solutions in conventional care. They require a whole body, whole health solution. "Health" care, not "sick" care.

Once we change our mind about a condition—that healing even something like chronic sciatica or migraines is possible by taking care of our whole organism—then we can get started on our path to health.

From there, to heal a chronic condition can take work. Acupuncture sometimes gets quick results, but often we need a few weeks, or even months. Contributing factors are important. This includes postural and movement patterns, nutrition, toxin exposure, psychological stress, sleep quality, metabolic challenges, chronic infections, immune system over-activation, and the cumulative impact of prior trauma, illness or injury.

The good news is that acupuncture and targeted lifestyle changes can help with addressing so many of these types of contributing factors, and finally allow the whole organism to self-correct.

By listening carefully, we nudge and guide our patients back to true health. This is what prevents chronic conditions from coming back again and again.

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